Welcome to Researchers in the SPOtlight. Here you will find engaging and exciting content that highlights the accomplishments of several university professors from various departments around campus. Through personal interviews, videos, and photography, you will be provided with exclusive insight into the research and creative endeavors of faculty and students that are making a positive impact within the Ball State and Muncie community. Enjoy!
| Researcher(s) | Department | Project Title | Project Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Connolly | Center for Middletown Studies/ History | Internationally Attended Conference Examines Print Culture | Dr. Connolly brings researchers from around the world "to explore the ways that printed material was produced, consumed, circulated, and encountered in smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, colonial outposts, and comparable contexts" |
| Nicola Schmerbeck | Modern Languages and Classics | Think Transatlantic: Promoting Transatlantic Dialogue | In the fall 2012 semester, “more than 6,000 students at 30 colleges and universities across the United States discussed the current state and possible future roles of the close and vital relationship between the United States and Germany”[ii] as well as Germany within Europe during the "Think Transatlantic Campus Weeks." |
| Diana Saiki and Jinhee Nam | Family and Consumer Sciences | Impressing with Smart Dressing | Professor Saiki and Nam develop a fun and immersive community program to help Muncie residents take charge of their job search by helping them dress fashionably on smaller budgets |
| Jonathan Spodek | Architecture | A Green Solution To Housing Pollution | Professor Jonathan Spodek and his students team with members of the Muncie community to build better and more ecologically friendly homes for residents |
| Melody Bernot and Robert Pinger | Biology | West Nile Fever Virus Surveillance Cooperative Program | Ball State professors provide students with a collaborative and immersive internship experience that helps protect Indiana residents from the West Nile Virus |
| Mark Hill | Anthropology | Uncovering the Past on the Wabash | Students and professors from Ball State University help local community uncover their past by unearthing remnants of two historic battles on the Wabash River |
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