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  • Congratulations to the Winners of the 27th Annual Student Symposium at Ball State University
    April 15, 2022 by

    The Student Symposium, which was held on the Worthen Arena Concourse on April 12 from 1-4pm, had great turnout for its first in-person event since 2019! 125 participants (38 graduate students, 87 undergraduate students) presented 85 scholarly and creative projects, representing all seven academic colleges. While we are showcasing the top presentations here, we first would […]

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    Congratulations to the 2021 Three Minute Thesis Winners
    March 1, 2021 by

    The Graduate School hosted Ball State University’s third annual Three Minute Thesis competition on Feb. 25. The competition, which challenges 10 finalists to condense the entirety of their master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation research into a three-minute presentation (with just a single PowerPoint slide as a visual aid), produced three winners this year: We in […]

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  • 2020 Ball State University Student Symposium
    October 8, 2020 by

    We are delighted that 84 students were flexible as we moved the annual event to a virtual Canvas Community. The Student Symposium was held, virtually, from April 15 – May 1. Participants loaded their presentations from the 15-22, and judging began on April 27. 2020 Student Symposium Program SPONSORED PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL […]

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  • Deliberate Innovation: Can students learn creativity?
    June 25, 2020 by

    Most people do not ponder: “Can students learn math?” However, many wonder if creativity can be learned. Teachers don’t introduce addition, fractions, and calculus all at the same time. Instead, the discipline of math is broken down into mathematical concepts and processes, which are taught using deliberate strategies. Applying this approach to creativity may inspire […]

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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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