Author: karamsey

A Celebration of Creative Writers and Community: The Twentieth Anniversary of Ball State’s In Print Festival

March 26, 2025 by karamsey

A Celebration of Creative Writers and Community: The Twentieth Anniversary of Ball State’s In Print Festival (Smidebush, 2025) News & Notes Recently, Ball State’s English Department celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their In Print Festival of First Books, an annual two-day event that brings together recently published authors to share writing advice with current students. The […]

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Chemistry Research. It Takes A Village: Dr. Konkle’s Sabbatical Talk

March 12, 2025 by karamsey

Chemistry Research. It Takes A Village: Dr. Konkle’s Sabbatical Talk (Walker, 2025) News & Notes On January 23rd, 2025, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Mary Konkle, gave a presentation on her research on a mitochondrial protein called mitoNEET, which plays a role in aging, neurodegeneration, cancer, and metabolic disease. Her interest in this protein stemmed […]

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Opening Eyes and Hearts: The Palestinian Story

March 10, 2025 by karamsey

Opening Eyes and Hearts: The Palestinian Story (Walker, 2025) News & Notes The Big Questions, Big Ideas (BQBI) series hosted Hanan Qasrawi, Assistant Teaching Professor of Urban Planning, on January 22nd, 2025, to share her experience of living in Palestine during the armed conflict with Israel. Qasrawi began her talk by providing a historical and […]

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Ten BSU Students are Fulbright Semifinalists

March 3, 2025 by karamsey

Ten BSU Students are Fulbright Semifinalists (Ditello, 2025) News & Notes For the second year in a row, Ball State has 10 semifinalists for the Fulbright Scholarship, a record number. Introduced in 1946 by Senator J. William Fullbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Scholarship is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and was designed to […]

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Partners in Peace: A New Opportunity for Honors Students

February 25, 2025 by karamsey

Partners in Peace: A New Opportunity for Honors Students (Walker, 2025) News & Notes Last semester, the Honors College offered a new spin on HONR 199, Inquiries in Contemporary American Civilization. Dr. Robin Blom taught the inaugural course on the history, influence, and future of the famous Nobel Peace Prize. This course was the beginning […]

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Roll Call: Introducing New Honors College Staff and Faculty

February 25, 2025 by karamsey

Roll Call! Introducing New Honors College Faculty and Staff (Walker, 2025) News & Notes Prof. Kelsey Timmerman (Asst. Teaching Professor of Honors) Favorite hobby: Tending to the woods, trails, garden, and farm animals at our home place. Favorite way to relax: A full day of bike rides, basketball, tennis, volleyball, and campfires with my wife […]

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Honors Students Named 500 Festival Princesses

February 19, 2025 by karamsey

Honors Students Named 500 Festival Princesses (Emerick, 2025) As May approaches, one of the exciting events that comes along with it for the Hoosier state is the Indianapolis 500. With that, many festivities come along with the racing event attracting thousands of fans to the state each year. To help supplement these events across the […]

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