Belmont University has achieved Gold in the Green area of Mayor Karl Dean’s Workplace Challenge for being a local environmental hero for its leadership in reducing the environmental impacts of its operations and buildings. Belmont also achieved Gold in the Involved area of the Mayor’s Workplace Challenge for being a local community champion for its leadership in actively promoting volunteer service inside and outside the workplace.
The Mayor’s Workplace Challenge is a new city initiative to recognize and encourage healthy living in the workplace. Its aim is to improve in the areas that most contribute to a high quality of life and healthy living including being green, involved in the community and being healthy. The inaugural Workplace Challenge is part of the city’s efforts to move Nashville toward a greener, healthier and more involved future.
“Through the Workplace Challenge, I am asking businesses and organizations throughout Nashville to step up and show just how big an impact they can make on the livability of our city,” Mayor Karl Dean said.
Through these achievements, Belmont is considered a champion in making the workplace better for employees, students and the surrounding community. This actively reflects Belmont’s mission to be a student-centered Christian community providing an academically challenging education that empowers men and women of diverse backgrounds to engage and transform the world with disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage and faith.
Mike Curb was one of 12 new inductees to the Musicians Hall of Fame announced Monday. Curb was the recipient of the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum’s Non-Performing Award. Curb has been an essential benefactor to Belmont University through his generous donations to support the Curb Event Center and the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, among other efforts.
Alumna Carla Worthey (’04) presented “Interview Strategies for Success” Belmont & Beyond program to students on Nov. 4. Worthey earned her Master of Business Administration and serves as the director of executive development at HCA. Nearly 100 students attended the program to learn tips to help them succeed in job and internship interviews. Sponsored by Career Services, the 
Health Services Nurse Practitioner Lisa Scholl and Kelly Otten, from Recreation & Fitness, were co-captains of the Team Belmont for the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk for American Cancer Society Nov 2. The team had 90 walkers and raised $2,900 for cancer research.
Emily Deas, a sophomore biochemistry and molecular biology major and 
As part of a service-learning project in Introduction to Environmental Science, five students adopted a section of Richland Creek in Nashville and organized a stream clean-up day on Oct. 19. The Belmont students organizing the clean-up were Megan Brady, Walter Burn, Luke Castle, Katie Keast and Jessie Wynn. Six additional students and Dr. Darlene Panvini, professor of the course, assisted in the clean-up event. Richland Creek is an urban watershed with five major tributaries: Sugartree, Unnamed Tributary, Jocelyn Hollow, Vaughn’s Gap and Belle Meade, along with many smaller branches that feed the system.
Dr. Gary L. McDowell, assistant professor of English, has a newly published book of poems, Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral (Dream Horse Press). He was also recently interviewed by Nashville magazine Native and will be featured as the artist of the month in the November issue.
Belmont public relations majors received national accolades at the recent Public Relations Student Society of America National Conference in Philadelphia. Belmont PRSSA received a Star Chapter Award, recognizing excellence in 10 areas including community service, ethics advocacy and leadership.
Nathan Cruse, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Occupational Therapy, was part of a volunteer team organized by Achilles International to guide a blind runner through the 26.2-mile New York City Marathon on Nov. 3. Cruse signed up to be a guide in May and was chosen to be one of three individuals to guide runner Theresa Khayyam. In the months leading up to the marathon, he guided Khayyam in training runs once or twice a week, working on running in unpredictable weather and on unfamiliar courses to increase her confidence in her abilities and her faith in her guides.