Belmont alumna Bariangela Segovia and her business partner Maliyah Bass tried rolled ice cream for the first time on a Spring Break trip to New York City. After just one bite, Segovia knew she was hooked. Less than two years later, the duo has opened Rolled 4 Ever Ice Cream, the first rolled ice cream truck in Nashville, and travels all across the Middle Tennessee area with their frozen treats.
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Former cross country student athlete Courtney Hicks, a 2003 journalism graduate, and her husband Brian are running a different kind of race this week, as they sprint to the finish for the grand opening Saturday of their social enterprise, Humphreys Street Coffee and Soap. The nonprofit has been in existence for several years, but this weekend Humphreys Street will open its first retail location, a coffee shop located in an old church in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood.
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“Nothing makes you feel more like a rock star than rolling out of a bunk on your tour bus backstage at Bonnaroo!”
So says sophomore Kaitlyn Walters, a first-time attendee of the event named “Best Festival” in 2008 by Rolling Stone. But Walters isn’t an overnight success who stumbled onto Bonnaroo’s main stage for a late night performance. Instead, she’s a Belmont University student majoring in music business and getting six hours of college credit and first-hand business experience at one of the nation’s premier music fests.
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The Center for Improvement of Educational Systems, led by Dr. Jesse Register, exists to support Tennessee schools and educators in creative ways, namely six school districts across the state including Maury, Warren, Hickman, Putnam, Gibson Special Schools and Washington counties. This summer, nearly 200 local educators, aspiring leaders who were selected by their district leadership, have participated in training facilitated by the CIES and funded, in part, by a grant.
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Robbie Tyrney, Belmont economics student, veteran and president of student organization Bruin Vets, recently founded The Giving Goose to support childhood cancer research across the country. In 2015, when Tyrney’s young daughter Zoe was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid brain tumor, he and his wife entered an unfamiliar world of hospitals, operations, chemotherapy, oncologists and more. Though Zoe’s aggressive diagnosis came with just a 15 percent chance of survival, Tyrney was hopeful and knew he’d just found himself on his life’s newest journey–improving the survivability of pediatric cancer.
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Though Senior Ride Nashville (SRN), a local nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable and assisted transportation to older adults in the Nashville community, has only two and a half full time staff members, the team becomes much larger when considering the Belmont students who have become actively engaged in the organization’s mission. Launched just six months ago in late 2017, SRN has provided more than 800 trips for nearly 90 riders throughout the West Nashville and Madison communities. Looking forward, the team plans to be county-wide by 2020.
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Belmont University and Columbia State Community College recently announced a new partnership that allows Columbia State associate degree students the opportunity to earn a Bachelor’s of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree from Belmont’s Jack C. Massey College of Business. According to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 80 percent of students attending community colleges nationwide intend to pursue a bachelor’s degree, but only 14 percent have one six years later. This new agreement—which provides deeper connections between the two programs and streamlines services and admissions for students—aims to improve those numbers in Tennessee.
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A group of Belmont student-athletes and administrators recently returned from Kenya as part of the Bruins’ annual mission trips. Belmont Coordinator of Academic Services & Sports Ministry and men’s basketball assistant coach Mark Price led a group to Nakuru, Kenya last May, and the Bruins returned to the same sites this year to continue the work, relationship-building and discipleship.
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The Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame announced the seven health care professionals selected as this year’s inductee class at a luncheon on Belmont University’s campus on Tuesday, May 3. With a mission to honor men and women who have made significant and lasting contributions to the health and health care industries, the Hall of Fame was created in 2015 by Belmont University, the McWhorter Society and the Nashville Health Care Council, a founding partner. The seven honorees will be inducted at a ceremony in October.
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After several semesters of work, a group of public relations students from Belmont’s own student-run public relations firm presented their work and findings to their community client. The firm, Tower Creative Communications (TCC), is run by senior Joel Delabre, executive director and sophomore Chelsea Lomartire, managing director, under the advisement of Dr. Kevin Trowbridge in the department of public relations. Students work in groups to offer pro bono public relations services to community partners in exchange for real-world experience and practicum credit.
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