University officials announced Thursday that an anonymous Baylor graduate has pledged his or her estate, conservatively estimated to be in the $200 million range, to the University. The funds will benefit medical research in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Social Work, and other programs. When numbers that large are tossed around, […]
Habitat for Humanity was founded in Georgia in 1976; eleven years later, Baylor Habitat became the first Habitat Campus Chapter in the world. Today, there are nearly 500 campus chapters at U.S. high schools and colleges, and Baylor’s — the granddaddy of them all, so to speak — is still going strong. Baylor Habitat for […]
Not long after Jane Norris graduated from Baylor in 1969 with a degree in medical technology and biology, she learned her infant son had a blood disorder that required multiple transfusions. Thankfully her child recovered, but the experience led Norris into a career as a medical technologist specializing in blood banking. After years of working […]
For over 20 years, Baylor has held a strong leadership role in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), a global competition sponsored by IBM with over 22,000 participants from nearly 2,000 universities. Students from 82 countries on every continent but Antarctica participate in regional competitions that advance teams on to the annual ACM-ICPC World […]
