Dr. Bima Sapkota joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematical Sciences. What is your journey to Ball State? I finished my Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Purdue University in August 2022. Prior to my Ph.D., I worked as a secondary and elementary mathematics teacher in Nepal for […]
Dr. Jenna Menke joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education. What is your journey to Ball State? I grew up in northern Illinois and earned my B.A. in mathematics, secondary education, and theology from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas and my Master of Mathematics […]
Dr. Josh Mannix joins the Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematical Sciences. What is your journey to Ball State? My journey to Ball State is actually a journey back to Ball State. I did my undergraduate degrees in Math and Math Teaching at Indiana State, and then taught middle and […]
Colton Gearhart joins the Ball State Mathematical Sciences Department as an Assistant Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences. What is your journey to Ball State? Prior to joining Ball State, I taught introductory courses at two community colleges. I have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics from Northern Kentucky University and a master’s degree in statistics from Miami […]
We are happy to offer a warm welcome and introduction to Ball State alumna and one of CSH’s new faculty members: Lauren Frasier. Lauren Frasier (she/her) joined the Department of Psychological Science this semester as an Assistant Lecturer of Psychological Science. Lauren currently teaches PSYS 284: Research Methods in Psychological Science, PSYS 295: Career Planning […]
Dr. Michael Gurlea joins Ball State as the Director of Social Studies Education and Assistant Professor of History. Dr. Michael Gurlea earned his Bachelor of Arts in 2011 in History and Government at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After this, he earned his Master of Arts in Secondary Education with a […]
Mary O’Donnell earned a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition specializing in Language Program Direction from the University of Iowa. She also has a MA in Spanish literature from the University of Notre Dame. Most recently she coordinated the PreK-12 Foreign Language Teacher Licensure program at James Madison University and was the Director of Intermediate Spanish […]
Christopher Valesey joins us this fall to teach online sections of History 150, “The West in the World.” An early modern global historian, he received his PhD in Colonial Latin American History from Penn State University in 2019. While a graduate student, he served as an editorial assistant for the Hispanic American Historical Review. He […]
Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. John Millis is a new professor and department chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Millis’ broad area of research entails quantum mechanics, electromagnetics, and astrophysics. What is your journey to Ball State? […]
Dr. Soltz is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history, Jewish history, public history, museum studies, and digital history. In 2017, the Association for Jewish Studies Review published her first article “Just Miles Away but Worlds Apart: Examining Jewish Participation in Integration Programs at Black Mountain College and […]