An art installation conceptualized and built by an instructor and students from the College of Architecture and Planning takes shape in Yorktown, Indiana.

The untitled piece in Yorktown — being built by a School of Architecture team — is starting conversations amid hopes that it and future projects will stir commerce.

Several incoming freshmen and an orientation leader walk to North Quad to schedule classes.

More than 3,800 incoming freshmen from Indiana and across the U.S. attended two-day sessions this summer, making the event one of Ball State’s biggest ever.

Lauren Baney discusses human trafficking with fellow Ball State student.

Lauren Baney has kept a 24-hour vigil, raised money and put together events in her hometown of Fishers, Indiana, to promote awareness of human trafficking.

A projector illuminates the dome of Ball State’s old planetarium with an image.

The 50-year-old predecessor to Charles W. Brown aims to produce shows for planetariums nationwide, thanks to a partnership that blends science and the arts.

Honors College senior Sarah Fischer holds up a glass etching she made of a dead bird she found.

Honors College senior Sarah Fischer has blended her majors in biology and printmaking by studying campus bird-window impacts and creating bird etchings.

Alumnus Cris Dorman stands in downtown Indianapolis, wearing one of the bowties made by the company he helped start, Rock My Bow Tie.

Cris Dorman, ’06, started Rock My Bow Tie, a men’s accessory line that, in addition to its namesake product, sells pocket squares, suspenders and neck ties.

One of the hundreds of exotic butterflies at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory in Fort Wayne.

The multidisciplinary group submits to city officials a proposed redesign of the attraction that draws 20,000-plus visitors a year.