October 10, 2020
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks. One reason the pandemic hasn’t been as severe for manufacturing as for other industries is that the public health crisis has shifted consumer spending, he said
January 8, 2020
Indiana’s Republican Statehouse leaders are firmly against taking any steps toward following neighboring states in legalizing marijuana use during the upcoming legislative session.
March 14, 2018
Story quotes Denise Seabert, associate dean for external affairs and community engagement in health science, who waited outside for four hours Monday greeting students and handing out sharpies to help sign a large beam that will be used in the construction of the space.
May 16, 2017
Story notes Letterman, a native of Indiana, graduated from Ball State University and got his start in local television as a weather caster. Note: AP distributed this story nationally.
February 25, 2017
Story notes Ball State University has plans to make its campus friendlier to bicyclists. School officials say recommendations from the university’s Bicycle Master Plan will be unveiled March 1 by an Indianapolis landscape architecture firm. Ball State hopes to create dedicated bicycle paths and wider shared multiuse paths on campus and establish bike lanes on existing streets. Note: AP distributed this story nationally, including the Washington Times. These placements are due to a story idea distributed by UMC’s media team.
February 7, 2017
Story notes the university's Board of Trustees approved plans Friday for the Early Yestingsmeier Golf Center and a 19,000-square-foot addition to Worthen Arena. Note: AP distributed this story nationally to various media outlets, including WSBT-TV.
October 3, 2016
Story notes The Star Press is donating hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs from the last century to Ball State University so the material can be digitized and made more easily searchable by the public for free. Note: AP distributed this story, which originated with The Star Press, to media outlets across the nation, including the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.
July 13, 2016
Story notes Ball State University architecture students are building a piece of public art in the eastern Indiana community of Yorktown that is meant to be a gateway to a trail system.
March 21, 2016
Story notes the university's board of trustees authorized the school this month to take part in the national sale, The Star Press of Muncie reported. The auction, set to start on March 29, will free up frequencies to be resold to wireless companies such as Verizon.
March 6, 2016
Story notes that a mobile app supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation during 2014-15 increased the number of Ball State University freshmen who returned to the school for their sophomore year.
March 4, 2016
Story notes Indiana is honoring cartoonist and Indiana native Jim Davis, a Ball State graduate who created the "Garfield" comic strip, with the Governor's Arts Award.
February 12, 2016
Story quotes Tim Carter, a biology professor.
December 17, 2015
Cutline accompanying story notes David Letterman sported a long white beard when he recently spoke at Ball State. Letterman is donating memorabilia from his career in television to his alma mater.
November 12, 2015
Story quotes Dom Caristi, a telecommunications professor.
November 1, 2015
New York state has gone into business with a national solar energy company, committing $750 million to support California-based SolarCity in exchange for the promise of high-tech jobs in western New York and economic spinoff that reaches across the state.
September 8, 2015
Story examines the life of Jim Davis, a Ball State graduate and creator of Garfield. Note: AP distributed this story, originally posted by The Star Press, to media outlets across the nation, including the Lake County Daily Herald.
July 20, 2015
Ball State’s board of trustees on Friday adopted a $345 million general fund budget for 2015-16 that includes no pay raises for President Paul W. Ferguson or his cabinet. Note: The story originated with The Star Press, and the AP distributed it nationally to media outlets, including the Chicago Daily Herald.
May 13, 2015
Associated Press: Ball State students write app offering tours of state park
April 13, 2015
Story notes that Ball State has launched a football app aiming to provide in-depth information about the team.
Note: AP distributed this story across the state to various media outlets, including WFIE-TV.
March 5, 2015
CBER director Michael Hicks is quoted.
Note: AP distributed this story to news media outlets across Minnesota and Wisconsin, including the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
March 5, 2015
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks.
Note: AP distributed the story nationally to various media outlets, including the New York Times.
January 22, 2015
The story notes that the project, a collaboration between Ball State and Muncie’s nonprofit Martin Luther King Dream Team, began when Muncie’s transit system donated a retired city bus for the Dream Team to use for educational outreach in 2005.
Note: Associated Press distributed this story nationally to various media outlets, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times and Elkhart Truth.
January 21, 2015
Story quotes Joe Losco, political science professor.
Note: Associated Press distributed this story across the nation to various media outlets, including WRTV-6.
December 31, 2014
Nicole Etcheson, a history professor, is quoted.
Note: This story originated with The Star Press and was distributed by Associated Press to news media around the nation, including the Greenfield Daily Reporter.