Browse Exhibits (20 total)

Ball State students in the energy assessment project worked with ecoREHAB, a community partner.  About 50 students used home energy assessment tools to assess, analyze, and evaluate energy utilization in four Muncie residences. Students engaged in a student research-based program, students’ understanding of home energy assessment, and curriculum development. This project helps general understanding of building energy to students and solves a community challenge of home energy consumption under the guidance of Dr. Juntae Jake Son (Assistant Professor of Interior Design) and Dr. Sherif Attalah.

The Conservation Tales Immersive Learning Project develops books about wildlife conservation for students. The 2022 team is producing books about Macaws and Sloths, including versions in both English and Spanish.

Health Science 302 and 494 are courses that include junior and senior majors completing their final semester of coursework before beginning their internships. The courses seek to highlight the skills necessary to delivery health education programs in a variety of settings, where micro-level (interpersonal interactions) and macro-level (organizational and mass-media) applications are emphasized. Many of the course objectives are achieved in the context of a semester-long group project, where each student group is asked to identify a health problem and develop a social marketing-driven health campaign for community members taking part in exercise classes at the Cardinal Wellness program at Harvest Christian Church in Muncie's Whitely community. Students in the spring section of HSC 302 (Program Planning II – 10 students total) were asked to implement the social marketing programs designed by the 494 students in the fall semester, as part of the next integration of the Immersive Learning grant. Social media content was published on the program’s Facebook page and print materials were distributed on site at Cardinal Wellness by students in the course during brief educational sessions. Topics ranged from exercising at home to managing stress as a caregiver and prevention of kidney disease.

Faculty: Drs. Christina Jones, Shannon Powers, and Jean Charles Lebeau 

Community Partner: Harvest Christian Church, Cardinal Wellness, Whitely Community Council 

Students: Cede Paul, Courtney Herrington, Sierra Dean, Andrew Hartley, Cora Vercellotti, Clara Haywood, Haley Broadnax, Janielle Jones, Kenzi McCormick, Erin Wright

The Philosophy Outreach Project gets high school students across Indiana thinking.

POP creates alternative spaces for learning in classrooms, clubs, online, and conference settings. By curating philosophical content and fostering philosophical discussion, POP provides high school students with tools and a platform to engage with each other and the world.

POP is run by four teams of Ball State students with a variety of different interests and backgrounds. POP's team includes students studying philosophy, psychology, French, Spanish, religious studies, criminal justice, and more. 

This diversity of interests and knowledge allows for an impressive level of collaboration, which is ultimately what makes POP successful in promoting and facilitating pre-college philosophy.

For more information about POP, check out our website.

The City of Muncie has diverse communities with friendly people, an interesting past, and outstanding cultural amenities that make it a desired place to live, do business, and visit. Until Spring 2019, a lot of the neighborhoods in Muncie were lacking proper visual identification. A strong visual identity was needed to elevate the image of the neighborhood as well as provide a sense of pride among the residents.

In partnership with Building Better Neighborhoods and Muncie Action Plan, we worked with a core group of committee members from various Muncie Neighborhoods to develop their visual identity.

Check out the other neighborhood identities at the Studio 165+ website: www.studio165plus.com/bbn

The Whitely Community is a traditionally African American neighborhood in Muncie that, from a historical point of view, has not been “on the map”, both literally and metaphorically. The aim of this interdisciplinary immersive learning project is to produce paper and virtual maps together with the neighborhood association and the broader community to tell personal histories of Whitely in time and space. Special emphasis is given to so-called story maps that combine individual accounts, memories of place, images and videos and allow map users to navigate through the past and present of the neighborhood.

Students in this course explored the potential of stories to enable connections among readers from diverse backgrounds and considers how such literary points of contact can expand outward. Students read contemporary American fiction that treats of the lived experience of characters belonging to different religious groups. We visited local religious centers and interacted with participants in Maring-Hunt Public Library book clubs. Students developed reading guides to empower people to facilitate difficult conversations in their own communities about religious diversity.

In the spring 2022 semester, the Urban Planning 498 class worked with the Muncie Land Bank to find appropriate properties for the land bank to acquire. The mission of the Muncie Land Bank, Inc., is to acquire abandoned and blighted property, preserve it, and provide it to the public for strategic redevelopment. 

ARTS! Muncie After-School connects Ball State students with real-world experience through hands-on teaching in an after-school program within the Muncie Community Schools. This experience involves students from the Department of Theatre and Dance at BSU (THEA 434) in collaboration with two elementary schools within the Muncie community: Westview Elementary and Northview Elementary. BSU students prepare and learn about pedagogy through the first 8 weeks of the semester, then through a four-week period of after-school rehearsals with the elementary students, they prepare the students for a final performance where they present what they have been working on to their peers and guardians. ARTS! Muncie provides a much-needed after-school program and gives college students more opportunities to teach dance directly to students under faculty mentorship. Thus, creating knowledgeable and more empathetic teachers. Research, instruction, and reflection are the means by which this program will develop the teachers necessary to help enrich the after-school programs offered in the Muncie community.