College & Seminary News

Centre College

Centre College president John Roush announced recently that the College will make a bid to host a General Election debate in 2008. Should Centre be chosen to host a debate in 2008, the debate would be housed in the Norton Center for the Arts.

Two Centre College students were honored at the Kentucky Academy of Science's annual meeting on Saturday November 11 at Morehead State University. Bobby Cassady, a sophomore from Lancaster, Ky., and Tammy Lundblad, a junior from

Centre College is located in Danville, KY.

Maryville College

Maryville College contributes as least $79 million to the East Tennessee area annually, a recent economic impact study found. The study focused on three major areas of the College's economic impact: local business volume generated by College expenditures; local full-time jobs created by Maryville's presence; and individual income generated by College expenditures. The counties most benefited by the College's operation include Blount, Knox, Anderson, Hamblen, Loudon, McMinn, Roane and Sevier.

Dr. William Newton, former chaplain and director of community service at Rhodes College, has been selected to head Maryville College's new Center for Strong Communities. The center fosters and facilitates community service, research and leadership initiatives that connect people, organizations and institutions to help communities become stronger and better places to live and work.

Maryville College is located in Maryville, TN.

Pikeville College

While on a medical mission trip in July, 17 students from the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine traveled to the Dominican Republic where they incorporated the skills they learned in the classroom with the values they learned in church. The team traveled to Batey 9, a small sugarcane community in the southwest corner of the Dominican, approximately two hours from the border with Haiti. While there the group of volunteers treated more than 1000 patients during the weeklong trip.

Pikeville College is located in Pikeville, KY.

Columbia Seminary

Tom Lewis has been named as the new Director of the Spirituality Program at Columbia Theological Seminary. Since 1996, he has been pastor at the Commerce, GA Presbyterian Church. The Certificate Program in Spiritual Formation is a part of the work of Columbia's Center for Lifelong Learning.

Columbia's January Seminars for 2007 offer participants an opportunity to engage in conversation around the Emergent Church movement. "Mainline Emergent/s: Conversations in Theology, Practice, and Hope," takes place January 30-February 1 at the Seminary and at Columbia Presbyterian Church. For more information contact Sarah Erickson, Associate Director at ericksons @ CTSnet.edu.

Columbia Theological Seminary is located in Decatur, GA.

Louisville Seminary

Timothy Tyson wins the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in religion for his memoir about a racially motivated murder. The North Carolina scholar was 11 years old and living in Oxford, NC, when two white men murdered a young black man, Henry Marrow. In his book, Blood Done Sign My Name, Tyson examines the killing and its aftermath from many angles, exploring issues of sin, loss, redemption, conscience, and human decency.

The Grawemeyer Foundation at the University of Louisville awards $1 million each year — $200,000 each for works in music composition, education, ideas improving world order, religion and psychology. The Grawemeyer Award in Religion is given by the university and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tyson will present a lecture on his award-winning book in April at LPTS.