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| Business professor and alumni/adjunct awarded NELA Awards by Nashville chamber
Janel Shoun 8/1/2011 A Lipscomb University business professor and an alumni serving as an adjunct professor were selected among the 14 winners of the Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELA), given annually by the Nashville Area Chamber and YP Nashville (Young Professionals Nashville). |
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| Student veterans are humble servants to the people of Ghana
Kim Chaudoin 7/14/2011 Sometimes in life you get to experience something that is much bigger than yourself … something that turns your world upside down … and you know that you will never be the same. |
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| Board of trustees welcomes two new members this summer
Janel Shoun 7/22/2011 Lipscomb University recently announced the addition of Bill Huston and Richard G. Cowart to its board of trustees. |
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| Nurse leaders from China check out health care technology with Lipscomb as host
Janel Shoun 7/26/2011 As an outgrowth of various economic development trips to China and South America, Lipscomb University is playing host to seven nurses and nurse administrators from China this week, showing them the best in health care technology in Nashville. |
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| Sustainability students head to Vermont, the birthplace of the conservation movement
Janel Shoun 7/26/2011 Students in the Institute for Sustainable Practice's (ISP) academic programs experienced everything from a devotional in a glacier-cut gorge to the making of Chunky Monkey ice cream during the “Roots of Sustainability” tour of Vermont July 9-14. |
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| MLK's daughter Bernice A. King speaks on campus at Youth Life fundraising luncheon
Janel Shoun 7/26/2011 Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a renowned international speaker, author and ordained minister, will speak on the Lipscomb University campus Thursday, July 28, at 11 a.m., as part of the Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee's Women and Girls Benefit Luncheon. |
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| DLHS graduates headed to Lipscomb kickstart college career with study abroad
Janel Shoun 7/20/2011 Going away to college is exciting enough when a student's first class will be English 101. Imagine the excitement when a new freshman's first course takes him all the way "across the pond" to London, England with the university’s president. |
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| University preps for emergencies with water, food stockpiles, Red Cross training
Janel Shoun 7/15/2011 After the devastation of natural disasters around the world over the last few years, Lipscomb University administrators resolved more than a year ago to significantly boost emergency preparedness on campus. They challenged themselves to prepare for 1,400-1,500 people living on campus for five days during a crisis. |
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| Executive-in-residence announces Healthy Media bill with Geena Davis, legislators
Janel Shoun 7/15/2011 Lipscomb University’s Communication and Journalism Executive-in-Residence Deborah Taylor Tate was on Capitol Hill this week introducing a new bill to promote healthy media messages about girls and women. As co-chair of Healthy MEdia, along with Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis, Tate announced the new bill, called the Healthy Media for Youth Act. |
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| College of Education hosts first SCORE conference on rural education
Janel Shoun 7/15/2011 SCORE (The State Collaborative on Reforming Education) will hold its first Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit on the Lipscomb University campus July 19-20. The College of Education has worked with SCORE to host the conference and develop some of the 21 sessions. |
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| Communication chair's book leads to international impact in public relations field
Janel Shoun 7/11/2011 In the same summer Craig Carroll came from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to run Lipscomb University's communication and journalism department, he was also marking the publishing of his first book, the culmination of six years of research and international study. |
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| Students, faculty and alumni make strides in their career fields and beyond
Janel Shoun 7/8/2011 From students in a Baja-inspired off-road race to staff honored for volunteer work to fight cystic fibrosis, the Lipscomb community made great accomplishments in the first half of 2011. |
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| Graduate of dietetic internship lands rare sports nutrition job upon graduation
Janel Shoun 7/8/2011 When there are less than 40 people in the nation practicing full-time in the field you want to enter, finding a job right after graduation is not likely to be a slam dunk. However, Rachel Stratton, a graduate student in the Dietetic Internship Program, did just that, landing her dream job at the University of Oregon just days after graduating from the program. |
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| $113,000 Race to the Top grant funds chemistry workshop for local teachers
Janel Shoun 7/7/2011 Lipscomb University is one of six universities in the state, and the only private university, to be awarded a 2011 Race to the Top grant promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) professional development for public school teachers. |
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| Summer Celebration features honors for David Jones, Lytle Thomas and Walt Leaver
Janel Shoun 7/1/2011 Lipscomb University's 2011 edition of its annual Summer Celebration, a three-day festival of faith and fellowship held on its Nashville, Tenn., campus, wrapped up Friday night with Jeff Walling of Charlotte, N.C., as keynote speaker and a surprise Kopio Award for Lytle Thomas, founder and long-time executive director of the Nashville Inner City Ministry. |
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| Lipscomb University announces new health care informatics master's program
Kim Chaudoin 7/1/2011 Responding to growing demand in the workplace, Lipscomb University announces a new Master of Health Care Informatics (MHCI) program. Health care informatics is the discipline of managing health care data, of many kinds and from multiple sources, so that is becomes useful and accessible in appropriate ways. |
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| Fall 2011 will bring four new bachelor's in technical career fields
Janel Shoun 7/1/2011 Lipscomb University's engineering college and sustainability institute are introducing four new bachelor's degrees in fall 2011 in high-demand career areas: conservation and sustainable ecology, environmental management and technology, sustainability, information security and civil engineering. |
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| IMPACT gets youth 'hooked' on God, grants wish of local girl with cystic fibrosis
Janel Shoun 6/23/2011 More than 2,500 teens from all over the nation converged at Lipscomb June 17-25 to enjoy the high-spirited combination of fun games, pranks, Bible study and worship that is IMPACT. The teens also took up a collection to make young girl's Disney wish come true. |
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| Lipscomb University launches School of TransformAging
Kim Chaudoin 6/22/2011 Lipscomb University announces its new School of TransformAging that will focus on healthy aging and the development of leaders who will bring new thinking to the quickly changing landscape in how our society looks at, experiences and lives with aging. |
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| Release of revised David Lipscomb biography to be celebrated at panel discussion
Janel Shoun 6/22/2011 Lipscomb University announces the 2011 revision of "Crying in the Wilderness: The Life and Influence of David Lipscomb," by long-time former Lipscomb history chair Dr. Robert E. Hooper. |
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| Haslam convenes Summit on Aging in partnership with Lipscomb
UCM 6/21/2011 Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam challenged key stakeholders from across the state to be creative in finding ways to better serve seniors through partnerships among public, private and non-profit sectors during his opening remarks at the Governor’s Summit on Aging held at Lipscomb University on June 21. |
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| Andrews Institute, Transit Alliance’s Citizen Leadership Academy receives grant
UCM 6/14/2011 The Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee received a $10,000 grant today from the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors. The grant will be used to help fund Transit Citizen Leadership Academy, a joint venture of the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee and the Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership at Lipscomb University. It was presented this morning at the nearly complete new intersection of I-40 and White Bridge Road, with rush hour traffic as the backdrop to the presentation. |
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| Student veterans to take hearts for service on mission trip to Ghana
Kim Chaudoin 6/14/2011 Those who choose the path of a career in the military make the ultimate commitment to serve. In doing so, they choose to make great personal sacrifices while carrying out their duties to protect and defend the United States. That heart for service often remains with these men and women long after they leave the military to pursue other paths in life. For one group of Lipscomb University veterans, that need to serve others is taking them thousands of miles away later this month to the small village of Kete Krachi near Lake Volta in Ghana, West Africa. |
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| Lipscomb holds first Missions Camp with simulated Guatemalan village this fall
Janel Shoun 6/14/2011 Lipscomb University's missions department is working to transform missional thinking in the upcoming generation through its first Missions Camp, held this fall, on a farm in Dickson County. Missions Camp will be a complete third-world immersion experience with the simulation of a small Guatemalan village. |
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| Sgt. Kevin Balduf: A Message from the President
UCM 6/10/2011 The Lipscomb community often has opportunities to rejoice and celebrate together. We also come together when members of our family are hurting. As many of you may already know, Sgt. Kevin Balduf, a 2002 David Lipscomb High School graduate, was killed in action on May 12 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A member of the United States Marine Corp, Sgt. Balduf was assigned to 8th Communications Battalion II Marine Expeditionary Force. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2004 and 2011 and to Iraq in 2006. In 2004, he received the Bronze Star with Combat Valor, awarded for bravery and meritorious service. |
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