Belmont University baseball looks to get its season off to a memorable start this year with the annual Bruin banquet. Head Coach Dave Jarvis is pleased to announce that former Major League player and manager Ray Knight will serve as this year’s featured speaker. The banquet will be held on Friday, February 10th at 6:00 pm in the Neely Black and White Dining Hall on Belmont’s campus.
WSMV Features Belmont’s Grammy Connections
WSMV Channel 4 News in Nashville highlighted the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business’s Belmont West music business program in Los Angeles, and some of its students and alumni with connections to the Grammy awards, in this story last night. Featured: Belmont students Jennifer Vineyard, currently doing a music industry public relations internship in LA, and Anne Peterson, currently interning at MTV News. WSMV’s entertainment reporter Jimmy Carter also interviews Curb College Dean Jim Van Hook and Grammy-nominated alum Brad Paisley in the story, and also mentions Grammy-nominated Belmont alum Trisha Yearwood. (To view video, click link or image. Pop-up blockers must be disabled – hold your Ctrl key when clicking the link. Video may not be available on the WSMV website for more than a few days.)
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist to Speak at Belmont
The Belmont Center for Business Ethics announces that Nobel Prize winning economist Dr. Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago will speak at Belmont on March 22. Fogel, the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and Director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, won the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His most recent book, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, argues that every movement for progressive economic, social and political change in U.S. history has had Christians in the vanguard.
Pulitzer-Nominated Naturalist Author To Speak at Belmont
Scott Weidensaul, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of more than two dozen books on natural history, speaks at Belmont on Wednesday, Feb. 15, and will sign copies of his latest book, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent’s Natural Soul. In the book Weidensaul retraces the epic 1955 journey of naturalists Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose book Wild America chronicled that now-legendary 30,000-mile trip across North America. Fifty years later, Weidensaul retraced their epic journey to see what we’ve gained and lost, and to catch a glimpse of what the future holds for wildlife and wild lands.
Commercial Music Showcase Features Best of School of Music
The Belmont University School of Music presented its 14th Annual Commercial Music Showcase Monday night, featuring the best solo performers, arrangers, instrumentalists, background vocalists and crew in the school’s Commercial Music Program, chosen via auditions last September.
Speech & Debate Team Hosts and Wins Tournament
Last weekend Belmont University hosted the 2006 Tennessee Intercollegiate Forensics Assocation Tournament. Belmont’s speech & debate team placed at least one person in every final round. As a team, Belmont won first place in Individual Events, second place in debate and was the first place overall team at the tournment.
Congratulations to the following Belmont speech & debate team winners: Melanie Bengston, McKinley Belcher, Chasity Gunn, Cortni Woodard, Kristen Taylor, Tabitha Metcalf, Caleb Cameron, Jonathan Guenther, Nick Bumgardner, Will Cromer and Price Rainer.
Dr. Cornwall Elected USASBE Fellow
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Belmont Center for Entrepreneurship, has been elected as a “Fellow” of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The USASBE is the nation’s largest organization supporting public policy and academic folks with an interest in Entrepreneurship.
Nursing School Honored For Work to Improve Nursing Education
Belmont University’s School of Nursing has been selected as one of the winners of the Educator Award for Safe Patient Handling, based on outstanding efforts to change the curriculum, including evidence-based approaches for safe patient handling. The award will be presented at the 2006 Safe Patient Handling & Movement Conference in Clearwater, Fla., Feb 28-March 2. Specifically cited in the award nomination was Dr. Lynne Shores, associate professor of nursing.
Metro to Hold Public Hearing on Belmont Park Proposal
Deferring a vote, a Metro Parks board subcommittee decided Tuesday to schedule a public hearing regarding Belmont University’s request to use E.S. Rose Park in Edgehill as a venue for its NCAA Division I outdoor sports teams. Belmont has requested Metro allow it to hold baseball, softball, soccer and track competitions at the park, 1000 Edgehill Ave. In turn, Belmont would pay most of the construction costs for building a baseball field, softball field, soccer field and track. – From the Nashville City Paper. More information here.
Belmont hosting professional women’s seminar series
Belmont University’s office of adult degree programs announced an upcoming seminar series for professional women in leadership. The program is a series of three workshops on issues important to women in the workforce: gender negotiation, business etiquette and general well-being. The seminars are sponsored by Tennessee Commerce Bank and proceeds from the $300 sign up fee go to scholarships for adult students enrolled at Belmont. The fee is tax deductible as a charitable contribution. – From Nashville Business Journal. More details here.
