{"id":590,"date":"2025-05-21T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/gradschool\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-05-22T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:41:56","slug":"graduate-school-year-in-review-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/gradschool\/2025\/05\/21\/graduate-school-year-in-review-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School Year in Review: Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-592 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21112740\/DSC_4343-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graduate students gathered with faculty members for our annual Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony. At this event, students and staff are celebrated for the hard work they put in through the academic year and are awarded certificates of excellent teaching and research! Afterwards, students and faculty alike engaged in a reception where many congratulations and future plans were shared. Listed below are our award winners for this academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Teaching Award &#8211; Master\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awardee: Madi Marshall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Teaching Award &#8211; Doctoral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awardee: Ismael Zerbo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distinguished Master\u2019s Thesis Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awardee: Blessing Adjornor<\/p>\n<p>Title: Transport and Deposition of Microplastics at the Water-sediment Interface of the White River, Muncie, Indiana<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Dr. Bangshuai Han<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outstanding Creative Project Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awardee: Katelyn Mathew<\/p>\n<p>Title: Road Work Ahead<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Dr. Jill Christman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distinguished Dissertation Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awardee: Matthew Simpson<\/p>\n<p>Title: Microplastics Chemical Characterization, Regional Distribution, and Effects on Biota<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Dr. John Pichtel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-Minute Thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our annual 3-minute thesis competition brought forth some of the brightest students the graduate school has to offer! Doctoral student David McFarland took first place with his presentation on the possibility of creating a system of farming on the planet Mars. Our students never fail to innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible here at BSU. McFarland presented his work at the Midwest Association of Graduate School&#8217;s annual conference 3MT competition.<\/p>\n<p>Second place was taken by Aidan Harmer <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-593 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-1536x867.png 1536w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21114627\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-25-at-1.29.20-PM-2048x1156.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>in the School of Kinesiology and third place was awarded to Jennifer Stefanovski in our Department of Counseling Psychology. Of course, no 3MT would be complete without our peoples choice award, which was attained by Juliet Oluyale who is part of the Ball State School of Architecture. Congratulations again to all finalists and award winners! We look forward to seeing returning and new faces this next academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>One Ball State Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, no spring semester would be complete without One Ball State Day! As a Cardinal community, we raised over one-million (you read that correctly) dollars that help fund many of the graduate programs here at BSU. When Cardinals come together, we all fly. Thank you to all who donated and to our amazing faculty as well as student body for making this spring semester amazing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-594\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21115352\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-21-at-11.53.18-AM-1024x687.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21115352\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-21-at-11.53.18-AM-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21115352\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-21-at-11.53.18-AM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21115352\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-21-at-11.53.18-AM-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/21115352\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-21-at-11.53.18-AM.png 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2025 was a great success for our graduate students here at Ball State! 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