The College of Sciences and Humanities boasts many successful alumni who are using their skills to contribute to professions within their field. We celebrate their successes and the preparation of a Ball State education in our Cardinal Directions series. Meet Shannon Shannon Wenning is 2008 graduate of Ball State, who returned to Ball State for her MA […]
Sarah Williams and Julie Ridgway are academic advisors for the Department of Biology. Together, they advise about 800 biology and pre-health students studying one of seven undergraduate concentrations or participating in a pre-health preparation program. Sarah and Julie discuss how they became advisors, what their day-to-day life is like and what they recommend to students […]
Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Ashley Kalinski is a new assistant professor in the Department of Biology. Her area of specialty is in immunology and neuroscience, and more specifically she studies neuroinflammation. What is your journey to Ball State? My […]
Understanding how cells replicate and divide or learning to classify organisms by categories like kingdom and species are common lessons in any K-12 life science curriculum. But Ball State senior Jackson Miner is concerned about what some students are never taught—that they, too, can become a scientist, and that all races and genders deserve to […]
There is only one synagogue in Muncie. There are over fifty Christian churches. The famous 1929 and 1937 Middletown sociology studies about Muncie did not include Jewish individuals. But records show that Jewish individuals have lived in Muncie since the 1860s. This begs the question, what is life like in Muncie for someone who identifies […]
In the wood-paneled offices of the Cooper Science building, new biology faculty member Douglas Roossien has made himself right at home. Several Funko figures and a few personal decorations dot the office as he showed me the fascinating brain scans of a fruit fly, the subject of his research about the systems of serotonin in […]
Meet Dr. Rob Haney, the newest faculty member in the Biology Department When you think of genetic research and manipulation, specifically research that isolates the glands that produce a spider’s venom, you can’t help but think of The Island of Dr. Moreau, Jurassic Park, and most notably, Spider-Man. Now our newest biology faculty member Rob […]