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Former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton come from opposite political parties, but they came together at Clowes Memorial Hall to express the importance of civility in politics and in society.

Ann Bilodeau wanted a book to explain to her then-5-year-old daughter why she didn’t believe in God, but such a book didn’t exist. So Bilodeau wrote her own. What Do You Believe, Mama? (Mascot Books), an illustrated children’s book, features a mother teaching her daughter lessons such as “Look for things that are true. Be open […]

Three students from Butler University will participate in the Fulbright Summer Institute in the United Kingdom, one of the most prestigious and selective summer scholarship programs operating worldwide.

The 2016–2017 academic year began with the largest class ever—1,272 students—coming to Butler. It concluded with 955 newly minted graduates, two large gifts to the University, and the groundbreaking for a new housing facility to replace Schwitzer Hall.

Three Butler students took home awards at the Brenau Invitational Mediation Tournament, which gives participants practice with mediation techniques and conflict resolution. 

Longtime Butler faculty member and pioneering Indiana broadcaster Ann Wagner Harper ’63, MS ’68 died Thursday, October 13.

Brandon Gaudin ’06, former voice of the Butler Bulldogs men’s basketball broadcasts, will be the new voice providing play-by-play for Madden NFL 17 video games.

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 […]

Associate Professor of Communication Casey Kelly will be awarded a New Investigator Award by the Critical Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association on November 20. Kelly, who teaches courses in rhetoric and critical media studies and directs the university debate team, is the author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual […]

From Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire to David Letterman and Bob Schieffer, 2015 has already established itself as the year of quality TV finales—and the year that those finales became essential to the television business, the Dean of Butler University’s College of Communication, Gary Edgerton, says. “With few exceptions, like The Mary Tyler Moore Show […]

Student journalists from The Butler Collegian and IndianapolisNewsBeat.com received nine “Best in Indiana Journalism” awards from the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Friday evening. Former Collegian editor-in-chief Ben Sieck, a senior, won first place for student sports reporting. His story, “Defining a champion: The factors of Indiana high school athletic succes,” examined […]

The President of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a former CIA officer whose job included briefing former President George W. Bush, and the new CEO of the Indiana-based Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership will be among the speakers at Butler University’s College of Communication (CCOM) Symposium on Servant Leadership, March 2–5. The second annual symposium presented […]