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Erdogan Kumcu appointed Global Media Network
director
 Marketing
professor Erdogan
Kumcu has been appointed the director
of an award-winning Internet-based videoconferencing system.
Kumcu will oversee the new Global
Media Network, an interactive distance education system that allows
students and faculty around the world to interact in real time for
classes, seminars and meetings.
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Book focuses on helping older adults maintain good health
 Health professionals
working with older adults may find the latest medical research in a new
book written by a Ball State educator.
Gerontologist David Haber provides a
road map to helping older adults maintain good health in “Health
Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for Health Professionals.”
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New chapter of Phi Kappa Phi hosting installation Oct. 27
The nation’s oldest all-discipline honor
society will formally open a chapter at Ball State.
The Ball State
chapter of Phi Kappa Phi will initiate
faculty and student members as well as install chapter officers at
3 p.m.
Oct. 27 during ceremonies in the
L.A.
Pittenger
Student
Center
Cardinal Hall.
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Reorganization to expand international program
efforts
Ball State’s emphasis on
international education has come a long way since a lone student arrived
from Canada in the 1940s. Every year
the university helps more than 450 students and faculty travel to
college campuses around the globe while helping nearly the same number
of international students and professors visit the Muncie campus.
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"Blue Window" explores connections, or
lack thereof
 How is Italian opera
relevant to jazz piano? Or what do game shows have to do with Virginia
Woolf? The answers will be revealed in
“Blue Window,” on stage at
8 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and Oct. 22-25 and at
2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Edward S.
Strother Theatre.
Full StoryPrizes provide
incentive for contributions to United Way
 University personnel have
an extra incentive to contribute to this year’s United Way campaign.
Karen Runyon, United Way assistant, has secured prizes from nearly 30
community businesses and organizations.
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Automated online system to provide local weather updates
Residents in East
Central Indiana may find the latest weather information online as a
result of a new system at Ball State.
Ball
State’s
weather station has been upgraded, adding an automated weather
monitoring system that updates every five minutes. Observations include
temperature, heat index, wind chill, humidity, wind, barometric pressure
and precipitation. Daily extreme values are also recorded.
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Employers prefer to receive
resumes electronically
 The majority
of American firms prefer to receive resumes from job candidates
electronically because it makes hiring more efficient, says Joseph
Goodwin, assistant director of Ball State's Career Center.
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