“Doctors told my parents, ‘Bring your family. Say goodbye to her. She’s not going to make it through the night.’” Not only did Sequoia White make it through that night — with her cancer in remission, she’s now thriving as a Baylor freshman. It all started when Sequoia was in high school. In a very […]
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Baylor alumna Melissa Rogers (BA ’88) has spent her entire professional life at the intersection of religion and public life. After earning Phi Beta Kappa honors and her bachelor’s in history at Baylor, Rogers completed a law degree at Penn. Since then, she has worked for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, the Pew […]
How many superhero movies and sequels will they really keep making? Where exactly is the Star Wars franchise headed? What can Hollywood tangibly do to support women directors? How have tablets and smartphones affected the film industry? Baylor professor Chris Hansen is a go-to expert on topics such as these. He’s an award-winning writer and […]
One’s a leading conservative voice, the other a leading progressive intellectual. They disagree on virtually any issue you can think of — but they agree on this: When seeking the truth, we must be willing, even eager, to engage with those who believe differently than us — and to do so in love. That was […]
The game didn’t turn out the way we’d hoped, but even that end result wasn’t enough to spoil a tremendous day on the Brazos last Saturday. Baylor Family, we urged you to turn out for ESPN’s College GameDay — and boy, did you come through! From the student campout Friday night, through the broadcast Saturday […]
A few years ago, we shared our list of “25 epic dishes every Baylor Bear knows (or should know)” — the restaurants and menu items that every student and alum knows and remembers. That’s still a good list — but this time around, we’re taking a different approach. As Waco has grown, so have the options. […]
Headed into this weekend’s big game against Oklahoma, the Baylor football team is ranked in the top 15 nationally in every major poll (10th in the coaches poll, 12th by the AP, and 13th by the College Football Playoff committee). Of course, top-15 programs are not a new phenomenon at Baylor. Just among active sports, […]
ESPN’s College GameDay returns to the Baylor campus this Saturday. Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and the rest of the gang will be broadcasting live from just outside McLane Stadium between 8-11 a.m. Baylor Family: We need you in that crowd Saturday, showing your love for BU. The GameDay broadcast offers a three-hour nationwide […]
This fall, Baylor welcomed nearly 100 new faculty members to campus. It’s an impressive group, full of men and women who came to Baylor from such universities as Yale, Duke, Princeton, USC and Ohio State, as well as a variety of research institutes, laboratories and medical organizations. What brings such top scholars to Baylor? We […]
It stands to reason that if students connect deeply to their new community early in college life, and are then presented with learning environments that consistently inspire and engage, that those students will be best suited to get the most out of the collegiate experience. Those are aspects Baylor intentionally builds into the student experience, […]
