Butler Magazine - Spring 2017

MAGAZINE SPRING 2017

IN THIS ISSUE: A FLEXIBLE FOUNDATION | A MENTOR’S INFLUENCE EXPANDS | PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE

FROM the PRESIDENT When North Western Christian University—later to be renamed Butler University—opened its doors in 1855 with only two professors, natural science was a foundational part of the curriculum. As courses of study evolved in later years, the science track was in high demand among students. And in the mid-1940s, as Eli Lilly and Company was achieving success with the production and distribution of penicillin, Butler took over the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy, becoming one of only two colleges in Indiana to confer pharmacy degrees.

Now, as then, Butler University is dedicated to providing world-class academic programs in pharmacy and in life, physical, and health sciences.

Demand among students and employers for these programs, as well as for Butler’s engineering and technology programs, is high, and many—including the Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies program featured in this magazine— prepare students for medical school and other graduate programs. Butler is dedicated to all these programs not only because they are central to its academic mission, but because the University has an important role in supporting economic development in the Hoosier state.

Over the past decade, Butler’s undergraduate enrollment in the sciences within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has increased by over 56 percent. As applications to the University reached an all-time high last year, 10 percent of those applications were for Biology. Applications to the Computer Science and Software Engineering major have jumped 67 percent over the past two years alone.

Because science and technology are integral to economic and social progress locally and worldwide, they are central to Butler’s educational mission. As Butler prepares a diverse, socially responsible generation of students to excel in these fields, I hope you will join me in celebrating the success stories highlighted in this edition of Butler Magazine.

Sincerely,

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SPRING 2017 INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT for MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, and STRATEGIC INNOVATION

Melissa Beckwith ’00 EDITOR

Sheryl Rodgers ’83 srodgers@butler.edu EDITORIAL TEAM

Marc D. Allan Ann Ehinger Krisy Force Chloe Lyzun ’14 Nancy Lyzun Rachel Stotts Courtney Tuell ’99 ART DIRECTOR

Phil Eichacker ART DESIGN TEAM

Phil Eichacker Alisha Luckenbill Katie Orlowski UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHER

Brent Smith CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Jimmy Lafakis ’19 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Marc D. Allan Sharon Alseth ’91 Cindy Conover Dashnaw Kailey Eaton ’17 Krisy Force Stuart Glennan Katie Goodrich ’17 Monica Holb ’09 Michael Kaltenmark ’02 Jimmy Lafakis ’19 Catherine Pangan MS ’99 Amy Peak ’97 (online) Patricia Snyder Pickett ’82 Hayley Ross ’17 Megan Ward MS ’13 Megan Yates ’16 (online) STUDENT BLOGGERS

James M. Danko president@butler.edu

Meghan Blais ’17 Katie Goodrich ’17 Emily Yarman ’17 CLASS ACTS

Office of Alumni and Parent Programs alumni@butler.edu Cover artwork—Creative Director Phil Eichacker photographs the technology lightboard that was used as inspiration to create this issue’s cover art. Utilizing funds from a Butler Innovation Fund Grant, The Lightboard Studio, located in Butler’s Irwin Library, offers a way to create videos that compliment online or hybrid learning models as well as the “flipped” classroom model— science at work for academics.

Butler Magazine is published for alumni, parents, supporters, and friends of Butler University. Send story ideas and comments to Butler Magazine, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46208; email butlermagazine@butler.edu.

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FACULTY FOCUS: JEREMY JOHNSON The Hershel B. Whitney Professor in Biochemistry

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IT’S IN HER NATURE Marissa Byers ’18, the first Butler student to officially major in Environmental Studies, figures she now has the best of all worlds when it comes to career options.

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Over 40 percent of Butler students study traditional STEM disciplines like physics, biology, mathematics, and engineering that are located in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as do all students in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and our interdisciplinary and cross-college majors in Science, Technology, and Society, Environmental Studies, and Healthcare and Business.

BY STUART GLENNAN, ASSOCIATE DEAN of BUTLER’S LIBERAL ARTS and SCIENCES

When Robert Soltis ’87 returned to Butler in 2016 to serve as Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, he came in with a goal to deliver on the College’s mission of developing graduates who serve society as dedicated, competent health professionals and community leaders. Soltis said the Pharmacy and Physician Assistant programs are committed to integrating the liberal arts with professional preparation. He describes this philosophy in terms of creating graduates who are “reflective practitioners”—who “think deeply about their professional responsibilities.”

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Butler was ranked No. 2 among Midwest Regional Universities for the seventh consecutive year, but saw its overall score increase from 95 to 98 out of 100. The University also saw an improvement in its peer assessment score. “The rankings affirm the outstanding work of Butler’s faculty and staff and their commitment to students. Butler is providing educational quality and outcomes that empower students to thrive—during their time at Butler and throughout their lives,” said President Danko.

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PROFESSOR BROOKS RECEIVES $2 MILLION U.S. DOE GRANT Associate Professor of Education Katie Brooks has been awarded a $2 million U.S. Department of Education grant to train 80 current or potential teachers to become licensed to teach English Language Learning (ELL) students.

The five-year grant is intended to help alleviate the chronic shortage of English as a New Language (ENL) teachers. The grant will pay for 20 college graduates who have a bachelor’s degree in a licensable area such as biology, math, social studies, world languages, or English to get both a teaching license and an ENL license. (Read more at butler.edu/magazine.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND AWARDS BUTLER AGAIN NAMED MOST INNOVATIVE SCHOOL IN THE MIDWEST For the second consecutive year, Butler University has been ranked as the Most Innovative School among Midwestern Regional Universities, according to the 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges. This category focuses on innovation in curricula, campus life, technology, and facilities and among faculty and students.

Butler was also recognized in the categories of Best Undergraduate Teaching and the Best Colleges for Veterans.

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BUTLER TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON DEMENTIA PATIENTS Butler University has been awarded a $600,000 Indiana State Department of Health grant for a two-year project to determine whether dementia patients’ lives can be improved through the use of personal musical playlists.

In the project, called Music First, faculty and students from across Butler—in Psychology, Music, Pharmacy, Communication Disorders, and other areas—will team up to study 100 residents in the American Village retirement home throughout the 2016–2017 academic year. Additional locations will be added in the spring for the second phase of the study. (Read more at butler.edu/magazine.)

FROM FRUIT FLIES TO HUMAN INFERTILITY Assistant Professor of Biology Lindsay Lewellyn has been awarded a $410,656 National Institutes of Health grant to study egg development in fruit flies, which ultimately could lead to breakthroughs in the area of human infertility. Lewellyn began studying fruit flies in 2010 while doing her postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago.

JACOB REEVES ’18 NAMED INAUGURAL HENDRICKS FELLOW The Center for High Achievement and Scholarly Engagement (CHASE) announced the winner of the 2016–2017 Hendricks Fellowship, which is awarded to a student who completes a scientific research project in the area of conservation or Indiana ecosystems.

The inaugural 2016-2017 Hendricks Fellowship has been awarded to junior Jacob Reeves for his project studying how wildlife use the Butler campus as their home.

The Fellowship was established in 2016 through a donation from Dr. Frederick Hendricks, a urologist with a lifelong passion for conservation and the study of Indiana ecosystems. The Hendricks Fellowship is given to undergraduate students to support their scientific research, preferably in the area of conservation or Indiana ecosystems.

GRANT HELPS CUE FARM BECOME A HUB FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Butler’s Center for Urban Ecology (CUE) has been awarded a three-year, nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the CUE Farm as a hub for undergraduate education and research. The money will support Butler faculty in the development and implementation of four urban agriculture research modules in biology, chemistry, ecology, and environmental science courses and to study the impact of those modules on student learning. (Read more at butler.edu/magazine.)

METRO DINER NOW OPEN IN SUNSET AVENUE PARKING GARAGE Metro Diner, the Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant opened a 3,800-square-foot location in December in the Sunset Avenue Parking Garage.

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Reeves, a Biology major with minors in Chemistry and Mathematics, used his passion and interest in the outdoors as the fuel behind his winning research project, the Butler Wildlife Watch.

Reeves’s research will allow him to identify the regions and habitats on campus that are most valuable to wildlife through the use of motion triggered wildlife cameras.

The Fellowship will provide Reeves with the funds for all the equipment necessary to complete his research as well as to attend research conferences.

He plans to present his results at the 2017 Butler Undergraduate Research Conference as well as the Indiana Academy of Sciences Conference in 2018.

Lynne Zydowsky ’81 and Robert T. Wildman elected to

special one-year terms on Butler University Board of Trustees (See related story on page 29.)

Delorean Menifee named

Director of Admission Zydowsky ’81

Wildman

Menifee

Hurt ’08

Aaron Hurt ’08 Named 30

Under 30 Among Venue Managers Read full announcements and additional Campus News at butler.edu/magazine.

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BUTLER WELCOMES ITS LARGEST CLASS EVER Butler University welcomed a record first-year class of 1,272 students on move-in day, Saturday, August 20.

Classes began on Wednesday, August 24.

Last year, 12,949 prospective students applied to be a part of the Class of 2020, a 30.2 percent increase compared with the year prior.

Butler’s Class of 2020 continues the University’s track record of attracting high-quality, academically prepared students. Here’s a look at some numbers:

46 292 21 45 3.8

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Lilly Scholars 21st Century Scholars Average GPA

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• THE CLASS OF 2O2O comes from 37 states and five countries.

Forty-three percent are from Indiana, and 57 percent are from out of state. The number of out-of-state students increased by 28 percent compared with 2015, with 205 percent growth in students from the Northeast and 108 percent growth in students from the South.

• Nearly 16 percent of the class are U.S. students

of color or international citizens.

• The most popular majors in the class are:

Pre-Pharmacy (135), Exploratory Studies (109), and Biology and Exploratory Business (both with 81).

Know a student who should be #BUTLERBOUND? Let us know who they are! Visit butler.edu/refer to add a current high school student to our mailing list.

Antony Winfrey Class of 2021 admitted student Pike High School Also pictured: sister and current student Candace Winfrey, class of 2017.

RECRUITING THE CLASS OF 2021 Efforts by our Enrollment team are underway to bring in our Class of 2021!

Trip was sidelined this fall with a knee injury, so his great nieces and nephews helped deliver admission news to unsuspecting high school seniors. To date, 45 high school seniors in Indiana, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the DC area have had their admission decisions paw-delivered.

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One Friday afternoon a month, you’ll find Butler faculty members from across the disciplines at the Bent Rail Brewery, discussing—often loudly, sometimes with a beer in hand—topics as varied as the “new conservation” movement and the biological and social causes of mental illness. We call this STS School, short for Science, Technology, and Society. It’s a place where scientists and non-scientists learn from each other about new developments at the intersections of our disciplines, and talk about how to bring these ideas into our classrooms.

Our students learn about the state of the art, but our focus is on knowing how—how to observe; how to experiment; how to find and absorb new research; how to collaborate both within and beyond their disciplines to create and apply new knowledge.

This know-how is important for our graduates who pursue professions in scientific research, but it is equally important for those in the many professions that rely upon and support scientific exploration and technological innovation. The flexible foundation our students get can take them in many directions.

Science education at Butler starts in our core curriculum, where every student must take a course that includes a lab.

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class, which gets non-science majors involved in research on how music affects dementia patients, to a course that uses the case of “HeLa” cells used in cancer research to explore genetics and molecular biology while examining questions about the commercialization of science and the ethics of research.

The keystone of our science education is getting students to apply science through undergraduate research.

Over 40 percent of Butler students study traditional STEM disciplines like physics, biology, mathematics and engineering that are located in our College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as do all students in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) and our interdisciplinary and cross-college majors in Science, Technology and Society, Environmental Studies, and Healthcare and Business. We also have students with a primary major in a non-STEM discipline who pursue pre-med or other pre-health courses in the sciences, and we have education majors who either pick up secondary STEM majors or do required course work to support their licenses.

Most students in Psychology choose to join a faculty-led research group. Over their career, it is not uncommon for Psychology students to present their research not only at Butler’s and other undergraduate research conferences, but also at national meetings where most presenters are graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.

THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN LED BY SCIENTISTS AND NON-SCIENTISTS, AND HAVE DRAWN FACULTY FROM THE SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES AND FROM BUTLER’S PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. WE TALK TOGETHER AND TEACH TOGETHER. As a philosopher of science, I was welcomed by Butler’s scientists when I came here 25 years ago, and in my time I have collaborated with them in the founding of three popular interdisciplinary programs—the science, technology, and society major, the neuroscience minor, and most recently, our environmental studies major. These programs have been led by scientists and non-scientists, and have drawn faculty from the sciences, social sciences, humanities and from Butler’s professional schools. We talk together and teach together.

The world is a big place, and none of us can know but the smallest bit of it. But we—faculty and students—can cultivate the skills and attitudes that will help us learn new things and do new things that will make a difference for ourselves and the world around us. And, if we have to argue with our colleagues over beer to do it properly, well, that’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make.

The Chemistry and Mathematics programs have developed “research boot camps”—intensive week-long summer experiences where students learn the tools of the trade.

Astronomy students take advantage of a consortium that allows access to telescopes around the world to explore the stars. Students present their discoveries at national professional meetings and publish their work in scientific journals.

While most student research is done at Butler, some of it is done afar—like the tropical field biology course in Belize or internships at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. (Visit butler.edu/magazine for a related story.)

Another feature of butler’s STEM education is the push to take science education beyond the walls of science buildings—to have students learn from, and give back to, the communities to which we all belong.

Computer Science and Software Engineering majors take a required Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) course, where the class collaborates on a software project in support of the mission of a non-profit organization.

Students in Biology, STS, and Environmental Studies often enroll in the Environmental Practicum, where they take on a sustainability project in support of the Indianapolis community.

Students from a number of STEM fields get true hands-on experience working on Butler’s farm—managing crops that are served on campus and in local restaurants while engaging in NSF funded research.

The Chemistry department has begun a series of successful short-term study abroad trips in which students have traveled to Europe, integrating scientific and cultural learning as they explore the chemistry of sustainable energy production, food, and art.

Students from a range of fields intern at local hospitals and research facilities, tech firms, museums, governmental agencies, and non-profits. There are the clinical rotations that are central to the training of health care professionals in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

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By Marc D. Allan When Robert Soltis ’87 returned to Butler in 2016 to serve as Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, he came in with a goal to deliver on the College’s mission of developing graduates who serve society as dedicated, competent health professionals and community leaders.

At the 2016 White Coat Ceremony, Soltis said the Pharmacy and Physician Assistant programs are committed to integrating the liberal arts with professional preparation. He described this in terms of creating graduates who are “reflective practitioners”— competent PAs and pharmacists who “think deeply about their professional responsibilities and their patients.”

“They are, in the end, dedicated and caring individuals who work for the good of others,” he said.

To illustrate the point, Soltis told the story of an Indianapolis woman named Eileen, a diabetic.

Eileen’s husband lost his job and subsequently their health insurance. With limited money for insulin, test supplies, and her other medications, Eileen stopped taking most of her drugs and cut her insulin doses in half to stretch her budget. She also cut back on food, thinking she could control her disease by eating less.

Eileen became malnourished, anemic, and experienced diabetic ketoacidosis. At that point, she had to be rushed to the ER and spent several days in the hospital. “I truly did not think I was putting my life in danger,” she said at the time.

In this case, Soltis said, a reflective practitioner would have considered several questions, including: How did Eileen’s situation come to be? Was there no one to help her understand her disease? Why did she not realize the consequences of her actions?

Most importantly, a reflective practitioner would reflect inward and ask: Could there be an Eileen among my patients? And, do I treat my patients in a way that they know they are deserving of, and are entitled to, the best care possible?

To be a reflective practitioner requires knowing the right questions to ask and being committed to your patients’ well-being, Soltis said.

“I ask that from now on, every time our students put their white coat on, that they think about how they are preparing for a life of professional service,” he said. “And they should know that it involves not just caring for patients but caring about them as people.”

FOCUS ON FACULTY

By Krisy Force Although Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Hala Fadda did not start working at Butler University until 2011, she entered the University with a passion for learning, research, and collaboration. All qualities that embody what it means to be a Butler Bulldog.

“I knew Butler was a great school with an excellent pharmacy program,” Fadda said. “I came here for the interview and was impressed with the dedication and passion of the students. I thought to myself, ‘I would like to be a part of this—part of educating the next generation of pharmacy students at Butler.”

Upon starting at Butler, Fadda immediately reached out to gastroenterologist Dr. Monika Fischer at the IU School of Medicine to begin a variety of research projects to understand drug absorption in health and disease.

The ongoing research focuses on drug absorption, transit times, and motility patterns of our gastrointestinal tract in different patient populations, utilizing tools such as a Capsule endoscopy (camera capsule). Capsule endoscopy is a powerful tool for imaging the gut which is used in the investigation of gastrointestinal disorders.

“We came up with the idea to look at how this camera capsule transits through the gut—to see the path and examine how fast, or how slow it goes through. We are particularly interested in the small intestine as this is the part of our gut where most drug absorption takes place,” Fadda said.

From these studies, Fadda and her collaborators were able to determine that transit times of tablets are highly variable between patients.

“Transit times can range from 50 to 460 minutes. That is a huge variability,” Fadda said. “It was previously thought that small intestinal transit is uniform across patients. We also showed that patients with ulcerative colitis and active Crohn’s disease have longer small intestinal transit times compared to non-inflammatory bowel disease patients. This helps us understand the differences in drug absorption between different patient populations.”

simulate the stomach and small intestine.

“In this model we are mimicking pH transitions and fluid flow in our gut to understand how medicines behave in our body. All this research will help improve the testing and design of new medicines with improved therapeutic efficacy and reduced side effects,” Fadda said. “Ultimately, the goal is to develop better medicines for our patients.”

Working with a multi-disciplinary research team comprised of both researchers and students, is enriching and allows one to gain new perspectives and ideas and share the latest research findings in the classroom.

“I’m able to tell my students that there is no such thing as the average individual, and there is no such thing as the average patient. It is important for students to appreciate the variability between different patient populations.

Eventually, they are going to apply this knowledge to enhance patient’s lives and make a difference.”

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By Megan Ward MS ’13 Sure, there are collaborations with faculty here at Butler and other institutions, including the University of Massachusetts, but “students do the vast majority of the work,” said Kowalski. This work includes growing and maintaining the C. elegans worms, generating new strains of worms by performing mating crosses, doing molecular biology, fluorescence microscopy, and biochemical studies.

They also do data analysis, help write and present their work at conferences here and around the country, and co-author all publications.

So why C. elegans? Even though they only grow to about one-and-a-half millimeters in length and only have 302 neurons and 959 total cells, humans have surprisingly a lot in common with the worm. Yes, we have a lot more neurons (hundreds of billions) and quite a few more cells (around 60 trillion); but, we have a similar number of genes—around 20,000— and many of those genes are the same. As Kowalski states, “Although our nervous systems are much more complex, the basic organization of the circuitry is the same.”

JENNIFER R. KOWALSKI EDUCATION: University of Notre Dame, Bachelor of Science degree

in Biology with Spanish secondary major; Harvard University, PhD in Cell and Development Biology; Tufts University School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Training ROLE AT BUTLER: Assistant Professor (August 2009–May 2015) and

Associate Professor (May 2015–Present), Biological Sciences CLASSES TAUGHT INCLUDE: Cell and Molecular Biology

Fundamentals; Principles of Physiology; Cell and Molecular Neurobiology; Biology Capstone (recent topic of Stem Cell Biology); co-designed and taught Mental Illness: Biological, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives; co-designed and taught course called Life, Death, and Immortality (taught through lens of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

SNAPSHOT OF CURRENT RESEARCH: She studied the control

of breast cancer cell migration while earning her PhD at Harvard, and began investigating neurobiology using C. elegans roundworms as a model system while doing postdoctoral work at Tufts. That’s also where Kowalski developed the research project she brought to Butler. Research now done primarily by our undergraduate students under her supervision.

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What are Kowalski and her students hoping to learn from their research? They’re interested in a family of proteins called ubiquitin system enzymes and the role these enzymes and their targets play in controlling neurons’ signals. “We use the C. elegans neuromuscular junction (the point of contact—or synapse—where motor neurons signal to muscle cells) as a model to investigate ubiquitin enzymes,” explained Kowalski.

A cell biologist by training, Kowalski is interested in understanding how cells carry out their functions.

She’s intrigued by the nervous system because it is a collection of cells that are working in both a “coordinated and tightly regulated fashion to allow information processing, storage, and transmission” (i.e., communication between neurons). This communication is disrupted in various neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer disease.

The potential impact of their research is enormous.

As Kowalski puts it, “Understanding how communication between neurons is regulated in a healthy nervous system is critical to understanding what goes wrong in these diseases—and how we might be able to effectively treat them.”

By Krisy Force When she entered Butler University as a first-year voice major, Professor of Psychology Tara Lineweaver ’91 never would have imagined that she would graduate four years later with a Psychology degree as well. Nor would her first-year self believe she would head to graduate school in Georgia, finish an internship in Chicago, complete a doctoral program in California, and work at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, only to end up right back where she started—at Butler.

“It’s funny because when I was a student at Butler, I always said I wanted to work at a place like Butler when I grew up, but I never really imagined I’d work at Butler,” Lineweaver said. “I worked in Admission as a student, so I thought if I did come back I was going to be an admission counselor. I had no idea I would return as a professor.”

“I LOVE COLLABORATING WITH STUDENTS ON RESEARCH, and I love the experiences they can get as undergraduate students here at Butler,” Lineweaver said. “Students are graduating with several national conference presentations on their resumes and sometimes with manuscripts under review or published in professional journals.”

Since arriving back at Butler, Lineweaver has participated in numerous research projects with her students, and she also, along with a group of faculty, has played an integral role in helping create and teach Butler’s new Neuroscience minor.

“Provost Kate Morris, who was the chair of the Psychology Department at the time, initiated the effort. We were excited to get the Neuroscience minor approved,” Lineweaver said.

The new minor is interdisciplinary with coursework in Psychology, Biology, and Philosophy. Since its creation in 2013, 26 students have graduated with a Neuroscience minor and 62 students are currently pursuing it.

“One thing that’s really cool about the minor is that it encourages students to think about the mind and brain from both a scientific and liberal arts perspective,” Lineweaver said.

In addition to the coursework, students involved in the Neuroscience minor complete internships and research as well.

For instance, last year one of Lineweaver’s students, Colleen Frank ’16, completed a project that looked at the recognition of emotion through both facial expressions and tone of voice in

Tara is also currently interested in researching healthy aging. If you are age 60 or over, live in or near Indianapolis, and want to participate in future studies, please email her at tlinewea@butler.edu

patients with Parkinson’s disease. She found that people with Parkinson’s disease are not as good at recognizing emotion as their healthy age-matched peers.

Lineweaver’s passion for neuroscience and collaboration with students has allowed her to build up her own research portfolio and to keep pursuing the many areas of interest she developed prior to teaching at Butler, including Parkinson’s, Epilepsy, Dementia, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder research. Many times her students have guided which direction her research takes.

“I’ve always been a dabbler. I tried many different types of research through my graduate training, and when I got to Butler I continued in all of those areas,” Lineweaver said.

“That is one thing I really like about being at Butler, that I can do a lot of different things and not just focus on one question.”

Lineweaver continued by saying, “Not too many people get the opportunity to go back and work at their alma mater. I am really fortunate that I had that opportunity. I love working at Butler.”

By Cindy Conover Dashnaw The World Health Organization still ranks tuberculosis as a leading cause of death worldwide. On the Butler campus, Associate Professor of Chemistry Jeremy Johnson is turning undergraduate research students into real scientists seeking new answers to halt the spread of TB.

Johnson’s lifelong enthusiasm for research has helped reshape Butler. He oversees all student research opportunities as Programs for Undergraduate Research committee chair, and he headed up the Butler Summer Institute for a year, giving him the chance to set up independent research projects for 30 students involving all six colleges on campus.

The Chemistry Department, his home base, has turned many of its lab courses into what he calls “classroom undergraduate research experiences” (emphasis on experience) and added chemistry courses taking new approaches to hands-on learning. In Chemistry and Community, for example, students design experiments for presentation to elementary and middle school students. In Study Abroad for Chemistry, students absorb the scientific background on energy, then explore a German city that operates solely on renewable energy.

Though the hands-on approach requires extra time and effort for both students and faculty, Johnson is unequivocal about its advantages.

“In research, you develop your own understanding of a problem, look at all the angles, then explain the outcome.

It provides a picture of your intellectual ability that you can’t get from classroom opportunities alone,” he said.

“We’ve seen significant strides in students’ development of critical reasoning skills. Plus, I find students become more invested. They can see the applicability of what they’ve learned in class, and they get excited to see the end results.”

As with their TB research, their results can extend far beyond campus.

It’s hands-on education on a microscopic scale.

“Students do everything. They’re the ones who are in the lab doing the active experimentation,” said Johnson. He is principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant supporting research into preventing TB infections– and he works directly with students on this and other realworld issues.

His goal is to turn students into independent, experienced scientists by the time they graduate.

Dr. Jeremy Johnson was recently named the Hershel B. Whitney Professsor in Biochemistry as a result of a generous gift from the estate of Hershel B. and Ethel L. Whitney.

The prestige and recognition of an endowed position helps the University attract superb scholars to campus and encourages exceptional educators like Dr. Johnson to remain at Butler.

“We have students who are looking for and making new derivatives of cholesterol medication for testing at a lab in Iowa. Our students are collaborating on projects with Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly. Next fall, we’re offering a new biochemistry major where we’ll be addressing such questions as whether cancer is curable. These are new ways we’ve built in for students to gain the research and other scientific skills they will need once they move beyond Butler.”

Johnson not only loves creating research opportunities for students. He considers it his duty. Coming from a small liberal arts college, he sought out Butler for its opportunity to interact closely with students.

“Part of being a faculty member is your service to the institution. I feel like I’m supporting the students and opportunities I want to see grow here,” he said.

(Read more at butler.edu/magazine.)

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IT’S IN HER N Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies— Reflecting How the World Is

By Marc D. Allan Marissa Byers ’18, the first Butler student to officially major in Environmental Studies, figures she now has the best of all worlds when it comes to career options. The junior from Springfield, Illinois, could use what she’s learning to work in public health. Or maybe on public policy issues. Or perhaps working for a non-profit or doing something in urban ecology.

As someone with a broad range of interests who has considered majors in business, communication, and education, Environmental Studies plays to her strengths.

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“My passion has always been the environment, and in Environmental Studies I get to combine a lot of my skills,” she said. “If I go into nonprofit work, I’m going to be using those communication skills and those business skills in outreach with communities. So I’ll be using my strengths for a purpose I’m passionate about. Environmental Studies is a nice combination of that.”

Environmental Studies is a new major under the Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies (STES) umbrella. Biology Professor Carmen Salsbury, who directs the STES program, said student interest in a broad range of disciplines is driving the new major, which allows for a career in the science arena without doing the classic biologychemistry-physics track.

“What’s great about STES is that these majors reflect how the world is,” Salsbury said. “These majors are very interdisciplinary and that’s how the world is as well. You have to know an awful lot about a lot of things. If we’re trying to train students who are going to contribute to society, we have to teach them to think broadly and critically and see how things interconnect.”

Environmental Studies majors focus on the relationship between environment and society and those environmental issues that deserve attention, like: How do we institute environmental change or awareness? Students take some prescribed science courses to establish a basic understanding of chemistry, ecology, and evolutionary biology, as well as other courses that focus on the environment. They also delve into the sociological aspects, such as humanity’s relationship with the environment and what that means for the future.

All Environmental Studies majors must complete a practicum experience—either taking the Environmental/Sustainability Practicum course or by completing an independent practicum/ internship experience in which they work with a community partner on an issue relevant to that partner. Byers, for example, is fulfilling her requirement by interning with the CUE Farm on campus.

Some students might work with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, or even at the statehouse dealing with lobbying organizations on an issue like concentrated animal feeding operations or another factory farming-related cause.

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“We really want the students to get out into the community and engage the community in those issues that are environmentrelated,” Salsbury said. “I think students are recognizing that science and society is critically important to implement policy and change behaviors with regard to the environment, medical practices, and immunizing children, to name just a few areas.

All of those things have major sociological, ethical, cultural, political, and economic components to them.”

Byers said she figures she may end up in a job that doesn’t exist yet. That might mean something in the area of working with kids, since there’s a trend in schools to incorporate nature into the curriculum. That has a lot of benefits for child development education, she said, and also prepares the next generation to be more environmentally conscious.

“I want to work in urban environments to change people’s perceptions of nature as something that’s out there that we’re not connected to,” Byers said. “I want to bring it into urban environments to help people understand what their daily actions do to the overall environment.”

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PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE BUTLER’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY PROGRAM

By Kailey Eaton ’17

Audrey Bonn ’16, a graduate of Butler’s Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program, puts her degree to use to its fullest every day.

Bonn is currently the Patient Communications Coordinator for Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis. Her job responsibilities include managing outpatient communications and performing an analysis on the productivity of the messages that she sends.

“I try to find a correlation between appointment reminder messages and whether or not a patient will show up for their appointment,” Bonn said. “Being an STS major helped to prepare me for this job because I was taught to look at situations critically, think outside the box, and not just assume that what appears on the surface gives the whole story.”

Bonn says her favorite part of the STS curriculum was the opportunity she had to consistently study thought-provoking topics, which helped her broaden her worldview. The program allowed her to use the skills from her major and become a problem-solver in her field—a true critical thinker.

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“The vast majority of our assignments required us to analyze topics and propose educated solutions for issues that we studied,” she said. “I use this in my job not only when I am trying to find correlations between two things, but also when I am trying to brainstorm new campaigns that would help solve some of the hospital’s problems.”

curriculum allows students to explore a wide variety of interests.

Kellie Dominick ’17, an STS major, says she enjoys this aspect of the curriculum because she does not feel the pressure to commit to a single career path. “My current plan is to work in hospital administration, but the great thing about STS is that if I realize that it’s not for me, there are also different paths I can take,” she said.

There is also an increasing demand for non-scientists who have some training with science and technology and Audrey Bonn ’16 who also have an understanding of the institutions of Students in STS are equipped with an understanding of science and their place in modern society. This kind of how our world is transformed and challenged by science background is at the core at the STS curriculum, which and technology. The program is why Butler students are examines the interaction finding success in careers between science and and entrepreneurial STUDENTS IN THE technology and our health, opportunities outside of families, communities, and PROGRAM HAVE the traditional sciences environment. The curriculum employment tracts.

GONE ON TO PURSUE builds on students’ problemStudents in the program solving and communication CAREERS NOT ONLY have gone on to pursue skills. careers not only in science It also places an emphasis IN SCIENCE AND and technology, but also on the STEM Disciplines— TECHNOLOGY, BUT ALSO in health, education, Science, Technology, law, public policy, and Engineering, and Math. communications.

IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, These academic disciplines Salsbury says that are being taught in middle LAW, PUBLIC POLICY, because the curriculum schools and high schools and is interdisciplinary, it AND COMMUNICATIONS. have increased in prominence forces students to look at over the last eight to 10 years issues from many different both nationally and globally. directions, like Bonn does in her role at Eskenazi. She says Carmen Salsbury is the Director of the Science, it’s a skill that takes practice and experience, but is highly Technology, and Environmental Studies program, which valued by employers. is the overarching program that the STS major falls under.

The major also stresses the importance of communication Salsbury says the STS program has grown exponentially. as an underlying skill needed for success across the The first 10 years of its existence saw only about 15 majors. board. “This major strongly emphasizes the ability to The program now sees consistently around 50 majors. communicate, whether in writing or speaking, because Now more than ever, Salsbury says that there is a need to to understand all of these issues is nothing if you can’t understand science and society given the decline of our communicate effectively.” environment and the struggle to acquire resources globally, Salsbury is confident that this versatile set of tools which could be why the STS major has become so popular. acquired in the STS program will serve them well in The major is also highly customizable to what students postgraduate life. “In the end,” she said, “I think graduates are interested in. Students are required to take 30 credit of the STS program end up with a pretty powerful skill set.” hours of coursework—12 hours of STS core courses and 18 hours of STS elective courses from across campus. This

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE AS UNIVERSITY’S 20TH VARSITY SPORT

By Katie Goodrich ’17 In a whirlwind of hiring, recruiting, and program building, Butler University has added a new varsity sport: women’s lacrosse. The Division I team began its journey as a BIG EAST program in February.

Head Coach Cecil Pilson, who previously coached at Mercyhurst University for more than a decade, said he is glad Athletic Director Barry Collier and President James Danko had faith in him.

“I met with Coach Pilson and he was very convincing,” she said. “And I thought, in 10 years looking back, if I didn’t do this, I would kick myself. And I have not looked back.”

“It’s definitely very exciting to start a Division I program, especially in the BIG EAST and at a university like Butler,” he said. “As a coach, you always want to be at a school where you can buy into the school’s philosophy and the academics.

Butler aligned with everything I wanted as a coach.”

First-year student Journey Fischbeck is among the first class of recruits who will get the chance to play lacrosse for her entire career at Butler. She was originally going to attend Mercyhurst but decided to follow Pilson to Butler after falling in love with Butler’s big-school feel with smallschool perks. She said the basketball team didn’t hurt either.

In early 2016, Pilson worked tirelessly to contact potential recruits and encourage them to submit applications to Butler. “I recruited a large roster knowing that a lot of other D-I programs…did not have enough players,” Pilson said. “We definitely have the numbers now to be successful.”

The team’s roster of 30 women includes first-year recruits, transfers, and former club team players.

The inaugural team’s season will be full of firsts. “Everything we do—no matter what—it makes history,” Annand said.

“We’re writing our story and laying the foundation for years to come. We’re setting the mold for how the program is going to be, so we are not taking anything lightly. Everything we do has a lot of thought behind it because it is so significant.”

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Pilson said his No. 1 goal for the season is growth.

“Regardless of wins and losses, what is really important is that the team is able to develop,” he said. “The thing I can control is players developing and becoming better, setting that culture for them to grow on.”

HALEY HALLENBECK

MASON DRAGOS

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By Jimmy Lafakis ’19

By Jimmy Lafakis ’19

Haley Hallenbeck ’18 fell in love with lacrosse in seventh grade.

Once she stepped foot on the turf, she never looked back. The Indianapolis native attended Park Tudor School and earned US Lacrosse All-American honors twice. Hallenbeck said her love for the sport has made a huge difference in her life.

Mason Dragos ’19 loves to compete.

He came to Butler as a state champion, and his work ethic drives him to succeed. The sophomore tennis player looks to make another big impact after his strong first-year campaign. Dragos said he is fond of working hard and grinding his matches out.

“I will always remember what beating a good team felt like,” he said. “Having a close team match and coming out on top is really quite surreal.”

“The lacrosse field is like home to me,” she said. “I fell in love with it because of the high-speed tempo of the game and high-pressure game situations.”

He said he enjoyed growing as a person and student through the ups and downs of his first year. “Our school is special because of its small-sized campus with big-school resources,” he said. “You get to develop relationships with your professors that are able to help you in many aspects of your life.”

Lacrosse took Hallenbeck across the United States. She spent her first two years of college at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Hallenbeck said she is happy to have lacrosse as a steady part of her life.

“With a lot always changing around me, lacrosse has been the one constant thing in my life,” she said.

“I appreciate all of the opportunities it has given me, as it will always have a special place in my heart.”

Dragos crossed state lines for his college experience. The Lexington, Ohio, native said he found a family of new friends at Butler. “It is a special place,” he said. “I went there not knowing a single person. I was able to make some great friends and experience some things I would not have if I did not come to Butler.”

Hallenbeck, a midfielder, said she recognizes the challenges thrown at her on a day-to-day basis. “As a midfielder, you have to be in great shape,” she said. “That is one of my favorite aspects of the sport.

You run for miles and miles every match.”

Dragos, who plays singles and doubles, said last year’s lessons made him a more mature player.

Butler is 10 minutes away from her home. She said she appreciates eating a home-cooked meal and spending time with her new family of teammates.

Photography–Jimmy Lafakis ’19

“All of the run tests, sprint workouts, and lifts with my teammates are some of my favorite memories,” she said. “But they are always opportunities to see how hard I can push myself.”

“If you win the deciding match, your teammates go nuts,” he said. “I’m trying to focus on solidifying my game. Becoming more mentally tough will help myself and my team win even more matches than we did last year.”

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MEN’S SOCCER HONORS DAVID GOLDSMITH ’17

BIG EAST Co-Offensive Player of the Year First-team All-BIG EAST (unanimous selection) NSCAA Scholar All-American NSCAA Second-Team All-American NSCAA All-Region Eligible for the 2017 MLS SuperDraft

FIRST-TEAM ALL-BIG EAST Jared Timmer ’19

SECOND-TEAM ALL-BIG EAST Mitch Ostrowski ’17

BIG EAST ALL-NEWCOMER TEAM Isaac Galliford ’20 Lewis Suddick ’20

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STUDENT BLOGS These Butler students shared exciting blogs of their hands-on learning experiences.

Visit butler.edu/magazine to read their entire blog postings.

EMILY YARMAN ’17 Physician Assistant Program “I’m too early. Typical,” I thought as I sat silently in my car, eagerly waiting for the day to begin. On the first day of my elective rotation, I arrived at the Damien Center in downtown Indianapolis 15 minutes before the doors to the building were unlocked. I would spend the next month at Indiana’s largest AIDS service organization in their sister clinic, Damien Cares, seeing patients with HIV and AIDS. Although I love being early on my first day, this has led to a great deal of waiting in my car. As I sat there, the engine gently purring, I wondered what the month would hold. I quizzed myself on what I knew about HIV: the risk factors, the pathophysiology, the medications used to treat it and how they work. I stopped mentally drilling myself when I realized that I didn’t actually know much about the day-to-day life of a patient with HIV. I had studied the disease enough to pass the test, but I hadn’t had an opportunity to really get to know any patients with HIV. KATIE GOODRICH ’17 Journalism As a senior Journalism major, this year is the first time I’ve held the same position for more than one semester on the Butler Collegian, the student news organization. I’ve been a Reporter, Assistant News Editor, News Editor, Foreign Correspondent (writing profiles while I studied abroad), Managing Editor, and now Editor-in-Chief. I went to a high school without a newspaper, so I came to Butler with next to no experience. That was quickly rectified when I joined the paper and began writing. I fell in love with the Collegian and everything it provides for students. Early on, my editors assigned me stories right away, letting me make mistakes, and then helped me to fix them and learn what I could do to improve with each and every new assignment. Butler prides itself on providing this kind of experiential learning to its students, and I learned the most outside of an actual classroom. I learned in a newsroom, surrounded by my peers who shared my passion for student press.

MEGHAN BLAIS ’17 Physician Assistant Program When I first learned about the opportunity to work on an Indian Reservation during my sixth-year Physician Assistant rotations, I immediately knew I wanted to apply. As students, we are lucky enough to have a few options to choose from when applying, but I knew I wanted to go to North Carolina—partly because I had peers who had told me great things about the site and partly because I was familiar with the Smoky Mountains and the beauty in that area. So, when I received my schedule and saw that I would be going to North Carolina, during the fall no less, I was ecstatic. My rotation is in Cherokee, North Carolina, and as its name implies, it is at the Cherokee Indian Hospital, which serves the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. But it is not a reservation.

The Eastern Band owns the land; they built the hospital too, and anyone who steps foot into the facility can see that. The culture of the tribe is reflected in almost every facet.

But the culture is also reflected in the care, and that is why I wanted so badly to have a rotation at this site.

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By Hayley Ross ’17 Every Thursday night from 5:30-8:00 PM in the basement of Jordan Hall, the Butler Aphasia Community meets, giving voice to those who are struggling with language and speech and inspiring those striving for a career doing just that.

The program has the Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) undergraduates work as a support group for those suffering from aphasia, which is most often caused by a stroke and affects communication abilities. The program is a CSD elective.

“A main identifier of people with aphasia is they can say the words but can’t make the sentences flow,” CSD major Betsy Russo ’17 said. “Or they can say the transitional words but can’t form the sentence.”

Russo will be taking the class next semester after completing the prerequisites and observation hour requirements. She observed the group multiple times in preparation. “It is really awesome to see the individual growth,” she said. “There may be people who recently had a stroke and then people

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who have been there so long that they can have almost completely normal conversation. It is so inspiring to see the transformation.”

During the first hour, the group meets as a whole. They have a big activity, such as yoga/painting/exercise class, and it is modified for those in wheelchairs from a stroke. Then they split into smaller groups to play games, talk, or do whatever else the group wants to do.

“It is a lot of fun,” group member Madeline Koenig ’17 said. “One of the things we work on is the life participation approach to aphasia (LPAA). It focuses on conversation aspects and gets them back into everyday life and activities.”

Koenig was in the program this semester. Although the program is technically a class, she is going to try to take it again next semester because it directly correlates to what she wants to focus on for the rest of her life.

“I genuinely like working with adults,” she said. “It is my passion in our field and this has allowed me to utilize both my knowledge and passion. It really just gets me excited to practice hands-on as a student what I want to do professionally.”

THROUGH THE BUTLER APHASIA COMMUNITY Mary Gospel, Chair of Communication Sciences and Disorders, started the group at Butler four years ago. Since then, there have been 54 clients that have come through the program—almost all of them for more than one semester.

“The opportunity for the students and clients to work together and get to know each other is such a win-win,” she said. “The students benefit and the clients benefit. Also, because clients’ insurance runs out so quickly, we knew there weren’t a lot of options and this was a big need in the community.”

Gospel has volunteered with the Northside Aphasia Support Group since 2001, and it was a big inspiration when creating one at Butler. “In class you learn what aphasia is, but with this you learn what it is like to live with aphasia,” she said.

Koenig said this group has been one of the highlights of her Butler career.

“There aren’t a lot of support groups around, so it is really important that we have one,” she said. “They are such a fun group of people and it couldn’t be a better way to end my Thursdays—doing something fun, and something I want to do when I graduate.”

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Nearly 30 years in the making, Butler University’s Undergraduate Research Program is widely recognized as one of the nation’s best. “Longevity and a cohesive program make us stand out,” said Dacia Charlesworth, who oversees Butler’s program. “All facets of undergraduate research opportunities are merged at Butler year-round, which is rare to find. Other universities divide their research program into departments.” Each spring, Butler hosts an annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), one of the largest in the country, and Butler students compete for 30 spots in the immersive Butler Summer Institute (BSI), for focused research on projects in any discipline.

With more societal influences affecting science, and an interdisciplinary approach, there are no barriers to research topics. There’s traditional lab work, and experiential learning that’s an extension of the classroom. Butler research students have studied the development of butterfly wings, how to prevent the fading of color in pieces at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the behaviors and attitudes of pre-pharmacists toward HIV and AIDS patients, and even confessional poetry. “It’s the integration of our mission statement,” said Charlesworth. “We put Liberal Arts and professional programs together and demonstrate to the community how they can help.”

Students are encouraged to present and share their results with others, with Travel to Present and Honors Thesis Grants contributing to Butler’s national exposure. It’s not enough to conduct the research. Butler coaches presentation skills, with students learning to avoid jargon so their research is more relatable and significant to a general

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audience. End-of-year reports and an active Twitter feed (@ TheButlerURC) boost awareness of Butler’s program. The 2016 Undergraduate Research Conference drew more than 900 people, an increase of 200 participants from the previous year, despite a trimmed promotional budget and slight fee hike.

This year for the first time, there will be a new presentation category with cash awards, to add a tier of competition to the URC. Charlesworth has held the title of Butler’s Director of Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships for about a year and a half, and has an infectious enthusiasm about her job. She tells prospective students and their parents, “Look at other universities and see if they have a position like mine. Most universities don’t. It sets Butler apart, having an all-inclusive program, and someone who can identify top scholarships for student researchers.”

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THE BRAIN PROJECT

By Catherine Pangan MS ’99 (Professor, Butler University College of Education) What do you get when you combine leaders in the neuroscience field from around Indianapolis, an engaged community, and a spirit of integrated learning? You guessed it—One Butler: The Brain Project.

One Butler: The Brain Project is a yearlong, campus-wide initiative focusing on brain health, with the goal of developing appreciation of how neuroscience is woven into the tapestry of our lives.

The Brain Project transcends academic disciplines and is led by a dynamic steering committee that includes representatives from the community, each of Butler’s six colleges, students, trustees, the library, performing arts venues, Student Affairs, the Health and Recreation Complex, and several faculty members who are already using neuroscientific research in their curriculum. (Read more on Butler faculty neuroscience study in this issue’s faculty profile of Professor Tara Lineweaver.)

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor kicked off the initiative in September 2016 to a packed house in Clowes Memorial Hall. The Brain Project includes a yearlong speaker series, integrated coursework opportunities for students, faculty art

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exhibits, and connections in our Themed Living Communities in the residence halls.

A central highlight of One Butler: The Brain Project is the installation of the “Big Brains!” This exhibit of 10 enormous fiberglass brain sculptures (5’x6’), commissioned by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, depicts neuroscience themes (mental health, concussion, food, etc.) and will be displayed on campus this April.

Efforts have been coordinated with community partners, including the Eskenazi Center for Brain Care, Community Health Network, and others.

Some of the topics explored this year include: › Mental health’s cutting-edge research in schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s › Creativity: music, art, and innovation

› Addictions, Brain Food, and Sleep › Sports Wellness: prevention of traumas and concussions › How we learn: education and neuroscience with an Educational Neuroscience Conference offering April 29 The Butler Brain Project seeks to distinguish Butler as an environment where academics, student life, interpersonal relationships, and physical and mental health are informed by knowledge of the human brain and how it works. It also aims to create a model for comprehensive, collaborative, and transdisciplinary exploration of a relevant topic that can be replicated and scaled to other campus environments.

Serving as a convener for neuroscience educators and clinicians from Central Indiana, we expect 40,000– 50,000 students, faculty, staff, and community members will experience the One Butler: The Brain Project.

We hope you can join us for this brainboosting experience! Please visit www. butler.edu/brainproject for the most up-to-date information. You can also find us on Facebook under One Butler: Brain Project.

Jill Bolte Taylor presents to a full house at Clowes Memorial Hall.

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“I’d volunteered in hospitals and found it wasn’t for me. I was more interested in the science behind healthcare,” Hudgens said. “So when I heard a heart tissue bioengineer speak and learned what they did, I switched.”

His internship at Lilly has confirmed his decision.

“I’ve gained strong problem-solving and strategic-thinking skills,” Hudgens said. “I was able to incorporate engineering and scientific concepts to solve real-world issues in pharmaceuticals while I was gaining knowledge about manufacturing processes within the medical industry.”

KEIFFER WILLIAMS ’16 Dry land or deep water, Butler University has an internship program for you

(Former) Intern, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Oceans Research and Butler Summer Institute Applying to grad schools Keiffer Williams, on the other hand, opted for shorts and wet shoes. As an intern in the fish biology lab of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and at Oceans Research in South Africa, Williams indulged his passion for ocean ecology and conservation.

SUITS OR SAILS?

By Cindy Conover Dashnaw

Wet or dry shoes? Shorts or a sport coat?

Sunshine or fluorescent lights? Mosquitos or … well, fewer mosquitos?

You may not think of these things when considering an internship, yet they do become part of your reality. Just ask Butler interns Tyler Hudgens and Keiffer Williams.

TYLER HUDGENS ’17 Manufacturing and Quality Science Intern, Eli Lilly and Company Tyler Hudgens chose dry shoes and fluorescent lights when he took an internship with Eli Lilly and Company, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis.

He’s happy with his decision—so happy, in fact, that when the company offered him a job upon graduation, he accepted with alacrity.

Hudgens is in this spot because he availed himself of a Butler opportunity and attended a Woods lecture. He walked in as a pre-med student who was questioning his career choice.

He walked out realizing bioengineering was what he’d been looking for.

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“I’ve enjoyed the ocean since an early age, especially sharks, and I nurtured that interest all through high school,” Williams said. “I was searching for ways to have a more limited experience to decide if marine science was something I wanted to do when I found Oceans Research.”

He dove with dolphins and sharks (focusing on Great Whites) in the sixweek program, coming to understand the significant effect humans can have on a species­­—even in the name of conservation.

In Panama at STRI, working under the direction of visiting scientist Dr. Michele Pierotti, he explored the evolution of visual ecology among marine fish sister species native to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The Smithsonian experience instilled in him a keen understanding of the opportunities that come with a higher-level degree.

Williams also participated in the Butler Summer Institute on plant hormones research. Now, he’ll spend the next two years applying to graduate school.

The former Boy Scout is also keen to be a better conservation advocate.

“In today’s world, there’s a large disconnect between scientists in the trenches of data and the lay person. It’s essential for people to be able to understand what we’re doing and what it means to the environment,” he said.

THE PATH BEGAN AT BUTLER

By Patricia Snyder Pickett ’82, APR

LYNNE ZYDOWSKY ’81 Life Sciences Entrepreneur

The recent addition of the Healthcare and Business major to Butler University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences reflects the evolving needs within the life sciences industry.

Many of these students will go straight into jobs at pharmaceutical or medical device companies, healthcare IT, or public policy positions; others will be prepared to go into clinical graduate programs or pursue post-graduate programs in public health or hospital administration.

When Lynne Zydowsky ’81 began pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at Butler University, no such combination major existed and her path seemed fairly clear cut. After graduation, she would probably return to the small town of Newton, Illinois and help run the family-owned drug store where she had worked for nearly as long as she remembered. Her father had followed the same path—including graduating from Butler—and it seemed a logical progression.

Instead, at the urging of what she describes as the interested and insightful Butler Pharmacy School faculty, she received a doctorate in Chemistry from The Ohio State University and was a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Because her career path kept merging with the business side of life sciences, she briefly considered entering an MBA program. “However, in the end, I really believed that I was learning a lot along the way, and that I had the innate desire to solve the problems at hand and was able to accomplish it in a positive and creative way,” she said.

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In the last 25 years, she has launched and built several successful life science companies, playing a key role in raising private capital, setting overall corporate strategy, and establishing and managing strategic alliances. Since 2003, she has owned her own business, Zydowsky Consultants, as well as served as Chief Science Advisor to the CEO for Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc, a NYSE traded company. In addition, she co-founded the Alexandria Summit®, an invitation-only gathering that brings together the world’s foremost visionaries from the biopharma and tech industries; medical, academic, financial, philanthropic, advocacy groups; and government to discuss and take action on the most needed innovation in life sciences.

She credits much of her success and subsequent leadership to a work ethic established in the family business that carried over to her years at Butler. “There was no doubt that my post-graduate work was going to be self-funded. Even while at Butler, I worked in the science library as a lab tech and at both Haag’s Drug Store and the Winona Hospital pharmacy,” she recounts. “I got my (pharmacy) license to practice in Indiana and Ohio after college because I had to support myself in graduate school. I learned to manage my time and work efficiently.”

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Her advice to those students considering a career in the life sciences?

“You always have to be realistic about the opportunities at hand—even when I was getting my PhD I was thinking about my future job,” she said. “I’d really like to see students intern every summer in internships that are meaningful where they can experience different segments of business, science, or philanthropy and not wait until their last summer before graduation … why not do it every summer?”

Zydowsky has lived in San Francisco since 1996, moving there initially for a position with a biotech company. She admits it took several years before she adjusted to living on the West Coast. Now? “I can’t imagine leaving,” she said. “Acceptance, social responsibility, and innovation are woven into the fabric of the city. There’s a feeling that no problem is too big to solve. Living here really changed me; it’s made me more open and creative in my thinking.”

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MICHAEL HOLE ’08 Philanthropic Physician

AN ENTERPRISING PEDIATRICIAN EXPANDS HIS MENTORS’ INFLUENCE By Monica Holb ’09 “The Butler Way, if you will, supported me to take on leadership positions and to start organizations aimed at those social injustices.”

Scientific theories comprise some of the lessons Butler University students receive in Gallahue Hall. One, for example, is Hubble’s law, which describes the expanding universe. In the law’s equation—velocity = H x distance— the H stands for Hubble’s constant.

But if that equation were adjusted to explain the expanding influence of Butler’s science departments in the universe, the H might stand for Hole: Dr. Michael Hole ’08.

Hole graduated from Butler less than a decade ago; received his MD and MBA from Stanford University; and spent time in Ecuador, Guatemala, Uganda, and Haiti. Now

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a pediatrician and clinical fellow at Harvard, Hole is committed to improving life trajectories for the poorest children. Around the world, many children are better off because of Butler scientists’ influence on Hole.

“The part of science I like is its potential impact on the human experience beyond the classrooms and laboratories.

Scientists, often humbly behind the scenes, make life better for each of us,” Hole said. “The mentors I had at Butler pushed me to apply their teaching outside the classroom, which led me to Timmy Global Health.”

Hole, who founded the Butler chapter of Timmy Global Health, an organization fighting for global health equity, credits his professors for shaping his work. Mentors such as Professors Bob Pribush, Thomas Dolan, Shelley Etnier, Phil Villani, Carmen Salsbury, and John Esteb taught him the minutiae of biology and chemistry, while placing the learning in a broader context.

“You may think that learning how a muscle contracts is silly as a student. But imagine you understand that and can apply it for someone whose muscles aren’t working. You can help them work better,” Hole said.

When Hole worked with a medical service team in Ecuador, he saw the effects of developing-world poverty on human suffering. “That broke my heart,” he said. The

experience moved Hole to focus on becoming a physician for underprivileged children.

“The Butler Way, if you will, supported me to take on leadership positions and to start organizations aimed at those social injustices,” Hole said.

This support, particularly from Pribush and the late President Bobby Fong, allowed Hole to begin a fundraising campaign to build a school in Uganda. After raising $50,000 and partnering with Building Tomorrow, an organization providing access to education in hard-to-reach areas, Hole is proud to say the school now serves 350 children. The students, aged 4 to 14, learn science among other subjects, and the Butler influence continues its expansion.

Hole has since kept in touch with his Butler science mentors. “They have been instrumental in helping me think

about how to increase the impact of the missions of the organizations I’ve created,” he said.

Among those organizations is StreetCred. As a pediatrician, Hole sees the negative impact of poverty on children’s health. He lamented that resources were available, but inaccessible. StreetCred helps parents file their taxes and apply for and access the benefits they can put toward children’s health—and it is all done in the doctor’s waiting room.

“Butler had patience with me. They taught me and got me fired up about scientific thinking because of the implications it could have on human suffering. What is unique is that they are not only interested in scientific thinking, but are experts in mentorship; they are experts

in trying to understand what gets me out of bed in the morning so they can apply their expertise to that,” Hole said.

Yet, the biology major who became a doctor doesn’t necessarily think of himself as a scientist.

“What I do is mostly social. If you find a cure for cancer, but you can’t get it to the poorest people, there is a gap. That is my passion—figuring out how to use the brilliant minds and breakthroughs of scientists and getting it to the people who need it most.”

For children around the world, the universe is indeed expanding, leading to health and opportunity—in large part because of the Butler scientists who continue to influence Dr. Hole.

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JOHN DOYLE ’74 Healthcare Communicator

WHEN A JOURNALIST’S QUESTIONS TRANSFORM CARE

By Monica Holb ’09 Part I When one begins his healthcare career following a tandem bike across the country, there is no telling where he’ll travel and what he’ll learn along the way.

“Transformation is a never-ending journey,” John Doyle ’74, said. He may have been referencing the continuing changes of the healthcare industry; he may have been talking about his own career.

Doyle, Executive Vice President of Ascension, the largest nonprofit healthcare system in the United States, also serves as President and CEO of Ascension Holdings and Ascension Holdings International. He has spent his career in healthcare, a science-heavy industry.

But the journalist by training admits science was never his strong suit.

While at Manual High School, Doyle was named Editor in Chief of the Manual Booster and advisor Jane Gable encouraged him to apply for a Pulliam family-sponsored Hilton U. Brown Journalism scholarship. Upon being awarded the scholarship, he made the choice to attend Butler University and study Journalism.

The closest Doyle got to science at Butler was covering the 1973 opening of Gallahue Hall for The Collegian. The writer’s outside perspective has allowed him to advance in a scientific industry, asking the unconstrained questions to stimulate progress. That is a trait emblematic of both journalists and scientists.

After writing for and editing The Collegian, and having spent his senior year as Editor in Chief, Doyle found himself with a post-graduate internship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude commissioned a husband and wife to ride a tandem bike across the country to raise awareness and funds for the organization dedicated to healing sick kids.

Doyle’s job was to plan the ride, work with media contacts, make introductions, and lay the foundation for a continuing campaign.

“It was an exciting thing,” Doyle said. “I took off in a new Chevy Impala loaded with a stack of McDonald’s coupons to generate interest and support for what was, at the time, the world’s largest childhood cancer research center.” Along the way, he learned more about the science behind saving children’s lives. Going to entertainer Danny Thomas’ worldrenowned hospital had a lasting impact as Doyle saw staff so dedicated to the children. “It became a heartfelt mission.”

Doyle credits long-time Chairman of the Butler Journalism Department Art Levin with instilling in him a passion for bringing important issues to people’s attention. And with the road trip, Doyle began a career in healthcare communications to bring awareness to important issues and seek new solutions. “I was thunderstruck with the importance of the work they were doing,” Doyle said of St. Vincent Health, part of Ascension, when he began his work there in 1996.

As the industry endured changes, Doyle brought the science of marketing to the healthcare organizations he served. He was challenged by the perception of “merchandising” care, but knew consumers were increasingly making choices about where they would go for their care.

For Part 2 of alumnus John Doyle’s profile visit butler.edu/magazine.

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By Patricia Snyder Pickett ’82, APR When legendary Coach Tony Hinkle first touted The Butler Way, it was the pinnacle for which to strive—not just on the court, but throughout life, long after hanging up the uniform. The Butler Way demands commitment, denies selfishness and accepts reality, yet seeks constant improvement while promoting the good of the team above self.

Joel Cornette ’03 embodied The Butler Way both during his time at Butler University and his postgraduate years. He was a member of the first Bulldog Sweet 16 team in 2003; his 144 career blocks and .544 career field goal percentage also rank among the Top 10 in Butler history. He later served as a member of the Butler coaching staff from for the 2006–2007 season as the team’s Coordinator of Basketball Operations before going to Iowa as a member of Todd Lickliter’s staff. He was an NBPA-certified player-agent, serving as the Director of Basketball recruiting for Priority Sports since January 2012.

Tragically, Cornette passed away of natural causes last August at age 35.

It was a loss that shook his family and friends to the core, as well as both the Butler community and peers in the world of athletics.

In the wake of such an inexplicable loss, those who loved him most chose to commemorate him in a means of which they knew he would approve.

The Joel Cornette Scholarship Fund was established by his family and Butler University to provide support for future Bulldogs.

“Through the generous support of our donors, we’ve been able to establish this scholarship program/fund, that will guarantee there will be monies available for deserving student athletes now and into the future,” said Ken LaRose, Associate Athletic Director for Development. “We are able to pay tribute to these special people while offering the gift of education to our student athletes.”

As a testament to this inspiring young man, at least five Butler head coaches (past and present), immediately donated to the fund along with scores of others, expediting the scholarship

to be fully funded at the endowed level of $50,000.

“We could never out give what he gave to the institution,” said Todd Lickliter, Cornette’s coach while at Butler. “It was such an honor to have been involved with him, and the scholarship will continue his good works.”

Lickliter points to a well-known mantra often emphasized by former Lacy School of Business Dean Richard Fetter: “If you do well, do good.”

“Joel did both,” he said. “He epitomized what it meant to be a true student athlete. Not only did he earn a distinguished degree, but he opened the door for others through his play on the court as well as his ability to articulate his vision and what Butler meant to him. He naturally drew people to the institution. He did well, and he did good.”

Contributions in Joel’s honor may be made online at www.butler. edu/cornette or by check to Butler University Advancement, 4600 Sunset Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46208.

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2017 BULLDOG CRAWL Following the success of last year’s event, the Central Indiana Chapter of the Butler University Alumni Association will host the second annual Bulldog Crawl on Friday, June 16. This year’s crawl will feature the north side of campus and participants will sample food and beverages from local establishments owned or operated by Butler alumni. Cost to attend is $25 per person and space is limited. Register online at bulldognation.butler.edu/bulldogcrawl2017 or by calling the Alumni Association at 317-940-9946.

2016 ALUMNI AWARDS RECIPIENTS Congratulations to the 2016 Butler University Alumni Association alumni award recipients. Pictured left to right: Chris ’79 and Sally (McFarland) ’81 Wirthwein—Ovid Butler Society Mortar Award; George W. Geib—The Butler Service Medal; David M. White and Jennifer L. White ’00—Ovid Butler Society Foundation Award; Maribeth Zay Fischer ’74—Katharine Merrill Graydon Alumni Service Award; President James M. Danko; Alumni Association President, Beth Morris (Swenson) ’78; Shawn M. Gage ’04—Hilton Ultimus Brown Alumni Achievement Award; Jen Christensen ’94— Robert Todd Duncan Alumni Achievement Award; Amy N. Lenell ’07—Joseph Irwin Sweeney Alumni Service Award; and John Hargrove ’69—Butler Medal. Nominations for the awards program are accepted year-round at butler.edu/alumniawards.

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The ’50s George Melloan ’50 has had his new novel, When the New Deal Came to Town, published.

Allen C. Peetz ’58 and Edna (Howard) Peetz ’55 just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They met at Butler, had their wedding in the chapel, and their reception at the Garden House.

The ’60s George T. Newhart ’69 MBA ’73 has been named Chairman of the Board at Scecina Memorial High School in Indianapolis, his alma mater.

Butler alumni pictured below joined the Four Freshman—a group who originally started at Butler and have been together for over 65 years—for a photo after their Palm Beach, Florida performance.

The ’80s Eric Halvorson ’80 MA ’97 was named Public Affairs Manager and Media Spokesperson for Kroger.

Back row left to right: Tom Elrod ’70 joined by the remaining three of the Four Freshman

The ’70s Frank Jozsa MBA ’71 had National Football League Franchises and Major League Baseball Organizations published by Lexington Books.

John Abell ’72 MS ’76 completed a tour with the Kuyasa Kids children’s choir from South Africa. He served as a chaperone and driver as the children toured six states in Africa.

William Henley MBA ’75 was appointed Treasurer/Secretary of the Downtown Indy Inc. Board of Directors.

Michael A. Martone ’77 received the 2016 Mark Twain Award.

Beth M. Morris ’78 was appointed to the Butler Board of Trustees.

Bob R. Lazar ’78 and Jill M. Lazar ’78 started the Good Samaritan Free Clinic in Volusia, Florida.

Elaine Bedel MBA ’79 was appointed to the Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Board of Directors.

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Andrea E. Castle ’03 was recognized as an Emerging Leader by the Indiana CPA Society.

Susan “Sue” Hammes ’82 was hired at Saint Joseph High School as Chief Advancement Officer.

Robert P. Soltis ’87 was named Dean of Butler’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Pam (Ferrin) Rhoades ’89 has left Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville after a decade as Communications Director to join the public relations firm Moxley Carmichael as Digital Storyteller.

The ’90s Aaron J. Schamp ’93 was appointed to the Butler Board of Trustees.

Joseph L. Kirsch III ’94 was hired as Executive Vice President & Indianapolis Market President of Busey Bank.

Front row left to right: Bob Myers ’66, Janet Elrod ’71, Kimberley Myers ’69, Mary Cheryl Hargrove, one of the Four Freshman, and John Hargrove ’69

Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor, & Reed P.A., where she specializes in business, probate, and estate litigation.

Michael Michelakis ’95 is the General Manager in Elkhart, Indiana, and the Regional Manager in Lansing, Michigan, for Fitness US. Raquel G. Richardson ’96 was promoted to President of Fishers, Indiana-based Netfor, a company that uses technology to improve customer service.

Nataly Lowder ’96 has been appointed Vice President for Advancement at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Leslie Loveless MA ’97 was promoted to CEO of the executive recruitment firm Sloan Partners.

Tamara Albertson ’97 owns and operates Albertson’s Mortuary, the only female-owned mortuary in Indianapolis.

Thomas L. Anderson ’98 won the Monumental Mile, a race held in downtown Indianapolis.

Eric S. Payne ’98, of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, was recognized on Barron’s 2016 Top 1,200 Advisorslist.

The ’00s Scott McKee MBA ’00 was named Regional President for the Muncie/East region of First Merchants Bank.

Melody Benbow Lynch ’02 was named one of the Orlando Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

She is a shareholder with the Orlando law firm

services firm JLL.

Stacy (Hammond) Hofinger ’03 was promoted to National Director/Senior Vice President, Corporate Solutions for the global commercial real estate

Ron Mencias MBA ’04, of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, was recognized on Barron’s Top 1,200 Advisors list.

Anthony Robinson MBA ’05 joined the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity as Chief Financial Officer.

Abigail (Parker) Kindelsperger ’05 earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation was entitled Literacy after Labor: School-Age Mothers and High School English.

Brandon M. Gaudin ’06 will be play-by-play announcer for Madden NFL in 2017.

Marie Mackintosh MBA ’06 joined EmployIndy as Chief Operating Officer.

Michael Pettry MM ’06 was selected as a member of the 41st Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Class.

Brian Dinkins MS ’07 was appointed Principal of Providence Cristo Rey School in Indianapolis.

Joe S. Judd ’07 was promoted to Director of Account Service at Well Done Marketing.

Madeleine Briscoe Smith ’07 was hired as Director of Development for the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.

Morgan Snyder ’07 was selected as a member of the 41st Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Class.

Benjamin D. Fuelberth ’08 was hired as an advisor at FirstPerson.

The ’10s Claire Blessman ’10 has graduated with an MBA from the University of Florida.

Garett R. Ogden ’10 was promoted to Manager at BKD Indianapolis.

Will F. Veasley ’10 was appointed Assistant Coach of North Dakota State University’s men’s basketball team.

John Elliot MBA ’11 was named CEO of Gleaners Food Bank.

Micah Nelson MS ’11 was named 2016 IPS Teacher of the Year.

Gordon D. Hayward ’12 was invited to play for the U.S. team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, but he turned it down due to family obligations.

Alex Isaacs ’12 received the 2016 Indiana Pharmacists Alliance Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award.

Jack Dillon ’13 was hired as an Associate of Ice Miller LLP. Dorene Hinton ’14 participated in SIU School of Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony for new medical students as one of the eight minorities in her class of 76.

Andrew B. Steck ’15 was appointed Band Director of Lapel High School.

Kellen R. Dunham ’16 was named the 2015–2016 BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year and also received the Sportsmanship Award in 2016.

Nate Swick ’16 has been hired as the Communications Coordinator of Visit Indy.

Weddings *Gregg Braun ’02 and Katherine (Vogel) Braun on September 9, 2016 (PHOTO 1) Julie (Woodward) Keller ’11 and Adam Keller on May 14, 2016 *Claire Rutledge-Sakha ’12 and Shabab Sakha on October 21, 2016 (PHOTO 2) AJ Teare ’14 and Katherine Kielts ’14 on July 23, 2016 Joseph Tucker ’14 and Natalie (Schwarber) Tucker on August 13, 2016 *Linnea (Corey) Tennant ’15 and Jace Tennant ’13 on August 20, 2016 (PHOTO 3)

New Arrivals Eric DeWitt ’99 and Tara DeWitt; Beau Montgomery DeWitt on October 9, 2016 Tenille Lawson (Davis) ’01 and Stephen Lawson; Arielle Lawson on July 21, 2016 *Doris (Dobrich) Manojlovic ’02 and Alan Manojlovic; Nikola Kristian Manojlovic joined big sister Olivera on July 6, 2015 (PHOTO 4) Angela Heinzman ’04 and Brian Ackelmire; Natalie Evelyn Ackelmire on September 14, 2016

Katie Sattler ’04 and Mark Sattler; Charles (Charlie) Robert Sattler on October 10, 2016 *Ashlea Stone ’04 and John Stone; John James Stone IV on August 11, 2016 (PHOTO 5) *Colin Chelovich ’05 and Molly (Tupper) Chelovich ’07; Michael Patrick Chelovich on August 6, 2015 (PHOTO 6) *Laura (Thomas) Cain ’06 and Richard Cain ’05; Brooklynn Harper Cain joined big sister Alexandra on January 26, 2016 Carling (Jennings) Dunham ’07 and Randy Dunham ’07; Michael Caleb Dunham on July 23, 2015 Andrea (Sadtler) Hoops ’09 and Michael Hoops; Abigail Michelle Hoops joined big brother Calvin on November 9, 2015 *Haley (Caroll) Markley ’09 and Brandon Markley; Owen Harlan Markley on May 29, 2016 (PHOTO 7) Ryan Schmidtz ’09 and Gina Schmidtz; Caroline Florence Schmidtz on October 22, 2016 Ben Farthing ’10 and Kristen Farthing ’10; Annie Farthing on April 2, 2016 Amy Coffing ’11 and Cameron Coffing ’12; Maggie Ellen Coffing on August 26, 2015 Alex Isaacs ’12 and Alli Isaacs ’10; Cora Mae Isaacs on July 5, 2016

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JULIA LACY—PHILANTHROPIST and COMMUNITY LEADER Butler University lost a great friend on January 3 when philanthropist and community leader Julia Lacy, wife of Andre Lacy, passed away. She was 77. In April 2016, the University’s College of Business was renamed the Andre B. Lacy School of Business, in recognition of a $25 million gift from the Lacys. “Julia Lacy inspired and will continue to inspire many to be, and give, their very best,” Lacy School of Business Dean Steve Standifird said.

June 1 through December 1, 2016

In Memoriam Elizabeth Kessler ’37 George Krack ’39 Gerry (Houghteling) Lee ’42 James Neal ’42 Kathleen (Kouns) Honan ’43 Suzanne (Masters) Pittenger ’43 Lola (Kelch) Stenger ’43 Mary Ruth Nickels ’44 Jean (Thomas) Wildman ’44 Doreen (Cullen) Deputy ’45 Katherine Pinaire ’45 Clare (Case) Ellis ’46 Katherine (Armstrong) Plaut ’46 Boris Chaleff ’47 Robert Erber ’47 Carol (Roberts) Folger ’47 MS ’53 Barbara (Seeger) Kautzman ’47 Sherman Lemen MS ’47 Carolyn (Heller) Shaw ’47 William Watts ’47 William Wildman ’47 Robert Kirkman ’48 Sherman Polley’48 Carolyn (Darwin) Voke ’48 MS ’52 Phyllis Byers-Prater ’49 Eugene Chance ’49 Jerold Cranny ’49 Joseph Dorrell ’49 Charles Hull ’49 MS ’76 Thomas King ’49 Franklin Kreps ’49

Carol (Simmons) McMullen ’49 MS ’68 Chester Newland ’49 Clifford Rauch ’49 Paul Stewart ’49 William Strauss ’49 Norman Bryant ’50 Vincent Kraft ’50 Reginald Lambert ’50 David Lowe MA ’50 John Otte ’50 Eldon Palmer ’50 Donald Rothkopf ’50 John Wampler ’50 Joan Dressel ’51 Ronald Giles ’51 Malcolm Lewis ’51 Joan (Ball) Klauss ’52 John Mesinger MA ’52 Phyllis Volk ’52 James Brosnan ’53 Harrison Marsh ’53 Katharine (Schell) Kimbriel ’54 Marilyn (Ray) Walters ’54 MM ’59 Joseph Kivett ’55 Densil Brown ’56 William Gaines ’56 Eileen (Reis) Laughner ’56 Ann (Walker) Ritter ’56 Tully Shaw MS ’57 Arlene (Klar) Cross ’58 Robert Johnson ’58 William Richards ’58 James Gardner MS ’59 Joseph Hayes MS ’60

Mary (Metz) Jordan ’60 Jack King ’60 David Montgomery ’60 John O’Connor ’60 Mary (Ensor) O’Haver ’60 Mildred (Hampton) Varnado ’60 EDS ’79 Kathryn (Neal) Brown MS ’61 David Burnside ’61 Donald Orr ’61 Jack Wagley ’61 Ralph Crooks ’62 Carol (Koelling) French ’62 Marjorie Smith ’62 Glen Von Seggern ’62 Karen (Hayes) Bailey ’63 Robert Eldridge MBA ’63 Ann Wagner Harper ’63 MS ’68 Donald Hazelrigg ’63 Hans Sheridan ’63 Lucile (Dick) Sherman ’63 Mary (McCain) Ballard ’64 Herbert Korra MA ’65 Joseph Morone MBA ’65 Doris (Phillips) Murray MS ’65 James Sparks ’65 Ruth Borsodi ’66 Barbara (Mock) Goodwin MS ’66 Dorothy (Albertson) Wodock MS ’66 Ruth (Schuman) Ferris MS ’67 Donald Kriner ’67 Melinee Allen ’69 Richard Bothel ’69 Ronald Flandermeyer MS ’69

Diana Lorton ’69 Kennita (Dunbar) McGeath MS ’69 George Vyverberg MBA ’69 Eugenia Scott MS ’70 Yvonne Perkins ’71 Robert Cambridge MS ’72 Richard Clark ’72 Earl Saxman ’72 Ruth (Kornreich) Kerber MS ’73 Wayne Stahley ’73 Dianna Sweany MS ’75 Felicia Buell ’76 Susan (Cors) Henry MS ’76 Rosalie (Doran) Malone ’76 Holly Stowe ’76 Kathleen (Kolber) Barchick ’77 Marilyn (Duhamell) Strawbridge MS ’77 Melanie (Seibert) Powell ’80 Gail Clark ’82 Thomas Lintzenich MS ’82 Keith Given ’84 Michael Underwood EPPSP ’84 Christine (Wagner) Nichols ’85 MS ’06 Carol Cowgill ’86 Teresa Markisohn ’90 Melvin Stowers ’90 Patti Flowers EPPSP ’95 Cheryl Cleveland ’97 Sara Fetter ’02 Joel Cornette ’04 Kylie (Hosier) Hendress ’06

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This issue of the Butler Magazine is all about science—in all its different forms. It’s a topic that I became all too familiar with this past fall when I was diagnosed with a torn ACL. As I endured surgery and tackled the subsequent physical therapy, I quickly became well versed in the science and technology that goes into the repair and recovery of a torn canine cruciate ligament. It’s right in line with the discipline and discovery happening in Butler classrooms, laboratories, and wherever our Bulldogs apply their trade.

To learn more about my surgery, recovery, and comeback, check out my Adobe Spark page, which chronicles the entire journey: bit.ly/bb3acl.