Texas Monthly summed it up well: “Baylor is having a moment.” In just the last week, Baylor has graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, been featured in the Sunday New York Times, and learned that quarterback Robert Griffin III will grace the cover of EA’s NCAA Football 2013 video game. [WATCH: RG3 talks with BaylorBears.com […]
One of Baylor’s grandest traditions, All University Sing celebrated its 60th year in 2012. Today, 1 in every 10 Baylor students is a participant in Sing, and an even higher percentage has a hand in the event in some way at least once during their four years at Baylor. [WATCH: A brief history of Sing […]
Tonight is senior night for the Baylor men’s basketball team, as outgoing student-athletes Quincy Acy, Fred Ellis and Anthony Jones take the Ferrell Center court for the final time. Showing your support for the winningest class in program history should be enough to get you to the Ferrell Center — but in case you need […]
The remains of a 12-year-old boy found along the Texas border — almost certainly a migrant from Mexico — strike Baylor professor Dr. Lori Baker, BA ’93, MA ’94, hard. His clothes and belongings held no identification, and even a DNA test found no match. It’s for individuals such as this that Baker, an associate […]
Ten years ago this week, more than 1,000 guests attended the official dedication of George W. Truett Seminary’s new Baugh-Reynolds Campus. The new facility brought pastoral education back to the main Baylor campus for the first time since 1910, when Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (which began as Baylor Theological Seminary) left Waco for Fort Worth. […]
The only undefeated team in Division-I basketball (men’s or women’s), the unanimous No. 1 team in the country for most of the season, and now the Big 12 Conference champions for the second year in a row. That’s head coach Kim Mulkey’s Baylor women’s basketball team. The Lady Bears defeated Texas Tuesday night, 80-59, to […]
Earlier this month, the official Baylor Facebook page passed 75,000 likes — an impressive achievement for a school of barely 15,000 students. As one might expect, those likes come from all over the United States, but also from a long list of other countries. Some are predictable — Canada and Mexico rank second and third […]
Congratulations are in order for former Baylor men’s golf all-American Jimmy Walker, now a veteran on the PGA Tour. Walker tied Sergio Garcia for fourth at the Northern Trust Open over the weekend, finishing in the top 10 for the third time in six events in 2012. After earning all-Big 12 honors all four years […]
Earlier this month, we covered Baylor Theatre’s recent performance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — but that’s far from the only place to see BU theatre students and alums in action. Waco theatre fans got to see Elizabeth Davis, BFA ’03, tell her life story From Baylor to Broadway in a small show on […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day earlier this week, some of the most famous love letters ever were made available for viewing in their original handwritten form, thanks to a joint digitization project between Baylor and Wellesley College. Nearly 600 letters from poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, owned and housed at Wellesley, are […]
