World Premiere of Vonnegut Opera to Take Place at Butler
An opera version of Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June, written by Vonnegut and Butler Director of Instrumental Activities Richard Auldon Clark, will have its world premiere performed by Indianapolis Opera, September 16-18 at the Schrott Center for the Arts. “Kurt always thought Happy Birthday, Wanda June would make a great opera, and I was…
Butler University Celebrates Founder’s Week February 7-13
“Privilege and Opportunity” will be the theme of Butler University’s Founder’s Week 2016, which will be celebrated across campus from February 7-13. One hundred and sixty-one years ago, Butler University was founded on the principles of diversity, equality, innovation, and access. Those characteristics are still vital today as the University seeks to recapture and reclaim…
Betsy Shirley ’10 Earns Religion Writers’ Fellowship
Betsy Shirley ’10, an assistant editor with Sojourners magazine, has been named one of 28 Religion Newswriters Association’s Handa Fellows in Interreligious Communication, an achievement that will help broaden her knowledge of religion and the scope of her coverage. The one-year fellowship includes numerous professional development opportunities—a dedicated mentor and webinars designed to sharpen the fellows’ writing…
Michael Hole ’08 Named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30
Michael Hole ’08, a Boston Medical Center pediatrician and founder of an organization that works to reduce child poverty in America, has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of America’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders, and brightest stars. Hole is the cofounder of StreetCred, which he describes on his LinkedIn profile…
Butler, IU Law School Create ‘Butler Law Scholar’
Butler University and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will create the “Butler University Law Scholar,” a partnership that will allow Butler to nominate one student each year to enroll in the law school and receive a minimum half-tuition scholarship. Graduating seniors and alumni—who often take a gap year or two…
Learning About Service, the Butler Way
At first, the concept seems difficult. How do you help third-graders understand what service means? But for Early and Middle Childhood Education Professor Arthur Hochman and his early elementary education class, the challenge is often the most important part of the lesson plan. For a little over five weeks this semester, Butler students were paired…
Embrace Opportunity, Former First Lady Tells Graduates
Former Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon Willsey urged the 93 graduates at Butler University’s winter commencement ceremonies to embrace the opportunities ahead of them.
Butler Profs Earn a Starring Role Teaching the Teachers
Six College of Liberal Arts and Sciences professors and their Dean, Jay Howard, are being recognized nationally for their teaching abilities. They’ve been recorded in their classrooms for the Association of College and University Educators’ (ACUE) online Course in Effective Teaching Practices, demonstrating their skills in areas such as “Motivating Your Students” and “Delivering an…
Grant Helps Professor Samide Continue Art Preservation
Chemistry Professor Michael Samide and Senior Conservation Scientist Gregory Smith will be the beneficiaries of a three-year, $75,000 grant that the Indianapolis Museum of Art has received to continue their work on preserving works of art. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will allow Samide to spend the next two summers at the…
Collegian Staff Selects Daniel Comiskey As New Adviser
Daniel Comiskey, deputy editor of Indianapolis Monthly magazine, has been selected by The Butler Collegian’s staff to serve as its adviser. He will take on the role at the beginning of the spring semester. As adviser, Comiskey serves as a consultant to problems, offers advice to the staff when it is solicited, and critiques the…
Butler Community Arts School Adds 3 New Programs
The Butler Community Arts School will introduce three new programs in 2016—youth theater, music composition for high school students, and summer ballet intensive for pre-professional dancers. “We added these new programs for 2016 because the community has been asking,” said Karen Thickstun, Director of the Butler Community Arts School. “We have a strong history of…
Butler Students Head to Asia, Thanks to Freeman Grant
Butler University has been awarded a $339,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to support undergraduate student internships in East and Southeast Asia in 2016 and 2017. The money will be used to send 20 students to Shanghai in 2016 and 20 to Shanghai, 10 to Beijing, and 10 to Singapore during summer 2017. The grant…
Arick Named a Finalist for CFO of the Year Award
Butler University Chief Financial Officer Bruce Arick was selected as a finalist for the Indianapolis Business Journal’s CFO of the Year honor. In nominating Arick, who has been with Butler for 24 years, the University cited his “solid tenure of stewardship, balanced by his willingness to embrace new endeavors, as was evident with this year’s…
Professor Kercood Receives Grant for Oral Hygiene Training Program
Professor of Special Education Suneeta Kercood has been awarded nearly $25,000 by the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation to develop a video-based training program to teach families of special-needs children about oral healthcare and prepare them for visits to the dentist. “There is a huge disparity in oral health care of children with intellectual/developmental disabilities,” Kercood…
Visiting Writers Series Presents Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy, will speak in the Atherton Union Reilly Room on February 17 at 7:30 PM as part of Butler University’s spring 2016 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. Admission is free and open to the public to all events in the series. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Grossman’s Magicians trilogy,…