Belmont News

Belmont Alumna Advances to Top Four on American Idol
Belmont alumna, Melinda Doolittle (’99), advanced to the top four on “American Idol” Wednesday night. She will perform Tuesday night at 7 p.m. CT on Fox. Click here for Doolittle’s official “American Idol” Web page.
Belmont Students Create Fair Trade Coffee Brand to Benefit Farmers, Local Hispanic Community
Belmont University students on the Belmont Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team hosted an event at Nashville coffee shop Bongo Java Thursday, May 3, to announce and unveil a fair trade coffee brand the students developed to be served at Belmont with plans to extend distribution to other local businesses. The Belmont SIFE team partnered with Sodexho and Conexion Americas to create the new, organic, private fair trade coffee. To read more, click here.
Author Marcus Buckingham Speaks at Belmont
The Peer Learning Network at Belmont University hosted Marcus Buckingham May 3, 2007, in a special presentation of “Putting Your Strengths-Based Perspective to Work”. Buckingham is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing, cultivating employees’ strengths, dramatically increasing efficiency and personal growth. Buckingham is the author of the best-selling books The One Thing You Need to Know, First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Now, Discover Your Strengths and Go Put Your Strengths to Work. To read more, click here.
Regions Bank Awards Belmont Student Entrepreneur
Belmont student Cameron Powell was awarded the Regions Bank Outstanding Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a $5,000 prize, at the College of Business Awards Day Ceremony on April 18. Keith Herron, Regions Bank Nashville president, and Scot McLaughlin, assistant vice president from Regions Bank, presented the award to Powell. To read more, click here.
Sister Helen Prejean Speaks at Belmont
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, spoke at Belmont University Monday, April 30. Prejean recounted her experiences working with death penalty cases and making the Academy Award-winning film Dead Man Walking. To read more, click here.
Belmont Alumna Wins Prestigious Award
Belmont alumna Lisa Williams, assistant professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Ky., has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her collection of poems, Woman Reading to the Sea. Williams received an honorarium of $1,500 and publication of her manuscript in spring of 2008 by W.W. Norton & Co. The prize is given annually to one emerging writer to publish her second collection of poetry. Three-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Joyce Carol Oates handpicked Williams as winner of the award. To read more, click here.