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Tag: 2018 Research Magazine

  • A New Faculty Fellowship
    October 15, 2018 by

    Meet the first person to receive the Ball Brothers Honors College Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Adam Kuban received $50,000 for a two-year dual appointment in the Honors College and Journalism Department. His focus is water access and water scarcity. “Ball Brothers was looking for a unique interdisciplinary program that would attract students from many disciplines across […]

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  • TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
    October 14, 2018 by

    How science created a theatrical genius Energy. That’s the mot juste that describes Jennifer Blackmer, the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award. This yearly award is given to a current faculty member who is nominated by colleagues. A selection committee evaluates each application and announces the recipient at the annual Fall Opening Convocation. […]

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  • Turning Sulfur into a Functional Material
    October 12, 2018 by

    To be a woman in a STEM field was the norm for Dr. Courtney “Cori” Jenkins, whose mom and sister are both engineers. “I came from a family where it wasn’t a question of whether or not you could do it.” Jenkins discovered that while engineering may not have been her career track, chemistry was, […]

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  • Teaching Independence Through Exercise
    October 11, 2018 by

    At 23 years old, Jessica Reed, who has autism, is learning how to be more independent. “I don’t think she’ll ever be able to live alone,” said Jessica’s mom, Patty. “She will always need somebody to be there to support her and supervise her due to safety, but yes, it is important for her to […]

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  • Literary Failures and the Men Behind Them
    October 10, 2018 by

    Ben Bascom may hold a doctorate in English, but he’s also a quasi-historian who’s working on a book about the failed literary endeavors of five tragic figures from the early United States. “In many ways, the figures I work on thought they were as unique or culturally significant as someone like Benjamin  Franklin, but in […]

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  • Investigating Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
    October 9, 2018 by

    Imagine the height of a dime sliced 1 million times—that’s a nanometer. Dr. Emil Khisamutdinov is investigating the nucleic acid nano-world as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ball State. “In our lab, we create different sizes and shapes of nanoparticles made of nucleic acid  biopolymer.” Known to store genetic information, DNA […]

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  • Fighting Health Disparities in Indiana
    October 7, 2018 by

    Time and time again research has proven the detrimental and, at times, fatal health disparities within minority communities compared to their white   counterparts, whether it be infant mortality, obesity, or access to health care, among others. “For some reason racial and ethnic minorities have a huge   disadvantage,” said Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani, associate professor of health […]

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  • COPPER COMMUNICATION
    October 6, 2018 by

    Social networking in today’s world means Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. But hundreds of years ago, the indigenous tribes of North America had a different kind of social networking, and one Ball State archaeologist and his students are on the hunt for how copper played a role. Yes, copper. Anthropology professor Dr. Mark Hill used […]

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