Butler Students, Alumni Win ‘Best in Indiana Journalism’ Awards
Student journalists from The Butler Collegian and IndianapolisNewsBeat.com received nine “Best in Indiana Journalism” awards from the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Friday evening. Former Collegian editor-in-chief Ben Sieck, a senior, won first place for student sports reporting. His story, “Defining a champion: The factors of Indiana high school athletic succes,” examined…
Meet Butler’s National Championship Team (and Some Others Too)
On April 11, the Butler Women’s Club Volleyball team won the national championship by defeating the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. “I think our energy throughout the whole day helped us get through,” said Kerry Risley, the club president. “I know we were all exhausted, but our adrenaline and keeping each other pumped up got us…
Indiana Landmarks Honors Butler for Restoration of Hinkle Fieldhouse
Indiana Landmarks, a private nonprofit organization that saves historic places, has selected Butler University as the winner of its annual Cook Cup for Outstanding Restoration for its preservation of Hinkle Fieldhouse. The dome of Indiana Landmarks Center’s Grand Hall will turn Butler blue when Director of Athletics Barry Collier, Executive Director of Facilities Rich Michal,…
Butler Names New Associate Provost
Butler University has named Thomas Paradis, currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, Planning & Recreation at Northern Arizona University, as the new Associate Provost for Assessment, Scholarship, and Professional Development Programs. Paradis, who has been at Northern Arizona since 1997, will start at Butler on August 1. In his new position, he…
COB Students’ App Makes a rippl in Competition
COB students finish third with their mobile charitable giving app
Blake Moskal ’16 Wins Weidner Award for Altruism
Blake Moskal, a junior from Lake Zurich, Illinois, has been selected to receive the 2014-2015 John Weidner Award for Altruism. Moskal has been involved in a wide variety of service activities for local and national organizations, including the Intercollegiate YMCA, U.S. Dream Academy, Special Olympics, Gleaners Food Bank and Second Servings, and Methodist Hospital. He…
Butler to Begin Composting Dining Hall Food Waste
Butler University will begin a yearlong program to compost food waste from its dining halls on Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning April 14. The University has hired the local composting service Green With Indy, which will pick up all compostable waste and bring it to GreenCycle of Indiana, where it will be turned into natural fertilizer.…
The Secret’s Out: Josh LeBar ’99 Was on ‘Mad Men’
For a year—a year!—Joshua LeBar ’99 had to keep a huge secret: He had a small but pivotal role in the first episode of the final season of “Mad Men,” one of TV’s most acclaimed shows. “I told my mother and my sister, and that’s about it,” he said. “And I wouldn’t let them say…
To Infinity and Beyond: A Graduate Thesis Composition Goes International
Graduate student Luke Flynn’s composition has won two international competition awards.
Three Butler Students Earn Fulbright Teaching Awards
Three Butler students have won the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship award to teach in another country during the 2015-2016 school year. Vocal performance major Julie O’Mara ’15 will be teaching in Germany, Anthropology and Spanish double major Léa Levy ’15 will be in Colombia, and Amber Zimay ’15 will be in Mexico. “The recent…
Luke Gallion ’16 Earns the Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Chemistry major Luke Gallion ’16 says a lot of people deserve credit for him being named a winner of a prestigious Goldwater scholarship. “I have lots of faculty members who wrote me letters of recommendations, or reviewed my application and made suggestions, or had me in class and helped me get to where I am,”…
Students Take Responsibility for Keeping Each Other Safe
Hannah Hendricks’ experience with sexual assault hits especially close to home for Butler students—she was raped during her first year on campus. “Students know that sexual assault exists,” said Noelle Rich, founder of Stand Tall, a student organization dedicated to awareness and prevention of sexual assault. “But not everyone knows it exists on our campus.…
Visiting Writers Series Presents Catherine Barnett and Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poets Catherine Barnett and Ellen Bryant Voigt will conclude the spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room. All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Poet, editor, and teacher Catherine Barnett is…
Butler Issues Statement on RFRA Change
Butler University issued the following statement after the legislature voted to change Indiana’s divisive “Religious Freedom” law: Butler University applauds and supports today’s proposed revisions to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. They represent a strong step forward and make clear that discrimination has no place in Indiana. The people of Indiana often talk about “Hoosier…
Two Summer MFA Classes Open to the Public
Butler University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will offer two courses this summer that are open to the general public. Intensive Screenwriting: Make a Movie in Three Weeks will meet Monday through Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. May 18–June 5. Writing Poems That Don’t Fit: An Intensive Workshop will meet…