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Chemistry Professor Scott Pattison works out a problem on a chalkboard.

Students and colleagues praise the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award winner for his ability to convey complex ideas and relate them to everyday life.

Serena Salloum, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, talks with a student in a classroom.

Ball State faculty member pushes her students, mostly school administrators seeking a doctorate, to work hard and focus on their jobs and classes.

Photo is a NASA image of the surface of Mars.

Ball State researcher builds an exercise program fit for outer space Scott Trappe and his research team at the Human Performance Laboratory (HPL) are working with NASA to develop an exercise program to keep astronauts healthy during long space flights. To better understand how to counteract the muscle atrophy and bone loss from the lack of gravity, […]

Portrait of Liz Whiteacre.

Liz Whiteacre, a winner of Ball State’s 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award, uses multimedia and Skype to introduce students to poetry.

Kristen McCauliff addresses her class

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

Photo shows Mongolia’s Eg River.

Mark Pyron faces a daunting task over the next five years as part of an international research team examining how climate change is affecting large river basins in North America and Central Asia. Pyron, a professor who studies aquatic systems, is a co-principal investigator on a $4.2 million study funded by the National Science Foundation. […]

A helmeted biology professor Tim Carter holds a small bat in the palm of his hands.

Ball State’s bat man hopes to eliminate white nose syndrome, which has killed millions of the flying mammals he so loves.