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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.

Jim Lowe, Ball State’s associate vice president of facilities planning and management, stands in the belly of the South District Energy Station

Once deemed unfeasible, the possibly largest-of-its-kind system boasts 1,000 miles of piping and $2 million in yearly energy savings vs. coal-fired boilers.

A student uses a mannequin at the School of Nursing's Simulation and Information Technology Center to check vital signs as a nursing instructor shows another student how to take a blood pressure reading.

Future nurses at the school’s Simulation and Information Technology Center learn to address heart attacks, births and other medical situations.

Students pick green beans on the organic farm at the Juanita Hults Environmental Learning Center.

From seed to harvest to market, the newly created plot outside Albany, Indiana, provides students with the know-how to flourish in a farm-to-table economy.

Collage of photos from Ball State Magazine's 10 most read stories in 2016.

The new year promises many more, but take a moment to revisit the stories that you, our readers, made our top 10 of 2016.

Students in the new Surviving the Music Industry course visit Fort Wayne’s Sweetwater, one of the country’s largest dealers of music equipment.

Lectures by alumnus and Walk the Moon bass player Kevin Ray and a tour of a top music instrument dealer anchored a new class, Surviving the Music Industry.