Junior Savannah Lundgren stops for a photo during a walking expedition through a South African game reserve.

Ball State junior Savannah Lundgren is making the most of her time at the state’s only university with a zoology concentration.

Melanie Ozbun, a team lead manager at Goodwill on Muncie's south side, talks with a colleague and Jose Reyes, a fellow in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative.

The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative has brought 10 social and business entrepreneurs to campus for four weeks of hands-on experience and training.

Two glass pumpkins are seen at an annual Glass Guild Pumpkin Sale at the Alumni Center.

The fall event for glass working/sculpture students, which also subsidizes their career-building opportunities, sells out in less than two hours.

Members of Ball State’s marching band perform at the football team’s Sept. 17, 2016, home opener, against Eastern Kentucky.

An unprecedented overhaul, valued at more than $500,000, equips Ball State’s “Pride of Mid-America” musicians with new drums, horns and piccolos.

Photo shows the exterior of Ball State's Fishers Center for Academic and Economic Innovation during a ribbon-cutting.

The Center for Academic and Economic Innovation — Fishers, adjoining a co-working space in the bustling city, is poised to be a hub of entrepreneurship.

Photo shows Ball State's statue of Beneficence

The statue created to commemorate the financial generosity of the Ball brothers toward Muncie has remained an iconic fixture of Ball State.

A human tunnel greets campers in the morning during a week at Ball State's chapter of Camp Kesem.

Ball State undergrads spent more than a year recruiting volunteers, raising money and finding children to attend the university’s chapter of Camp Kesem.