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Three Butler students have won the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship award to teach in another country during the 2015-2016 school year. Vocal performance major Julie O’Mara ’15 will be teaching in Germany, Anthropology and Spanish double major Léa Levy ’15 will be in Colombia, and Amber Zimay ’15 will be in Mexico. “The recent […]

Chemistry major Luke Gallion ’16 says a lot of people deserve credit for him being named a winner of a prestigious Goldwater scholarship. “I have lots of faculty members who wrote me letters of recommendations, or reviewed my application and made suggestions, or had me in class and helped me get to where I am,” […]

The Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research, a 129-page online publication of college students’ papers on topics as diverse as modern political messaging and James Joyce’s naturalistic evolution, will publish its first edition on April 1 at digitalcommons.butler.edu/bjur/. The refereed journal features seven papers written by Butler, Wabash College, Bellarmine University, and University of Tennessee-Martin students. […]

The Butler Collegian was honored Saturday, March 28, with seven Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, which honor the best in collegiate journalism. Junior Audrey Meyer won for editorial cartooning (including “Ebola” and “Dirty Laundry”). Here is a link to Meyer’s cartoon collection. Former editor in chief Marais Jacon-Duffy ’14 and freshman Cassie […]

Butler freshman gets 15 seconds of fame with Kathie Lee and Hoda

Whenever a player in the men’s basketball Final Four hits a three-point shot this year, look for kids in the student section to be excitedly waving a gray foam hand with three fingers extended upward. That’s called a “Thringer,” and it’s the brainchild of Brian Straughn, Adam Pallini, Cole Dalton, and Brian Todd, four Butler […]

She has already won the Miss Collegiate Indy pageant. Now Butler senior Michelle Ferro looks to June, when she’ll compete with about 35 young Indiana women to become Miss Indiana and represent the state in the Miss America pageant. “My baton coach, Rachael Bazzell, had such a big influence on me, and she would talk […]

Three days at New York Fashion Week, three backstage runway passes, and three girls from Indiana. Sound like an impossible combination? Not for Fashion at Butler University (FABU), a fashion club in its second year on campus. FABU President Savannah Kleiner ’17, Vice President Brittany Zoet ’17, and Treasurer Katie Reed ’15 received a phone […]

When Anna and Bobby closed their eyes to make a birthday wish on December 11, a birthday shared with the state of Indiana, they had no idea of the adventure that would ensue. What happened next to the two 10-year-old book characters set them on a historical quest—they travel back in time with Native American […]

One of the perks of being an MFA student at Butler is meeting renowned visiting writers such as Margaret Atwood, Louise Gluck, Cheryl Strayed, and Jonathan Franzen. In addition to the public readings, students are invited to intimate Q&A sessions and private dinners. Whenever possible, MFA students also get the opportunity to interview writers for […]

Ellen DeGeneres surprised her friends at Butler University’s Delta Gamma sorority—again. Barely a month after making a Skype phone call to the sorority, DeGeneres flew 10 DGs to Los Angeles to appear on the Thursday, February 12, episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Watch their segment here.) But the fun didn’t end with a free […]

By Sarvary Koller ’15 Andres Pena ’15 sat in his Intro to Marketing class at Butler University last year mulling over a prompt: change the world through a mobile device. Pena considered how the smartphone, with its seemingly endless capability, could be used as a tool to help those in need. He came up with […]