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Butler is well represented in the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2013, with five graduates and the director of the University’s Center for Urban Ecology among those selected. The honorees with Butler ties are: -Linda Broadfoot ’98, executive director of the Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation. -Tim Carter, director of Butler’s Center […]

Visiting Professor Robert Oprisko thinks Butler students are good enough and smart enough to engage with any mind at any university. So when some students in his “Introduction to International Studies” class suggested that he’s too demanding—that they shouldn’t be expected to be able to do what their peers at the so-called top-tier universities do—he […]

Assistant Professor of Psychology Ali O’Malley wanted her “Humans and the Natural Environment” course to have an impact on both the students and the Indianapolis community. And it did. Ali O’Malley Nine students from the class helped collect data that enabled the Unitarian Universalist Church, 615 W. 43rd St., to get an Indiana Office of […]

The Butler University Board of Trustees has welcomed two new members: Joshua L. Smiley of Indianapolis, senior vice president of finance at Eli Lilly and Co., and Ronald N. Langston of Des Moines, Iowa, principal of Langston Global Enterprises LLC. Both will serve three-year renewable terms as trustees. Joshua L. Smiley Smiley is senior vice […]

Brendan Kay ’05 finished an 8,800-mile bike ride from Shanghai, China, to Dublin, Ireland, to increase awareness of hemochromatosis, raise funds to fight the disorder, and encourage blood screenings for the disease. Brendan Kay at a stop in the Czech Republic Kay and his friend Ben Shuker rode an average of 75 miles per day, […]

Butler senior Hitesh Dube won first place in an undergraduate poster session at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting in San Francisco. Hitesh Dube and Amy Wasilk In besting a field of nearly 100 undergraduates, which included students from across the country and around the world, Dube won $500 and will have his […]

Team unity, embracing the growth process, executing well-thought-out plays and demonstrating toughness in every circumstance—those are some of the traits required to play basketball at Butler University—and to succeed in life, according to the new book Lead Like Butler (Abingdon Press). Through interviews with coaches, players, and alumni, Indianapolis clergyman Kent Millard and Judith Cebula, […]

To help women thrive in positions of authority, Butler Corporate and Executive Education will offer a workshop called Advancing Women in Leadership (AWL) one day a month from March through September. The program will take place over six days—from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 14, April 18, May 16, June 13, Aug. 15 and […]