Carlina Scalf

Bill and Marilyn McKnight sit at the counter in their new Serenity Drive home, cutting fresh flowers for a gathering they are hosting. Tomorrow, their friends are stopping by to help them celebrate their new home. “We’ve been a part of this dinner…

Ball State alumna Natasha Chopra is a graduate student at Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. Chopra chose to specialize in art therapy because of a personal experience she had with its healing power in high school. Natasha Chopra, Photo…

Imagine a sea of Ball State students gathering in front of the Arts Terrace at the David Owsley Museum of Art, not for graduation, but demonstration. At 10:30 a.m. May 7, 1970, a student yelled into a microphone, “Ball State, where are you?” The …

Every day Emily Halley gets up, goes to her office in Southborough, Massachusetts, and makes a difference with marketing. As a fellow for the Olympus Corporation of the Americas, she takes on a variety of projects — from social media marketing to …

In the summer of 2012, then-16-year-old LeiLei Secor decided to start selling jewelry on Etsy as a last-ditch effort at summer employment. By December, she was in the process of buying a brand-new 2013 car in cash. Almost six years later, her Etsy …

From July to November of 2016, Ball State alumnus Doug Jones was on location in Toronto, Canada, on the set of his latest film project; pretty normal for a Hollywood actor. Decidedly less normal? Acting in a rubber suit, under dense layers of makeup, …

On any given day, Peter Champelli could be shooting video of a live news event, designing motion graphics for a non-profit or putting together the perfect radio story package. All are part of his daily life as a sophomore emerging media major at …

Like many college students, Upasna Barath has questions: Is it okay to be a romantic? How do you find what you’re passionate about? How do you know if your crush likes you? Unlike many college students, Barath doesn’t endlessly ponder her questions …

Ball State First Lady Jennifer Mearns has always wanted to appear on a cooking show, and on Nov. 28 she will finally make her debut when she appears on “Slice That Price,” making a special batch of her mother’s Thanksgiving stuffing. “My husband …

Even years later, I can still remember the pure, unadulterated fear I felt on my (second) first day of high school after transferring from an all-girls school to a co-ed one my sophomore year. Walking down the hallway, I was hit by the distinct smell …

Those passing through the one-flashing-light town of Gaston this Saturday are liable to see games of pumpkin ball, rock-paper-scissors tournaments, grilled food, bounce houses, the Hunter Smith Band and even the world's longest field goal kick. …

As is often the case, it all started with a One Direction concert. “We were looking at the fan merchandise and realized the stuff they were selling had been designed by super old men who didn’t know what we wanted,” says Nishiki Maredia, who, at …

Vickie Sampson will be visiting Ball State’s campus this week to screen her newest directorial work, the short film “Shelby’s Vacation.” The screening will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arts and Journalism Building Room 175. While her return to …

For most college interns, grunt work means rote, repetitive office tasks under bright fluorescent lights, but for Virginia Tech junior Farren Vaughan, it means harvesting a flax plant in front of a crowd. Vaughan spends many weekends sitting in the …

It’s a bright summer day in Los Angeles, and Anah Lewi is sitting across from a concerned high school girl. She is having a one-on-one conference with a student enrolled in the local chapter of the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program, a national …

Sophomore student Emily Naville came home from a spring break trip in March 2017 with big news for her parents. No, it was not that she had partied too hard on a beach somewhere — instead, she had requested papers to apply to a religious order. “They …

On Feb. 3, Emily Halley, senior marketing major and SGA treasurer, will send off a résumé to a company she has been dreaming of working for since middle school. While many students may not think to send their résumés off in the form of a cardboard …

Vanessa Trosper returned to her usual cash register in the Ball State Atrium on Oct. 27 with her familiar sweet smile and buoyant energy. If not for the scar on her chest, one would never know that a few months ago she underwent an open-heart, double

At 3 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon, Allègre’s staff hurries to lay out precise place settings and perfect that night’s recipes. Walking in, a person would never know that the entire restaurant is the work of Ball State students who have limited …

Bryan Defoe didn’t plan on leaving school without a degree. And yet, by Christmas break of his sophomore year of college, he already knew the upcoming semester would be his last. The pressures of classes paired with the inability to cope with college …