Professor Kelly Wins New Investigator Award
Associate Professor of Communication Casey Kelly will be awarded a New Investigator Award by the Critical Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association on November 20. Kelly, who teaches courses in rhetoric and critical media studies and directs the university debate team, is the author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual…
Woods Lecture: ‘Why Skin Color Matters’
Butler University’s J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics finishes the fall 2015 series with Nina Jablonski speaking on December 2 at 7:30 in the Atherton Union Reilly Room about “Why Skin Color Matters.” All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information and to…
Woods Lecture Series Presents Michael Mann
Michael Mann (“The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars”) will speak in the Atherton Union Reilly Room on October 27 at 7:30 PM as part of the J. James Woods Lectures on the Sciences and Mathematics. All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information and to…
Butler’s Part-Time MBA Program Ranked Best in Indiana
Butler University’s part-time MBA program is the best in Indiana and 25th in the country, according to rankings Bloomberg Businessweek released on October 20. Butler’s program, which moved up 32 spots from last year’s rankings, is Indiana’s only part-time MBA program in the Top 25. Bloomberg’s part-time MBA rankings are composed of 50 percent Student…
Charlie Politi ’16 Becomes a Hip-Hop Somebody With Help From His Peers
Butler senior Charlie Politi has just released his third CD, I Am Nobody.
Visiting Writers Series Presents Denis Johnson
Award-winning novelist Denis Johnson will speak in the Atherton Union Reilly Room on Wednesday, November 11, at 7:30 PM as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. Admission is free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Johnson is the author of numerous novels, including Fiskadoro (1985); Tree…
Butler, Blind School Students to Plant Trees for Bees
Students from the Butler University World of Plants class and the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI) will work together on a tree-planting event on Tuesday, October 20, from 10:00-11:30 AM and 2:30-4:00 PM. At the “Trees for Bees” event, students will plant trees to enhance the pollen sources for ISBVI bee…
Vietnam is His Past, An Audi Dealership is His Future
In seven years, Steve Vong ’16 has gone from “zero” English to complete fluency in writing and public speaking
Butler to Hold Peace Festival
Butler University will hold a Peace Festival October 19–22 that will feature discussions about topics such as sustainability and the Darfur refugee crisis, and culminate with an address by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor called “The Triumph of the Human Spirit: From Auschwitz to Forgiveness.” “The purpose of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program is to…
Visiting Writers Series Presents Laila Lalami
Author Laila Lalami will speak in the Atherton Union Reilly Room on Tuesday, October 13, at 7:30 PM as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Lalami is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous…
Future Educators Get a Closer Look at Butler
Hamilton Southeastern High School student Lauren Wallace had attended performances at Clowes Memorial Hall, but she’d never seen most of the Butler University campus. So when her school’s Cadet Teaching class came to Butler on October 1 for Future Educators Day, she was happy to make the trip. “I want to be a child therapist,”…
Butler Hires Two New Directors in Advancement
Butler University has announced the hiring of two new directors in Advancement. Danny Kibble has been named Executive Director, Alumni Relations and Engagement. He has spent the last 10 years as the Director, Alumni Programs (recently named Co-Interim Executive Director) at IUPUI, directing the alumni engagement activities and communication for the IU Schools of Nursing…
On Theatre Day, All of Butler’s a Stage
More than 100 students from four states visited Butler for Theatre Day.
A Message to Chrissie Hynde: Rape is Never the Survivor’s Fault
Sarah Diaz, the coordinator of Butler’s Victim Advocate Program, cringed when she read what musician Chrissie Hynde said about having been raped—that being assaulted was her own fault. “If you don’t want to entice a rapist,” Hynde, the leader of the group the Pretenders, was quoted as saying, “don’t wear high heels so you can’t…
Butler Prepared to Thrive in Challenging Times, Danko Says
Declaring that “the state of our University is stronger than ever,” Butler President James M. Danko said in his State of the University speech on September 25 that Butler “is well positioned not only to survive these challenging times, but to thrive in them.” “Today’s students—especially those considering an institution like Butler—expect and deserve to…