Belmont University’s fast-growing entrepreneurship program at Belmont University has received a $40,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation. Part of this grant will be used to fund the creation of a second student business “hatchery” on campus. The remainder of the grant will support the Entrepreneurship Across Belmont initiative that is seeking to integrate entrepreneurship education to reach students from a variety of academic majors outside the College of Business, including students choosing a formal minor in Entrepreneurship and students taking advantage of the many co-curricular programs offered through the Center for Entrepreneurship.
Cusic On TV
A special four part series on “The History of Country Music” will be
shown on CMT beginning August 5. The show was produced by the BBC and featured Dr. Don Cusic, author and professor of music business at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University, was interviewed by the BBC for the program. Dr. Cusic also recently taped an interview with a television crew from Japan for a television special to air in Japan on “The History of Gospel Music.” He and Belmont University recently hosted the 21st Annual International Country Music Conference.
Belmont Student Moss Receives Fulbright Grant
Belmont University student Aaron Moss has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study Musicology in the Czech Republic, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced. Moss is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees that will travel abroad for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Program. The program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, with the intent to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. We asked Moss how he came to be a Fulbright scholar…
Belmont Student Moss Receives Fulbright Grant
Belmont University student Aaron Moss has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study Musicology in the Czech Republic, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced. Moss is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees that will travel abroad for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Program. The program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, with the intent to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. We asked Moss how he came to be a Fulbright scholar…
Tennis Teams, Players Earn National Academic Honors
The academic achievements of the Belmont men’s and women’s tennis teams along with two BU student-athletes were honored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) as they announced their ITA Academic Awards for the 2003-2004 school year. Both of Belmont’s tennis teams were named an ITA All-Academic team. In addition, two Belmont tennis players earned the ITA’s Scholar-Athlete Award. Read the whole story at Bruins Online.
Cornwall’s Business Commentary Published in Sunday Tennessean
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, has a commentary in the business section of the Sunday (August 1) Tennessean, titled, “Foundation reports entrepreneurship is alive and well in U.S.” It’s not online, but the commentary is based on this entry from Dr. Cornwall’s The Entrepreneurial Mind weblog.
Business Program Changes Get National Coverage
Belmont University is revising its core undergraduate business curriculum, relying on input from the business community and using “continuous improvement” methods common in the business world. Nashville Business Journal reported on the change in its July 30 edition, also published online by MSNBC.com. Dr. D. Lee Warren, associate dean of Belmont’s undergraduate School of Business, and Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, are both quoted.
Alum sings national anthem at Sounds game
Holly Dunn, a 2003 graduate from the School of Music, was selected to sing the Canadian national anthem at the Nashville Sounds game August 3 when they hosted the Edmonton Trappers. Dunn auditioned with 250 other singers and scored among the top three auditioners. Dunn is currently employed with EMI Christian Music Group in Brentwood, Tenn., as Administrative Coordinator in Administration/Corporate Services while she pursues her music career.
Addressing the Nursing Shortage
Belmont University and Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the Belmont University College of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing, hosted the Tennessee Center for Nursing’s statewide conference Thursday in the Massey Board Room. On the agenda: a discussion of how the nursing schools across Tennessee can increase their student capacity, in order to produce more nurses and offset a looming shortage of nurses, by both increasing faculty and increasing building capacity.
Leu Art Gallery Gets New Director
Belmont University has selected Victoria Boone as the new director of the Leu Art Gallery. She also will be an adjunct professor in the Department of Art. Boone comes to Belmont from the Watkins College of Art & Design, where she was director of the Community Education and Enrichment Program until the end of 2003. Boone earned a bachelor’s in fine art in 1977 from the University of Alabama, where she majored in painting and sculpture, and a Master’s of Liberal Studies for Museum Administration in 1990 from the University of Oklahoma.
