Ball State University students will return to campus for classes in August, but the university says it will send students home for Thanksgiving and continue online-only instruction through the end of the fall semester.

The computers are part of a network creating a "virtual supercomputer" that is currently helping the Baker Laboratory at the University of Washington map the structure of proteins in the novel coronavirus.

The parking lot near the intersection of Tillotson and Bethel avenues will become a Wi-Fi hotspot, where anyone can connect to the bsuguest network and use the high-speed connection.

With coronavirus precautions at Ball State University suspending in-person classes and closing the dorms, small merchants near campus face challenges they normally only have in the summer months.

Ball State Universitys president says the school moved classes mostly online in response to coronavirus as part of a comprehensive and coordinated strategy across our country.

Ball State University is the latest college in Indiana to suspend in-person classes in response to the COVID-19.

Study abroad programs for this summer and next fall will be canceled. That will affect about 50 programs, encompassing about 275 students.

The professor at Ball State University who called police to his classroom after a black student refused to change seats will not be teaching for the remainder of the semester, the school said in a written statement.

Hundreds of Ball State University students gathered for a rally to demand the early retirement of a white professor who called police on a black student who refused to change seats last week during a class.

A longtime bat researcher has noticed that some species have become hard or impossible to find. The primary cause is white-nose syndrome, an exotic infectious disease associated with a fungus introduced to the Albany, N.Y., area from Europe in 2006. It has spread west ever since, killing bats by the millions.