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April 4, 2008

ACHIEVERS


Cusic Quoted in Christian Retailing Article
Dr. Don Cusic, author and professor of music business at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, was recently quoted in an article in Christian Retailing on "Mopping Up," a discussion on how publishers and retailers respond to author/artist morality clause violations. Click below to download the complete article.

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School of Sciences to Host Academy of Sciences Meeting
On Sat., April 12, the School of Sciences will host the Tennessee Academy of Sciences (TAS) Middle Collegiate Division Meeting from 8:30 a.m. until noon. This spring meeting of the TAS provides an opportunity to focus on undergraduate research, and 43 presentations will be given by students representing eight universities and colleges in the Middle Tennessee district. Additionally, many of the graduating seniors from Belmont’s School of Sciences will be presenting their senior research projects.

Hare Named Mid-Major Most Valuable Player
Earning perhaps his most significant national on-court honor to date, Belmont Basketball senior Justin Hare has been named Mid-Major Most Valuable Player by CollegeInsider.com.

newhare.jpgHare, who earlier this week was named to the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major All-America team, led the Bruins to a third consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and third consecutive appearance in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Seeded 15th in the West Region, Belmont challenged three-time national champion Duke to the final horn, before losing 71-70. The Bruins finished the 2007-08 season with a record of 25-9. All told, Hare won 82 games in his four-year career.

“This is a tremendous honor for Justin,” says Belmont head coach Rick Byrd. “He has represented our program well, both on the court and in the classroom, during his time at Belmont. With all he has achieved and all he has meant to our program, it will be difficult not having him in a Belmont uniform to open next season. There is little doubt he will graduate as the most significant player of our Division-I era.”

“Justin Hare was a program-changer at Belmont,” says CollegeInsider.com’s Joe Dwyer. “Belmont had been a very good program at the division I level, but Hare helped to make them a great program. As he had done in each of the past two seasons, Hare was the driving force behind a third straight trip to the NCAA tournament. He’s has been a leader to his team in so many ways. Justin Hare epitomizes all that is good about collegiate athletics.”

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Psychology Alumna Published in Journal
Psychology alumna Kate Ranganath (’03) is a doctoral student in social psychology at the University of Virginia working in the lab of Dr. Brian Nosek. She recently published, as first author, an article in the journal Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The article, titled “Implicit Attitude Generalization Occurs Immediately: Explicit Attitude Generalization Takes Time,” appears in the March 2008 issue. This line of research is a continuation of undergraduate research she started while a psychology major at Belmont, where her research mentor was Dr. Lonnie Yandell.


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