The Virtual Middletown Living Museum project in Blue Mars is a simulation of the Ball Glass factory from early 20th century Muncie, Indiana. Life and conditions in the factory were one of the key elements of the Middletown Studies by Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd in their landmark studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). These in-depth accounts…
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The public will be able to explore the prehistoric Newark Earthworks in Ohio the way they appeared 2,000 years ago thanks to an interactive 3D simulation under development at Ball State University. The Newark Earthworks comprise the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world, built by the Hopewell People between A.D. 1 to A.D.…
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Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, 2019-2020 A Study of Disparities in Healthcare Resources for Vulnerable Populations Mengxi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences,conducts research on acculturation and health among refugees in the United States, well-being among rural-to-urban Migrants in southeast ssia; disaster resilience among refugees in the United States, and the evaluation of medical…
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Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, 2019-2020 Global Manure Phosphorus Production during 1960–2016: a 5-arcminute Gridded Global Dataset for Earth System Modeling (GMPP) Bowen Zhang is Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. Her research examines the behavior of greenhouse gases, particularly in response to global changes, including climate, land use and land management…
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Department of Urban Planning, 2019-2020 The Dark Store Theory and Big Box Stores Michael Burayidi is Professor of Urban Planning. He has written widely on downtown redevelopment and planning with multiple publics. He is working with the DSL and University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection to produce a visualization of urban property tax revenues…
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Kalani CraigSeptember 18, 2019 On Thursday, September 18, 2019, Kalani Craig, Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University, introduced BSU faculty, staff and students to Net.Create, a network analysis tool developed for both digital history and digital pedagogy research teams. Craig leads a team developing Net.Create, an NSF-funded multi-user network…
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April 19-30, 2021 Ball State hosted the Library Circulation History Workshop from April 19-30, 2021. Its aim was to make historic library circulation data more accessible and more analytically powerful. Over the past two decades, a number of digital projects have provided scholars and the public access to a rich body of evidence derived from…
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The Library Circulation Histories Workshop (April 19-30, 2021) took place in virtual asynchronous form. Building on the success of the What Middletown Read project, it drew together scholars from several countries to explore ways to make historic library circulation data more accessible and more analytically powerful. Over a growing number of projects have provided scholars…
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Michael Burayidi, Professor of Urban Planning, worked with the DSL and with Angie Gibson of University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection to produce The Dark Store Theory and Big Box Stores, a visualization of urban property tax revenues, to demonstrate the inefficiencies associated with low-density land use (such as big box stores surrounded by…
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Everyday Life in Middletown (EDLM) is an ongoing collaboration between Ball State and citizens of Muncie, Indiana, to record, represent, and discuss everyday life in our city. Volunteers keep detailed diaries of their daily activities, which become part of our online archive. These diaries reveal countless details of everyday life that would otherwise go unrecorded.…
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