Ball State University Research

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  • Creative Endeavor Awardee: Sean Lovelace
    November 5, 2011 by

    Ball State’s 2011 Creative Endeavor Awardee, Sean Lovelace, began his professional career in nursing, and he was quite successful. “It was definitely very fulfilling and rewarding,” says Lovelace, now an associate professor of English, “but even when I was practicing nursing, I would write.” Lovelace’s venture into the world of writing has taken many forms, from creating […]

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  • Past, Present, Future: CAP Generates Research to Stand the Test of Time
    November 4, 2011 by

    CENTER FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: REDESIGNING HISTORY Susan Lankford and her students are making history by preserving the past. As director of the Center for Historic Preservation (CHP), Lankford leads a team of preservationists from Ball State who join forces with other disciplines across campus to help revitalize historic features in communities in and around Muncie—and beyond. A […]

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  • The Little Things: Microelectrode Instrumentation
    November 3, 2011 by

    Melody Bernot’s projects are numerous, enterprising, and diverse. An early-career faculty member in the Department of Biology, she is collaborating with students on eight funded projects, including research on the habitat of an endangered pupfish population in the hot, shallow salt creek of Devils Hole in Death Valley, Nevada. That study is funded by the National Science […]

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  • Seeking Ways to Reverse Nerve Damage at the Microscopic Level
    November 2, 2011 by

    Derron Bishop, associate professor of medical education and assistant director of the Center for Medical Education, played an important role in research that landed him and a team of international scientists the April 2011 cover story on Nature Medicine, which addressed reversible nerve damage at the cellular level. Bishop and his colleagues sought to pinpoint and […]

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  • Researcher of the Year: Todd Trappe
    November 1, 2011 by

    Distinguished investigator. Respected colleague. Prestigious grant recipient. These are some of the descriptions that might come to mind when considering qualifications of Ball State University’s Researcher of the Year. The 2011 award winner, Todd Trappe, possesses them all. Professor of exercise science in the Human Performance Lab (HPL), Trappe first became interested in exercise physiology during his undergraduate study […]

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  • For Teachers in the Trenches
    October 10, 2010 by

    As soon as Ball State became an I-STEM Resource Network regional coordinating center in 2006, the state began tapping into the teacher education expertise on Ball State’s campus. I-STEM’s goal is to ensure that teachers already in the field receive the most current training in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The enterprise is a research […]

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  • Toolkit for Future Pros
    October 9, 2010 by

    When urban planning students work on a project, they’re using real data from real places—and they have the latest technology at their fingertips, thanks to an award of $4.2 million worth of engineering and geospatial software from Intergraph Corp. “The value of this award for our students is just as good as money in the […]

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  • A Boost for Aspiring Scientists
    October 8, 2010 by

    “I’ve been given opportunities that undergraduates at other schools don’t get,” says Huicong Xie, biochemistry and pre-med, ‘11. That chance is due to the National Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program at Ball State. “The probability of using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machine at a big university for undergraduates is very small,” […]

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  • Seasoned Experts, Fresh Vision
    October 7, 2010 by

    Jessica Hoffman is changing the way students look at science. “I know not all students are interested in science,” says Jessica Hoffman, MA ’11, secondary education 2011. “I hope to use their other interests in order for them to have success in my biology classroom. If students are interested in art, I will have assignments that focus […]

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  • The Atmosphere as Laboratory
    October 6, 2010 by

    Armed with a weather balloon, cameras, and weeks of preparation in scientific theory, atmospheric thermodynamics students literally explored the atmosphere. Using a weather balloon gives students in Jill Coleman’s classes a distinct opportunity for research and exploration. “Students can grow accustomed to relying on computers to calculate data for them. When they get out into […]

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