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Bellarmine University’s residence halls will host free community trick-or-treating Oct. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. Students and Residence Life staff will provide candy, food and activities for costumed children.

When longtime Louisville Mayor Jerry E. Abramson leaves Metro Hall in January 2011, he will join Bellarmine University as an executive-in-residence, teaching classes on leadership and civics, and organizing lectures and workshops.

For the third consecutive year, Bellarmine University’s graduate business program has been named one of the nation’s Best 300 Business Schools, according to The Princeton Review.

Bellarmine University’s theatre program will stage “Achilles in Sparta” to open its 2010-11 season in the Wyatt Center for the Arts’ Blackbox Theater, beginning October 22.

Bellarmine University opened a new 540-seat, 21,500-square-foot University Dining Hall to serve a record 1,009 students living on campus, along with more than 2,100 commuter students.

To celebrate Bellarmine University’s 60th anniversary, a 10-foot sculpture of St. Robert Bellarmine has been prominently installed outside the W.L. Lyons Brown Library.

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.