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Schwitzer is Gone. Long Live Schwitzer.
By Todd Leone Schwitzer Residence Hall came to life in 1956 and for 60 years was called “home” to many Butler alumni and current students. Demolition of Schwitzer Hall was completed March 1, 2017, and...
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Zotec Partners Continues Sponsorship With Butler Athletics
Butler Alumnus and Zotec Founder and CEO Scott Law Proud for his Company to Support Student-Athletes. Zotec Partners announced on August 14 that it will continue a multi-year sponsorship agreement with...
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Butler Welcomes the Class of 2021
Butler University will welcome 1,065 first-year students on move-in day, Saturday, August 19. Classes begin on Wednesday, August 23. This year, 14,638 prospective students applied to Butler, a 13...
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Butler Seminar: ‘Religion, Refugees, and Migration’
The Butler University Seminar on Religion and Global Affairs presents “Religion, Refugees, and Migration,” four public seminars examining the experiences of refugees in various parts of the world. The...
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Visiting Writers Series Brings Whitehead, Boyle to Butler
Colson Whitehead, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and novelist and short-story writer T.C. Boyle will be among the headliners in Butler University’s Fall 2017 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting...
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Butler Ballet to Hold Auditions for Children’s Roles in ‘The Nutcracker’
Butler Ballet will hold auditions for Clara, Fritz, Party Children, Polichinelles, and other children’s roles in The Nutcracker on Sunday, September 10, from 1:00-4:00 PM in Lilly Hall Studio 310....
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Indianapolis Public Schools Requests a Second Butler Lab School
The 6-year-old IPS/Butler Lab School has been so successful and in demand that the Indianapolis Public Schools has asked Butler’s College of Education to create a second school. Inside the Lab School...
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BITS Brings Out 1,500 Volunteers to Help In Indy
Students, faculty, staff, alumni fan out to 45 locations. By Hannah Hartzell ’17 You would’ve thought there was a party in the Reilly Room on Saturday, August 26. Music was blasting and everyone was...
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Butler Theatre Promises a ‘Magical and Mysterious’ Season
Butler Theatre opens its magical and mysterious 2017–2018 Mainstage Season with the Brecht/Weill classic music theatre piece The Threepenny Opera, November 1-5 in the Schrott Center for the Arts. Also...
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Butler In the News – August
Butler and its people were all over the news last month. Top stories: The IPS/Butler Lab School has been such a hit with students and parents that the Indianapolis Public Schools asked Butler to create...
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Butler Bowl Gets a New Name
Stadium to be Named in Honor of Bud and Jackie Sellick. The Butler Bowl, Butler University’s longtime home for football and soccer, will be officially renamed the Sellick Bowl on September 16 in honor...
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History As Seen Through the Eyes of the Disney Company
Jason Lantzer’s family trips to Disney World started as vacations. They ended up becoming research for his new book, Dis-History: Uses of the Past at Walt Disney’s Worlds. In the book, Lantzer,...
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Howard Caldwell, Alumnus and Former Trustee, Dies
Beloved alumnus had lifelong ties to Butler. Howard Caldwell ’50, MA ’68, whose distinguished career at WRTV (Channel 6) in Indianapolis earned him induction into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame...
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Butler Named ‘Most Innovative School’ in U.S. News 2018 Rankings
Butler University is the only Midwest Regional University to earn the U.S. News designation as Most Innovative School, according to the magazine’s 2018 rankings released on Tuesday, September 12. For...
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Technology Is Shaping the Way PA Students Are Learning
Innovative additions to the program give students new ways to view the human body. A virtual cadaver table. Ultrasound systems. Fresh-tissue labs. These are some of the new ways that Butler PA students...
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Adam Grant to Speak at Butler
Author/professor/thought leader explains how people with groundbreaking ideas made them happen. Adam Grant, one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers, will speak about “Originals: How...
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Hurricane Irma, Up Close and Personal
Vanessa Mackenzie ’15, who is teaching on the U.S. Virgin Islands, hopes to get back to her classroom soon. By Hannah Hartzell ’17 September 6 was supposed to be the first day of school in the U.S...
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Holcomb Planetarium Goes in Search of Alien Earths
New show runs now through December 2. Now that you’ve seen the solar eclipse, Butler University’s Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium invites you to go farther out with In Search of Alien Earths: The...
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How Butler Prepared Him for the Mayo Clinic
As an undergraduate at Butler, Robert Jacobson ’80 participated in a dizzying array of activities—debate team, student government, dorm governance, writer, and cartoonist for The Butler Collegian—while...
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Butler Presents Eight Alumni Awards
Honorees to receive their recognition during Homecoming Weekend. Butler University will hold the annual Alumni Awards Recognition Program for extraordinary professional achievement and service to the...
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Butler in the News in September
Warren Morgan ’06 takes over Teach for America, Brad Stevens and Gordon Hayward reunite, and more. NEWS: Butler was again ranked the Most Innovative School among Midwestern Regional Universities by...
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Wherefore Art Thou, Juliet Blue? In a Butler Chemistry Lab
A “happy accident” leads to a scientific discovery. In a couple of weeks, some chemists in Verona, Italy, are going to find out what’s been happening in a Butler University Chemistry lab, and they’re...
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She Couldn’t Find the Book She Needed, So She Wrote Her Own
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),...
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Former Congressmen Open 2017–2018 Diversity Lecture Series
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...
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In State of the University, Danko Asks: How Can We Be Better?
In his seventh State of the University message, Butler President James M. Danko on Friday, October 20, said he is pleased with the University’s growth and achievement, and he challenged the community...
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At Clowes Hall, Lugar and Hamilton Discuss Civility
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...
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How Not to Be Wrong
It’s the power of mathematical thinking. The J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics presents Jordan Ellenberg speaking on “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking,”...
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Lisa Brooks Named New Dean of JCA
Lisa Brooks’ career at Butler has been a series of progressions—from Violin Professor to Assistant Chair of the School of Music and Director of the Graduate Program to Chair of the School of Music to...
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Butler Introduces the New York City Learning Semester
Students will spend a semester interning and learning in Manhattan. For more than a decade, Butler University has been offering students a chance to spend a semester interning and taking classes in...
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Visiting Writers Series Announces Spring Speakers
Series begins February 1 with Kazim Ali. Author/cartoonist Lynda Barry, novelist/biographer Edmund White, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück will be among the speakers this spring in Butler...
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Woods Series Announces Spring 2018 Speakers
Science vs. science fiction, computer modeling of life, and digital technology’s role in the future of education are the topics for the Spring 2018 J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and...
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Be a Positive Force for Others, Singh Tells December Grads
See yourselves as pioneers with big ideas and as a generation with transcendent vision, 2017 Winter Commencement speaker Kanwal Prakash (KP) Singh advised Butler University’s 150 newest alumni. “You...
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Sixteen Superintendents to Participate in Butler’s EPIC Program
Sixteen school superintendents from across Indiana will participate in Butler University’s second annual Educators Preparing Inspired Change (EPIC) program, a yearlong leadership excellence program...
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Butler University Expands with Purchase of CTS Campus
Butler University just got a bit larger—40 acres larger. Butler has completed the purchase of 40 acres of property and buildings from Christian Theological Seminary (CTS), both schools announced on...
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The Year That Was: Top Stories From Butler In 2017
We started plans for a second Lab School and painted a 20-by-40-foot mural in Clowes Hall. We challenged the status quo, again, being named the Most Innovative School in the Midwest. We expanded,...
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Small Business Development Center Moves to Butler
The relocation took effect January 1. Butler University is the new host of the Central Indiana Small Business Development Center, which provides guidance and resources to entrepreneurs and small...
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Butler Continues Diversity Lecture Series with Release of ’18 Slate
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will headline Butler University’s spring 2018 Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series. The 30th annual series will also feature Rev....
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School of Music Announces Spring Schedule
Audiences can see nearly 30 performances, most of them free. Butler University’s School of Music will present a wide array of exciting performances during the spring 2018 semester, including a joint...
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MFA Grad Annie Sullivan Shows She Has the Midas Touch
Her first book comes out in August. Annie Sullivan MFA ’12 finds herself wearing a lot of gold-beaded jewelry these days. What better way to call attention to the release of her first young-adult...
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Butler Celebrates the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Events include a day of service, a film series, and an oratorical competition. Butler University’s Celebration of Diversity 2018 will remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with MLK50Forward: Together We...
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No Love Lost Between These Butler Brothers
Jason Lantzer’s new book explores Butler’s role in the Civil War. We may think we live in partisan times, but America in 2018 is peaches and cream compared to the state of the country when Butler...
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Freezing for a Good Cause
The annual Polar Plunge takes place February 10. By Peyton Thompson ’20 If you see a polar bear on Butler’s campus, don’t be alarmed. In fact, be encouraged. Junior Butler Ambassadors for Special...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to James Alexander Thom ’60
Former newspaper columnist’s writing focuses on the frontier and Indian Wars. Historical fiction novelist James Alexander Thom ’60 has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement...
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Butler Selects Top 100 Students
Honorees will be recognized at April 13 banquet. The Alumni Association has announced Butler University’s Top 100 students, honoring the top juniors and seniors for the 2017–2018 academic year. The...
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Dancing for a Good Cause
Butler University Dance Marathon Takes Place February 3. By Peyton Thompson ’20 The 16th annual Butler University Dance Marathon takes place on Saturday, February 3, from noon to midnight in the Health...
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Butler Places 815 Students on Fall 2017 Dean’s List
Eight hundred fifteen students have been placed on Butler University’s Dean’s List for the fall 2017 semester. Any degree-seeking undergraduate student earning at least 12 academic hours of grade...
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On the Curling Team, These Students Sweep Together
Butler’s curling team shows it has the stones to compete. By Jackson Borman ’20 The history of curling can be traced back 500 years to the frozen lochs of Scotland. The history of curling at Butler...
View ArticleTen Butler Students Chosen for Orr Fellowships
Ten Butler students from the Class of 2018 have landed two-year jobs after graduation through the Orr Fellowship program, which recruits and evaluates candidates based on academic excellence,...
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: What Makes Great Leaders Great Is …
Presidential historian shares her list of important traits. In a speech titled “Leadership in Turbulent Times”—but one that could have been called “The Nine Habits of Highly Effective...
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What Makes a Leader? Professors’ Research Offers Insight
When most think about leadership, a CEO, or All-Star, or conductor might come to mind. Think Jeff Bezos, LeBron James, or Yo-Yo Ma. Turns out, we may have it all wrong. That’s according to new...
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