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(04/29/21 2:00pm)
As the 2021 school year comes to a close, soon-to-be graduates may feel their time at Ball State is ending too fast. During the last few days of your final spring semester, consider these bucket-list items to check off before your college’s commencement ceremony.
(04/29/21 7:00pm)
When Cheryl LeBlanc was 9 years old, she came across a Lady Slipper orchid in her backyard. Right before her eyes, this orchid sparked a life-long passion for nature she would later incorporate in both her personal and work life.
(04/22/21 4:00pm)
Sunlight beams through the wide glass windows onto masked customers waiting to have their hair washed and styled at various hair salons in Muncie. Stylists, muffled by masks, talk with clients about families and long days at work while dryers blow and water pours into shampooing basins.
(04/20/21 7:00pm)
To unwind for the evening, Hannah Moody, circulation department manager at Kennedy Library, opens her copy of “The Ballad of Black Tom” to her favorite bookmark with blood-red lettering, which reads “Papercuts: an Adult Horror Book Club.”
(04/16/21 7:00pm)
As Erica Forstater, the assistant of the Dr. Joe & Alice Rinard Orchid Greenhouse, walks to the greenhouse's “Cool House” section, she searches for Pleurothallis orchids, which have tiny blooms often smaller than her fingernail.
(04/19/21 4:06pm)
When Stacy Steggs was about 8 years old, her grandmother was her first student she taught sign language to.
(04/15/21 2:00pm)
Sitting on her dorm room’s beige carpet, freshman psychology major Maiya Garcia spends her mornings using her teal pliers and black wire cutters to hand-assemble earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings for her jewelry business, Maiya Makes Jewelry.
(04/08/21 2:00pm)
Because of this semester’s adjusted school calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students weren’t able to travel home for their typical week-long spring break from classes. While the university has held two study days so far, students were encouraged to stay on campus to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
(04/07/21 2:00pm)
Sunday mornings throughout her childhood, Tiara Hicks would wake up on her grandparents’ farm to the smell of freshly brewed coffee.
(04/01/21 2:00pm)
On a rainy fall day two years ago, Muncie local Patrick Conner was driving around Muncie’s Prairie Creek Reservoir when he spotted an eagle flying over the water.
(03/31/21 7:00pm)
Born and raised in Detroit, the city where “everybody can sing,” Aaron Paige, Ball State assistant professor of music, said singing has been a prominent part of his life for as long as he can remember.
(03/26/21 2:00pm)
Joel Kirk, 2015 Ball State alumnus, received a phone call Jan. 25 from three-time Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum, who has produced original and adaptations of musicals such as “Rent,” “Avenue Q,” “Six,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” and ‘The Notebook.”
(03/25/21 7:00pm)
When most people think of a bakery, images of a brick-and-mortar store filled with fresh pastries come to mind. For one local business, this isn’t the case.
(03/25/21 4:00pm)
Last semester, Colleen Dyra, freshman elementary education major, would move her bean bag to the other side of her dorm room at Studebaker West Thursday nights at 6:30.
(03/24/21 6:29pm)
Jacqueline Hanoman
(03/10/21 8:00pm)
When customers first walk into Fresh Market Treats, the doorbell chimes behind them as their eyes meet shelves stocked full of candy-filled bags and Ball jars. Shannon and Tiffany Turner, owners of Fresh Market Treats, happily greet their customers to welcome them into the only brick-and-mortar store that sells freeze-dried candy in the United States.
(03/04/21 5:00pm)
Ball State students have previously known the first week of March to be their spring break, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university adjusted its academic schedule this semester. As the weather continues to warm and the first day of spring quickly approaches, some students may be feeling eager to spend time outdoors off campus. Consider these five destinations — all less than a three-hour drive from Ball State — to visit for a day trip outdoors to remain safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(02/25/21 3:00pm)
By February, 80 percent of people don’t continue with their New Year’s resolutions, according to U.S. News and World Report. According to a YouGov survey, 50 percent of people want to improve their fitness for their 2021 New Year’s resolution, and some may feel even more pressure to keep up with this resolution in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(02/25/21 5:00pm)
On a Thursday night in June 2020, Mali Simone Jeffers, a 2004 Ball State alumna, and her partner, Alan Bacon, brainstormed ways to support artists and entrepreneurs who are “people of culture” in Indianapolis.
(02/18/21 5:00pm)
Matt Mullins said he discovered film literature through “a series of happy accidents.”