Category: College of Communication, Information, and Media

Three Ball State Students Land Internships With Focus on Black Heritage Preservation

February 20, 2024 by Landa Bagley

There are internships. And then, there are internships—ones that are catalysts for personal and professional transformation, growth, and evolution. Three Ball State University students experienced the latter with Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program last Summer. Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs, a third-year Landscape Architecture student, and Sierra Ivy, a third-year Architecture student, were selected from among 40 […]

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Back to School: Burris Students Create “Welcome Back” Video for Indiana Department of Education

August 23, 2023 by Cody Voga

When Dr. Katie Jenner, Indiana’s Secretary of Education, was visiting Burris Laboratory School in May, she was impressed with the students’ passion for videography and their hype videos. She thought maybe they would like a Summer project pursuing this passion. After meeting with emerging media and social studies teacher Rob Jones, plans took off as […]

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Ball State Alum Stephen Beard’s Second Pulitzer-Winning Effort Hits Close to Home

September 9, 2021 by Jake Williams

Winning a Pulitzer Prize is truly a special event in a journalist’s life. Stephen Beard has been fortunate enough to be part of not one, but two Pulitzer-winning efforts. But it’s the most recent award that literally hit home for the Ball State graduate. Mr. Beard, a graphics journalist with USA TODAY, was part of […]

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The top 2020 headlines from the Ball State Blog

January 5, 2021 by Marc Ransford

Check out these top stories from the Ball State Blog in 2020.

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Ball State professor engineers software for early warning system for COVID-19

November 17, 2020 by Marc Ransford

Ball State computer science professor has engineered software for a COVID-19 early warning system.

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Great First Jobs: PR Major Succeeds in Indy Tech World

August 5, 2020 by Nick Werner

Jillian Wilschke took advantage of opportunities as a Ball State student that led to her landing a dream job at Salesforce right after her 2019 graduation.

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Paoli resident receives accolades for research involving videos on social media

April 22, 2019 by Gabrielle Glass

Online videos should be subtitled to advocate for more attention on social causes, according to the research of Ball State University graduate student Breanna Daugherty. Daugherty’s research project, “Video Attention on Social Media,” was one of nine winners at the annual Ball State Student Symposium this month. The project, based on Daugherty’s master’s thesis, studied […]

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Students produce “Tourney Watch” for NCAA women’s basketball tournament

April 5, 2019 by Melissa Kraman

Ball State Students got in on March Madness by producing a social media series for the NCAA Women’s Basketball championship called “Tourney Watch.” The students were all members of Ball State Sports Link, an immersive learning program that has become a national leader in teaching sports media and production. “Tourney Watch” was an ESPN-like studio […]

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Ball State sophomore from Columbus working at NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four

April 4, 2019 by Melissa Kraman

Columbus, Indiana resident Seena Greiwe is creating social media and digital content for major NCAA Final Four accounts — and her work is raking in hundreds of likes and thousands of views. Through an externship with the NCAA, she’ll continue building the brand of the collegiate sports organization. The telecommunications major at Ball State — […]

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