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NEWSBRIEFS
Glee Club Hosts 45th Intercollegiate
Men’s Choruses National Seminar
SOME OF THE NATION’S top collegiate male voices will soar on cam
pus as the Morehouse College Glee Club hosts the 45th Intercollegiate
Men’s Choruses National Seminar, April 12-14.
Fourteen choirs and choruses will perform during the three-day
event, which will be held in The Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and
Music Academic Building and the Martin Luther King fr. International
Chapel. Concerts each day are free and open to the public.
“We have assembled some of our country’s greatest male choruses
for three days of incredible music-making,” said Glee Club Director
David Morrow ‘80. “This year’s seminar features a Georgia Night with
performances from glee clubs around the state of Georgia and a read
ing session of GLA’s most recent Male Choral Series by Dr. W. James
Abbington, executive editor of the African American Church Music Series
by GIA Publications.”
Other seminars and panel discussions about various aspects of glee
clubs and choral singing also will be conducted.
For complete schedule and registration information about the
Seminar, go to http://www.morehouse.edu/imc/index.html or call
Morrow at (404) 614-3783 or Sherman Modeste at (404) 931-4930.
Peter Buffett Shares Insight
on Realizing Your Dreams
EMMY AWARD-WINNING musician and composer Peter Buffett (left)
performs in the Ray Charles Performing Art Center’s Emma and Joe Adams
Concert Hall during his multi-media presentation, “Life Is What You Make
It: A Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett” Buffett talked about how
people should follow their passions and take the reigns of their own destiny.
This was Buffett’s second concert at Morehouse. Both were sponsored by
Goldman Sachs.
Morehouse One of the Nation’s Top HBCUs
in Producing Peace Corps Volunteers
MOREHOUSE IS ONE of the nation’s top producers of Peace Corps vol
unteers from historically black college and universities.
According to Peace Corps officials, Morehouse produced nine alums
who are in the Peace Corps in 2011, second only to Howard University,
which had 17. Spelman College was third with six.
“We are thrilled to congratulate these academic institutions for con
tinuing to cultivate a commitment to public service,” said Peace Corps
Director Aaron Williams.
Peace Corps volunteers serve 27-month commitments in more than
75 countries, promoting world peace and friendship and a better under
standing between Americans and people of other countries. H
Left to right 2012 MCEC Business Plan Competition first-place winners senior Elijah Martin, junior Brarrdy Fulton and
senior Malcolm Parrish with Carolyn Green, president and CEO, Professional Environmental Engineers, Inc., a conference
sponsor
Students Present Business Plans
and Scientific Research During
2012 Innovation Expo
BY ADD SEYMOUR JR.
JUST HOW DO BEAN BEETLES fare in relative humidity? Is there a different way high
school students can get ready for the vocabulary portion of the SAT?
The answers came during the 5th Annual Morehouse Innovation Expo, Feb 15-16,
when Morehouse students and others from around the country showed off their research
and business plans for their new ideas.
“The whole idea of the conference is to really inspire ideas, get the students excited
about their research and get them to see that they can really make an impact on the
world,” said Tiffany Bussey, director of the Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center
and co-chair of the Expo. Bussey was joined as co-chair by Cynthia Trawick, director of
the Morehouse Public Health Science Institute.
More than 625 registrants — the most ever for the Innovation Expo — watched as
students competed for prize money for the best scientific research presentations and the
best business plans. Student contestants came from as far away as Texas and New York
to present their work.
Morehouse’s Elijah Martin, Malcolm Parrish and Brantly Fulton were first place
winners in the Innovative Business Plan contest with their mobile application “Word
Wise,” which helps high school students prepare for the SAT’s vocabulary section.
In the scientific presentations, William Jenkins won first place in the poster competi
tion. Mykel Green was the oral presentation winner. MAPP Senior Awards were present
ed to Jamaji Nwanjai-Enwerem, Jabari Eilliott, Charles Watts, Brockton Starling, Joshua
Burrow, David William Hollingsworth and Kendal Thomas.
Some of the nation’s top business leaders were honored for their visionary work and
for championing the cause of minority business development during the Expo’s annual
Innovative Creative Entrepreneur (ICE) Awards.
Michael Roberts, chairman and CEO of The Roberts Companies of Missouri, was
the ICE Lifetime Achievement Award recipient; Angela A. Brown, CEO and president
of Victory Global Solutions of Maryland, won the Small Business Award for Excellence;
John Brewer ’89, special adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for Intelligence Issues
in Washington D.C., was named the Outstanding Alumnus Award winner; Kimberly
June, founder and CEO of Springforward, Inc. of Maryland, won the Outstanding
Supplier Award; and Greg Reyes, the corporate director of Mentor Protege programs for
Dyncorp International of Virginia, won the Corporate Trailblazer Award.
The two-day Expo also included a number of seminars and panel discussions on
topics such as research for global impact, the business of sports and entertainment and
an alumni roundtable that featured Morehouse graduate business owners.
But the main goal of the Expo was to inspire student innovation and stronger com
munication across disciplines, Bussey said.
“It was the idea of breaking down silos — business students who are talking to sci
ence students who are talking to humanities students,” she said. “I think we are finally
getting the message around that this is not about being in silos across campus, but actu
ally working together. “ I