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  • CM Students Place in Competition
    August 17, 2021 by

    Coach Sherif Attallah and his student team placed 5th nationally in the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA)  2020-2021 Student Competition! This year’s competition project required student chapters to act as the prime contractor on the renovation project to the historic University of Pennsylvania Museum. The competition was based on an actual project of one […]

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  • Craig Farnsworth Shares His Love of Watercolor
    August 17, 2021 by

    I’ve been painting in watercolor for over 30 years. I dabbled with it as a landscape architecture student here at Ball State and then became more serious with it while in graduate school. Ever since, I’ve used it to illustrate designs, document ideas, and record impressions. Along the way, I’ve done freelance watercolor illustration and […]

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  • Consider a Certificate in Sustainability
    August 17, 2021 by

    The Graduate Certificate in Sustainability is administered through the Academy for Sustainability in the R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. The certificate recognizes the need for participants to work across topical disciplines. And whether citizens are educated as designers or function as participants in the design activity, they collectively must arrive at strategic […]

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  • Exploring Glass in Architecture
    August 17, 2021 by

    During my 2016 sabbatical at the Glick Center for Glass, I met Jennifer Halvorson, an associate professor of art at Ball State. While working with glass we discovered many shared interests and overlaps between both architecture and fine art disciplines. We had discussed the opportunity of collaborating on a blended course and drafted an outline […]

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  • Glick Center for Glass receives Silver LEED certification
    August 11, 2021 by

    Janet Fick and students, with support from co-instructor Jim Jones, certified a second campus building — the Glick Center for Glass — through the USGBC’s LEED Lab initiative and received a Silver certification! This is only the 12th building in the world certified through this initiative and Ball State has two buildings here on campus. […]

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  • CAP “Alumni” World Tour 2023!
    August 9, 2021 by

    CAP Alumni, are you interested in participating in a World Tour? Now’s your chance, Rod Underwood is organizing a tour for Spring of 2023. The “tour” is open to all CAP alumni and their significant others including children. (Note: these trips are not through Ball State they are independent of the university) You may take […]

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  • NSF Virtual Teaching Simulator
    August 5, 2021 by

    The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) explores the intersection between the arts, sciences, humanities with technology. Scholarly, creative and pedagogical projects investigate virtual reality, human computer interface (HCI), augmented reality, and much more. IDIA Lab’s most recent project is collaborating on a $3 million dollar National Science Foundation grant with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]

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  • Students Gain Valuable Experience with Community Partners
    August 5, 2021 by

    In CAP, we thrive on partnerships with our community. Here’s a quick peek at how some of our most consistent partners worked with just one of our faculty members this year. Partners and Projects Avondale Methodist Church ministers in a myriad of ways to its southside community, Thomas Park-Avondale ecoREHAB fixes up rundown homes with […]

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