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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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  • Every Mind, For Every Body
    August 5, 2021 by

    Each year we try to highlight projects from some of our student capstone and thesis courses. Architecture grad Kurt Green shares his thesis project “For Every Mind, For Every Body: Architectural Interventions Toward Equity & Inclusion in the Indianapolis Athenaeum.”   Abstract Statement Over the past several decades, cities have developed a new level of […]

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  • Virtual Reality Exhibition
    August 5, 2021 by

    In this 2020-21 reCAP issue, we have been highlighting some of our creative faculty and their explorations into art and their submissions into competitions and exhibits. Assistant Professor of Architecture, James F. Kerestes, recently participated in an exhibition of digital objects for the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, California titled “One Object at a Time”. […]

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  • CERES Supports LEED Certification for Multi-Cultural Center
    July 20, 2021 by

    The Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) has continued to facilitate and support the team effort of students, faculty, and professionals in preparing the technical credit submission for LEED Certification of the new Multi-Cultural Center, designed by RG Collaborative. This effort is the first of its kind under the LEED Lab Program administered by the US […]

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  • Introducing our 2021 Alumni Award Winners!
    June 30, 2021 by

    The Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning Executive Advisory Board annually recognizes alumni who demonstrate outstanding professional success or achievement in their field of endeavor. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners. Watch the video presentation of our winners here.   DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS Ron Fisher, Architecture, ‘79 Throughout his 42-year tenure with […]

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  • Q & A with Alumna Mary Kennedy
    June 17, 2021 by

    ALUMNI PROFILE—MARY KENNEDY What year(s) did you attend Ball State University and what program did you complete? I completed the MSHP program, attending from 1998-2000. What interested you in pursuing a higher education in Historic Preservation? My parents frequently took our family to visit historic sites and buildings, museums, etc. growing up.  I also grew […]

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  • Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning is Breaking New Ground with Student-Driven LEED Certification
    May 17, 2021 by

    LEED Lab is a program operated by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) that allows students to assess the performance of existing buildings on a campus and choose a building  where they will facilitate the LEED for Operation and Maintenace (LEED O+M) process with the goal of certifying a facility. The program offers a unique immersive learning opportunity for emerging […]

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