Lanita Harris (’91) was named Metro-Nashville Public Schools’ high school teacher of the year. Harris teaches English at Hunters Lane High School.
“My love of the written word and my desire to share that love with others continually renews my joy of being a lifelong teacher and learner,” Harris said. “I want students to realize the opportunities a solid education can provide for them.”
Harris will advance to statewide competition and the winners at the state level will advance to the national competition.
Harris studied English and education while a student at Belmont.
Alumna Honored as Teacher of the Year
Belmont Gathering to Focus on Educating Bloggers
Today’s Knoxville News Sentinel has an advance reporton BlogNashville, the big bloggers conference coming to Nashville’s Belmont University on May 5-7.
WSMV Schedules “Best of the Best” Concert Broadcast
WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville has scheduled its broadcast of Belmont University’s annual Best of the Best Showcase, a concert featuring the university’s top musical and songwriting talent that is often a preview of the music industry’s next top artist and writers. (Pictured: Country Showcase winner Jamie Floyd. Click image to enlarge. Click [More] for images of other showcase winners.)
BU Student Awarded Fulbright
Senior Anne Marie Padelford received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Austria for the 2005-06 school year. Padelford will be living in Weiz, Austria, teaching English in a secondary school from Oct. 1, 2005, through May 31, 2006.
Padelford will graduate from Belmont in May with a B.A. in German and in August with a B.M. in Piano Performance.
Sociology Club Hosts “Road To Hope Tour” Event
Belmont University’s Sociology Club is sponsoring a campus stop of the Road to Hope Tour, a project of the Road to Hope Tour Coalition (www.hopesvoice.org), which includes HIV/AIDS service providers, advocacy groups, and research organizations who have joined together in a historic movement to bring their “Does HIV Look Like Me?” national awareness campaign to sites from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco. The tour will focus on getting students to question stereotypes about HIV/AIDS with the goal of showing that that HIV can infect anyone regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, economic status, or gender.
Sudanese Ambassador Challenged on Genocide
An unusual gathering at Belmont University featured the ambassador of Sudan, more than 300 students who came to express their anger at genocide in that East African country, and a professor who led a walkout in protest. … Many in the crowd — including one student refugee from the Sudan — accused the government of supporting atrocities such as murder and rape and what former Secretary of State Colin Powell has called “genocide.” – From The Tennessean.
Sudan Ambassador Kabeir to Visit Belmont University
Belmont University will host Ambassador Abdel Bagi Kabeir from the Sudanese Embassy, Wednesday, April 13, in order to express concerns to him about the genocide in his country. The event will focus on the needs of the people of Sudan and what the international community can do to make a difference. Ambassador Kabeir will be part of a convocation on April 13 at 10:00 a.m. in Neely/Black & White which will draw attention to the crisis by presenting video, photographic and eyewitness information on the genocide, and by giving the ambassador letters of concern written by members of the community. The media is invited to attend. For more information contact: Greg Pillon, Director of University Marketing and Communications, at 615-460-6645.
Belmont Hosts Fifth Annual “Read With Me” Family Literacy Day
Read With Me, Belmont University’s fifth annual Family Literacy Day, is scheduled for Saturday, April 16 from 1–4:00 pm, on the Belmont campus, rain or shine. The event is aimed at children from pre-kindergarten through grade 6 and their families and is designed to celebrate the joys of reading. The primary focus of the event are the Reading Circles, hosted by various groups on campus such as the Black Student Alliance, the foreign language majors, the Student Athlete Council and numerous fraternities and sororities.
BU Greeks Build A Well
Matt Ward, a brother of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Belmont University, initiated a fundraising campaign in which the entire Belmont University Greek System raised upwards of $3,000 for the Blood:Water Mission African Well Project.
The Greek community banded together and raised money by omitting beverages and only drinking water with their meals during a two-week period. The money that they saved was then donated to the cause. The participants wore wristbands displaying their pledge and to raise awareness for the Mission’s project. Donation tables were set up around Belmont University’s Campus to allow other students to participate.
The money raised will benefit over 1000 people by constructing a well for a Kenyan Village. Blood:Water Mission has already selected over 1,000 sites in Africa where potable water is scarce.
Students Represent BU at Alpha Chi Convention
Belmont students Kyle Smith, Ashley Marriott, Brenna Lacey, Lindsey Winger and Rachel Stutts represented Belmont’s Eta chapter of Alpha Chi at the recent national convention in St. Louis.
The students presented research essays, led convention workshops and entertained the 350 students, faculty and sponsors at the convention. Dr. Jonathan Thorndike of Belmont’s Honors Program is a member of the Alpha Chi National Council and participated in scholarship and planning committees in St. Louis.
Alpha Chi is the highest academic honor awarded by Belmont University.
