Hunter Crews, a historic preservation graduate student in the College of Architecture and Planning, takes part in the rehab of a house in Muncie's Thomas Park/Avondale neighborhood.

The Muncie housing nonprofit ecoREHAB offers architecture students hands-on experience and a chance to renew neighborhoods and help low-income residents.

Chemistry Professor Scott Pattison works out a problem on a chalkboard.

Students and colleagues praise the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award winner for his ability to convey complex ideas and relate them to everyday life.

Fashion students Gabriella Harbridge, Levi Portillo, Cierra Sanders and Ashlan Moore work on deconstructing a 1940s-era dress.

Beeman Historic Costume Collection pieces will be digitized to become 3-D models and go online next summer, as will downloadable patterns and other details.

An artist's rendering illustrates what a renovated Emens Auditorium will look like.

The overhaul will add 12,000 square feet of venue space, an expanded lobby, new first-floor restrooms and an interior box office.

A portrait of graduate student Jes Wade, who helped start Cardinal Kitchen.

Cardinal Kitchen, which has helped more than 350 students during 1,000-plus visits since opening in January 2015, aims to expand awareness and its space.

Graduate students Bonnie Greene, Davonte Longmire and Yuanwei Lyu take part in Thank a Donor Day.

Students write thank you cards to alumni and other friends of Ball State who help make their education — and many other initiatives — possible.

Charlie Cardinal stands on the basketball court in Worthen Arena.

Past and present Charlie Cardinals say hiding their identity and maintaining the mascot’s mystique require a lot of planning and a little misdirection.