Junior Matt Pauszek Wins Weidner Altruism Scholarship
Matt Pauszek, a junior from Indianapolis, is the recipient of the 2015-2016 John Weidner Endowed Scholarship for Altruism in recognition of the extensive volunteer work he has done in the community. Pauszek, a Risk Management and Finance major, has served as a lead community volunteer for the Patachou Foundation, which provides food and education for…
Prof. Kelly’s Book Explains How Conservatives Won the Culture Wars
In a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Butler University Associate Professor of Critical Communication and Media Studies Casey Kelly has found that the overwhelming majority of movies now associate premarital sex with shame and degradation, while they romanticize traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. Kelly published his findings in Abstinence…
Butler Partners With Be The Match to Honor Andrew Smith
Butler University has entered into a partnership with Be The Match, which operates the national bone marrow registry, honoring the late Butler Bulldog Andrew Smith, who bravely fought a two-year battle with cancer. As an element of the partnership, Butler’s live bulldog mascot, Blue III (commonly referred to as “Trip”), has been named a national…
Butler Inducts 29 Into Phi Beta Kappa
Butler University’s Theta of Indiana Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will induct 29 new members at a ceremony to be held April 16 at 8:30 AM in the Irwin Library. Students are considered for membership based on their grade point averages in liberal arts studies, typically ranking in the top 10 percent of arts and…
Video is Their Business (And Their Business is Good)
They’re not even finished with college yet, but already Joshua Gaal and Tim Valentine are successfully building up Train 918, the video production, marketing, and branding company they founded as sophomores and will run after graduation. For 10 days in February, the Butler seniors were in Kenya, making promotional videos for a company called Roots…
Surprise! You’ve Earned a Tuition-Free Scholarship to Butler
With classmates cheering, family members on hand for hugs, and Butler’s live mascot, Trip, there to pose for pictures, Shortridge International Baccalaureate High School seniors Jacob Charboneau, G. Gray, and Aaliyah Coe got an enormous surprise on March 3: They each received full four-year Butler Tuition Guarantee scholarships. “I was kind of upset earlier in…
Jill Bolte Taylor to Deliver Spring Commencement Address
Globally renowned neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor—known as “Dr. Jill”—will deliver the keynote address at Butler University’s 2016 Commencement ceremony on May 7 at 10:00 AM in Hinkle Fieldhouse. She will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree. Dr. Jill’s 2008 TED Talk was the first TED presentation to go viral, and remains among the…
Good Practice, And An Even Better Public Service
The big kids (Physician Assistant students from Butler) needed experience dealing with young patients. The little kids (kindergarten and first-grade students at the IPS/Butler Lab School) needed to have their eyes, ears, and teeth checked. It was, as Associate Professor Jennifer Zorn put it, “a win-win situation, to get experience for our students but also…
The PA Program at 20: Many Reasons to Celebrate
Stacy Dawkins ’01 thought she might want a career in medicine after graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington as a Chemistry and English double major. Physician Assistant (PA) was not on her list—mostly because she’d never heard of it. But the Anderson, Indiana, native had a friend in the program at Butler University, and the friend convinced…
Butler Joins Lincoln Park Zoo in Wildlife Study
Butler University’s Center for Urban Ecology will place 48 motion-sensitive cameras at locations in Indianapolis, Westfield, Zionsville, and Carmel for four weeks every quarter beginning in April to study urban wildlife. The Indy Wildlife Watch project is being done in conjunction with the Lincoln Park Zoo Urban Wildlife Institute in Chicago and the University of…
Butler University’s Oldest Living Graduate Turns 105
He commuted to Butler in his Model T Ford, walked around campus when the only buildings were Jordan Hall, Butler Fieldhouse, the Phi Delta Theta house, and the Campus Club, and played on the Butler baseball team with Oral Hildebrand, who pitched in the major leagues from 1931-1940. He’s Sam Arnett ’33, believed to be…
Academic All-Americans? Family Atmosphere? We’ve Got That
Butler basketball is about much more than wins, as two recent newspaper stories note. In the Indianapolis Business Journal, sports columnist Mike Lopresti wrote that Butler’s success off the basketball court over the last 10 years is unrivaled in Division I. The Bulldogs have had seven Academic All-Americans since 2007, more than any other Division…
Two Butler Sophomores Selected 500 Festival Princesses
Butler sophomores Caitlyn Foye and Monica Wright are among 33 college-age women who have been selected as Indianapolis 500 Festival Princesses for 2016. Foye, from Newburgh, Indiana, is a graduate of Castle High School and a sophomore majoring in Biology. Wright, who is from Indianapolis, is a graduate of Cathedral High School and a sophomore…
COB Students Turn Empty Bags Into Big Business
Six Butler College of Business students are selling tote bags made entirely from discarded coffee bean bags. The bags, which sell for $30, are available at http://www.revinylindy.com/. The project is part of Butler’s Real Business Experience class, which requires students to form a company, create a product, and bring it to market. “This is just…
Butler Students Take the Polar Plunge for Charity
Together, they raised more than $47,000 for Special Olympics Indiana. By Evie Schultz ’16 The thermometer read 12 degrees on Saturday morning, February 13, but that didn’t stop hundreds of Butler students from jumping in an ice-cold pool. “It’s cold but totally worth it,” John Lacheta ’19 said as he toweled off. Students weren’t just…