Ball State awards $4.2 million across 16 departments in Academic Excellence Grants
By Staff Reports / August 31, 2015Ball State awarded $4.2 million to 16 initiatives in its first year of giving out Academic Excellence Grants.
Ball State awarded $4.2 million to 16 initiatives in its first year of giving out Academic Excellence Grants.
A U.S. flag from John R. Emens Auditorium saw presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy's speech at Ball State April 4, 1968, the same day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. But after that, it was never seen again.
One person was sent to the hospital after his bike was hit by a car on campus Monday, witnesses said. Elle Corum, a sophomore marketing major, said a cyclist was crossing the McKinley and Neely Avenue intersection, when he was hit by a car turning left onto McKinley Avenue around 2 p.m.
Building Better Communities will be going through a lot of changes this semester with an internal and external restructuring.
After almost a month in the hospital, Theta Chi member Brandon Benesh has moved to a rehab facility to continue his road to recovery.
University Police Department’s third annual Dunk-A-Cop took place at the Scramble Light early Aug. 28.
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Walking into the newly renovated Botsford-Swinford halls is a much different experience from stepping into LaFollette Complex.
To help students adjust to life at Ball State, SGA has started a new workshop that runs for the first five weeks of the semester.
Two students went to the hospital and four were injured when a driver with a suspended license crashed into a Ball State shuttle bus Aug. 25, according to an Indiana State Police crash report.
A recent university police initiative now allows students to receive instant alerts from the University Police Department from inside classrooms.
The Executive Branch for the Student Government Association, a student-run organization that serves as the voice of Ball State students by advocating student concerns to faculty, administration and the community, as well as to other students, had their first official meeting of the school year and discussed what was accomplished over the summer.
Ball State is getting substantially closer to becoming entirely heated through an environmentally-friendly geothermal system.
At the start of his second year in office, Ball State President Paul W. Ferguson has a clear idea of where he would like the university to be at the end of 2016 and what needs to be done to get there.
Muncie celebrated its 150th birthday this year, and Ball State has joined in the celebration with an exhibit at Bracken Library that covers Muncie's time as a city.
This summer, 11 Ball State students took to the road in hopes of learning about various weather patterns.
When Lemuel Turner was picked from the crowd of incoming freshmen to take a free-tuition half-court shot on Aug. 20 during the annual athletics pep rally, he was hesitant to get up from his seat in the bleachers.
As freshmen move into the dorms to begin the next chapter of their lives, some are nervous, some excited. Students on the Premium Plan were able to move in Wednesday, Aug. 19, and new freshmen moved in Thursday, Aug. 20.
For the first time in four years, Target offered an after-hours shopping event exclusively for the university. About 2,000 students made their way to the store’s Muncie location between 10:30 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20.
Jack Hesser, president When he was four years old, the president of the Student Government Association made a contract with himself stating that after college, he would move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. And 17 years later, Jack Hesser, a senior microbiology and botany major, plans to keep that promise. “I’m going to do it because I don’t want four-year-old Jack to be disappointed in me.
