Ball State sophomore launches beauty, self-care company from home
ByStar Gooch, a sophomore music education major, said she always had a deep-rooted desire to make healthy products for the mind, body and spirit.
Star Gooch, a sophomore music education major, said she always had a deep-rooted desire to make healthy products for the mind, body and spirit.
With summer in session, warm nights are the perfect time to get outside and look at the sky.
Amanda Hughes, owner of Forever Young Children’s Boutique, has always known she was a business woman at heart.
Tyler Hollis, junior actuarial science major, is spending his summer as intern working virtually for CNO Financial Group.
The First Thursday events during the months of April and May in downtown Muncie were not bustling as usual.
Jennifer Erickson, anthropology professor at Ball State, will be traveling to Bosnia during the spring 2021 semester after winning a U.S. Scholar award from the Fulbright program.
This April, much like she had done in the past 10 years, Stefanie Onieal held a poetry activity for her second-grade students over the Zoom video conference platform.
While the greenhouse continues to remain closed for in-person visits, it is still conducting its annual orchid sale entirely online — the first time in the sale’s nine-year history that it has taken this form.
A ten-minute phone call saved Mike Stetzel’s life. On the other end, Stetzel’s donor coordinator told him he’d receive the kidney he’d been waiting on for four years to cure his polycystic kidney disease.
Freshman theater creations major Paloma Sutter said she was devastated to hear she could not perform in “House of Bernarda Alba” as she had planned.
When Taylor Poer came home from the hospital the day she was born, she said, she was told she was already wearing Ball State socks.
When she was in high school, Erica Forstater said, she participated in the Student Conservation Association (SCA), a non-profit group whose members protect and restore land throughout the U.S.
Every morning, Sean White sips his third cup of coffee while greeting students with encouragement as they file into the halls of South View Elementary in Muncie.
Most special education teachers spend their days helping students learn core subjects; however, recent studies have shown that students with disabilities often have lower confidence and self-esteem because it can be hard for them to “view their disability as one component of their lives, not the only component.”
“Help me understand that more.” Five simple words that reveal the character of the person making the request. Genuine vulnerability, leadership, humility and confidence are conveyed to those on the receiving end. It’s a request for insight Lee Ann Kwiatkowski makes of almost every individual she meets — community members, administrators, teachers and students alike.
As the weather continues to get nicer and social activities remain closed, spring cleaning can become more appealing for those practicing self-distancing and quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While “A Dark and Starless Forest” was just introduced to the Young Adult book community, Sarah Hollowell, a 2015 Ball State alumna, has known about her debut book’s announcement for nearly four months, and it has been one of her hardest-kept secrets.
Even though families may not be able to gather for Easter dinner this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they can still enjoy the holiday together with FaceTime, Skype and other video-conferencing apps.
Families in cars, vans and trucks alike trickled into the parking lot of Let There Be Art in Muncie between noon and 4 p.m. March 18 to pick up their free kids’ “Quar-ART-ine kit” from owner and artist Misty Cougill.
As she sat in the audience watching the Russian Ballet Company as a kid put on their performance of The Nutcracker in Indianapolis, Kelly DeLisle, a senior stage management major, knew that theater was for her.