Computer Science Professor’s “Race to the Moon” Shows the Serious Power of Games
A computer science professor won a top award for an educational game he created about the Space Race. But would his 8-year-old son like it?
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Entries by Tim Obermiller
6 Alumni Who’ve Made Life Better During the Pandemic
The spirit of Beneficence has shone brightly among Ball State alumni during the COVID-19 pandemic. These six stories are just a few examples.
Q&A: The Power of Giving Back
Despite the demands of being principal partner for an Indianapolis real estate development and construction firm as well as a wife and mother, it was important for Kelli Lawrence, ’01, to stay connected to her alma mater.
CAP Alumna Shares Experiences Helping Lead COVID-19 Response in Her City
For an intro urban planning class now being taught remotely, students heard directly from a a young alumna who is leading COVID-19 crisis response in Vermont.
Biology Alumna Fulfills Her Dream to Do Research on the High Seas
It’s a little after midnight aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus as Taylorann Smith, ’18, posts on social media: “This for sure makes the Top 10 Coolest Things I’ve seen in my lifetime.” What Smith is seeing, via a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) named Hercules, is a variety of scavenging creatures banqueting on the corpse of a […]
University Police Earn Campus-Wide Appreciation
Officers at Ball State University Police Department explain why they decided to get into law enforcement.
The Cause of Justice
When Shelby Looper, ’16, learned she’d be given a U.S. Department of Justice award for her pioneering victim advocate work, she was flabbergasted. It’s the same way she felt when, a year earlier, she learned she’d been hired to take charge of the Muncie Police Department’s Victim Advocate Program . She was 23 then, just one year out […]