Alumnus and former Indiana Pacers vice president Greg Schenkel stands in the atrium of Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The 1970 Ball State grad, who’ll be honored at an Oct. 21 alumni recognition dinner, planted seeds during college that yielded a successful public affairs career.

Photo shows the exterior of Ball State's Fishers Center for Academic and Economic Innovation during a ribbon-cutting.

The Center for Academic and Economic Innovation — Fishers, adjoining a co-working space in the bustling city, is poised to be a hub of entrepreneurship.

Photo shows Ball State's statue of Beneficence

The statue created to commemorate the financial generosity of the Ball brothers toward Muncie has remained an iconic fixture of Ball State.

Cameron Lowry

Cameron Lowry drops 50 pounds in the five months after his last football game in December 2012, thanks to an aggressive nutrition and exercise regimen.

A human tunnel greets campers in the morning during a week at Ball State's chapter of Camp Kesem.

Ball State undergrads spent more than a year recruiting volunteers, raising money and finding children to attend the university’s chapter of Camp Kesem.

Sue Ellen Guillaud, an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, presents a bingo card for French vocabulary during the Entrepreneurial Learning Academy.

Lecturing and memorization take a back seat at the inaugural eight-week academy, as 10 faculty members hone classroom creativity.

Seniors Nora Hillard and Charity Munro sift through artifacts in a Department of Anthropology lab.

An immersive learning experience continues Ball State research that began five years ago at the site of the Army installation Fort Recovery.