by Erin Turner | Sep 1, 2015 | Galleries
Lipscomb University’s President’s Convocation took place on Sept. 1, 2015 in Allen Arena, celebrating the start of the 125th academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students from the University and middle and high school students from the Academy were joined by faculty for the celebration. Photos by Erin...
by Erin Turner | Aug 13, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Christian music artists, fans and community members will return to Music City this fall to unite for the 46th Annual GMA Dove Awards show, “Better Together.” “Since 1969, the GMA Dove Awards has honored the outstanding achievement and excellence of our music community,” GMA executive director Jackie Patillo said in a press release. “We hope to bring much more light to our mission with this year’s ‘Better Together’ theme as we focus on unity, diversity and creativity and come together during this exciting time in our industry.” The awards show will be held under Lipscomb’s roof in Allen Arena for the third consecutive year on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The Gospel Music Association now calls Lipscomb home after holding the awards show in Atlanta. Most may know Nashville as home of country music, but it is now a hub for the Christian music industry as well. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a press conference was held at which award nominations were announced and Mayor Karl Dean spoke about the importance of music in Nashville’s community. “Not only do we get to celebrate the diversity of the music in Nashville, but we also get to celebrate the fact that hundreds of music fans will be traveling here in October and they will get to see our city firsthand,” Dean said. “Music is one of the top econmic drivers we have. It is the city’s DNA and it is who we are.” Dean described the music industry as Nashville’s “econmic engine,” with 215 million people listening to Christian and Gospel music each month, for example. “Lipscomb, along with other campuses, is a huge part of the boom we’re...
by Erin Turner | Aug 12, 2015 | News Slider, Opinion
You may notice our website looks a little different today… This past spring marked Lumination Network’s fifth birthday. While celebrating Lumination’s past, we were also very excited for future projects — which included this completely new website. This is Lumination’s third website design. I hope you’ll take a tour of the new site and find it much easier to navigate. One thing that has remained the same is the way stories are featured on the homepage. The top five most recent stories will always appear on our homepage. From the homepage you can also easily view stories from heavily-populated categories such as A&E, Sports and Photo Galleries. This allows you easy access to stories and photos of events around campus in which you may be featured! You can also find additional categories, our TV and Radio pages and a search bar at the top right corner. And, of course, we’re not done yet… nor plan to finish in the near future. As the field of journalism is constantly evolving, it is our hope to remain in close parameters with other online news sources. With the new website, Lumination Network will continue to provide daily updates in news, sports, arts and entertainment and academics. This work could not have been done without web designer, Jeff Loper. We would like to give special thanks to Jeff and his team for making this redesign possible. We would also like to thank Daniel Johnson, our web developer here at Lumination, for his work over the summer in helping craft this new and improved site. I remain grateful for the opportunity to work closely with these two and...
by Erin Turner | Jul 17, 2015 | News Slider
Robots slid through the classrooms of James D. Hughes Center this week under the direction of young campers, ages 8-11, who carefully piloted the controllers. The youngsters were a part of Lipscomb’s Junior BisonBot Camp — now in its ninth year. The robot experience began as a small camp and has grown into a program that now includes several weeks of robotics camps for different age groups, sponsored by the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering and Nissan. Robotics camp co-director Ginger Reasonover — whose son Bryan hatched the idea for the camp — has been watching young engineers build robots since the camp began in 2006. The camp started out as Bryan’s Eagle project for scouting. The year before Bryan had been a part of BEST Robotics, a middle and high school robotics competition. “He said ‘you know, it’d be really cool if kids knew a little bit about electronics and motors and gears before they came to BEST,’ so he put on — with the blessing and help of [Lipscomb’s] Engineering College — the first robot camp,” Reasonover said. The first year the camp was called BERP, standing for “Bryan’s Engineering Robotic Project.” “It was such a success and there was such a need that the university picked it up and then the year after that Nissan came along as a sponsor,” Reasonover said. And Reasonover isn’t the only person to continue with the camp as it has developed. Counselor David Jack started as a camper and now serves as a counselor. “The first year that I was here it was not nearly as elaborate, but we had a...
by Erin Turner | Jul 5, 2015 | Galleries
Lipscomb’s new Family Therapy Center opened in May and is serving not just Lipscomb’s community but all of Nashville. Photos by Erin...
