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PA Students Support Law Expanding Professional Roles
As an assignment for their “Issues and Professional Practice” course, 57 Butler physician assistant (PA) students lobbied Indiana legislators to pass Indiana House Bill (HB) 1099, long-awaited...
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COPHS’s Clayton Testifies at Indiana State House
Professor of Pharmacy Practice Bruce Clayton helped make the case for a new Indiana law, which allows pharmacists to administer a broader range of vaccines. The bill will also allow pharmacy students...
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John Green Advises Graduates: Learn to Empathize
Bestselling author John Green told the 814 members of Butler University’s Class of 2013 that they are about to take the hero’s journey—not from weakness to strength, as the story is so often told, but...
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Butler Student-Led Pharmacy Receives National Award
A team of Butler pharmacy students will receive the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) 2012-2013 Student Community Engaged Service Award, recognizing their work in a free medical...
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Pharmacy Students’ Video Wins National Competition
From left, Katie Jane Blum, Kelly Kyrouac, and Generation Rx chapter founder Samantha Christie. A video created by Butler students to increase awareness of prescription drug abuse by college-age...
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COPHS and Community Health Have Fun Tackling Medication Issue
What do one gong, 21 five-minute talks in healthcare, and fun have in common? If you guessed medication adherence, a $300 billion problem in the United States, you would be correct. Julie Koehler...
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Faculty, Student Awarded $100,000 in Grants for Innovation Projects
Butler University has awarded $100,000 in grants to faculty members and a student to support their ideas for creative, collaborative academic programs. A student-produced jazz CD, a video series on...
View ArticleMy Advanced Pharmacy Practice Rotation at FDA
By Jessica Morris COPHS P4, Class of 2013 Contrary to the common view of government agencies, which depicts government officials operating without much public input, when someone calls the U.S. Food...
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Soltis Wins Physician Assistant Scholarship; Turner Is Runner-Up
Butler third-year student Sarah Soltis has received the first Outstanding Physician Assistant Student scholarship given by the Indiana Academy of Physician Assistants (IAPA). Amelia Turner, left, and...
View ArticleCopple and Cole Retire from COPHS, with Cake and Chuckles
Cakes made popular by College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Administrative Secretary Shirley Copple and jokes often shared by Associate Professor of Pharmacology Hank Cole were featured during their...
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COPHS Healthy Horizons Earns 5-Star Award
Healthy Horizons, Butler’s employee wellness program operated by the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS), received a 5-Star Wellness Certification Award this fall from the Wellness Council...
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Putting What’s Read Into Practical Service
Lab School Setting Reinforces Core Class Lessons Sienna and Danielle like playing the same simple games. Lining up objects by color. Moving a family of dolls in and out of a dollhouse and giving them...
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Butler Awards $300,000 in First Innovation Fund Grants
Ten proposed Butler programs—ranging from an arts festival and online learning to a project to convert waste cooking oil into fuel for University vehicles—received $300,000 in seed money today from the...
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Four-College Book on Asthma Published
Student Authors Release He Huffed and He Puffed But … A Tale of A Wolf with Asthma Butler student authors from four colleges—Business, Education, Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Jordan College of the...
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Healthy Horizons Selected for State Cancer Screening Pilot
With input from Butler employees, Healthy Horizons is evaluating how to encourage more people to be screened for breast, cervical, or colorectal cancer. In early April, 374 staff and faculty members...
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BUCOP Service Earns National Award for Andrew Gonzales
Butler PharmD candidate Andrew Gonzales ’14 is one of only eight pharmacy students from across the nation to receive the 2013 RESPy (Respect, Excellence, and Service in Pharmacy) Award. Andrew...
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Pharmacy Students Educate About Prescription Drug Abuse
The Generation Rx initiative, powered jointly by College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences students and the Butler Student Association of Pharmacy, seeks to educate and raise awareness about prescription...
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COPHS Students Kraska, Tomich Lobby Congress
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences students Kim Kraska and Stevan Tomich were the only pharmacy students from Indiana who met with federal lawmakers during National Association of Chain Drug...
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New COE Minor Focuses on Lifelong Activity, Health
The College of Education will introduce a new minor in Recreation and Sports Studies that’s designed to prepare Butler students interested in health, physical activity, recreation, and sports to lead...
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2013-2014: The School Year in Review
During the 2013-2014 school year, Butler celebrated the creation of the Desmond Tutu Center, the 50th anniversaries of Clowes Hall and the Irwin Library, and more than $17 million in gifts to...
View ArticleCOPHS Offers Continuing Education for Pharmacists June 5 and 6
The Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) will host its 11th annual Continuing Education (CE) Program for Pharmacists Thursday and Friday, June 5 and 6, on campus in the...
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Butler Students Ace the National Certified Counselor Exam (June 2) – All nine Butler students taking the National Certified Counselor Exam (NCE) in April passed the voluntary test, which allows...
View ArticleButler Promotes Cancer Screenings through the Workplace
Butler University’s Employee Health and Wellness Program, Healthy Horizons, is employing a “happy, healthy birthday” wish to encourage co-workers to learn about and get screened for colorectal cancer...
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The Generation Rx Prescription: Make Learning Fun
By Sarvary Koller ’15 More than 70 rambunctious Girl Scouts poured into the cramped basement of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Plainfield on Friday evening to discuss a topic important to the health of...
View ArticlePolston, Range Secure Grant for BUCOP Study
The Barry-Bashur Foundation has approved grant funding for a two-year operational study of the Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy (BUCOP). The study aims at improving and expanding BUCOP’s...
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When Bobby Met Benjamin: A Child’s Trip Through Hoosier History
By Sarvary Koller ’15 When Anna and Bobby closed their eyes to make a birthday wish on December 11, a birthday shared with the state of Indiana, they had no idea of the adventure that would ensue. What...
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COPHS to Begin the Nation’s First Pharmacy Student-Driven Multimedia Journal...
Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) this summer will launch the first open-access multimedia healthcare review journal, BU Well, featuring articles on pressing health...
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The Winners of the Distinguished Faculty Awards Are …
Professors Arthur Hochman, Harry van der Linden, and Jeanne Van Tyle are the winners of Butler University’s 2014–2015 Distinguished Faculty Awards. Education Professor Hochman is being recognized for...
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Butler 2014-2015: The Academic Year in Review
New construction and renovations, a plan to eliminate greenhouse gases on campus, and three students earning Fulbright Awards are among the highlights of Butler University’s 2014–2015 academic year....
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740 Students Make the Spring Dean’s List
Below is the list of students who made the Dean’s List for the spring 2015 semester. To be eligible, degree-seeking undergraduates must earn at least 12 hours of grade credit and have a term...
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Butler 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...
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COPHS 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...
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Pharmacists 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...
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Think 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...
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Meet 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...
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Butler 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...
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The 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...
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Good 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...
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Hahn, 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...
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2015-2016: 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....
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Robert 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...
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Student-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...
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Butler 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...
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Butler’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....
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‘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...
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Spring 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...
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After 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...
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Twenty 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 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...
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Technology Is Shaping the Way PA Students Are Learning
Innovative additions to the program give students new ways to view the human body. A virtual cadaver table. Ultrasound systems. Fresh-tissue labs. These are some of the new ways that Butler PA students...
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