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    Want a piece of Hinkle Fieldhouse history? On June 7, Butler University and People for Urban Progress (PUP) will be selling several hundred seats that were removed from the fieldhouse as part of the ongoing renovation. An exclusive pre-sale will be held the day before for Butler men’s basketball season-ticket holders. Jonathan Allinson […]

Thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Butler Innovation Fund, students in the Chemistry Department have partnered with the Center for Urban Ecology (CUE) to convert waste cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel interns Tyler Schenck and Kyle Graden This student-led initiative seeks to recycle vegetable oil waste from the Marketplace at Atherton Union and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, 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 […]