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  • Professor Jason Powell
    December 9, 2019 by

    Dr. Jason Powell is currently an associate teaching professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University. He also serves as Vice President for the Beneficence Family Scholars.  What goals do you have for your courses? I guess the goal of my courses is to incite opportunity for transcendence. I know this sounds cheesy, romantic, even […]

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  • #FirstGenBSU: Elizabeth Dalton
    December 3, 2019 by

    Elizabeth Dalton, Associate Professor of Honors Humanities, has been a Ball State faculty member since 1991. Her fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Clockhouse Review, Glassworks, and Adanna. She lives on a homestead near Mooreland, IN, with her husband, John, two dogs, two cats, and eight […]

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  • Professor Obed Frausto Gatica
    November 11, 2019 by

    Dr. Obed Frausto earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science; Social Studies of Science and Technology at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Dr. Obed Frausto has completed research fellowships at Harvard University in the United States, Cardiff University in Wales, and l’Université de Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis in Paris, France. In his doctoral dissertation, he worked […]

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  • Honors College Dean John Emert
    October 14, 2019 by

    Dr. John Emert is Dean of the Honors College, appointed July 1, 2017. He joined the Ball State Faculty after earning a B.A. in Mathematics and Music and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee.  He served previously as Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and then Associate Dean of […]

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  • Honors Thesis Appointments
    September 17, 2019 by

    All Honors College students are required to complete an honors thesis. The honors thesis appointments  process has changed, but we have you covered!   Planning to graduate in 2020? If so, have you signed up for your thesis meeting?   If you have yet to do so, you are in luck because SEPTEMBER IS THESIS […]

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  • September is Honors Thesis Month!
    September 5, 2019 by

    The honors thesis can be terrifying, but it doesn’t have to be. Associate Dean of the Honors College and Professor of History Dr. Amy Livingstone gives some helpful advice.  Where should students look to get more information about beginning the thesis process? There are several resources for students to help them kickstart their honors thesis. One great resource […]

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  • Director of National & International Scholarships Dr. Barb Stedman
    April 15, 2019 by

    Barb Stedman grew up in northeastern Ohio but started becoming “Hoosierized” in 1977, when she came to Indiana to attend Taylor University. All of her degrees are in English, and her primary teaching and research interests have been in cultural studies and environmental literature, especially Indiana’s environmental literature. After teaching at several other institutions (including […]

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