Ball State University will honor six women Oct. 26 with the Indiana Women of Achievement Award for enriching the lives of others.

Recipients will be honored during ceremonies beginning at 6 p.m. in the Alumni Center, 2800 W. Bethel Ave. The women were selected by the Task Force on the Status of Women from Ball State's College of Sciences and Humanities.

Award winners are: 

• Phyllis Bartleson, Muncie resident and Ball State graduate, will be honored for distinction in human rights leadership. She has been the executive director of the Muncie Human Rights Commission for 17 years and is past president of the Indiana Consortium of State and Local Human Rights Agencies.
• Jill Chambers, Indianapolis resident and Ball State graduate who has spent the last 35 years advancing women's rights, will be recognized for distinction in the advocacy for women. She has been employed as executive director of Indiana NOW and is currently program director for the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction.
• Jane Hardisty, Indianapolis resident and Ball State graduate, will be honored for distinction in natural resources conservation. She has dedicated her professional life to the conservation of soil, watershed and wetlands. In 2002 she received the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Alumni Award of Achievement from Ball State.
• Kim Hood Jacobs, member of the Ball State Board of Trustees and former broadcast journalist, will be recognized for distinction in communication and higher education. She resides in Indianapolis.
• Angela Barron McBride, internationally known leader and advocate for women's health, the psychology of parenthood, psychiatric and mental health nursing and health education, will be honored for distinction in health education leadership. An Indianapolis resident, she is a distinguished professor and university dean emerita at the Indiana University School of Nursing.
• Emily Willis, Ball State Honors College senior majoring in public relations and minoring in French, will be recognized for distinction in academics and leadership. Her outstanding scholarly performances include an immersion experience in Paris, where she studied in a French-speaking environment under the auspices of the Kentucky Institute of International Study.  Her hometown is Clarendon Hills, Ill.

For more information, contact Susan Johnson, associate dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities, at (765) 285-1042.