Clowes Hall Receives National Honor from Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University received the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key for Excellence in the Field on Friday, June 6, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Scholastic Awards, which are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, selected Clowes Memorial Hall for this honor for its…
187 Butler Student-Athletes Named to BIG EAST All-Academic Team
One hundred eighty-seven Butler student-athletes were named to the 2013-14 BIG EAST All-Academic Team, which was announced Thursday. The list of the athletes can be found here. The breakdown by sport is: Women’s Soccer – 25 Women’s Cross Country – 21 Women’s Swimming – 20 Baseball – 17 Softball – 17 Men’s Soccer – 13…
New Sax Instructor Joins School of Music Faculty
Heidi Radtke Siberz, an Associate Instructor of Saxophone at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music from 2010–2013, will join the Butler University School of Music faculty this fall. Siberz will take over for Nick Brightman, who will retire at the end of the 2014–2015 school year. She is currently a saxophone instructor with Franklin Community…
School of Music Introduces Jazz Studies Major
Butler University’s School of Music will introduce a Jazz Studies major in the fall designed to help students become well-rounded musicians who can earn a living in music. The program will include a number of new courses, such as “Career Development in Entrepreneurship for Musicians” and “Jazz Pedagogy Practicum.” Sandy Williams (guitar) and Jesse Wittman…
For Elizabeth Davis ’15, St. Jude Internship Proves Rewarding, Heartbreaking
Elizabeth Davis ’15 describes herself as “an avid Googler.” So one day last winter, when she was thinking about summer opportunities, she searched for “St. Jude internship.” The first thing that popped up was an opportunity in the Pediatric Oncology Education program at the Memphis, Tennessee, children’s hospital. And that’s where Davis has spent her…
Butler Introduces Michael Colburn as New Director of Bands
Col. Michael J. Colburn, a 27-year veteran of the United States Marine Band and for the past decade Director of the military band known as “the President’s Own,” has joined the Butler University faculty as Director of Bands. In that capacity, he will oversee the Butler Wind Ensemble and the Butler Symphonic Band. He also…
Trustees Approve New Housing Facility and Parking Garage
The Butler University Board of Trustees has approved the development of two new facilities—a state-of-the-art student-housing facility with approximately 600 modern, suite-style beds and a 1,038-space multi-use parking facility. Construction of the five-story parking structure, which is anticipated to open in August 2015, will begin this fall. Construction of the student-housing facility is expected to…
CUE’s ‘Make Change’ Project Expands to Midtown
Doing something good for the environment in Indianapolis can now earn you currency that can be exchanged for goods at local businesses. The program—called Make Change—allows people to do something as simple as riding their bicycle or as involved as participating in a neighborhood cleanup program in exchange for redeemable coins. Each hour of activity…
Ed Carpenter ’03 Wins Firestone 600K
[From EdCarpenterRacing.com] By Tom Blattler FORT WORTH, Texas – We saw the emotion from Ed Carpenter ’03 two weeks ago at this year’s Indianapolis 500, but we saw Carpenter’s impressive driving skill Saturday night at the Texas Motor Speedway. Carpenter, team owner/driver of the No. 20 Ed Carpenter Racing/Fuzzy’s Ultra Premium Vodka Chevrolet, started fifth…
Senior Josh Turner Performs on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’
Butler senior guitar major Josh Turner was home Monday, doing the dishes, when he received a call from a New York area code. The caller left a message: Would you be interested in being on Good Morning America? He was. Turner appeared on national TV live from New York at 7:48 a.m. Thursday, part of…
Luke Bunting ’14 Earns Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
Luke Bunting ’14 didn’t have enough time to study abroad during his years at Butler, but he’s making up for that in a big way: Beginning in July, he’ll spend 12½ months in South Korea as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. Bunting was notified in late May that he received the award, which will…
Why Is It Funny? Professor Bungard Will Tell You
The writer E.B. White famously said that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. “You understand it better,” he said, “but the frog dies in the process.” Butler University Associate Professor of Classical Studies Chris Bungard thinks analysis of humor doesn’t have to be that way. He’s received a National Endowment for the Humanities…
Butler University’s First Live Bulldog Mascot, Blue I, Has Died
Butler Blue I, the white English bulldog who served as Butler University’s first official live mascot, died this morning, Friday, May 30, 2014. She was 13 years old. Blue I was born September 23, 2000, at Frank and Jeane King’s Kong King Kennel in Lizton, Indiana. She served as Butler University’s official mascot from 2000–2004,…
Getting Into the Swing With Orangutans, COE Style
In the coming years, elementary-school classes from all over Indiana will take field trips to the Indianapolis Zoo to see the orangutans in the Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center, which opened May 24. And when they head home, they’ll leave with lesson plans and activities created by Butler University College of Education students to further…
Lisa Brooks Named New Chair of the School of Music
Professor of Violin Lisa Brooks, a Butler University faculty member since 1994, has been appointed Chair of the Butler University School of Music. In addition to Brooks’s work teaching violin at Butler, she is the principal second violinist of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She is a regular substitute violinist and violist with the Indianapolis Symphony…