You don't get anywhere dreaming small," is a simple phrase with a powerful meaning that Mike Martin, owner of both Doc's Music Hall locations and Folly Moon Music, lives by. In an effort to increase Muncie's local music scene and empower independent artists, Martin has been hard at work to make such things happen.
Ball State announced Wednesday that the Board of Trustees promoted nine associate professors to professors and 24 assistant professors to associate professors. It also gave 26 faculty members tenure positions.
An employee of the Burris Laboratory School is responsible for more than $65,000 missing from the school, according to an audit report from the Indiana State Board of Accounts. Burris is a K-12 school on Ball State University's campus and a department of Teacher's College.
A Ball State University official said Thursday that an iWeb server breach earlier in the week happened because a user failed to properly secure his or her account.
The rush for students to purchase their lunch before 3:30 p.m. is finally finished. The Ball State University Dining Services announced earlier this week that the lunch meal period was extended from 3:29 p.m. to 4:29 p.m. this summer and upcoming school year.
A group of six Ball State University meteorology students will take an unusual summer vacation to track and chase storms across the Great Plains. The 10 to 14 day trip will be headed by meteorology professor David Call, who is also a former television weather broadcaster.
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TodayGallery 308 Living Arts Series: The Art of Crime Writing Gallery 308 will host a discussion at 7 p.m. tonight. The editor of Sister in Crime Anthologies, Brenda Stewart, and published mystery writers Sherita Saffer Campbell, Tammy Phillips and Delonda Hartmann will lead the open discussion.
University Computing Services said that a hacker breached a university server and defaced student and faculty web pages. The intrusion happened early Monday morning and was announced in a campuswide e-mail Tuesday afternoon. The server hosted some iWeb accounts, individual Web hosting accounts for the university community, said Kevin Gingerich, security group leader for UCS.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio- In a day full of upsets at the Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, second-seeded Ball State University fell to Eastern Michigan University 19-16. The Eagles, the seventh seed, defeated the Cardinals for the third time in four meetings and dropped Ball State into the losers' bracket.
When many people win major awards, they like to display them for everyone to see, but that's not Elizabeth Milian's style. Ball State University softball team's ace pitcher won many awards this season, including Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year, MAC West Pitcher of the Week three times, a first team All-MAC selection, the Nan Harvey Sports Woman of the Year Award.
A Ball State University study has good news and bad news about the condition of Indiana's tourism industry. The study, "Cultural Tourism in Indiana: The Impact and Clustering of the Arts and Creative Activities in this Recession," was conducted by the Center for Business and Economic Research.
In America, biggest is better, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein said. However, in the Ball State University Art Museum's newest exhibit, "A Matter of Size," it is proven that the smallest can have an equally powerful impact as the biggest. "A Matter of Size" premiered on Saturday with a special preview held on Friday.
To get into the spirit of summer fun, and before we move on to more serious topics in subsequent weeks, I want to give my devout followers their "homework" for our informal summer studies. It's an easy assignment. All you have to do is have a heck of a time - and when you've been at the lakes or golfing all weekend and your liver is on strike - watch the new season of Squidbillies on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup.
Students who have the luxury of buying meals on campus with meal cards will now have the added comfort of an additional hour for lunch. Ball State University Dining Services extended the lunch meal period from 3:29 p.m. to 4:29 p.m. starting this week. Elizabeth Poore, assistant director of operations, said this change will be a permanent one.
Ball State University announced Tuesday afternoon that a Ball State server was hacked into early this week and some Web pages on iWeb accounts were defaced.
Three Ball State players were named to the All-MAC First Team and one Cardinal was selected to the All-MAC Second Team on Tuesday.
A recent Ball State graduate won a national award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for her lighting design in a play performed in Strother Theatre last fall. Marciel Greene won the Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design from the American College Theater Festival, after graduating in May with a bachelor's degree in theatre with a design and technology option.
The Ball State University Alumni Association recognized eight graduates as 2009 recipients of the Graduate of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award. This award is presented to alumni who have shown exemplary personal and professional achievement, community involvement and a commitment to Ball State in the ten years since graduating.
Students move into residence halls, anticipate working hard at jobs, class while staying in Muncie this summer
