Maria Standing Rock, a member of the Alpha Chi honor society at Belmont, was named an alternate for the Alfred H. Noelle Scholarship given by Alpha Chi each year. The scholarship of $1,500 goes to nine undergraduate seniors nationwide. Standing Rock was named the second alternate for the scholarship.
Alpha Chi has active chapters at over 300 institutions in almost every state and Puerto Rico. Inducting no more than the top 10 percent of juniors and seniors in all academic fields, the society registers more than 11,000 new members each year.
Alpha Chi Member Recognized Nationally
Student Receives Teaching Position in France
Rachel Stowe, a double major in French and English, has applied for and received a teaching assistantship through the French Embassy in Washington. She will teach the American language and culture in a high school in the Aix-Marseilles area of France. Rachel will teach 12 hours per week and will receive a stipend of 800 euros per month. Rachel will graduate from Belmont this August.
Belmont Graduates Largest Class Ever
Belmont University graduated its largest class ever as 490 students received their bachelor’s degree or advanced degree during Spring 2005 commencement ceremonies at the Curb Events Center Saturday. In all, the university awarded 387 bachelor’s degrees and 103 graduate degrees.
Schumaker to Keynote Belmont’s Spring Commencement
Belmont University’s Spring Commencement, 10 a.m. May 14 at Curb Event Center, will feature the university’s largest-ever graduating class, with more than 500 graduates, and a commencement speaker who drew upon her childhood in foster care to influence Tennessee’s foster care policy while a student at Belmont.
New Exhibition at Leu Features Appalachian Center for Craft
Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery has opened a new exhibition, featuring works by the faculty and resident artists of the Appalachian Center for Craft. The Appalachian Center for Craft promotes excellence in American craft by teaching tradition and innovation in technique, concept and design. The Leu Art Gallery will celebrate the new exhibition with a reception 4-6 p.m., May 13.
Nursing Student Awarded Promise of Nursing Scholarship
Monika Banach, a junior at Belmont University studying nursing, was awarded the prestigious Promise of Nursing Scholarship. The Promise of Nursing scholarship is a competitive program and only awarded to 150 nursing students nationwide.
Belmont Mixers Win Competition
Belmont student audio engineers fared well at the recent “Spring Mixer” Annual Mixing Competition, hosted by the Nashville chapter of the Audio Engineering Society.
For the second year in a row, a Belmont team placed first in the competition. A second team of Belmont students placed third in the competition.
Screaming guitars take their place beside fiddles in Music City
The wave of emerging non-country acts here is, in many ways, a product of Nashville’s growth. Downtown and neighborhood revitalization has created more places for bands to play, music industry programs at Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University have become magnets for talent and fans, the city is more affordable than other music centers, and its reputation as a haven for songwriters makes it attractive to writers from all genres. – Read the whole Associated Press story at HoustonChronicle.com. [Pictured: Belmont student Graham Fitzpenn, a member of the rock band Roy G Biv, winner of the Pop/Rock Showcase, performing at Belmont’s annual Best of the Best show. Click to enlarge.]
Belmont Hosts Blog Conference – Sidelines
Citizen journalists of the Internet will meet next week for a three-day, multi-part conference on Web logging, commonly known as “blogging,” hosted by Belmont University and the Media Bloggers Association. “BlogNashville will bring many of the new medium’s top practitioners and thinkers to one place to discuss the current and future of blogging,” says Bill Hobbs, Belmont’s public relations specialist and blogging coach in the school’s office of marketing and communications.
“Congress must consider the longer view on college student aid”
By the end of this decade, the number of students academically prepared for college will grow by 14%. Eight out of 10 of these new students will come from disadvantaged backgrounds, 20% will come from families living in poverty, and many will be the first in their family to attend college. If Congress does not recommit itself to full funding of the federal investment in student aid, many of these students may not get to college or, if they do, may not be able to stay there. – Belmont University President Robert Fisher, in an op-ed published in today’s Tennessean.
