Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Todd Vaccaro is a new Assistant Professor of the Physics and Astronomy department. The following interview discusses what brought him to Ball State, his research focus, and his passion for gaming. What is your journey […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Professor Johanna Maple is a new Assistant Teaching Professor in the Legal Studies Program in the Political Science department. The following interview discusses what brought her to Ball State, her goals, and her various hobbies. Describe […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Wei Shi is a new Assistant Professor in the Chemistry department. The following interview discusses what brought him to Ball State, his research focus, and his hobbies. What is your journey to Ball State? I completed my bachelor’s […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Jordan Froese is a new Assistant Professor in the Chemistry department. The following interview discusses what brought him to Ball State, his research focus, and his passion for sports. Can you describe your journey to […]

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 […]

Michelle Poole (MA, University of Toledo) is a new faculty member in the Sociology department. She has significant experience working with the disadvantaged in communities, from housing assistance for the homeless to rehabilitation programs from young offenders. She has a variety of interests that she cares passionately about, and she looks forward to incorporating those […]

Heather McBride Scheurer is a Ph.D. candidate in public history at Middle Tennessee State University with a research agenda focused on wartime collections and museum interpretation. She has presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association and led a class in the creation of a board game on Gilded Age New York City. […]

  Prof. Shiau-Yun Chen received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2019 and recently published “Jealous and Violent: Constraining and Celebrating Wifely Jealousy in Mid-to-late Ming China” in Ming Studies (volume 79, 2019). Her focus is inter-relationships of law, culture, family authority and family violence in Ming China, with a special focus on wives and concubines. […]

One of the best ways to find out a university’s reputation is to ask the faculty that chose to invest their time and careers here. Dr. Ellen Whitehead, a recent PhD graduate from Rice University, is a new faculty member in Ball State’s Sociology department. She said, “I really appreciated the emphasis on quality teaching […]

Written By: Kaylin Kieft, ’24 The nearly $60 million renovation of Ball State University’s Cooper Science Building began in February 2022 and is officially complete, with a ribbon-cutting scheduled for April 17 at 2:00 p.m. Alumni, emeriti, faculty, and students will be stunned to see how the renovation has transformed 167,000 square feet of space […]