Charles Payne

Before he passed in late June, Dr. Charles Payne shared his journey to start the University’s first multicultural education program.

Craig Skinner and Kelly Sheffield

The last two NCAA Division I women’s volleyball champion head coaches are Ball State graduates whose coaching foundations, both on and off the court, were built as cardinals.

student in the planetarium

Sarah Vise, ’19, is a Solar System Ambassador for NASA and an educator at Science Central in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Chris Willis

When he’s coasting downhill and has a chance to catch his breath, Chris Willis, ’93 MA ’96, sometimes reflects on why he’s bicycling cross-country nearly 4,300 miles over the course of 57 days. Willis’ goal is to raise $51,000 for public education—$1,000 for each of the 51 school districts he plans to stay in during […]

Tiara Thomas

When singer-songwriter Tiara Thomas was a Ball State University student a little more than a decade ago, she said she wanted her music to matter, and she wanted to win a Grammy.

A diversity of perspectives inform alumna Noël Harmon’s leadership of a scholarship program for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Race to the Moon game

A computer science professor won a top award for an educational game he created about the Space Race. But would his 8-year-old son like it?