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Students use emerging technology to boost Indiana tourism
Visitors and homegrown travelers alike soon will be able to drive 500 miles through a slice of Indiana—albeit slower than an Indy racecar circuiting the famed oval during May—checking out transportation-themed historic sites and hot spots, thanks to immersive learning students at Ball State University and a trio of professors combining skills from the disparate fields of journalism and geography.
Circus life hits the stage as Ball State students adapt Hoosier author's novel into musical
How do you take tightrope walkers, elephant trainers, and circus clowns and turn them into fodder a musical audience will love? That's been the semester-long challenge presented to Ball State University's Beth Turcotte and her team of 14 students as they create an original musical inspired by Hoosier author Cathy Day's novel, The Circus in Winter.
Ball State a finalist in national bridge design competition, leaving rivals behind
When it comes to designing bridges, a group of Ball State University students outperformed teams of engineering students from Purdue University, Case Western Reserve University, and other prominent engineering programs to advance to the finals of a national competition.
Students seek family members of Alzheimer's patients for educational videos
When telecommunications professor Maria Williams-Hawkins got the phone call that her friend was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she knew she had to do something to help. She knew that her friends in the School of Nursing would help her, too.
Art In Sight encourages museum visitors to take a closer look
Most people take five to 10 seconds to examine a work of art. It's what they might miss about the objects in that fraction of time that prompted Beth Dalton and her team of students to spend the semester making the interactive Web site Art In Sight.