Students in Dr. John Niedzwiecki’s Animal Behavior Class will work with a zookeeper and their animals during a spring semester project focused on understanding specific animal behavior. Projects may have to do with dominance, stress, mating displays or the effectiveness of enrichment activities. Students will present their findings to zoo staff and the general public in April.
Participating students will be working with tigers, elephants, clouded leopards, kangaroos, bongo bongos, lemurs, fish, night active herptiles and birds.
Belmont was recently selected as the host site for Alpha Phi Alpha’s Anti-Hazing Summit due to the University’s pending application for an Alpha Phi Alpha chapter to come to campus. The Summit was called to work towards eradicating hazing on college campuses within and outside Tennessee.
Fourth year pharmacy student Meghan Duquette and Assistant Professor of the College of Pharmacy Ashton Beggs recently returned from a week-long medical mission trip to Gobert, Haiti. Duquette was selected for this Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience last spring and was the second student in participate in the annual opportunity.
Service Corps, a Belmont student organization dedicated to providing student experiences in the music and entertainment industries, took 22 members to this year’s Grammy Week in Los Angeles. While there, students had the opportunity to take part in a variety of hands-on industry experiences that placed them directly in the excitement of the events. And two students connected to Belmont even performed on the red carpet during a Grammy pre-telecast event on E.
Stephen Owens spoke at a Belmont Chapel on Friday, Feb. 6, telling about his journey from resentment to forgiveness as his mother sat on death row for playing a major role in the murder of his father.
Belmont University invites alumni, friends and family to attend Homecoming 2015 Feb. 26-28 for a variety of special events. The celebration, centered on the theme “Destination Belmont,” will feature the first Bruin Spirit Walk, two basketball games, a campus-wide canned food drive supporting Second Harvest Food Bank, a homecoming concert and a pep rally and bonfire. For a complete list of all Belmont Homecoming 2015 events and an opportunity to register, click 
With a mission to promote and celebrate cultural awareness on Belmont’s campus, the University’s Black Student Association (BSA) has announced a series of campus-wide events to celebrate Black History Month. This year’s theme is Renewal: Roots, Renaissance, Rights and the week’s festivities are planned as a way to explore and celebrate all aspects of black culture.
Associate Professor of Dance and Director of the Dance Minor Program Debbie Belue recently presented a workshop entitled “Smart Moves: Building Brainpower with Dance” at Vanderbilt University’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy. The workshop focused on learning, creativity and intelligence as processes of a whole body experience. Participants were introduced to specific movement sequences that serve to organize the body and brain in preparation for learning and creative problem solving.
She said the greatest thing she has learned since the game’s start would be something that mentor and Belmont entrepreneurship professor Jeff Cornwall has said many times. For a start-up to be successful, “it takes a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck.” Moriah says that couldn’t be more true for The Escape Game Nashville. The couple feels luck to be part of the venture, but the road since then has been a lot of hard work for the duo and the rest of their team.