Our Risk Management Students: ‘These Guys Are Good’
Butler’s Risk Management students place third in national competition. As consolation prizes go, this one was pretty great. Matt Pauszek, Melissa Lakin, Erin Bundy, and Jake Doman. A Butler team of seniors Jake Doman (from Chicago) and Melissa Lakin (Westfield, Indiana) and juniors Matt Pauszek (Indianapolis) and Erin Bundy (Knightstown, Indiana) has just…
Butler’s Literary Magazine Wins Three ICPA Awards
Manuscripts, Butler University’s undergraduate literary magazine, won three awards at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA) conference on April 9. The three awards all came from the Spring 2015 issue of the magazine. Manuscripts won first place in the category of Best Short Story, for a piece named “Grown-Ups” written by IUPUI student Olivia Emerich.…
Butler Senior’s Foundation Receives Second LIDS Foundation Grant
For the second time this year, the Little Wish Foundation—founded and operated by Butler senior Liz Niemiec—has received a major gift from the LIDS Foundation. This time, it was a $75,000 Tip the Hat Award. Senior Liz Niemiec (second from left) receives her second award from the LIDS Foundation. Little Wish Foundation delivers wishes, such…
Butler Becomes Indiana’s First Fair Trade Campus
Butler University today became the first Fair Trade Designated campus in Indiana, agreeing to use and sell products such as coffee, chocolate, and clothing that were grown, harvested, crafted, and traded in ways that improve lives and protect the environment. Fair trade items such as Barkthins dark chocolate and Alta Gracia apparel are available in the Butler Bookstore,…
URC Let Students Show Their Work
More than 900 individuals representing 58 colleges and universities in 11 states participated in Butler University’s 28th annual Undergraduate Research Conference on April 8. The students presented in 26 subject areas, from music and English to biology and chemistry. Indiana University-Bloomington student Reyan Coskun presents her poster on “Toward Efficient Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Sialyl-a-2,3-Lactose/Lactosamine Assisted…
51 Years and Counting: Mulholland Still Makes Sweet Music
You might think that having just turned 81, Professor of Music James Mulholland would be in the winter of his career. If so, it’s a mighty busy winter. During March and early April, Mulholland: -Served a week in residency at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, which culminated with a concert of Mulholland compositions by the…
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…