Bruins heading for action as fall sports begin

The Bellevue University athletic teams will be in action later this month as the volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer teams open up their 2009 seasons. All three programs had very successful seasons last year and are looking for continued success this fall.
Volleyball
The Bruin volleyball team returns 10 letterwinners and four starters from last season’s [...]

Reports: Board member’s family finalizes purchase of Cubs

Bellevue University Board Member Pete Ricketts and his family have finalized a deal to buy the Chicago Cubs, according to published reports Monday.
The Omaha-based Ricketts family negotiated to buy the team, Wrigley Field and a 25 percent stake in Comcast SportsNet, a regional cable network. The agreement was reportedly reached during the Fourth of July weekend, [...]

Global Festival 2009 is April 25

Bellevue University and its International Programs Department on Saturday, April 25 will host “Global Festival 2009,” a celebration of cultures from around the world that will include a variety of ethnic foods and entertainment.
Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., inside the Margre H. Durham Student Centeron the University’s main campus, 1000 Galvin Road South, Bellevue. Live entertainment [...]

Student vets group to be honored at State Capitol

The State of Nebraska will honor Bellevue University’s Student Veterans Organization during a special ceremony April 8 at the State Capitol in Lincoln.
Gov. Dave Heineman has declared April 8 “Student Veterans Organization Day” in Nebraska, which is intended to specifically honor the recently formed Bellevue University SVO – the first in the state. Gov. Heineman [...]

Bantam to speak on ‘the business of art’

Nationally known artist Wendy Jane Bantam will speak at Bellevue University on Wednesday, Feb. 4, about how to think creatively and critically when managing a small business. Bantam’s talk, “The Business of Art: Making Something out of Nothing,” begins at noon inside Hitchcock Humanities Center’s Criss Auditorium.
Bantam will offer guidelines on how to survive as [...]

Board member’s family in line to own Chicago Cubs

Bellevue University Board Member Pete Ricketts and his family are the winning bidders to purchase the Chicago Cubs from the Tribune Co., according to media reports on Thursday.
The Omaha-based Ricketts family is negotiating to buy the team, Wrigley Field and a 25 percent stake in Comcast SportsNet, a regional cable network. The family is in the [...]

Board members inducted into Business Hall of Fame

Two of this year’s six inductees to the Omaha Business Hall of Fame are members of the Bellevue University Board of Directors. Michael Simmonds and Deryl Hamann will officially be inducted April 16 during an event at Qwest Center Omaha.
Simmonds and Hamann are both long-time board members; Simmonds currently serves as chairman. Simmonds is chairman [...]

Students, staff, alumni stay connected via social networking sites

More than 1,400 Bellevue University students, staff and alumni are currently members of the school’s official LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace groups. Participation during the past six months has grown by nearly 900 percent.
Students are able to use these social networking sites to, among other things, search for a roommate, network for career opportunities, re-connect with old [...]

University supports Omaha Creative Institute

Bellevue University has thrown its weight behind the Omaha Creative Institute, an artist-led group that formed more than a year ago with the goal of promoting the creative process in the Omaha area. 
The group will first offer community arts programming, with hands-on art workshops starting this month. The group’s eventual goal is to transform a mostly vacant north downtown Omaha [...]

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 [...]