Lawhead Award recipient named Long-time mathematical sciences instructor Robin Rufatto is the recipient of this year's Lawhead Award for Teaching in the University Core Curriculum. FULL STORY
Health Fellows initiative launches this fall Former Cardinals star chosen to direct the university's latest immersive learning program — the Health Fellows project — that could be a first step toward a new worksite wellness minor. FULL STORY
Virginia Ball Center seminars delve into crime, business, science Four new fellows have been selected to lead semester-long seminars during the 2008-09 academic year at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Their immersive learning seminars will focus on sexual assault, virtual business, interdisciplinary business operations and honeybees. FULL STORY
President Gora travels to Asia President Jo Ann M. Gora is one of three Ball State representatives making a trip to China and Korea June 6 to 27. This is President Gora's second trip to the region as Ball State's president. FULL STORY
Steve Bell recalls covering RFK's assassination
June 5 marked the 40th-year observance of the assassination of Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy. Steve Bell, former ABC News correspondent and emeritus professor of telecommunications, was in the Embassy Room ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Sen. Kennedy was killed. Watch video of Bell reflecting on the tumultuous event.
Soldiers to recall 'Big Red One' Ball State students will spend their summer interviewing veterans of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division to preserve the veterans' memories. FULL STORY