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Senior setter Jenna Spadafora sets up a ball in the second game of the Active Ankle Tournament against Belmont on Aug. 28 at Worthen Arena. DN PHOTO BROOK HAYNES

Spadafora named women's volleyball first team All-MAC

Senior setter Jenna Spadafora won her second straight First Team All-MAC award after an impressive 2015 regular season campaign. Spadafora has been one of the key reasons Ball State's women's volleyball team clinched the sixth seed in conference tournament with an 8-8 MAC record.



The Hibiki Trio will be performing on Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in Sursa Performance Hall. DN PHOTO KELLEN HAZELIP 

Hibiki Trio combines different instruments, experiences

A flute, viola and harp playing together might seem like an unusual combination, but they blend well when their musicians are as accomplished at their craft as the members of the Hibiki Trio, an ensemble made up of faculty from the School of Music.




Hitachi allows for more accurate multilingual speech recognition

Japanese technology corporation Hitachi Group announced that it has developed a speech signal processing technology that will allow for more accurate multilingual translation in noisy environments. The technology will be able to accurately recognize speech in environments with noise levels up to 70 decibels, or about as loud as the average vacuum cleaner.


85 percent of UK gamers bought 'Rise of the Tomb Raider'

As reported on Attack of the Fanboy, Chart Track announced that 85 percent of gamers in the UK purchased Rise of the Tomb Raider for the Xbox One and 15 percent bought the Xbox 360 version. Rise of the Tomb Raider faced serious competition this week, with Fallout 4 claiming the number one spot, while Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and FIFA 16 took second and third place, respectively.