Achievers

Belmont Student Appears in Movie
Belmont senior Melvin “Maestro” Lightford is in the cast of the Michael W. Smith movie, The Second Chance, which was filmed in Nashville. He was president of the Black Student Association for 2005-06 school year, and his band, SoulForce, was in the Best of the Best Showcase this spring. To find out more about the movie, click here.
Jacobs to Serve on NACE Task Force
Patricia Jacobs, Director of Career Services, was asked to serve on the National Association of Colleges and Employers Career Services Professional Outcomes Task Force. The task force is responsible for reviewing the outcomes of the Career Services Assessment/Professional Standards Task Force and developing a tool for self-audit of career services operations based on the criteria outlined in the Professional Standards Workbook that can be used as part of annual institutional reporting.
School of Music Adjunct Tops Country Charts
Bryan Clark, School of Music adjunct, is a member of the bluegrass band Honeywagon, which is listed in the top ten on Country Billboard this week. He sings lead vocals and plays the guitar and dobro in the band. To visit their Web site, click here.
Harrington to Chair MIOTF
Michael Harrington, Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, has been asked to chair the College Music Society’s first-ever Music Industry Outreach Task Force. The MIOTF was created through the initiative of College Music Society president Tayloe C. Harding. The task force aims to foster liaison with the music business and entertainment industry, and to identify and address goals in common between the music and entertainment industry with academia. The group is composed of innovative, renowned and dynamic figures in the popular and classical music worlds and covers all aspects of the contemporary music and entertainment industries and academia.
O.N.E. Club Coordinates Recycling on Move-In Day
The Belmont O.N.E. Club, which stands for Our Natural Environment, coordinated a recycling effort on move-in day. The O.N.E. Club made arrangements with Metro Public Works to have large recycling machines on campus. Students and biology faculty members, Dr. Steve Murphree and Dr. Darlene Panvini, worked all day to move boxes and other recyclables to the bins.
Hawley Featured on Computing News Service
New physics faculty member, Dr. Scott Hawley, was featured for his computer simulations of binary black holes in both HPCWire, a high performance computing news service, and the main page of the Texas Advanced Computing Center where the simulations were performed.
Byrne Publishes Second Book
Professor Joe Byrne, Belmont Honors program, has released his second book, Daily Life during the Black Death. Published by Greenwood Press in July 2006, Daily Life extends his study of the medieval plague into the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras, focusing on how epidemic disease affected everyday life in Europe and the Islamic world. Belmont graduate Meaghan Minnick (’03) edited the manuscript and proof text and prepared the index for the volume. His chapter, “The Pesthouse,” was presented in an early form at the 2005 national Sixteenth Century Studies Conference held in Atlanta last October. To read more, click here.
Buckner Selected as Item Writer by NCSBN
Dr. Martha Buckner was selected as an Item Writer for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensure Examination (NCLEX). The national Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), headquarted in Chicago, is responsible for developing and administering the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN licensing exams.