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March 10, 2006

Belmont News


Belmont University alumni received a total 12 awards nominations when the Academy of Country Music Award nominations were announced. Brad Paisley ('95) led all nominees with six nominations, including Top Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year for his album Time Well Wasted. [To read more, click here.]

The Maddox Foundation, founded by the late Dan and Margaret Maddox, has continued its generous support of Belmont University with two recent gifts totaling $456,880, including a $350,000 installment of the total $5.5 million that the foundation pledged to help build the Maddox Grand Atrium that connects the Beaman Student Life Center and Curb Event Center on the Belmont campus. The foundation also gave Belmont $106,880 to continue funding Belmont's Presidential Scholars Program and the Rasmussen Foreign Studies Program. [To read more, click here.]

Belmont University announces an upcoming event in connection with the 100 Artists See God exhibition at Nashville's Cheekwood Museum of Art. On March 16 at 7 p.m. in the Maddox Grand Atrium, Eleanor Heartney will present a slide lecture entitled "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art." [To read more, click here.]

The Greenfield, Ind., Daily Reporter profiles Tyler Oban, a Belmont University entrepreneurship student who spent much of January as a touring musician entertaining American troops at military bases in the Middle East. [To read more, click here.]

The Nashville City Paper recently explored some of the factors in Belmont University's rapid growth over the past five year. [To read more, click here.]


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