News Articles in November 11

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS today announced that WIPB-TV has been awarded $175,000 to work with community partners to provide science and literacy resources for young learners in underserved areas.

Ball State University’s Department of Journalism has announced guidelines for the 2019 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award competition.

Research by the Human Performance Laboratory (HPL) finds that lifelong exercisers in their 70s have the same quality of health as people decades younger.

Innovate WithIN is a statewide pitch competition for high school students. Aspiring innovators are invited to develop and submit their ideas and win up to $100,000 in prizes.

Hoosiers believe that hard drugs are a “very serious” problem in their communities but are receptive to making marijuana legal for personal use.

Ball State’s entrepreneurship program is the 12th best among undergraduate offerings in the nation.

Ball State undergraduates Maddie Clark and Kaitlin Gavenda are winners of the prestigious Udall Scholarship, a $7,000 award that celebrates student leadership, public service and commitment to issues related to the environment or to Native American nations.

In recognition of extraordinary community outreach, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has named Ball State University the winner of the 2018 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award.

A new study found that relationships for couples often improve when fathers take parental leave during the first nine months of a child’s life.

The ambitions, disappointments, and obstacles of aspiring actresses will be on display during Ball State’s “Stage Door” mainstage production. The play, an adaptation of the four-time Oscar nominated movie, will open at 7:30 p.m. November 9 at University Theatre. Additional shows are November 10 and 13-17 at 7:30 p.m. and November 11 at 2:30 p.m.

Gabrielle DeLobbe, a Belgian resistance fighter and World War II veteran who now lives in Fort Wayne, discusses his war experiences in “Saboteur,” a documentary produced by Ball State University.

Ball State donated 250 dry erase lap boards, dry erase pens and erasers to be distributed by the United Way of Howard County to pre-K classrooms or families to help children be ready for kindergarten.