by Janice Ng | Nov 1, 2013 | News Slider
Dee Anna Smith is the only female, non-physician leader of a cancer company in the world. She is also the 2013 recipient of the Lipscomb University College of Business Heroes of Business Award. Business students and professionals gathered in Stowe Hall on Thursday, Oct. 31, to hear Smith discuss her leadership role of CEO of the Sarah Cannon Cancer Research Institute. “My daughter saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, ‘women who behave rarely make history,’” Smith said. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve interpreted ‘behaving badly’ to being distinguished in what we do. “In Daniel 6, it said that Daniel distinguished himself among the officials. My desire in life is to be distinctive among,” she said. Smith, a Board Member of the Lipscomb College of Pharmacy, began her career at KPMG, one of the biggest professional audit, tax and advisory service providers in the United States. “The discipline that I got from working at that company for all those [six] years gave me a fantastic foundation to take that forward,” Smith said. “The Sarah Cannon Research Institute is in the business of advancing therapy for patients,” Smith said. “It’s a drug testing institute. We want to make sure the medication is safe for people to use. We’ve had quite a large impact in drug development.” The Sarah Cannon Institute, a Nashville-based foundation, later merged with Hospital Corporations of America (HCA), one of the biggest healthcare providers in the world, to provide healthcare for cancer patients. Together, the two merged companies are worth over $4 billion. How does Smith take control of such a large company? She says...
by Kyrsten Turner | Nov 1, 2013 | Sports
This week’s basketball exhibition games filled Allen Arena with the sounds of cheering fans, slick sneakers on the hardwood and plenty of booming buzzers. Through all the noise and confusion that accompanies live sports, the pep band is usually the one providing the structured soundtrack to the evening. “Emphasis on musicality,” said Elliot Bowman, Lipscomb’s pep band director for the year. “Instead of being a really loud band, we want to be able to hear all the parts, all the instruments. Each instrument does have an important role in each song we play and we want that to be showcased.” The conglomeration of trumpets, drums, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trombones, a piccolo and a bass guitar bring together the best of wind and jazz instruments. “We don’t have any tuba players this semester but I’d love to have anybody that wants to play one,” Bowman said. Coming off the Bisons and Lady Bisons exhibition games, the pep band is ready to begin a new season. Bowman said the band isn’t just a way to showcase students’ musical talent, but a way to be more involved in the games and support Lipscomb athletics. “In the past, while [band members have] shown moderate interest, they’ve not been shouting with the cheerleaders and trying to help out like a normal student would,” Bowman said. “We’ll put a little bit of emphasis on that.” Jennifer Green, Bowman’s co-assistant, is looking forward to making the pep band a vital part of the game’s atmosphere. “We used to be a really small group that didn’t have much school spirit,” Green said. “Now, we have grown exponentially and...
by Janice Ng | Oct 23, 2013 | News Slider
It’s hip, it’s current, it’s an art department – Lipscomb’s art department to be exact. According to Nashville Scene Arts Editor Laura Hutson, Lipscomb University “secretly harbors one of the hippest art programs in Nashville.” Lipscomb professor Rocky Horton and Artist-in-Residence Seth Lykins couldn’t agree more. The Lipscomb art department offers several opportunities for students to immerse themselves in the art world. Associate Art Professor Rocky Horton says the work produced by students and professors is very contemporary-progressive and cutting-edge. “That atmosphere paired with this amazing [Presidential] Lectureship series, as well as the OPEN Gallery downtown, has pushed us to the forefront of programs in Nashville,” Horton said. The Presidential Lectureship series for Art and Art History brings prominent artists, art historians, and critics to lecture and interact with the community with studio visits and exhibitions. Past lectures have included Daniel Johnston, Nick Cave and Jose Parla, to name a few. “Lipscomb’s art department is super conceptual,” said Lykins, a junior studio art major. “It really challenges you in how you think about art. There are also a lot of opportunities for students.” As Artist-in-Residence, Lykins is offered a cash award that allows him to spend the summer as a working artist, presenting his work at the beginning of the fall semester. Lipscomb also offers a Visiting Artist Program, which highlights several artists throughout the academic year from all over the country and brings them to Nashville to interact on an intimate level with students and the community over a period of two or three days. Lykins curates the OPEN Art Gallery in the Arcade downtown, a gallery run entirely by...
by Monaih Sam | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you spend time in the Lipscomb administration office, studied abroad recently or have a passion for fashion, you know Alisha Robinson. Robinson is a Lipscomb Senior from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada who is double-majoring in Textiles and Apparel and Fashion Merchandising. It may be a long title, but clothing and textiles studies involve more than just designing clothing. Students also learn how to create a product that consumers will want to purchase. Plus they learn how clothing is designed, created, advertised and sold. “I spend a lot of my time sewing and doing crafty things,” Robinson said. She is focused on costume design and has dreams of winning an Oscar one day for costume design in a movie. “I enjoy the creativity and I enjoy people being able to reflect their personalities through clothing,” Robinson said. “I buy the majority of my clothes from the thrift store and I sew them or change them to fit me or to be something different.” Robinson says Canadians are a bit different than the United States when it comes to fashion sense. And though she doesn’t consider herself a fashionable person, she does have some fashion advice for Lipscomb students. “The guys who wear the sunglasses with the elastic strap on the back drive me crazy,” Robinson said. “Camo is never a good fashion pattern. If you’re out hunting, that makes sense. If you’re walking on campus, that doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to hunt.” Guys who wear short pastel shorts and girls who wear heels to class are also a fashion “no-no” for Robinson. The future fashion merchandiser urges students to...
by Mandy Durose | Oct 7, 2013 | News Slider
As fall is upon us, and we all start trying to find ways to incorporate pumpkin into our everyday lives, it’s also a good time to focus in on academics. Take a sip of that pumpkin spice latte and dig into that textbook because it is officially midterm week. While returning students already know the stress that can come from midterm papers and exams, new freshmen have not yet encountered college midterms. Luckily, there is help for those stressful assignments at Lipscomb. Places such as the Academic Success Center and tutoring exist to reel in all midterm focus. The Academic Success Center has a variety of sources to help in subjects such as biology, math and writing. The ASC strives help students reach their full potential. If you’re a student struggling to write the perfect paper, you can head over to the Writing Studio, located in the basement of the Beaman Library. The Writing Studio is there to assist in any stage of the writing process as long as you make an appointment ahead of time. Kayleen Warner, a student worker at the ASC shared insight to the freshmen about what seems to work best to succeed on the upcoming midterms. “I would tell a freshmen to prepare, prepare and prepare. Everything you have learned up to this point will be on the midterm,” Warner said. While the ASC is here to help students improve, paying attention in class is where success begins. Warner stresses the importance of staying alert in class saying, “ Always actively listen and take good notes. Always learn keeping in mind that there is...
