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  • Being Creative and Bossy Can Earn You Applause
    November 4, 2016 by

    This year’s Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award winner has been called supportive, kind, a tough cookie, and a missile of theater goodness. Karen Kessler, professor of theater, was invited to Ball State University as a guest artist in 2001 and 2003. By her second stint as a guest artist, she had found her new home and never […]

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  • How Data Breaches Affect our Actions or Inactions
    November 3, 2016 by

    Privacy and security issues remain front and center in this digital age. In the past year, Yahoo, Eddie Bauer, the Democratic National Committee, and even Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Vera Bradley have reported hacking of company information involving customers, clients, and in some cases emails, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. This year’s Outstanding Researcher of […]

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  • New research instruments used to treat incurable diseases and uncover history
    November 1, 2016 by

    Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system Getting to the heart of a molecule in less time and with fewer resources is the essence of what a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system is doing for the research community in Ball State’s chemistry department. Sundeep Rayat, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation […]

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  • Outstanding Creative Endeavor: Matt Mullins
    November 3, 2013 by

    Words leave an imprint on those who hear them. They become part of our makeup and influence how we see the world. Matt Mullins is leaving his imprint. Mullins, Ball State’s Outstanding Creative Endeavor awardee, finds inspiration all around him – from a friend’s anecdote about a trip to the park with his daughter to […]

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  • Outstanding Research of the Year: Tom Holtgraves
    November 2, 2013 by

    Social psychologist. Anthropologist. Linguist. Philosopher. Sociolinguist. Cognitive psychologist. Do these terms describe a specialized team of researchers or Ball State’s Researcher of the Year? Tom Holtgraves brings all of these skills to his research agenda. Most scholars carve out a niche, perhaps studying only one aspect of language. But Tom Holtgraves, professor in psychological sciences, […]

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  • Cathy Day: From the Circus to the Workshop
    November 1, 2013 by

    Cathy Day has been teaching creative writing at the college level since 1997, from Minnesota State University at Mankato, to the College of New Jersey, the University of Pittsburgh, and now to Ball State. Day’s published work includes her memoir, Comeback Season, and the novel The Circus in Winter as well as numerous short stories […]

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