Want Summer Camps? Check Out Butler Community Arts School

Butler Community Arts School this summer will offer more than a dozen camps for children—and a couple for adults—interested in the arts. The offerings include six new camps: Ballet Summer Intensive; Brass Camp; Oboe Camp; Oboe Reed Workshop; Saxophone Camp; and Voice Camp. All camps take place on the Butler University campus. For more information,…

Liz Niemiec ’16 Receives $100K Grant for Her Little Wish Foundation

Senior Liz Niemiec has received a $100,000 grant from the LIDS Foundation for her nonprofit Little Wish Foundation, which grants small wishes ($300 to $800) to kids with cancer. “The LIDS Foundation is extremely excited about our new partnership with Little Wish Foundation,” Bailee Reynolds, LIDS Foundation manager, said in a story published February 4…

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Jazz Foundation Scholarship Awarded to Chloe Boelter ’17

Vocal Performance major Chloe Boelter, a junior from Algonquin, Illinois, has been awarded an Indianapolis Jazz Foundation scholarship. Boelter, who also plays the piano and has produced two solo albums, has performed as a vocalist with the Butler Jazz Ensemble since 2014 and also is a member of a jazz combo. She is one of…

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Samantha Vidal ’08 Honored for School Counseling Work

Samantha Vidal MSC ’08 was honored in Washington, D.C., the week of January 25 for being one of the six nationalist finalists for the 2016 School Counselor of the Year Award. The ceremonies, which included recognition from First Lady Michelle Obama, were timed to coincide with National School Counseling Week, February 1-5. “Being selected as…

Dean Shelley Honored for Contributions to Teacher Education

Ena Shelley, Dean of Butler University’s College of Education (COE) since 2005 and a professor in the College since 1982, has been selected to receive the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).

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World Premiere of Vonnegut Opera to Take Place at Butler

An opera version of Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June, written by Vonnegut and Butler Director of Instrumental Activities Richard Auldon Clark, will have its world premiere performed by Indianapolis Opera, September 16-18 at the Schrott Center for the Arts. “Kurt always thought Happy Birthday, Wanda June would make a great opera, and I was…

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Butler University Celebrates Founder’s Week February 7-13

“Privilege and Opportunity” will be the theme of Butler University’s Founder’s Week 2016, which will be celebrated across campus from February 7-13. One hundred and sixty-one years ago, Butler University was founded on the principles of diversity, equality, innovation, and access. Those characteristics are still vital today as the University seeks to recapture and reclaim…

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Betsy Shirley ’10 Earns Religion Writers’ Fellowship

Betsy Shirley ’10, an assistant editor with Sojourners magazine, has been named one of 28 Religion Newswriters Association’s Handa Fellows in Interreligious Communication, an achievement that will help broaden her knowledge of religion and the scope of her coverage. The one-year fellowship includes numerous professional development opportunities—a dedicated mentor and webinars designed to sharpen the fellows’ writing…

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Michael Hole ’08 Named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30

Michael Hole ’08, a Boston Medical Center pediatrician and founder of an organization that works to reduce child poverty in America, has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of America’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders, and brightest stars. Hole is the cofounder of StreetCred, which he describes on his LinkedIn profile…

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Butler, IU Law School Create ‘Butler Law Scholar’

Butler University and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will create the “Butler University Law Scholar,” a partnership that will allow Butler to nominate one student each year to enroll in the law school and receive a minimum half-tuition scholarship.   Graduating seniors and alumni—who often take a gap year or two…

Learning About Service, the Butler Way

At first, the concept seems difficult. How do you help third-graders understand what service means? But for Early and Middle Childhood Education Professor Arthur Hochman and his early elementary education class, the challenge is often the most important part of the lesson plan. For a little over five weeks this semester, Butler students were paired…

Butler Profs Earn a Starring Role Teaching the Teachers

Six College of Liberal Arts and Sciences professors and their Dean, Jay Howard, are being recognized nationally for their teaching abilities. They’ve been recorded in their classrooms for the Association of College and University Educators’ (ACUE) online Course in Effective Teaching Practices, demonstrating their skills in areas such as “Motivating Your Students” and “Delivering an…

Grant Helps Professor Samide Continue Art Preservation

Chemistry Professor Michael Samide and Senior Conservation Scientist Gregory Smith will be the beneficiaries of a three-year, $75,000 grant that the Indianapolis Museum of Art has received to continue their work on preserving works of art. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will allow Samide to spend the next two summers at the…

Collegian Staff Selects Daniel Comiskey As New Adviser

Daniel Comiskey, deputy editor of Indianapolis Monthly magazine, has been selected by The Butler Collegian’s staff to serve as its adviser. He will take on the role at the beginning of the spring semester. As adviser, Comiskey serves as a consultant to problems, offers advice to the staff when it is solicited, and critiques the…