Student Recognition
(L to R) Dr. Darlene Panvini, Claire Beck
The David R. Hill Environmental Service Award
- 2009 Recipient: Allison Berwald
- 2008 Recipient: Claire Beck
Andy Wicke Receives NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Belmont University men's basketball senior Andy Wicke has been awarded a coveted educational grant through the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program. Wicke was one of only two NCAA Division-I men's basketball players chosen to receive this award. Andy will receive a one-time, nonrenewable grant of $7,500. He will earn his undergraduate degree in May with a major in Environmental Studies and minor in Business Administration and plans to attend dental school at the University of Louisville.
Biology and Environmental Studies students and faculty present research at Natural History Conference
Belmont biology major April Tummins presented her senior research project at the 13th Symposium on the Natural History of Lower Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys at Land Between the Lakes on April 3-4, 2009. Tummins' paper was titled "Water-Use Efficiency in Lonicera maackii and Symphoricarpos orbiculatus in Response to Increasing Light and CO2." Dr. Steve Murphree, professor in Biology, presented research completed by Andy Wicke, an Environmental Studies major, titled "Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Water Quality at a Trout Hatchery Stream Entering the Obey River, Clay County, Tennessee." Other Belmont participants included Biology major Julianna Bejma, Environmental Studies major Lindsay Walker, and Dr. Darlene Panvini, associate professor in Biology.
