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Susana Rivera-Mills, Ball State's Provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, reports to the Board of Trustees Feb. 8, 2019. Rivera-Mills began her job as Provost July 1, 2018. Scott Fleener, DN

News Last Updated 12 hours ago

All Ball State summer classes moved online

By Staff Reports

In a campus wide email sent Wednesday, Susana Rivera-Mills, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Ball State, announced all in-person classes for the summer 2020 semester will transition to virtual teaching and learning.

In this March 10, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., visits outside a polling location at Warren E. Bow Elementary School in Detroit. AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File

News Last Updated 14 hours ago

Sanders drops 2020 bid, leaving Biden as likely nominee

By Associated Press

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have any reasonable hope of catching up.

George Gannage, assistant teaching professor of marketing and assistant director of the Center for Professional Selling in the Miller College of Business, died April 6, 2020, in Bloomington, Indiana, after suffering from a severe respiratory virus. Gannage joined Ball State's marketing faculty in August 2017. Ball State University, Photo Courtesy

News 4/7/2020, 10:32am

Ball State mourns death of marketing professor

By Staff Reports

George Gannage, assistant teaching professor of marketing and assistant director of the Center for Professional Selling in the Miller College of Business, died Monday morning in Bloomington, Indiana, after suffering from a severe respiratory virus, according to an email sent out by Susana Rivera-Mills, provost and executive vice president at Ball State.

Hudson, Wis., city clerk Becky Eggen displays some of the health alert and social distancing signs April 6, 2020, that were to be used in Tuesday's election, postponed by the governor Monday afternoon. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday moved to postpone the state's presidential primary for two months because of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting a court challenge and adding to confusion about whether voters will be able to head to the polls on Tuesday. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

News 4/7/2020, 10:00am

5 national stories of the week

By Associated Press

Wisconsin’s primary elections, Congress and the White House aiming for another coronavirus rescue package, a white supremacist group being deemed a terrorist organization, hackers targeting video conference calls and this week’s supermoon make up this week’s five national stories.

In this March 29, 2020, photo, Rev. Steven Paulikas decorates an altar with palm fronds for Palm Sunday, which was commemorated virtually at All Saints' Episcopal Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The global coronavirus pandemic is upending the season's major religious holidays, forcing leaders and practitioners across faiths to improvise. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

News 4/6/2020, 10:00am

5 international stories of the week

By Associated Press

The pandemic altering Holy Week celebrations worldwide, a forest fire near the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the U.S.-Taliban peace deal, the U.K. prime minister being hospitalized and Queen Elizabeth II’s message to her nation make up this week’s five international stories.

In this March 24, 2020, file photo stacks of medical supplies are housed at the Jacob Javits Center that will become a temporary hospital in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York. A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

News 4/5/2020, 4:00pm

U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic

By Associated Press

As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

News 3/31/2020, 7:11pm

White House projects 100K to 240K US deaths from virus

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Americans to brace for a “rough two-week period” ahead as the White House released new projections that there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus pandemic even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained.