January 3, 2019
A semester-long immersive learning course places construction management students in a kindergarten class at Longfellow Elementary School in Muncie to teach the basics of construction at an early age.
February 5, 2018
Story notes Ball State University student Kara Biernat, a resident of Crown Point, will take her videography and reporting skills to South Korea later this week to cover the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Note: Placement is due to a story idea developed and distributed by UMC’s media team.
November 25, 2017
Column notes American young adults are divided along racial lines when it comes to protests from NFL players during our national anthem, says a study from Ball State University and the University of Texas at Dallas. Note: Placement is due to a story idea developed and distributed by UMC’s media team.
October 13, 2016
Story notes that Cathy Day, a Ball State English professor who wrote “The Circus in Winter” and “Comeback Season,” will give a keynote address about literary citizenship. The longtime teacher has won several awards, such as the Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre from Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
December 11, 2015
Story quotes Tim Underhill, a telecommunications professor.
December 9, 2015
Story quotes Tim Underhill, a telecommunications instructor.
January 12, 2015
Nick Curott, an assistant professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State, pens a guest column.
November 2, 2014
Cecil Bohanon, economics professor, pens a guest column. The Indiana Policy Review Foundation distributed the column to newspapers across the state.
May 17, 2014
HPL director Scott Trappe pens a guest column.
November 23, 2013
I'm told when a popular cable television science series unveils a new episode about Stonehenge sometime next year, Ball State University will play a starring role. A 3-D computer simulation of Stonehenge created by Ball State's Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts will allow producers of "The Universe" to demonstrate how the ancient monument may have been used to track movements of the sun and moon.
April 28, 2013
John Strauss, journalism professor, penned a guest column. Note: This column also was posted by the Gary Post-Tribune.
February 2, 2013
Dom Caristi, telecommunications, penned a guest column about social media and the Super Bowl.