This past fall, Erin Edwards joined Ball State as one of our new Staff Archaeologist in the Applied Anthropology Laboratories in the Anthropology department. In the following interview she describes her journey to Ball State, research focus, and love of making bread. Describe your journey to coming to Ball State? Before I came to Ball […]
Noël Sucese attended Ball State University, where she pursued a degree in History. Post-graduation, Noël worked in various high school-level teaching positions. Noël is now a Ph.D. student at Loyola University of Chicago, where she also teaches Western Civilization discussion sections. What does a typical/week/month look like for you? A typical week for me here […]
A Ball State student has flown where no cardinal has gone before: Mars. Well, sort of. Earlier this year, Abdul Elnajdi, a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Science Program, spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. The research station is founded and funded by the Mars Society, a non-profit US-based international […]
On the evening of Thursday, February 6, Ball State students, faculty, and staff along with Muncie community members gathered to engage in a conversation about “Race and Police” with community policing expert Lorenzo Boyd and historians Simon Balto and Max Felker-Kantor. Criminal Justice and Criminology professor Kiesha Warren-Gordon moderated the conversation, and members of the […]
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 […]
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday established to commemorate the civil rights activist Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.(MLK), who was assassinated in 1968. This was the first national holiday focused on an African American. Though the federal holiday was established in 1986, it was not recognized by every state until […]
Before this semester, I shared the incorrect assumption that the Computer Science Department focused only on computers. I imagined that when I would visit the department on the fourth floor of Robert Bell all I would find are rooms full of students staring at computer screens, their bloodshot eyes reflecting infinite lines of computer code. […]
Earlier this month the third Symposium on Games was held in Bracken Library, where students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered together to celebrate game research, design, and development. The Symposium had a great turnout with a significant amount of diversity among attendees. Symposium organizer Paul Gestwicki said, “When I gave the opening remarks I […]
Media Consumption and Public Opinion Social media is interwoven into the fabric of our lives. Most likely you were just on Facebook or Instagram a few seconds ago, or within the past hour. This is not a critique, but just a rather obvious statement. Social media is part of how we communicate and interact with […]
Dear Faculty, Student and Alumni Colleagues, Halfway into the fall semester I must reflect on the fact that in a world of limited space and resources filled with 7.7 billion people, and subject to constant natural and cultural changes, we all need to “run very fast” and adapt in order to survive. It is also […]