This past semester, interior design students continued working on an ongoing Immersive Learning project with the Children’s TherAplay Foundation to help redesign their hippotherapy center. Based in Carmel, Indiana, Children’s TherAplay is a nonprofit that provides physical and occupational therapy using horseback riding. They help children with different diagnoses, such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, […]

Spanish is the second-most-spoken language in the world and English is the third. Learning these languages can be extremely beneficial, especially if you learn them at a young age. In an Immersive Learning project, Ball State students from two Spanish classes worked with the Dual Language Immersion Program at West View Elementary by teaching second-graders […]

Ball State scientist and students discover “tow truck molecules” that could lead to new treatments for diseases like diabetes and cancer

English students are turning stories about the lives of Midwesterners into a podcast and museum exhibit in The Midwestern Stories Project immersive learning class.

Students Tricia Timmons and Chandler Sturgis were surveying the top floor of the historic E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Center mansion when they noticed something unusual. “We weren’t expecting to find what we did,” Timmons said. Both Timmons, a senior, and Chandler, a junior, are majoring in residential property management (RPM). The survey was part […]

Ball State urban planning students are working with Muncie’s Industry Neighborhood to craft a plan that could help that community advocate for change.

Sometimes in life, as in math, two negatives make a positive. At least, that was the opportunity Ball State alumna Amanda DeLotelle (above, center) saw in Dayton, Ohio this year. The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing recession resulted in an increased demand for meals to help the growing number of people experiencing a hard time. […]

Freewill versus determinism and epistemology isn’t the type of debate most high school students will have in class. In general, philosophy courses are hard to come by in Indiana. The Philosophy Outreach Project introduces the state’s high school students to the field through in-school visits, a supply of online resources, and an annual conference for […]