University sponsors Omaha arts awards

Bellevue University is a presenting sponsor of the third annual Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards, to be held Thursday, Jan. 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Holland Performing Arts Center in downtown Omaha.
OEA Award organizers seek to enhance the Omaha community by planning and producing this annual awards event, which recognizes the performing arts, visual arts [...]

Corporate Writing Center partners with UNMC

The Bellevue University Corporate Writing Center has partnered with University of Nebraska Medical Center to offer a workshop aimed at improving researchers’ manuscript and grant-writing skills.
The workshop, “Writing to Persuade,” meets at UNMC every Thursday for six weeks, beginning Jan. 8. Bellevue University Assistant Professor Gloria Lessmann will lead the workshop. Lessmann leads Bellevue University’s Corporate Writing Center initiative, which partners with [...]

Student re-connects with relative in history text

Bellevue University students often talk of how the Kirkpatrick Signature Series altered their view of America, its traditions and its values. Students read the historical writings of, among others, Plato, Adam Smith, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine.
Few students can say, however, that they’re related to one of these authors who shaped history. Jason Paine can. Paine is a student [...]

Bruning chosen for public art project

Les Bruning, a Bellevue University art professor, has been chosen to paint a mural in midtown Omaha’s Dewey Park, a public art project that is part of an overall renewal effort in the neighborhood.
Bruning’s mural will cover the outer east-facing wall of the park’s handball court, a 40-feet-by-20-feet concrete canvas. His design will be a [...]

Art professor to lecture at Joslyn Museum

Bellevue University Assistant Professor of Art Michael Giron will speak tonight at Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum, part of the museum’s ongoing speaker series about Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Giron’s talk, “Revealing Rivera: The Mexican Muralist Movement,” will examine the Mexican Muralist Movement, which began in the 1920s and was an integral part of the cultural [...]

Eppler named one of the ‘40 under 40′

Bellevue University’s dean of students and academic affairs, Michelle Eppler, has been named one of the Midlands Business Journal’s “40 under 40″ for 2008.
The Omaha-based business publication annually honors 40 area business leaders under the age of 40. Eppler, 38, joined the university in 2004. During her time at the school, the graduation rate has [...]

Hawkins honored as ‘Woman of the Year’

Bellevue University Provost Mary Hawkins has been named Bellevue’s “Woman of the Year” for 2008. The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce presented Hawkins with the award during its annual Women in Leadership Wine & Cheese Reception, held Tuesday at the university’s student center.
Hawkins has established herself as a leader and national voice in higher education since joining Bellevue University in 1995. [...]