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March 27, 2009

ACHIEVERS


Schnur Named International Music Person of the Year
steve-schnur.jpgSteve Schnur, an adjunct professor of music business for Belmont West and the worldwide head of music and marketing for EA Games, will be honored as the 2009 International Music Person of the Year at a tribute luncheon at the fifth annual MUSEXPO on April 28. Schnur receives this award for "his musical passion, artistic vision and efforts in supporting and breaking both US and international artists through interactive gaming." Schnur, who is often described as the most influential music executive in the video gaming world, has played a pivotal role in breaking new artists through EA Games. This includes acts such as Airbourne, Teddybears, Avenged Sevenfold, Wolfmother, Good Charlotte, Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, Robyn and hundreds of others.

LaLonde Receives Most Votes in Special Election
Dr. Kristine LaLonde, assistant professor and coordinator of honors leadership studies, received the most votes of the four candidates in yesterday's special election for the District 18 Metro Council seat. She will face Stephenie Dodson in an April 30 runoff. District 18 includes the Belmont/Hillsboro and Hillsboro West End neighborhoods, along with portions of 12South, Hillsboro Village and Vanderbilt and Belmont universities.

Student Leadership Council Holds CEMB Awards
On Wed. March 25, Student Leadership Council held the annual Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business Awards ceremony where Mark Volman was honored as Best Full Time Professor and Tony Cottrill as Best Adjunct Professor. Other award recipients included: Sony/BMG (Best Internship Company), Country/Erik Parker producer (Best Showcase), The John Shaw Group (Best Student Album), Future (Best Curb Café Show), Brett McLaughlin (Best Solo Artist) and The Westbound Rangers (Best Group). Best Student Awards went to David Macklom (Audio Engineering Technology), Andrew Petroff (Entertainment Industry Studies), Molly Shehan (Music Business) and Stephen Duncan (Songwriting).

Wolfgram Wins Final ASCAP Writers' Night
lindleytylerelizabeth.JPGOn Tues., March 24, the Curb College held its final ASCAP Writers’ Night of the academic year. Student writers Lindley Wolfgram, Tyler Hubbard, and Elizabeth Olmstead (pictured left to right) performed alongside guest writer and event host Michael Farren. Farren, lead singer in the Dove Award-nominated band Pocket Full Of Rocks, has been a songwriter for more than 15 years and has been an artist/writer with Word Records for the last four years. His songs have been performed by Michael W. Smith, Wynonna Judd, Phillips Craig & Dean and Big Daddy Weave, among others. Wolfgram, the evening’s winner, rounds out the student performance line up for the 2009 Best of the Best Showcase, which will take place on April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Curb Event Center.

CEMB to Present New Advising Center Model at Conference
The success of the Curb College Advising Center, a new model of academic advising, will be the topic of a presentation given by Tina Dishman (Advising Center Director), Carolyn Burress (Advising Center Administrative Coordinator) and Dean Wesley Bulla at the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Region 3 conference in Charleston, W.Va. on May 18-20. Before the new model was instituted, CEMB's 16 faculty advisors could not schedule the college's 1,400 students in the traditional academic advising model of a week and a half. In the Advising Center, faculty spend two hours every week advising students in addition to scheduled appointments during regular academic advising. This new year-round advising model has resulted in a student satisfaction rate of nearly 100 percent.

Students Participate in Alternative Spring Break Trip
House.jpgResidence Life partnered with Habitat for Humanity for their second annual Alternative Spring Break trip. Ten students and two staff members from Belmont University spent the week in Cleveland, Tennessee. The group spent the first part of the trip in a residential area of 30 Habitat homes working on the exterior siding of one home and finishing up the foundation and installing the entire floor system for another. Later in the week the focus shifted to renovating an old movie theater that the local Habitat affiliate will soon use to support the operations of its home supply store as well as much needed office space.

Pharmacy Faculty Speak at Symposium and Workshop
Dr. Andrew Webster, chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences, was the featured speaker March 18 at the Nashville Health Care Council's Leadership in Health Care symposium held at the Cumberland Emerging Technologies Center. Webster addressed a group of more than 40 corporate senior leaders on the topic, “Belmont University School of Pharmacy: It’s Capacities and Capabilities, Today and To Come.”

Dr. Eric Hobson, professor of pharmacy, was the featured speaker and QEP project consultant for Averett University’s (Danville, VA) Quality Enhancement Project, Spring 2009 Implementation Faculty Workshop, March 21.

Warren Wins Southern Miss Individual Title
Belmont senior Lorie Warren captured her third individual title of the season and her seventh overall as a collegian as the Belmont women’s golf team placed third at the Southern Miss Lady Eagle Invitational held Monday and Tuesday at the Canebrake Country Club in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Warren, who has finished in the top-five in seven of the eight tournaments she has played in this season, shot a one-over par 71 in Tuesday’s final round to win the individual title by one stroke over Samantha Holt of host Southern Mississippi. Warren finished with a 36-hole score of 143, while Holt finished at 144.


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