Technology Is Shaping the Way PA Students Are Learning
Innovative additions to the program give students new ways to view the human body. A virtual cadaver table. Ultrasound systems. Fresh-tissue labs. These are some of the new ways that Butler PA students...
View ArticlePlacement Rate Rises to 97 Percent for 2016 Graduates
A survey of 2016 Butler graduates has found that six months after graduation, 97 percent were successfully employed, enrolled in or preparing for graduate school, or participating in a gap-year...
View ArticleTwenty Years After First PA Class Graduates, the Program’s Co-Founder Retires
During the summer in between her junior and senior years at Indiana University, Laurie Pylitt, discovered her future career in the most unlikely place—Seventeen magazine. It was the 1970s, at the...
View ArticleAfter 40 Years of ‘Helping People,’ Jeanne Van Tyle Retires
Professor of Pharmacy Jeanne Van Tyle discovered her love of teaching in what sounds like a moment scripted for television. Four weeks into her teaching assistantship for her master’s program, the...
View ArticleSpring 2017 Dean’s List Announced
Seven hundred seventy-three students have been placed on the Dean’s List for the spring 2017 semester. Any degree-seeking undergraduate student earning at least 12 academic hours of grade credit in a...
View Article‘BU Well,’ a Multimedia Healthcare Journal, Publishes Vol. 2
BU Well, Butler University’s open-access, multimedia, student-run healthcare journal, published its second volume on Friday, April 21. The volume features eight articles on a variety of health-related...
View ArticleButler’s Winner of the Realizing the Dream Scholarship Is …
Jacklyn Gries, a second-year Pharmacy major from Evansville, Indiana, has been selected as Butler University’s 2016 winner of the Independent Colleges of Indiana’s Realizing the Dream scholarship....
View ArticleButler Places 750 on Dean’s List for Spring
Seven hundred fifty students have been placed on the Dean’s List for the spring 2016 semester. Any degree-seeking undergraduate student earning at least 12 academic hours of grade credit in a given...
View ArticleStudent-Driven Healthcare Journal Releases First Issue
Butler University’s open access healthcare journal, BU Well, launched the first volume of the novel multimedia healthcare review journal on May 13, featuring nine articles on topics from the light in...
View ArticleRobert Soltis ’87 Named New Dean of COPHS
Robert Soltis ’87, who has taught Pharmacology at Drake University since 1992 and is currently the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, will return to Butler University as...
View Article2015-2016: Butler’s Year in Review
During a busy and successful 2015-2016 academic year, Butler University received a $25 million gift to name the College of Business the Andre B. Lacy School of Business, renewed President James M....
View ArticleHahn, Pingel Named Most Outstanding Students
Rachel Hahn ’16, a Spanish and Communication Sciences and Disorders double-major from Zionsville, Indiana, and Chad Pingel ’16, a Finance and Marketing double-major from Des Moines, Iowa, have been...
View ArticleGood Practice, And An Even Better Public Service
The big kids (Physician Assistant students from Butler) needed experience dealing with young patients. The little kids (kindergarten and first-grade students at the IPS/Butler Lab School) needed to...
View ArticleThe PA Program at 20: Many Reasons to Celebrate
Stacy Dawkins ’01 thought she might want a career in medicine after graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington as a Chemistry and English double major. Physician Assistant (PA) was not on her...
View ArticleButler Places 777 Students on Fall 2015 Dean’s List
Seven hundred seventy-seven students have been placed on the Dean’s List for the fall 2015 semester. Any degree-seeking undergraduate student earning at least 12 academic hours of grade credit in a...
View ArticleMeet the New President of the Physician Assistant Education Association
Butler Pharmacy Professor Jennifer Snyder, the new president of the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), talked about her role in an interview with organization. PAEA is the only national...
View ArticleThink You Need an Antibiotic? Her Poster Says Think Again
The Indiana Department of Health will distribute a poster designed by a Butler University student to warn healthcare providers and their patients about the dangers of overprescribing and overusing...
View ArticlePharmacists Alliance Names Daniel Peterson ’16 Outstanding Student
The Indiana Pharmacists Alliance has awarded Butler PharmD candidate Daniel Peterson ’16 with its Outstanding Student of the Year Award. The award recognizes students who have been actively involved in...
View ArticleCOPHS Graduates Ace the NAPLEX Exam. Again.
For the fourth time in five years, every Butler College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) graduate who took the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam, the NAPLEX, passed on the first try. That...
View ArticleButler to Welcome 1,040 First-Year Students
Butler University will welcome 1,040 first-year students on move-in day Saturday, August 22. Classes begin Wednesday, August 26. Butler’s class of 2019 continues the University’s track record of...
View Article