Students a tUnion Stock Yard Gate

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or a century or so, the Chicago Stockyards ranked the world’s most famous livestock-processing centers — a vast stretch of stock pens and packinghouses with rail connections to much of the country — until meat distribution moved to the interstate highway system. “It was the beginning of the industrialization of food, on a scale that […]

[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very Fall and Spring semester, about 150 Muncie children are busy learning science after a full day of school. In one lively room at the Boys & Girls Club in the Roy C. Buley Community Center, Ball State elementary pre-service students Brooke Miller and Katie Kane teach first-graders about habitats, as the children point to […]

In May, football coach Mike Neu and his players greeted a new teammate: 9-year-old Dominick Landreth. A third-grader at Yorktown Elementary, Dom was born with mitochondrial disease, for which he receives treatments each month

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen 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 back up with a vengeance. “There’s not one person associated with our football team that isn’t chomping at the bit to get back on the field,” he said. “We can’t start the […]

Beneficence Sculpture dedication

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom the early days as a teacher-training school to its status as a comprehensive university, three Ball State colleagues have captured the institution’s history in a new book. “Ball State University,” a part of the Campus History Series by Arcadia Publishing, tells the University’s rich history through dozens of photos organized in six distinct eras, […]

Hannah Fluhler

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]annah Fluhler wants the crying to stop. Because of a first-of-its kind fellowship, the Honors College student is assembling a research team to determine if soothing lullaby music combined with gentle rocking will aid newborns suffering from drug withdrawal. Hannah is proposing a pilot study to be conducted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Indiana University Health […]

The statue Beneficence

Submit an “In Memoriam” entry 1930s Mary B. (Swynehardt) Thistlethwaite, ’38 MAE ’47, DeKalb, Illinois, November 30, 2017. Edith (Johnson) Guthrie, ’39, Muncie, February 6, 2018. 1940s  Lois L. (Campbell) Galliher, ’42, Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 21, 2018. Lela A. (Shroyer) Herr, ’42, Cambridge City, Indiana, November 6, 2017. Lavon A. (Anderson) Logsdon, ’43, Milroy, Indiana, March 23, 2018. Vida […]

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom his mountaintop cabin in Denali National Park & Preserve, Dr. David “Doc” Arnold’s view of snow-capped Alaskan mountains is as different as possible from the Great Plains, where he used radar to guide scores of Ball State meteorology students during summer storm chasing classes. It was 1998 when he arrived in Muncie from Mississippi […]