What’s in Our Garbage? A Lot of Waste
Digging through trash is McKenzie Beverage’s idea of fun, and on Thursday she couldn’t have been happier. For two hours on April 17, Beverage and her students in the Butler Sustainability Practicum class sifted through nearly a ton of trash – 660 pounds from Ross Hall and another 1,140 pounds from Atherton Union – poured…
Butler Announces Student-Housing Partnership with American Campus Communities
Butler University has partnered with Austin, Texas-based American Campus Communities to develop new student housing facilities on Butler’s campus. The initial phase of development will include a state-of-the-art facility with approximately 500 beds, and is tentatively scheduled to open in fall 2016. Under the initial agreement, American Campus will build and maintain the facility, while…
Collegian Has 3 Winners, 3 Finalists at SPJ Awards
The Butler Collegian had three winners and three finalists in the small newspapers category at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 5 awards banquet April 12 in Chicago. From left: Maggie Monson, copy desk chief and opinion columnist; Mallory Duncan, Arts, Etc. assistant editor; Marais Jacon-Duffy, news editor; Katie Goodrich and Natalie Smith, assistant news…
Dr. Stark Honored With Sagamore of the Wabash
Eric Stark was in the middle of conducting the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in a rendition of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” Tuesday evening when State Rep. Dan Forestal and about 25 guests stepped onstage to deliver a surprise: Stark had been named a Sagamore of the Wabash, one of the State of Indiana’s highest individual awards.…
Butler Names Three ‘Women of Distinction’
College of Education Associate Dean Debra Lecklider, Clowes Memorial Hall Executive Director Elise Kushigian, and senior Chemistry/Pre-Medicine student Brittany Moore have been named Butler University’s 2014 Women of Distinction. The awards will be presented at the Women of Distinction reception on April 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Efroymson Diversity Center, Atherton Union Room 004.…
Clowes Hall Introduces Sensory-Enhanced Seating for the Hearing Impaired
Beginning Friday, April 11, Clowes Memorial Hall will launch a first-of-its-kind project that enhances the concert performance experience through a system it has dubbed “audio sensory enhanced seating.” These seats are equipped with technology designed to convert audio into vibration to create physical sensation from sound. The project started through an idea by Joshua Lingenfelter,…
Alex Still ’14 Receives Fulbright French Government Teaching Award
Alex Still graduates in May with a bachelor’s in dance pedagogy and French, along with a history minor. And she’ll be using all she learned when she heads to France this fall as recipient of the Fulbright French Government Teaching Award, sponsored by the French ministry of education. Still, who came to Butler from Williamsburg,…
1,600 Pounds of Trash, All Over the West Mall
Two Dumpsters’ worth of trash will be spilled onto Butler University’s west mall April 17 at 11:00 a.m. so students in the Sustainability Practicum course can gauge the amount of food and recyclables in a portion of the University’s garbage. Brian Foster, Environmental Manager for Covanta, Indianapolis’s incinerator, explains the trash-burning process to Sustainability Practicum…
Dr. Grechesky Goes Out on a High Note
Forty-one years, seven presidents, six deans, countless performances. That’s the line on Bob Grechesky’s career at Butler, which ends this spring when he retires as director of bands. Grechesky joined the faculty in 1973, when Lilly Hall was barely a decade old, and Gallahue Hall and the Holcomb Building had yet to be built. One…
Collegian Takes Home 11 ICPA Awards
The Butler Collegian won 11 awards at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association’s annual conference Saturday at IUPUI, celebrating the best of Indiana’s collegiate newspapers, news magazines, literary magazines, yearbooks, online publications and advertising. Cartoonist Audrey Meyer, news editor Marais Jacon-Duffy, managing editor Ryan Lovelace, sports reporter Joe Hasenstab and assistant sports editor Matthew VanTryon display…
Elaine Wagner, Brad Stevens to Be Honored at Spring Commencement
Rear Admiral Elaine C. Wagner ’76 and former Butler men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens will receive honorary doctorates at Butler University’s commencement ceremony May 10 in the Butler Bowl. More than 800 students are expected to receive their diplomas. Rear Admiral Wagner is Commander, Navy Medicine East and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. She grew…
Emily Seibert ’14 Earns Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
Emily Seibert ’14 received her best 22nd birthday present the day before her actual March 27 birthday: She was chosen for a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to live and work in Athens, Greece, for 10 months. She’ll leave in September and be one of a dozen Americans in the Fulbright program who will teach…
26th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Will Be the Biggest Yet
Butler University’s 26th annual Undergraduate Research Conference will be its biggest ever, with nearly 1,000 students and their mentoring faculty from 20 states coming to campus April 11 for a daylong event showcasing oral and poster presentations on topics as diverse as molecular biology and 17th-century opera. Admission is open to the public, although advanced…
Stephen Standifird Named New College of Business Dean
Stephen Standifird, Dean of the Schroeder School of Business at the University of Evansville, will become the Dean of Butler University’s College of Business beginning June 1. At Butler, he will take over the University’s third-largest college, with approximately 900 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Butler’s College of Business was ranked 47th in the 2013…
Jordan College of the Arts Bestows Its First Legend Awards
Poet and musician Mari Evans, jazz vocalist Everett Greene, and attorney and arts advocate Fay H. Williams received the Jordan College of the Arts’s inaugural Legend Awards during ceremonies March 18 at Butler University’s Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts. Congressman Andre Carson (left) and Dean Ronald Caltabiano (right) with the first…