Category: Scholarship and Societal Impact

Ball State Landscape Architecture Student Selected for National Scholarship

November 30, 2023 by CAP

Anaya Marshall, a fourth-year landscape architecture student, has been selected for the LAF (Landscape Architecture Foundation) Ignite program! She is one of only five students nationwide—and one of only two undergraduates—to be selected for the program, which supports BIPOC students in the profession. Anaya will receive an annual $10,000 scholarship until completing her landscape architecture […]

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Assistantship with Land Bank Helps Urban Planning Grad Define Career Goals

July 11, 2023 by CAP

By Joe Fillenwarth, MURP 2023 My graduate assistantship at the Muncie Land Bank has given me an incredible number of connections and career opportunities throughout the past year and a half. When I first started at the land bank, I didn’t even know what a land bank was. All I knew was that I had […]

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CAP Hosts National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

March 24, 2022 by CAP

Guests from around the globe will visit CAP and Ball State April 1-2 for the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. The annual conference draws university professors and practitioners from design professions, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, interior design, graphic design, and others. The conference is hosted by different universities each year with this […]

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Competition to document historic Black landscapes nets an honorable mention for team of professors

February 16, 2022 by CAP

By Christopher Baas, Professor of Landscape Architecture Professors from Ball State University and Hanover College teamed up recently to document the landscape and remains of Eleutherian College, the first college in Indiana to admit Black students, and a hub of activity in the abolitionist movement. The project won honorable mention in the 2021 HALS Challenge […]

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CapAsia Traffic Inspires U.S. Transportation Planner

July 20, 2021 by CAP

The CapAsia field studies program will resume in spring 2022. In preparation, we’ve asked students from past CapAsia trips — there have been ten in all! — to reflect on their experiences. By ANTON SCHAUERTE, CapAsia X One reason I wanted to go on CapAsia was because I’d previously watched a YouTube video called “How […]

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Experiences in India, post-tsunami Sri Lanka changed his perspective about architecture

August 17, 2020 by CAP

The CapAsia field studies program will resume in spring 2022. In preparation, we’ve asked students from past CapAsia trips — there have been ten in all! — to reflect on their experiences. BY MATHEW HART, CapAsia IV During five years of undergraduate architecture, I tried to align my studies and research with how technology was […]

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