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  • Grad School Bingo: (Can you relate…)
    June 18, 2025 by

    Graduate school can be a truly amazing time. You have the opportunity to further your education, create life-long personal and professional connections, and develop your passion for a field you deep care about.   However, balancing school with work and a social life can be tricky. Everyone, even faculty, has been late or missed a […]

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  • Meet the 2025-2026 Graduate Team: Anuoluwapo Bankole
    May 21, 2025 by

    Anuoluwapo Bankole (Anu) is a first-year doctoral student in the Higher Education Doctor of Education program with a cognate in communications studies and is also a Graduate Student Association doctoral assistant for the Ball State Graduate School. Learn more about her and her role in the Q&A below. Q: Where are you from? A: I […]

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  • Graduate School Year in Review: Spring 2025
    May 21, 2025 by

    Spring 2025 was a great success for our graduate students here at Ball State! Check out some highlights in this post below and celebrate the amazing work our students and faculty have completed during the spring semester of 2025.   Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony Graduate students gathered with faculty members for our annual Graduate Student […]

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  • Capstone Completion Fellowship: 2025 Winners!
    April 10, 2025 by

    Janet Kyei Where is your hometown? I’m from the Eastern part of Ghana. What are a few of your favorite hobbies? That would be shopping, photography, travelling and interior decoration Where did you obtain your bachelor’s and/or master’s degrees, what were your major(s)? I obtained my bachelor’s degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science […]

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  • 3 Minute Thesis 2025: Competition in Review!
    April 10, 2025 by

    The Graduate School invites you to help us celebrate Ball State’s outstanding student researchers by celebrating our annual Three Minute Thesis competition. This competition challenges students to convey the essence and importance of their master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation research in an engaging way to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes using one static PowerPoint […]

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  • What is G.O.L.D? (Graduate Opportunity & Leadership Development)
    January 23, 2025 by

    It’s the Graduate School’s mission to ensure our students have the community, resources, skills, and wellness strategies to maximize their graduate educational experience. With that in mind, we created GOLD: Graduate Opportunity & Leadership Development, a professional development series featuring more than 80+ workshops and events for students. These workshops are designed around six competencies: […]

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  • Event in Review: Write On! Writing Retreat
    November 19, 2024 by

    The Ball State Graduate School and the Ball State Writing Center came together to host an amazing workshop this year in mid-September. The Write On! Writing Retreat gave students an opportunity to connect, listen to multiple presentations regarding writing technique, and give students dedicated time to work on their projects or thesis! We had over […]

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  • Charlies Research Corner: Chelsea Davis!
    October 15, 2024 by

    Join third year Sport and Exercise Psychology student Chelsea Davis in her thesis research! Details are listed below. My name is Chelsea Davis, and I am a graduate student in the Sport and Exercise Psychology Program at Ball State University. I am on a research team with Lindsey Blom, Grayson Smith, and Justin White. We […]

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