NewswireToday.com reports on a new partnership between Belmont University’s Technology Learning Cooperative (TLC) and Gatlin Education Services to provide new online career training programs. Click here to read more about this new partnership.
Nashville’s “Incredible Baby Shower” Held at Belmont University
The 2006 Incredible Baby Shower was held in the Curb Event Center at Belmont University on October 4 from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and provided pregnant and parenting teens and adult moms a connection to free resources to help insure that mom and baby are healthy, and stay healthy, from pregnancy to early child development. The Incredible Baby Shower featured presentations and topics concerning labor and delivery, newborn care and parenting, healthy lifestyles and pre-natal care.
Participants in the baby shower included women in WIC and TENNCare, uninsured women, pregnant high school teens, Metro Public Health Department volunteers, community agencies, local consultants, members of faith-based communities, corporate sponsors and community partners.
Event sponsors included the Metro Public Health Department, March of Dimes, Tennessee State University, Belmont University, various vendors and various community agencies that provide services for infants, children and youth.
Belmont Alum Profiled
Masslive.com recently profiled Edward “Nash” Polchlopek, a 2003 graduate of Belmont and Massachusetts native. Polchopek currently co-owns Verve Management, a Nashville-based music management company. Click here to read the article.
Donna Nix Honored With Award
Belmont student Donna Nix was recently awarded the ZBest Profile Award for September by Ziggs.com, an online community for people who want to promote themselves or thier businesses online and connect with other professionals. Nix is currently pursuing a degree in liberal studies at Belmont, focusing on marketing and communications.
Belmont Student Wins NASA Video Contest
Kayla LaFrance, a senior engineering physics major at Belmont University and native of Spokane, Wa., won NASA’s Greatest Fan video contest. LaFrance’s entry, a 30-second video titled “Mars Mates Forever”, was chosen among 1,500 entries from contestants aged 13 to 24. She and a guest will be treated to a five-day trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness a shuttle launch.
To see Kayla’s video, as well as videos by other NASA finalists, click here
Belmont Co-Hosts Photography Conference
Photography professors from Belmont University, Vanderbilt University and Watkins College of Art & Design will present the Society for Photographic Education- South Central Regional Conference October 5-7. Click here to read an article in The Tennessean for more details.
Special Belmont Preseason NIT Tickets on Sale Now, Belmont Season Tickets On Sale for $100
Nashville, Tenn. – The Belmont Department of Athletics and the Curb Event Center announce today that special Belmont ticket packages are on sale now for the 2006 Preseason NIT to be held November 13-14 at Nashville’s Gaylord Entertainment Center. The tickets are on sale through the Curb Event Center box office.
Special Belmont ticket packages range from $43.60-$45.50 for upper level seats, $63.60-$65.50 for club level seats, and $93.60-$95.50 for lower level seats and includes admission to all four games over the two days.
To order your tickets, you can stop by the Curb Event Center box office during regular hours (Monday-Friday: 10:00am-6:00pm, Saturday: 10:00am-4:00pm) or you can call them at (615) 460-8500. Cash, check, and credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express) are accepted.
These ticket packages are only on sale through Monday, October 16th.
In the Nashville bracket, Belmont will open up with UNC-Wilmington on Monday, November 13th at approximately 9:30pm, following the Tennessee-Fordham game. Tuesday’s schedule features the consolation game at 5:00pm, with the championship game following at 8:00pm.
The Belmont Department of Athletics also announces that 2006-2007 basketball season tickets are now on sale. Season tickets can be purchased for $100 each and the package includes a reserved ticket for all 11 men’s home games and doubleheaders and a general admission ticket to ten remaining women’s home games.
The 2006-07 schedule for the Bruins will feature all nine Atlantic Sun schools along with some non-conference opponents as both teams fight for postseason berths. In addition to their conference schedule, the Belmont men will host Fisk in their home opener on November 20 and then will entertain IUPUI on December 4. The BU women will host Texas A&M –Corpus Christi in the season opener on November 18 and entertain three other non-conference foes: Eastern Kentucky, Radford and IPFW as well as their A-Sun schedule.
Season tickets can be purchased by calling (615) 460-BALL or (615) 460-5609. A 2006-07 season ticket brochure can also be downloaded here.
Belmont Cross Country Team Ranked in the Top-10 in this Week’s South Region Polls
Nashville, Tenn. – The Belmont men’s and women’s cross country teams are ranked in the top-10 regionally when the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced its weekly South Region Polls on Monday.
The Belmont men were ranked fourth in this week’s polls, moving up one spot from fifth in the preseason poll. The Bruins are behind Alabama, Florida State, and Florida, but ahead of Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi State.
The BU women’s squad is ranked ninth in this week’s poll. They were ninth in the preseason poll. BU is among three non-SEC/ACC teams in this week’s poll (UAB, Chattanooga). The top-ranked women’s team in the South is Tennessee.
Both of Belmont’s teams are back in action this weekend in national meets. The BU men will compete Friday at the Notre Dame Invitational in Indiana, while the women head to New York for the Iona Meet of Champions.
For a list of all national and regional polls, check out the USTFCCCA website at
http://www.ustfccca.com.
Hollis Delivers Keynote at PRSA Program
Belmont University, in conjunction with the Nashville chapter of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), hosted “Doing the Right Thing” – a half-day program dedicated to ethics in the PR workplace on Tues., September 26. Dr. Harry Hollis, director of the Center for Business Ethics at Belmont, delivered the keynote address, “Dealing With Professional Ethics Challenges: A Survival Strategy.” Other guest speakers and panelists included Christopher Bauer of Bauer Ethics Seminars, Beth Courtney of Seigenthaler Public Relations, Dan MacDonald from Bridgestone/Firestone, Clint Brewer from the Nashville City Paper and Nancy Amons from WSMV, Nashville’s NBC affiliate.
Art Gish of Christian Peacemaker Teams Speaks at Belmont
The Office of Spiritual Development at Belmont University hosted Art Gish, a member of the organization Christian Peacemaker Teams since 1995, to speak with students, faculty, staff and members of the community about his experiences serving in Israel/Palestine and Iraq and living a theology of nonviolence. Gish is a graduate of Manchester College and Bethany Theological Seminary. He is the author of The New Left and Christian Radicalism, Beyond the Rat Race, Living in Christian Community and Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking.
