While we often emphasize Baylor faculty and students’ involvement in overseas mission trips, not to be overlooked is local service — demonstrating that same love that is carried overseas for our neighbors right here at home. In the past week alone, such caring has manifested itself in three different ways at Baylor. Last Thursday, the […]
While internships in Washington, D.C., aren’t uncommon for Baylor students, the opportunity to serve as an intern for both the U.S. Supreme Court and the White House in the same year is almost unheard of. For a sophomore to receive such an opportunity… Well, now you’re talking unique — and you’re talking Emanuel Gawrieh. As […]
Hollywood director John Lee Hancock, BA ’79, JD ’82, first made a name for himself in the movie business in 1993 as the writer of the screenplay for A Perfect World, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood and Kevin Costner. He went on to produce the critically acclaimed My Dog Skip before finding widespread […]
If practice makes perfect, then Baylor Law students are clearly well on their way to starting excellent careers. For the fourth straight year (and the seventh time in 12 years), a team of Baylor Law School students won first place at the annual Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition. The team of Jennifer Salim […]
While the tragic shootings at nearby Fort Hood have dropped from the national headlines, the victims and those around them have not been forgotten in Central Texas. Baylor honored Fort Hood soldiers and their families by providing 1,000 tickets for last Saturday’s Baylor-Texas football game; a Fort Hood representative also ran onto the field with […]
It’s not unusual for Baylor administrators to receive requests from parents. It is unusual when that request is for a Baylor item that the parent — in this case, Col. Charles Hobaugh, commander of space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-129 mission — can take into space. Hobaugh (pictured) is the father of Baylor junior Stephanie Hobaugh, who […]
In February, the Dallas Morning News profiled high school senior Cody Novak as his basketball team prepared for the state semifinals. Novak, however, was sidelined in the midst of fighting a rare, aggressive form of cancer that developed into a grapefruit-sized tumor on his thigh and threatened to take not only his basketball career, but […]
The day after he turned 30, George Gaston, BBA ’93, learned from doctors that he had a major cyst on his brain. He underwent several surgeries. That process has helped Gaston — now CEO of Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital in Houston — relate to his patients and their families in a new way. That sort […]
Last year, the Baylor women’s basketball program received a commitment from the No. 1 high school player in the country, Brittney Griner, on National Signing Day. Griner, known for her 6-foot-8 height and ability to dunk, is now the Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year as the 4th-ranked Lady Bears open their season Sunday […]
Our thoughts and prayers remain with our neighbors at Fort Hood, 60 miles southeast of Waco, as they continue to deal with the tragic shooting that claimed 13 lives last Thursday. With the nation’s largest military base right outside their door, most every resident of nearby Killeen has some connection to the base where the […]
