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.

Incoming freshmen on an Outdoor Pursuits trip in 2015 post for a photo at Smoky Mountain National Park.

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff rent equipment and take trips through Ball State’s outdoor recreation office each year.

A student involved with Late Night at Ball State talks about the weekly event.

Saturday’s weekly bash at the Student Center continues to build on a 15-year mission of alcohol-free fun with an always-changing array of activities, movies and crafts.

Food blogger Kelsey Jones prepares to photograph the meal before her.

Kelsey Jones, a master’s student in public relations, combs the Muncie food scene and reviews cuisine along her travels across the U.S. and in Cuba.

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.

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.