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Recognizing two decades of leadership and service to Bellarmine and Louisville, Bellarmine’s Board of Trustees selected Bellarmine's president, Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, as the 12th person to be “knighted” by the university. The ceremony took place during Bellarmine’s annual Knight of Knights fundraising event on October 8.

Bellarmine University’s Thomas Merton Center hosts two public events celebrating Thomas Merton in October -- a free lecture on Oct. 13 and a one-day conference on Oct. 16.

Bellarmine University will honor Roy B. Hill as the school’s Accounting Alumnus of the Year at its 26th annual accounting alumni luncheon, on Thursday, September 23. Bellarmine’s Alumni Association will also recognize the 25 previous winners of the award since its inception in 1985

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High school students and their parents can experience a preview of life at Bellarmine on Discover Day, at 1 p.m. on September 19. The program offers a tour of Bellarmine’s growing campus, a chance to meet faculty members, and the opportunity to make friends with other students who are considering attending Bellarmine.

The 37th annual Bellarmine University Women's Council Designers' Show House event, from Sept. 11 to 26, will feature the Inverness Condominiums in the historic Cherokee Triangle area. Once the Charles P. Moorman Home for Women, Joseph and Joseph Architects have transformed the building into elegant, Scotland-inspired Highland homes.

Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, president of Bellarmine University, which awarded an honorary degree to Robert F. Sexton in May, released this statement about his death.

Keeping pace with increasing enrollment and growing demand for on-campus living, Bellarmine University opened its newest residence hall today, and held a groundbreaking ceremony for more student housing that will open next fall.

Michael Pollan, author of the best-selling books In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, will deliver the Vision 2020 Lecture at Bellarmine University on Oct. 7. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Knights Hall.

The Bellarmine University Alumni Association will honor seven of its most distinguished graduates and an outstanding faculty member on Sept. 11 at the historic Henry Clay in downtown Louisville. The awards recognize those who have distinguished themselves through professional accomplishments, community service and demonstration of attitudes consistent with Christian doctrine.

As part of a training exercise, Metro EMS will land a StatFlight helicopter on the Bellarmine University campus between the Owsley B. Frazier Stadium and the softball field Saturday morning.

Bellarmine University and the Governor’s Scholars Program will present a mayoral debate at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Frazier Hall on the Bellarmine campus, 2001 Newburg Road.

An MBA class at Bellarmine University is spending the summer developing a business/strategic plan for Edge Outreach, the Louisville-based non-profit that has been providing potable drinking water in Haiti since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

Bellarmine University’s Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences has received a second $80,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN) to recruit students from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds to the nursing field.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 26, 2010) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Bellarmine University more than $200,000 to join the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle. Discovery of the particle could shed light on the origin of mass found in all the matter in the universe.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 5, 2010) –Graphic Design USA, a publication for design professionals, has honored Bellarmine University for its in-house creative efforts for two original publications from the past year: the admissions viewbook and a calendar celebrating the university's 60th anniversary. The creative team behind the designs includes: Brad Craig ('01), Amber Dunlap and Katie Kelty ('07).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 26, 2010) -- The 2010 "Best Student Employer" award from the Bellarmine University Career Development office goes to a project management team in information systems at Kindred Healthcare. The award, presented during a luncheon on Friday, April 23, honors the recipients for providing excellent support and learning opportunities to a student intern. Bellarmine junior, Aaron Yocum, a business major, nominated Rob Wileman, Ted Veterano and Bruce Lukat for the award.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Updated April 21, 2010) -- Bellarmine University will present honorary degrees to business leader Lee B. Thomas Jr. and education reform advocate Robert F. Sexton during spring commencement exercises on May 8, in Knights Hall. Sexton also will deliver the commencement address.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 20, 2010) -- Dr. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, associate professor of theology at Bellarmine University, has earned a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Debrecen Reformed Theological University in Debrecen, Hungary in Fall 2010. Her project is entitled, "Religion in the Public Forum."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 15, 2010) -- Bellarmine University students, alumni, faculty and staff raised just over $19,500 to help find a cure for cancer as part of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. Approximately 280 people participated in the relay event, which ran from 6 p.m. on April 9 through 6 a.m. on April 10. Twenty-four cancer survivors took the ceremonial first lap.