Coming Up

Belmont University has teamed with Nashville’s music industry to bring about “An Evening for Restoration: Music City Comes Together for Tsunami Relief.” This special benefit concert is scheduled for 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at the Curb Event Center. The one-night only benefit concert, which is bringing together a number of Nashville’s major music organizations as well as artists from a variety of genres, will benefit World Vision, an international relief agency which has thousands of staff members working in the South Asian region where more than 160,000 people have died.Tickets are available at the Curb Event Center Box Office (460-8500) and through any Ticket Master outlet. Tickets will cost $25, with 100 percent of the ticket price going to World Vision for the tsunami victims.
The Vaughn Science Lecture will take place on January 31, 2005 at 7:00 pm in the Boardroom with a reception will follow. This annual event serves to highlight scientific research and its ramifications to both undergraduate science majors and the more general audience of non-science students and faculty. This year’s speaker is Dr. Tom Wenzel, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He won the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Fellows Award in 2002, and he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of CUR Quarterly, and he was given the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education, Analytical Division, American Chemical Society in 1999. Dr. Wenzel served as President of the Council on Undergraduate Research in 1996-1997. In addition to his active undergraduate research program in chemistry, Dr. Wenzel teaches in the Environmental Studies program at Bates, and he offers a course on women in science. His topic is “Right-handed Sugar Doughnuts: Nutritional Food for Undergraduates and their Faculty.”
The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats are returning to the Curb Event Center on February 9, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. Ring in 2005, the year of the Rooster, at the Curb Event Center! A crowd favorite last year, the return of the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats promises to be an extraordinary show seen no where else in Nashville. Don’t miss this opportunity to see such a spectacular event with beautiful costumes, skilled showmanship, and amazing acrobatics. We have set up a SPECIAL ticket price for Belmont University Faculty/Staff and Students bearing a BU ID: $8 ticket price (totaling $10.24 after tax and fee), limit 6 per person. Prices for non-Belmont folks are $15 Adults and $8 Children under 12.