Portrait of Jamaal Bell

[dropcap]J[/dropcap]amaal Bell is a powerful visual storyteller. He has an eye for detail, a good sense of aesthetics and the talent to use a camera to tie those together. His mission, though, isn’t only to produce a great documentary but to spur conversations about race, bring people together and create positive change. He used those […]

Collage of three photos: Sonya Hill-Outlaw and Bruce Outlaw; Jean Ann Harcourt and Joe Harcourt; and Dan Wasson Sr. with his sons Bob and Danny.

Three families with Ball State roots share how to sustain family business traditions, extend to the next generation and succeed in the 21st century.

A photo of Ball State alumni Sonya Hill-Outlaw and Bruce Outlaw.

Alumni Bruce Outlaw and Sonya Hill-Outlaw, parents of two and grandparents of five, work in the same building where her father once hung a shingle.

Wasson Nursery founder and CEO Dan Wasson Sr. (center) is photographed with sons Bob and Danny.

Ball State grads Bob and Danny Wasson help their father, Bob Sr., plan the second expansion of the 40-year-old nursery and landscaping business in a decade.

Jean Ann Harcourt stands with her husband Terry Showalter, and their two children, Michael and Christian.

The Ball State alumna and trustee has expanded Milroy, Indiana-based Harcourt Industries far beyond its school supply origins.

For more than four decades, college students across Indiana have had the chance to learn more about government and serve their state through legislative internships at the Indiana Statehouse. Jeff Papa, MA ’99, was one of those students, when he was still completing his undergraduate degree in economics. And while he couldn’t have known it […]

July 2016 Ball State graduate Brooke Van Hook poses outside Community Hospital Anderson, where she works.

Brooke Van Hook’s nursing skills are one part of patient care in a hospital’s emergency room, and she was ready to contribute after graduating in July.