The Chronicle of Higher Education recently crunched the numbers on how many freshman National Merit Scholars enrolled at various colleges this fall. Baylor ranks 26th nationally with 84 such students, up two spots from a year ago. To put this in perspective, when it comes to attracting many of the country’s top high school students, […]
It seems like we’re posting on Baylor basketball every week, but as long as the teams keep up their current hot starts, we’ll be glad to keep writing about them. Coach Kim Mulkey’s Lady Bears are off to a 3-0 start to Big 12 Conference play for the first time in program history (hard to […]
Did you know that Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching comes with the single largest monetary reward — $200,000 — of any national teaching award? Dr. Stephen D. Davis, a biology professor at Pepperdine, was yesterday named the 2008 Cherry Award winner. He will spend this fall teaching in residence at Baylor. In […]
Looking for ways to show your Baylor pride? If you live in Texas, you can get a special Baylor University license plate like the one seen here. It costs an extra $30, but most of that money goes to the Higher Education Coordinating Board to fund scholarships. If you’re interested, you can even order online. […]
Baylor’s has joined a growing number of universities in opening a campus chapter of ONE, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of extreme poverty. In fact, the Baylor chapter has grown so quickly that it already ranks among the top 50 in the nation. For its efforts, Baylor got to send a representative to […]
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Baylor’s men’s basketball team has received a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so, given their impressive 12-2 start. But don’t forget the Lady Bears; head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad is ranked No. 8 in the nation and began conference play this week. Junior Rachel Allison (pictured) is the reigning Big 12 Player of the […]
Baylor’s reputation as a university with faculty recognized as leaders in their discipline received a nice boost this week as, for the second year in a row, a Baylor professor took home the New Scholars Achievement Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS). The CSGS, which includes all major graduate schools in 17 […]
Spring semester classes don’t start until Monday, but the spring athletic season is already underway. And if preseason prognostications hold up, the next several months should be a lot of fun for Baylor fans. Baylor’s men’s tennis team is ranked No. 4 nationally, with a pair of players in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA’s) singles […]
Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business saw not one but two of its graduates receive national honors from BusinessWeek in the magazine’s year-end issue. Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who graduated from Baylor in 1979 with a degree in marketing, was named BusinessWeek‘s Businessperson of the Year, beating out big names like Apple’s Steve Jobs and media […]
