Belmont University was featured as the cover story of The Knowledge Review’s August 2018 issue as one of the 10 Best Green Schools in America. Understanding the need to take care of God’s creation as more than a cause, but a charge, the article highlights Belmont’s numerous sustainability and conservation efforts on-campus, in the community and beyond.
The Knowledge Review’s August edition features schools that are dedicated to educating students to be environmental leaders of tomorrow and helping them protect the earth.
“Belmont constantly seeks ways of increasing its efforts all while educating students through their sustainability committee and environmental club, as well as work done through the university’s environmental/biology department including volunteer work, research in local wooded areas and streams, planting trees and more,” the article states. “Belmont is constantly striving to find new ways to engage their sustainability commitment throughout its campus.”
The cover story recognizes Belmont’s countless conservation and sustainability initiatives, including many LEED certification, campus green roofs, composting system, geothermal heating and cooling, receipt of the Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award and more.
Belmont University President Bob Fisher was featured in the article as “the Watchful Eyes overseeing Belmont’s nurturing.”
It goes on to say, “Under his leadership, Belmont’s enrollment has more than doubled in 15 years and the university’s energy efficient sustainable approach has resulted in energy cost increase of only 30% despite a campus square footage increase of more than 70%.”
The ninth-annual “CMA Country Christmas” will air Monday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m./ET (7 p.m./CT) on the ABC Television Network. The event was recorded live in September in the Curb Event Center on Belmont’s campus with a number of 
Some advice Molavi had for students surrounded the Mike Tyson quote, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Molavi told students to “be resilient because punches will come no matter what you do. You have to be nimble in this world.”
Belmont University was, again, well-represented at the 2018 Lilly Conference on College Teaching held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio earlier this month. Eight Belmont faculty participants from religion, media studies, biology, English, psychological science, sport science and the Teaching Center attended the event.
Drs. Jeremy Fyke and Nathan Webb, faculty in the Department of Communication Studies, recently presented at the National Communication Association annual convention in Salt Lake City, UT. Drs. Fyke and Webb co-presented a paper titled “’Field’ Research: Letting Corporate Communication Professionals’ Stories Inform Curriculum Development,” based on research conducted in collaboration with Drs. Mary Vaughn and Jimmy Davis, also of the Communication Studies Department.