News Articles in September 2009

Mary Annette Rose, associate professor of technology, is the Rawlings Award recipient for her work in distance education.

Ball State celebrates more than 80 years of Homecoming tradition with the “Best Week Ever” theme.

Proactive efforts to make the campus a healthier place to work earn Ball State an award from a national health and wellness organization.

Ball State is the only college or university in the state to have an undergraduate entrepreneurship program ranked among the top 25 in a new survey by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.

An education technology professor is teaching students how to use emerging technology as a learning tool for themselves and their future students.

Earl Conn, a longtime journalism professor and first dean of the College of Communication, Information, and Media, died Sunday, Sept. 20, after a short illness.

"It's exciting to work at a place where even our production facilities win Emmy Awards," exclaimed Roger Lavery, dean of the College for Communication, Information, and Media, as he learned that the $21 million David Letterman Communication and Media Building has won an Emmy for technical achievement.

Ball State's reputation as a leader of emerging media has resulted in students developing software applications for Google's cell phone operating system.

University Theatre will transform into a world of peace and love when the student production of “Hair” hits the Ball State stage. The musical, which centers its story on hippies, drugs, and protests of the Vietnam War, begins its run on Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Ball State’s School of Music has again been named one of “In Tune’s Best Music Schools” by In Tune Monthly magazine.

The Board of Trustees adopted a 2009-10 general fund budget for the university of just more than $296 million as well as formal spending plans for auxiliary operations including Housing and Dining Service and Athletics totaling more than $85.4 million. The members also approved the establishment of three organizations meant to help facilitate the development and transfer to the commercial sector of intellectual property and technology owned by Ball State.

The university is encouraging the public to take its first look at these digital innovations and more during the grand opening of the Helen B. and Martin D. Schwartz Special Collections and Digital Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 17 in Bracken Library.

Indianapolis to host expanded Greening of the Campus conference for first time.

With two years remaining in the Ball State Bold: Investing in the Future capital campaign, the university already is more than 88 percent of the way to its $200 million goal. But, while pleased with donors' response to date — especially in the current economic recession — leaders of the fundraising effort say there still is much work to be done.

Ribbon cutting

Telecommunications students will have the opportunity to learn from Robert Mugge, a creator of legendary music documentaries for the last three decades.