Butler gets over $10M in grants

INDIANAPOLIS – Butler University has received grants of $5.3 million from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and $5 million from businessman Frank Levinson, a 1975 Butler graduate.\nBoth grants will be used for improvements in Butler’s science program and for the university’s first supercomputer, already nicknamed ‘Big Dawg’ in a word play on the school’s Bulldogs mascot.\nLevinson said that while Big Dawg is already in operation, it will be upgraded in the next few weeks to be eight times as fast.\nA university spokesman said Levinson’s donation is the largest individual gift so far in the $125 million ButlerRising fundraising campaign.