When It Comes to Theatrical Design, He’s All Set
Associate Professor of Theatre Rob Koharchik needed a couple of cartons of Kents, and he needed them fast. But after checking three smoke shops—and being told they’d cost $68 each—he decided to make them himself. “Just give me a carton of your cheapest cigarettes, and we’ll fake the rest,” said Koharchik, who needed the cigarettes…
Visiting Writers Series Presents Lois Lowry at Clowes Hall
Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry will speak in Clowes Memorial Hall on March 4 at 7:30 p.m. as part of Butler University’s spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. Admission is free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Lowry writes in many ways about the importance of human…
When Jonathan Franzen Speaks, People Bristle
One of the perks of being an MFA student at Butler is meeting renowned visiting writers such as Margaret Atwood, Louise Gluck, Cheryl Strayed, and Jonathan Franzen. In addition to the public readings, students are invited to intimate Q&A sessions and private dinners. Whenever possible, MFA students also get the opportunity to interview writers for…
Elise Kushigian, Clowes Hall’s Longtime Executive Director, to Retire
Elise J. Kushigian, the executive director of Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University for the past 20 years, will retire at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year after overseeing more than 8,000 performances. While at Clowes, Elise built a strong and lasting legacy of innovative programming, groundbreaking education initiatives, and capital projects that have…
You Can’t Spell DeGeneres Without DGs
Ellen DeGeneres surprised her friends at Butler University’s Delta Gamma sorority—again. Barely a month after making a Skype phone call to the sorority, DeGeneres flew 10 DGs to Los Angeles to appear on the Thursday, February 12, episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Watch their segment here.) But the fun didn’t end with a free…
Visiting Writers Series Presents NoViolet Bulawayo
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner NoViolet Bulawayo will speak on February 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Atherton Union Reilly Room as part of Butler University’s spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Bulawayo is the…
CCOM Presents a Four-Day Symposium on Servant Leadership
The President of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a former CIA officer whose job included briefing former President George W. Bush, and the new CEO of the Indiana-based Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership will be among the speakers at Butler University’s College of Communication (CCOM) Symposium on Servant Leadership, March 2–5. The second annual symposium presented…
Meet Two COB Students With APPtitude
By Sarvary Koller ’15 Andres Pena ’15 sat in his Intro to Marketing class at Butler University last year mulling over a prompt: change the world through a mobile device. Pena considered how the smartphone, with its seemingly endless capability, could be used as a tool to help those in need. He came up with…
Write A Children’s Book About Vaccines? It’s Worth a Shot
In a kindergarten classroom at Indianapolis Public School 91, Anissa Hakim ’15 calms a young girl who is terrified of receiving a vaccine. This is not the first time Hakim has spoken with a child scared of vaccination, but this time, she knew exactly how to approach the subject to ease her student’s nerves. Hakim…
Butler Well Represented In IBJ’s 40 Under 40
Four Butler University alumni and an adjunct professor in the MFA in Creative Writing program are among the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” for 2015. Ed Carpenter ’03, Michael Grimes ’99 MBA ’07, Eric Payne ’98, and Erin Roth ’98—all College of Business graduates—and writer Ben Winters made the prestigious list. “We are incredibly…
Butler Announces the Hiring of Two New Vice Presidents
Butler University has announced the hiring of two new Vice Presidents—Jaci Thiede, Vice President for Advancement, and Lori Greene, Vice President for Enrollment Management. Thiede comes to Butler from Northwestern University, where she is Associate Dean for Alumni Relations and Development at the law school. Greene is currently Director of Undergraduate Admission at Loyola University…
Visiting Writers Series Presents Maurice Manning
Poet Maurice Manning will speak on February 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room as part of Butler University’s spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861. Manning was born and raised…
College of Education Is Named a ‘Model of Excellence’
Butler University’s College of Education is the recipient of the 2015 National Model of Excellence awarded by the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. The Models of Excellence Award identifies outstanding programs in professional education that serve as tangible models of quality in the areas of Moral and Ethical Dimensions of the…
Butler Celebrates Founder’s Week, February 1-7
One hundred and sixty years ago, Butler University was founded on the principles of diversity, equality, innovation, and access. Those characteristics are still vital today as we seek to recapture and reclaim the values of Ovid Butler. Join us the week of February 1-7 as we celebrate Ovid Butler’s legacy with these Founder’s Week events:…
Ernie Stevens ’16 and Partner Skate Their Way to the World Championships
On the heels of winning the U.S. National Junior Pair title on January 20, Butler University student Ernie Utah Stevens ’16 and his partner, Arizona skater Caitlin Fields, will represent the United States at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, March 2–8. “Only two U.S. Junior Pair teams are chosen for that…