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With Centennial Documentary, Students Learn About and Make Ball State History

History came crashing down like a proverbial ton of bricks on at least one student during production of the documentary “From Normal to Extr...

Students Help Run Mansion at Minnetrista With Hopes of Recruiting Doctors to Muncie Long-Term

by Dan Human08.27.18

One after another, medical students slogged through the summer heat and into their home, exhausted from their hospital shifts. The proper...

From Farms to Food Banks, Students Explore Muncie Region’s Needs, Diversity, and Heritage

by Kate H. Elliott08.08.18

Editor’s note: This story’s author, Kate Elliott, is a lecturer of journalism at Ball State and a freelance writer and strategist. She also ...

Alumni

Alumna Twanda Young Achieves Rank of Brigadier General

09.28.18

Almost 30 years ago, an Army battalion commander told a young second lieutenant from Darlington, South Carolina, he would make sure she woul...

History Graduate’s Digital Media Career Has Worldwide Outreach

by Jillian Wilschke09.12.18

When asked where she sees herself in 10 years, Allison Tourville, ’07 MA ’11, responds that, with the speed at which digital media changes, ...

CAP Partners With Top Design Firm on Chicago Stockyards Project

08.03.18

For a century or so, the Chicago Stockyards ranked the world’s most famous livestock-processing centers — a vast stretch of stock pens and p...

Empowered

Elementary Ed Majors Teach STEM at Summer Camp, and Kids Love It

by Judy Wolf08.29.18

Undergrads run their own outdoor summer classrooms, creating and teaching lessons that meet state standards to kids on a 41-acre camp.

As Reading Mentors and Role Models, Students Connect With At-Risk Youths

by Kim Rendfeld08.20.18

Since 2016, Ball State professors and students have helped at-risk youths improve reading skills, with the hope for success beyond the class...

Former U.S. Marine’s Education Goals Include Improving Health Care for Vets

by Jennifer Criss08.16.18

Serving as a U.S. Marine for seven years in global hot spots like Somalia and Iraq gave Ball State senior Greg Lane a much bigger perspectiv...

Arts & Culture

Facing Project Engages Storytelling to Spark Community Change

by Jennifer Criss10.05.18

J.R. Jamison, ’01 MA ’03, has long known the value of telling a compelling story. As a Ball State undergraduate, he combined his geography m...

Using Skills Honed at Ball State, Doug Jones Brings Astounding Characters to Screen

by Judy Wolf09.17.18

Of all the parts in his prolific acting career, Doug Jones is proudest of Amphibian Man in the multiple Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water.” ...

From Cardinals to Tigers: Four Music Alums Are Clemson Profs

06.14.18

Ball State and its School of Music have a robust connection to Clemson University, where four music alumni are performing arts professors: P...

Athletics

Cardinal Football Prepares for Fall Season With Restored Confidence

by Dan Forst07.27.18

When you get knocked down, what do you do? If you’re Ball State football coach Mike Neu, ’94, and his players, the answer’s easy: you get ba...

Cardinal Basketball Icon Chandler Thompson Returns to Muncie

by Dan Forst02.23.18

One of the great names in Ball State men’s basketball history has returned home to Muncie. Chandler Thompson, who lettered three years at...

Charlie’s Reading Challenge Brings Love of Books to Indiana Schools

by Dan Forst01.24.18

In scores of central Indiana schools, Ball State’s reading challenge translates kids’ admiration for Cardinal student-athletes into a passion for books. The program rewards students for reading and also brings the Ball State brand to students and teachers across the area.

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