CERES, or the Center for Energy/Research/Education/Service, is an internal academic support group that addresses issues related to conservation and sustainability at not only Ball State, but also the entire Muncie community and state as a whole. The CERES building was completed in 1982 as an addition to the R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) building in order topromote education about energy.
The CERES faculty engages in energy-related research, student-focused teaching, and provides educational services in order to spread awareness about developments in the energy industry. CERES also helps develop new strategies and alternative methods to the current energy framework in the community. CERES also establishes and maintains contact with both public and private groups and organizations in order to introduce new sustainable technologies, as well as perform research to gather knowledge and insight that can benefit the community.
The CERES mission statement includes the following:
- To maintain ongoing programs for the examination of state-of-the-art energy conservation and end-use practices
- To investigate alternative solutions to contemporary energy problems
- To develop projections and implications of the results of these solutions
- To devise means of implementing these ideas
- To disseminate findings to the appropriate publics—professionals, educators, policy planners, students and laypersons
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