The Detroit Free Press has published a story about university programs designed to teach and foster entrepreneurship. Belmont University’s extensive entrepreneurship program is prominently featured.
Interviewed: Dr. Amy Sturgis
Dr. Amy Sturgis, Belmont University’s expert on author J.R.R. Tolkein and an adjunct faculty member in University College, has been interviewed by Pop Thought, a respected pop culture website.
Towering Achievement: Belmont University hosts major exhibit of works by master sculptor Frederick Hart – Nashville Scene
The Nashville Scene provides a wonderful in-depth look at the exhibition of sculpture by Frederick Hart currently at Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery.
“I was convinced I was destined to do this,” master sculptor Frederick Hart (1943-1999) once said of his “Creation Sculptures,” commonly held to be the most important commissioned religious sculptures in 20th century America. This body of work represents an extraordinary artistic achievement by any standard and forms the stunning centerpiece of a new exhibit at Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery. This is the largest showing of Hart’s sculptures ever staged. The 50 bronze, marble, resin and acrylic pieces span the artist’s career, offering insights into his creative and technical processes as well as the ideals that informed his work: beauty, meaning, substance, scholarship and craftsmanship.
“I was convinced I was destined to do this,” master sculptor Frederick Hart (1943-1999) once said of his “Creation Sculptures,” commonly held to be the most important commissioned religious sculptures in 20th century America. This body of work represents an extraordinary artistic achievement by any standard and forms the stunning centerpiece of a new exhibit at Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery. This is the largest showing of Hart’s sculptures ever staged. The 50 bronze, marble, resin and acrylic pieces span the artist’s career, offering insights into his creative and technical processes as well as the ideals that informed his work: beauty, meaning, substance, scholarship and craftsmanship.Don’t miss the exhibition.
Here is the press release.
National Media Spotlights Belmont’s Entrepeneurship Program
The Associated Press featured Belmont University’s comprehensive business program in entrepreneurship in a story that’s being published by news outlets from Florida to Canada this week.
Faith at Work In the News
The Tennessean examines the integration of religious faith and the workplace in a story that features a recent half-day seminar at Belmont University. Here’s an excerpt of the story:
Faith-and-work programs date to the 1950s, said Michael J. Naughton, theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and a speaker at the Belmont program. The movement waned from the 1960s through the 1980s then began to pick up again. Naughton, co-author of Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization, has long focused on work-faith issues.
Today’s culture ”fosters division between public and private life,” he said. ”Most of us want unity. Most of us don’t want to pass on to our kids two different standards.”
Family Literacy Day Saturday at Belmont
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Mark Wins NCAA Scholar of the Year Honor
Belmont University men’s baskbetall player Adam Mark was named male Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the NCAA Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association. Mark, a senior, helped re-write the Belmont and Atlantic Sun Conference record books. He ranks in the top-10 in three statistical categories while scoring nearly 1600 career points to rank 15th in school history. This season, Mark became the first player in A-Sun history to lead the league in field goal percentage three straight seasons. Full story here.
Classroom American Idol? Class Mirrors Music Industry
An innovative class at Belmont University is taking on a bit of the look of American Idol as students work to select, develop and promote two musical artists who will be featured in a live showcase April 22 at the Curb Caf
Music Business Student Quoted in AP Story
Belmont University student David Cook, president of the Belmont University Copyright Society and a student in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, is quoted in an Associated Press story about the troubled state of the music industry economy for Nashville’s songwriters. The story ran in USA Today and numerous other publications and online media, including the Miami Herald, FOX News, the Rapid City Journal, New York Newsday, the Montgomery County Record, the Chicago Tribune, MLive.com, the Orlando Sentinel, the New Orleans Times Picayune, tje Tuscaloosa News, the Hartford Courant, MSNBC.com, the Wyoming News, the Kansas City Star, the Biloxi Sun Herald, the Springfield, Ohio, News Sun, the Porterville, Calif., Recorder, the Jackson, Tenn., Sun, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and the San Jose Mercury News.
Speech and Debate Team Defends Title at NCCFI
The Belmont Speech and Debate team successfully defended its Division II national title at the NCCFI national tournament held in March at Cedarville University. The NCCFI Is the National Christian College Forensics Invitational.
