Incoming freshmen visiting Baylor’s first home in Independence, Texas, as part of Baylor Line Camp yesterday welcomed two additional Bears as special visitors: President Ken Starr and his wife, Alice! (Baylor Photography provided pictures for this photo gallery, and the Waco Tribune-Herald has even more here and here.) After a tour of the Star of […]
Tune into ESPN tonight (8 p.m. CT) to see if Baylor women’s basketball All-American Brittney Griner is named the Best Breakthrough Athlete at the 2010 ESPYs, hosted by Saturday Night Live‘s Seth Meyers. Griner, of course, more than lived up to her billing as the top high school player in the nation a year ago. […]
When you think “research,” you probably tend to think of people in white labcoats working with test tubes or lasers or something. There’s certainly plenty of that kind of work going on at Baylor, from cancer research to particle colliders to water quality studies. But research can mean a lot of other types of study, […]
My wife and I watched All the President’s Men this weekend, the Robert Redford-Dustin Hoffman film that tells the tale of the two Washington Post reporters who dug up the Watergate scandal that would eventually lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. The movie brought to mind one of the key players as things unfolded in […]
In line with Baylor’s Christian heritage and mission, the university strives to a good steward of its resources, including the part of God’s creation that we call home — the beautiful Baylor campus. The university was recently recognized for its efforts by Keep Texas Beautiful (a statewide nonprofit dedicated to beautifying and improving community environments) […]
Since graduating from Baylor in 1992, Paul Jensen has put together a remarkably successful career as a business executive in the world of video games. He has helmed two casual games companies, served as vice president of Sony Pictures Digital, and currently works as director of business development for Microsoft’s xBox live. But while he […]
Baylor students benefit from having one of the most creative student activities departments in the nation — a belief we’ve long held that was recently backed up again by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), an organization that brings together student activities leaders from hundreds of colleges and universities in seven countries. Baylor and […]
With the summer well underway, Baylor’s class of 2014 is busy with Orientation and Line Camps, not only on campus but in Arkansas, North Carolina and Colorado as well (read more about that here). But just who are this fall’s freshmen? Here are just a few of the faces that will grace campus in just […]
For the fifth straight year, Baylor has been named one of the “best buys” in higher education by The Fiske Guide to Colleges — one of only 45 public and private colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain to make this year’s list. The rating is based on the quality of each school’s […]
