March 18, 2019
The Indianapolis tech industry is experiencing a talent shortage in part because so many companies are looking for the "Goldilocks" employee—not too green, not too expensive—rather than developing their own pipelines, TechPoint CEO Mike Langellier told an industry crowd Friday.
June 28, 2018
Story quotes Ball State University economist Michael Hicks.
February 2, 2018
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks. Note: Placement is due to a story idea developed and distributed by UMC’s media team.
September 25, 2017
Story notes the latest building project in Indiana’s booming health-care landscape is a $62 million Health Professions complex at Ball State University, which will consolidate classrooms, laboratories, offices, a physical fitness center and community health clinics. Note: Placement is due to a story idea developed and distributed by UMC’s media team.
June 9, 2017
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks, who presented the 2017 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card. Note: CNHI News Service also distributed the story to news media outlets across the state. Placements are due to a story idea developed with Conexus Indiana, an organization that promotes advanced manufacturing and logistics, and distributed by UMC’s media team.
June 21, 2016
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks.
June 2, 2016
Story quotes CBER director Michael Hicks about his annual manufacturing and logistics report. Note: WIBC-FM and Inside Indiana Business also posted stories on the report.
February 18, 2016
Story notes Ball State will lease about 3,000 square feet to create the Center for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Companies working from Launch will have access to university research, faculty and students.
October 31, 2015
Editorial quotes CBER director Michael Hicks.
October 28, 2015
Story features research by CBER director Michael Hicks.
October 22, 2015
St. Vincent Health has received a $1 million donation from John Schnatter, the CEO of the Papa John’s pizza chain, which it will use to help construct an extended-stay home for patients’ families.
April 25, 2015
Story notes that in his new book, “Dirty Bomb” (Oberlin College Press), Ball State professor Mark Neely looks, poetically, at the impact of terror—actually more like the impact of fear of terror and of terror talk from politicians and the news media—on our everyday lives.
April 18, 2015
Story notes that the state’s largest program—Ball State —is surviving by pitching itself as an upper-end place where serious students migrate no matter the condition of the economy.
March 21, 2015
President Ferguson is quoted in a story about how state colleges increasing the number of graduates while education levels haven't budged quotes.
February 28, 2015
Column by Bruce Race, who teaches urban design at Ball State’s Downtown Indianapolis Center.
February 21, 2015
Cecil Bohanon, an economics professor, coauthors a guest column.
February 14, 2015
Story quotes Dom Caristi, a telecommunications professor.
January 31, 2015
Story analyzes the aftermath of Ball State losing $13 million through two investment scams.
January 12, 2015
CBER director Michael Hicks pens a column.
Note: This column will be posted by media outlets across the state in the coming week.
January 3, 2015
CBER director Michael Hicks pens a guest column.
Note: This column also was posted by The Indianapolis Star and The Star Press.
January 3, 2015
Bruce Race, architecture professor, pens a guest column.
December 20, 2014
The story cites a study by Ball State's Bowen Center.
November 29, 2014
Bruce Race, an architecture professor, pens a guest column.