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Belmont Abbey College Dedicates The Simon & Debbie Donoghue Theatre Belmont, N.C. (October 5th, 2026) – Belmont Abbey College has renamed its Haid Theatre as The Simon & Debbie Donoghue Theatre, honoring the legendary director of the Abbey Players and member of the college community for nearly 50 years. The celebration, held in the college’s 150th anniversar
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What Do We Mean When We Say “AI?” This is a very important, albeit often overlooked, question. Talk of “artificial intelligence” is as ubiquitous in today’s discourse as it is ambiguous. Alexa Steinbrück puts it succinctly: AI “does not refer to a single technology—it is an umbrella term” that is not new. It can name an entire field of knowledge and computer
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Belmont Abbey College Earns Higher National Rankings While Maintaining Strong Enrollment Belmont, N.C. (September 25th, 2026) – Belmont Abbey College has earned national recognition for academic excellence, rising two places to the No. 10 spot in the Regional Colleges-South category in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, affirming its continued growth and
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Allison Simmons ‘26, BAC Marketing Intern Father Christopher, O.S.B. grew up in New Albany, Indiana, the second of six children. He was raised Catholic, and the Church and the parish school were very influential in the life of his family, but the thought of becoming a priest did not surface for him until high school, despite the fact that one of the nuns tea
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Dr. Abigail Cousino, Asst. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry Anyone who has stepped foot into the William Gaston Science Building in the last 50 or so odd years has probably heard the ringing baritone of Dr. Michael (Mike) McLeod lecturing on Cell Biology… and trembled at the knees. Known for banging his fist down on the desk to snap his students back to
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Laura Schaffer, Editor “If you work for the Abbey Players, they give you scope,” Simon Donoghue said, his face folding from deadpan into the singular, signature grin that generations of Abbey Players have come to know and love. Scope. It was the perfect word, and he knew it. Scope, after all, captures not just the resourcefulness of Abbey Players through the
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Leadership Is Learned: Professor Brad Frazier on Teaching Rising Leaders at Belmont Abbey College In 2007, Brad Frazier’s alma mater invited him to apply for a campus director position. Frazier was a bit surprised. He was currently working as a banker and had also been a minister. This meant he had plenty of operational and people skills, but he had never wo
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