In The News
Indiana Business Journal | February 8, 2019
USA Today | February 4, 2019
Indy Star | January 28, 2019
Here's why President Trump was tweeting support for an Indiana Bible bill
Indy Star | January 25, 2019
Just an absolute quirk': Pacers and Colts stars don’t just miss games, they miss seasons
New York Times | January 20, 2019
The Lunar Eclipse and Supermoon: How to Watch it Tonight
CBS-4 Indy | January 17, 2019
Social media posts could affect college applications, new study finds
Yahoo | January 14, 2019
President Trump claims a wheel is older than a wall in plea for border wall. Is he right?
USA Today | January 14, 2019
Here's your guide to the 'super blood wolf moon eclipse' that's coming this weekend
Inside Indiana Business | January 14, 2019
Kenzie graduates first-ever cohort
Indy Star | January 14, 2019
Butler Arts Center's new director has deep roots. His grandpa hung first curtain at Clowes
USA Today | January 1, 2019
Young Muslims find meaning and inspiration in science fiction novels
USA Today | December 26, 2018
January 2019 lunar eclipse: How to watch the super blood wolf moon eclipse
NY Times | November 17, 2018
America’s Election Grid Remains a Patchwork of Vulnerabilities
CBS-4 | November 7, 2018
Is bipartisanship achievable? Depends who you ask
VICE | November 2, 2018
The Basics of Starting a Business When You Don't Know Where The Hell to Begin
The Guardian | October 26, 2018
Georgia: voter suppression allegations roil governor's race
USA Today | October 24, 2018
Trump tones down attacks, calls for civility after devices mailed to Democrats, CNN
IndyStar | October 22, 2018
Doyel: Butler's bulldog mascot gives admission news to kid who beat cancer
Associated Press | October 20, 2018
Democrats eye 2 competitive House races in red state Indiana
The New York Times | October 19, 2018
Georgia Voting Begins Amid Accusations of Voter Suppression
IndyStar | October 19, 2018
Butler basketball to get revamped practice facility at Hinkle Fieldhouse
WISH TV | October 8, 2018
What to watch for during first debate in Indiana's US Senate race
Des Moines Register | October 3, 2018
Democrats, tired of GOP control, think they can flip the Iowa House
IndyStar | September 28, 2018
Hear Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer call the Colts-Patriots game—if you can find it
USNews | September 25, 2018
Why 4 Students, Graduates Chose Their Colleges
Fox 59 | September 14, 2018
Butler students to work on FIFA Women's World Cup as part of inaugural Fox Sports U partnership
WISH TV | September 13, 2018
Butler University opens new dorm
US News | September 13, 2018
Identify Success Programs at Your Top-Choice College
IndyStar | September 11, 2018
Queer Eye' culture expert Karamo Brown will kick off Butler University lecture series
IndyStar | September 9, 2018
Butler named 'Best of Midwest,' as Indiana Schools feature prominently in rankings
Fox 59 | September 9, 2018
IN Focus: New season, new controversy in NFL
Fox 59 | September 4, 2018
Backlash over new Nike campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick growing
The Washington Post | August 22, 2018
Planetary party: Catch multiple planets lined up with the moon as summer wanes
The Wall Street Journal | August 15, 2018
New Topic on Campus: Civil Discourse 101
IndyStar | August 10, 2018
Saturday and Sunday night will feature meteor sky show
Inside INdiana | August 6, 2018
Demand Prompts Second Lab School's Launch
Washington Post | July 31, 2018
Athletes can easily trick popular concussion test, study finds
Indianapolis Business Journal | July 18, 2018
Kenzie Academy scores $4.2 million, plans to expand school
Indianapolis Business Journal | July 13, 2018
Butler University unleashes building spree, beautification
Bloomberg | July 9, 2018
Under-the-Radar Races Could Upend Power in State Capitols
Inside INdiana | June 20, 2018
High-Tech Institute Partnering With Traditional Educators
USA Today | May 5, 2018
Why Romeo Langford means so much to basketball in Indiana
Fox59 | May 3, 2018
Parents struggle to find balance between screen time at home and school
Lori Desautels tells Fox59 that human interaction is always better than digital when it comes to kids learning.
FiveThirtyEight | April 30, 2018
Should we trust Michael Cohen if he flips on Trump?
FiveThirtyEight cites a study done by psychology instructor Stacy Wetmore found that incentivized testimony makes mock jurors more likely to convict, even when they were explicitly told by an expert witness that such testimony is unreliable.
USA Today | April 17, 2018
Anderson Cooper rips Sean Hannity for not revealing legal ties to Trump lawyer
Nancy Whitmore talks to USA Today about the ethics behind Sean Hannity not disclosing his ties to Michael Cohen.
VICE | February 18, 2018
I Used a 'Human Uber' Surrogate to Do My Job for Me
James McGrath talks to Vice about the ethics behind AI. He sees no ethical dilemma when it comes to the use of a Human Uber, provided you pay fairly for their time.
USA Today | February 11, 2018
OxyContin maker says no more promoting opioids
Kevin Tuohy tells USA Today that discontinuing the sales information pipeline to prescribers will most likely not affect the prescribing of these drugs.
The Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2018
Who's at the Door? College officials delivering your acceptance with a dog
The Wall Street Journal reports on Butler's Butler Bound campaign, which aims to visit as many prospective students as possible and deliver their acceptance news in person, with Trip in toe.
The New York Times | February 9, 2018
Butler undergrads write coverage for dogs and pianos
A story in The New York Times reports on Butler's student-run insurance company and how it not only gives students real world experience, but also is working to address the national insurance shortage.
WPSU | January 29, 2018
Pennsylvania Patients Ready For Medical Marijuana
Jake Peters tells NPR that medical marijuana may make patients feel better in the short-term, but can make disorders, like anxiety and depression worse in the long run.
The New York Times | December 29, 2017
Looking at Blue-Collar Factory Jobs in the Rearview Mirror
President Jim Dank talks to The New York Times about what the role of higher education institutions is when it comes to globalization and the job market.
USA Today | December 21, 2017
Coin tosses, picking names out of a hat? Yep, that's how some races are decided
USA Today talks to Greg Shufeldt about quirky election law when it comes to ties and the fact that it will likely never change.
USA Today | December 10, 2017
Freedom still elusive for much of the world
An article in USA Today about International Human Rights Day quotes Fait Muedini, who says the U.S. still has a lot of work to do in this area.
In The News
Bloomberg Rates Butler's College of Business No. 1 for Internships
PUBLISHED ON Apr 22 2016
Butler University’s College of Business is the top-ranked business school in the country for internships, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2016 rankings.
“Studies have shown that college students with internships fare better in the labor market after they graduate, compared to students without internships,” Bloomberg said in the rankings released April 19. “Many undergraduate business programs push hard to place their students in high-value internships that may turn into full-time job offers, expose students to a particular industry or job function, or simply help students forge connections to the world of work.”
Bloomberg defines an internship as a work experience that accumulates a minimum of 120 hours of work within a six-month (consecutive) period, in which a student receives supervision and/or mentorship and in which the student applies his or her knowledge and skills learned in college. An internship may be paid or unpaid and may be for credit or not for credit. A student’s work on his or her own start-up business qualifies as an internship if it meets the other stated criteria.
In Butler’s experiential approach to teaching and learning, students in the College of Business create a business plan their first year, launch a company as sophomores, and complete at least two internships before graduation—a series of experiential requirements unmatched in the business school landscape.
Media contact:
Marc Allan
mallan@butler.edu
317-940-9822
The Illustrated History of Butler University
PUBLISHED ON Aug 20 2014
Picture this: the illustrated history of Butler University. The campuses, the buildings, the people who made the history. The clothes, the activities, the classes, the games.
That’s what Indianapolis artist Jon Edwards has been drawing for the better part of a year. And when the Hinkle Fieldhouse renovations are complete in October, his work—which he’s drawn across 10 canvases that are 28 inches high and a total of 120 feet in length—will cover the walls of the newly remodeled Wildman Room.
“I went through the Drift one by one by one and looked at page after page and picked out what I thought would be interesting to look at,” Edwards said, standing a couple of miles east of campus at Blice Edwards studio, the business he and partner Chris Blice founded in 1993. “They didn’t want to just focus on sports. They wanted to focus on campus life. So I wanted to pull all kinds of material.”
He did. Starting with a picture of the proposed home of North Western Christian University (only a portion of which was built), Edwards’s illustrations capture the eras and the major moments. Everything is labeled, so that everyone looking at the murals will know what they’re looking at, even if they don’t know Ovid Butler from Tony Hinkle.
Butler and Hinkle are both represented, of course, as are boldfaced Butler names like Catherine Merrill and Arthur Jordan. The University’s moves to Irvington in 1875 and Fairview in 1928 are illustrated. There’s a cartoon from 1923 showing the University as a young man leaving home with a young woman labeled “Fairview.” His mom—representing the Irvington campus—says, “Well my boy, if you’re determined to leave the old home, I’m glad you picked such a nice girl.” (All the original artists will be credited by name, “because I hope somebody does that for me someday,” Edwards said.)
The construction of Jordan Hall and Hinkle Fieldhouse are depicted. So is Butler’s awareness of the rights of women and minorities, which is shown in a picture from 1913 featuring a black graduate. And of course basketball and football get plenty of attention.
When Blice Edwards did the mural in the Johnson Boardroom in Robertson Hall, they painted directly on the walls. For the Wildman Room, the technique Edwards is using is called marouflage, which means painted on canvas and hung on the wall. When the murals are done, he and others will coat the walls in the room with wallpaper glue and unroll the canvases.
Edwards said he hopes people who see his work “will be enlightened in Butler history and learn a little bit about the lives and the stories of those people who made Butler University what it is today.”
Media contact:
Marc Allan
mallan@butler.edu
317-940-9822
Former Congressmen Open 2017–2018 Diversity Lecture Series
PUBLISHED ON Oct 12 2017
Two of Indiana’s most prominent and respected political leaders, former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton, will sit down for a discussion with former Lieutenant Governor and current Ivy Tech Community College President Sue Ellspermann at 6:00 PM Monday, November 13, in Clowes Memorial Hall as part of Butler University’s Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series.
A Conversation with Senator Richard Lugar and Representative Lee Hamilton, co-presented by Ivy Tech Community College, is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. They will be available beginning Friday, October 19, at 10:00 AM at the Clowes Hall box office and through ButlerArtsCenter.org.
At a time when the country seems politically polarized and incapable of engaging in civil discourse, Lugar and Hamilton will talk about ways to bring us together.
Lugar is the longest-serving member of Congress in Indiana history (1976–2012). He currently is President of The Lugar Center, a non-profit organization focusing on global food security, WMD nonproliferation, aid effectiveness, and bipartisan governance. He serves as a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar at the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University and is distinguished faculty member in the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Indianapolis, where he leads the Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders.
Hamilton, who served in Congress for 34 years (1965–1999), is Director of the Indiana University Center on Congress, a non-partisan educational 
institution seeking to improve the public’s understanding of Congress and to inspire young people and adults to take an active part in revitalizing representative government in America. Located on the IU Bloomington campus, the Center offers an extensive array of civic education resources and activities aimed at fostering an informed electorate that understands our system of government and participates in civic life.
Ellspermann has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, economic and workforce development, and public service. She was selected to serve as President of Ivy Tech Community College and began her tenure in May 2016. She is the ninth individual to hold the position and first female president for the college. Ellspermann served as Indiana’s 50th Lieutenant Governor from 2013 until March 2016.
Media contact:
Marc Allan
mallan@butler.edu
317-940-9822
Former Congressmen Open 2017–2018 Diversity Lecture Series
At a time when the country seems politically polarized and incapable of engaging in civil discourse, Lugar and Hamilton will talk about ways to bring us together.
At a time when the country seems politically polarized and incapable of engaging in civil discourse, Lugar and Hamilton will talk about ways to bring us together.