Belmont University | FYI


May 9, 2008

ACHIEVERS


Faculty Members Used as Experts in Local, National Media
Dr. Don Cusic, professor of music business, was quoted this week in more than a hundred print and internet outlets following the death of country music legend Eddy Arnold. Cusic wrote Arnold's biography, Eddy Arnold: I'll Hold You in My Heart. Click here to read the coverage on CNN.com. Cusic also wrote an editorial this week for the Tennessean on the Hope Scholarship. Click here for more on that story.

In addition, Dr. Sal Giorgianni, director of experiential education and development in the School of Pharmacy, was quoted this week in the Tennessean, along with three pharmacists who will serve as members of the school's adjunct faculty. Click here to read the story.

Alexander Recognized by FoxSports.com
FoxSports.com recently recognized Belmont men's basketball associate head coach Casey Alexander as one of the Top 5 assistants in Mid-Major college basketball. The ranking was a result of a poll of more than 450 head coaches, assistants and others who deal with assistants on a daily basis. To read the full story, click here.

Schenkel Published in Entrepreneurship Journal
schenkel001.jpgDr. Mark Schenkel, assistant professor of Entrepreneurship, has been notified that his research, “Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Exploring the Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Desirability in a Corporate Setting,” has been published in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. Co-authors were Deborah V. Brazeal, professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at California State Polytechnic University-Ponoma, and Jay A. Azriel, assistant professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at York College-Pennsylvania. The article is now available in the Spring 2008 edition, pages 9-25.

Marvanova, Hallmark Attend Simulation Annual Meeting
Marketa Marvanova (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Beth Hallmark (Nursing) recently attended the Simulation User Network (SUN) annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. These two collaborative innovators in cross-discipline health care education attended discussions on new equipment for simulations, simulation discussion groups, sharing ideas and experiences with simulation in health care education (nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant), with hands on programming workshops.

Hobson Published in Pharmacy Teaching Newsletter
Eric Hobson (Pharmacy Practice) had an article titled "Follow Up on Classroom Assessment Techniques" published in the current American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academy Teaching and Learning Newsletter. The article offers a starting point for discussion of formative assessment strategies and resources that support their use in clinical and didactic education.

Women's Golfers Win A-Sun Year-End Honors
Belmont junior golfer Lorie Warren was named Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Golf Player of the Year Tuesday as voted on by the conference’s head coaches and media relations directors. She was also a unanimous choice for the All-Atlantic Sun first team. In addition to Warren’s honors, freshman Lauren Spurlock was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team. Click here for more information.

Magruder Published in Physics Journal
Dr. Robert Magruder, chair of the Chemistry and Physics department, has had the following paper published in the Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103: "Pulsed infrared laser annealing of gold nanoparticles embedded in a silica matrix" with A. Halabica, J.C. Idrobo, S. T. Pantelides, R. H. Magruder, III, S. J. Pennycook and R. F. Haglund.

Hare Receives NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Belmont University men’s basketball player Justin Hare has been awarded a coveted educational grant through the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program. The Cleveland, Tenn. native was one of 58 student-athletes who participated in NCAA winter sports selected as a 2007-08 Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner. Hare was one of only three NCAA Division-I men’s basketball players chosen to receive a postgraduate scholarship, joining Drew Streicher of Butler University and Jack Leasure of Coastal Carolina University. Twenty-nine male and 29 female student-athletes from Divisions I, II and III were selected from a deep and distinguished candidate pool. Each will receive a one-time, nonrenewable grant of $7,500. Click here to read the full story.


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