Walai Jantawiboon, a first-generation Chinese born in Thailand, saw firsthand the devastation brought by the tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004. Gracie Brownell suffered in her home country, too, often going hungry and enduring homelessness as a child in Liberia during her native land’s civil war. In time, the tragedies led both Walai (pictured) and […]
I never really thought about this when I was in college, but university professors don’t just take the summer as a time to sleep in and lay on the beach for three months. With an open schedule, many professors are able to use the summer months as a time to learn new skills or brush […]
“Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.” So Baylor baseball gets one Academic All-American? The Lady Bears go out and get two. Senior first baseman Alex Colyer earned first team Academic All-America honors while junior outfielder Tiffany Wesley was named to the second team. The duo are […]
Exactly a week after receiving All-Big 12 honors from the league’s coaches, Baylor junior Aaron Miller became the seventh student-athlete in Baylor baseball history to earn Academic All-America honors, following in the footsteps of pitcher Pat Combs (1988), first baseman Charley Carter (1998), pitcher Jason Jennings (1998-99), outfielder Jon Topolski (1998-99), first baseman Ross Bennett […]
Stumbled across this article today in Texas Lawyer about the role of faith at religiously affiliated law schools. The article talks quite a bit about Baylor Law School, and while we’ve often read about how Baylor Law focuses on preparing students for the courtroom in very practical ways, there’s another angle to the preparation as […]
We wrote about the Fly Girls of World War II about a year and a half ago, when a traveling exhibit on the female Air Force pilots was on display at Baylor’s Mayborn Museum; that exhibit is now showing at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Washington, D.C. (If you don’t remember […]
Debate was my primary extracurricular activity all through junior high and high school. In fact, my first exposure to Baylor came the summer before I entered eighth grade, when I came to debate camp at Baylor. I returned for debate camp in high school, and my familiarity with campus from those two stays was what […]
Our neighbors to the north in the Dallas area were rattled by a 3.3-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning. While Texas isn’t exactly in the same league as California when it comes to quakes, it does have its share of seismic activity. Baylor scientists are working with scientists from across the country to map the United States’ […]
Nearly 1,900 Baylor students became Baylor alumni over the weekend during the spring commencement ceremonies; almost 140,000 people have now earned Baylor diplomas since the University’s first classes were held 163 years ago yesterday. (Happy belated birthday, Baylor!) While putting together this photo gallery, I was struck by all the joyous faces. New alumni, you’ve […]
It was a busy weekend for many of Baylor’s athletic programs, and a pretty successful one: * Most notably, head coach Glenn Moore’s Lady Bear softball team swept through the Waco Regional, advancing to the program’s third Super Regional in five years. Baylor will head north to play at No. 5 seed Michigan Friday and […]
