Photo shows two people pointing at monitors in the the A. Umit Taftali Center for Capital Markets and Investing.

The college will add centers this fall focusing on digital marketing and supply chain management as it marks a half-century at Ball State.

The Beneficence statue

Ball State officials navigate doubts as they try to sell entrepreneurial learning, a student-driven teaching method that touts risk-taking and creativity.

Jennifer Blacker and Mike Goldsby discuss entrepreneurial learning.

They discuss the teaching style key to Ball State becoming a top student-centered and community-engaged 21st-century public research institution.

Photo is an image from a computer-generated rendering of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Artists and designers from the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts craft a computer-generated world that authentically simulates the outdoor exhibition.

John Ludwick works on a computer-generated animation project.

Assistant art professor John Ludwick spent thousands of his hours outside of class creating his 20-minute animated film, “Claire & the Keys.”

Kristen McCauliff addresses her class

Once-dogmatic, the communication studies professor now collaborates with her students and has won the respect of colleagues.

Portrait of professor Wes Gehring

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]es Gehring has a fondness for dark comedies, a genre that has viewers riveted in horror and breaking out in laughter in the same scene. “The basic premise of a dark comedy is that life is absurd, and it’s the only genre that doesn’t necessarily want to please the public,” says Gehring, a film professor […]