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November 21, 2008

ACHIEVERS


Junior Competes in CMT 'Music City Madness' Video Contest
CassidyAlexander.JPGJunior Cassidy Alexander, who goes by Cassidy Lynn, recently entered CMT's "Music City Madness" contest along with 7,000 other videos. CMT picked 64 to begin the contest and then left the results up to viewer votes. With each weekly round, CMT has cut the number of video contestants. Cassidy Lynn and her video "Down by the Bonfire" are still in the running in the round of Elite 8, which ends Monday at midnight. Log onto www.madness.cmt.com to watch Cassidy's video and to vote for her to make it to the Final Four. There are no limits to how often an individual can vote. CMT's "Music City Madness" winner will receive a meeting with the A&R department at Warner Brothers Records, mentoring sessions with Randy Travis and their own "Unplugged" session on CMT.


Service Corp Featured in Who's Who
Belmont Service Corp, the university's largest student organization, will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of Who's Who magazine. The article focuses on the group's recent, successful Skyline Party event, which raised $700 for Nashville Gilda’s Club and Mario Lemieux Foundation. Click here to read the full story.

Physics Students Attend Conference, Lead Convo
2008spsconference.jpgStudents from the newly-formed Society of Physics Students (SPS) went on a trip to Fermilab, the Fermi National Accelerator Facility, outside of Chicago Nov. 7-9. Students Caitlin Smith, Kayla LaFrance, Sarah-Ann Claiborne, Caleb Kinch and Stephen Murphree, along with Physics faculty Christian Thomas, Stephen Robinson and Scott Hawley, attended the Quadrennial Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national honor society for physics students. As this was the first trip for this new SPS group, and the first involvement in the congress, the trip was significant as a way of connecting students with the greater physics community. The group attended talks and workshops on the topic of "scientific citizenship," including a keynote address by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman.

After returning from their trip, SPS members put the finishing touches on their planned convocation event, "Belmont Mythbusters: The Dark Knight Edition," in which they described the physics behind stunts in the popular movie. The academic lecture convocation was presented on Nov. 17 to a crowd of more than 80 people.

Debate Team Garners Awards at Campus Tournaments
This past weekend Belmont's Speech and Debate team hosted its annual tournament, the Tennessee Porch Swing, on campus. This “swing” tournament was comprised of two individual events tournaments (one hosted by Belmont and another by Carson-Newman College) as well as a debate tournament. Twenty universities were in attendance stretching from Texas and Florida to Pennsylvania. Team successes during the weekend were as follows:

Debate Open Division: George Shifflett & Caroline Tenenbaum, Quarter-Finalists; Tim Smith & Tyler Kimbro, Quarter-Finalists
Debate Novice Division: Sara Page & Paxton Williams, Quarter-Finalists; Sara Page, 3rd place overall speaker

Belmont Sponsored Individual Events Tournament
Extemporaneous Speaking: Sara Page, Top Novice
Prose Interpretation: Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Informative Speaking: Chris Taylor, 6th place
Duo Interpretation: Meredith Day/Eric Schoen, 3rd place & Top Novice

Carson-Newman Sponsored Individual Events Tournament
Informative Speaking: Sara Page, 6th place
Duo Interpretation: Meredith Day/Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Extemporaneous Speaking: Sara Page, 3rd place & Top Novice
Poetry Interpretation: Eric Schoen, 1st place & Top Novice
Prose Interpretation: Meredith Day, 4th place; Eric Schoen, 2nd place & Top Novice

Health Services, Nursing Give Flu Shots in Edgehill
FluShots.jpgBelmont University Health Services and the School of Nursing teamed up again this year to offer free flu shots at a clinic in Edgehill. Students, faculty and staff all volunteered their time to give shots at the clinic at Greater Bethel Church and the I.W. Gernert Towers. Those clinics, combined with the number of vaccines given on campus, made for a record year for Health Services with approximately 750 individuals receiving a flu shot from Belmont.

Five Bruin Volleyball Players Listed in Postseason Awards
Channing Salava received Freshman of the Year honors, and Cat Mundy was a First Team All-Conference selection for the second season in a row in the annual Atlantic Sun Awards and Honors list released this week.

Senior middle hitter Emily Cahill was named to the Second Team All-Conference team for the third season in a row, joining middle hitter Jenny Gray and Salava. Salava rounded out her honors with an appearance on the All-Freshman team with outside hitter Maggie Johnson. Click here for more on this story.

Voight Gives Keynote at Golf Fitness Summit
Dr. Mike Voight in the School of Physical Therapy was one of the keynote speakers at the World Golf Fitness Summit held in Anaheim, Calif. last month. More than 600 health care and fitness professionals from 27 countries working within the sport of golf were in attendance. Dr. Voight’s topic was Hip Pathology and its role in the golf swing.

Currans Land Roles in Florence Musical
Currans.JPGTwo married Belmont students studying abroad this semester are taking part in an Italian musical. The students, Noah and Daira Curran, have received a leading role and a directing job in the musical in Florence, Italy.

Born in Ohio, Noah is a senior international business major, and Daira is a junior commercial voice major originally from Massachusetts.




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