If you want to study or teach internationally after graduating from college, there are few more prestigious opportunities than the Fulbright Program. Established by Congress in 1946 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, each year the program sends some of the nation’s brightest and most ambitious students across the world to continue their […]
Until Division I-A football implements a playoff system, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball remain the NCAA’s three biggest tournaments. Baylor teams have earned top-10 national seeds in all three sports this year. In March, the Lady Bears grabbed the No. 1 overall seed en route to their second national title, while the men were […]
Last summer, when it looked like the Big 12 Conference was about to fall apart and Baylor would be left scrambling for a new league, pundits across the nation said BU didn’t belong in a major conference. One year later, their songs have changed, thanks to Añodeloso — the Year of the Bear. Are you […]
The end of the spring semester brought with it two more Baylor professor of the year awards, and the honorees highlight some of the variety found in Baylor’s faculty. Dr. Roger Kirk, the 2012 Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year, was named one of Baylor’s Master Teachers in 1993; Dr. Richard Russell, the 2012 […]
Each year, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation recognizes women from all facets of media at the annual Gracie Awards. The 2012 Gracies were held last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Baylor grad Angela Kinsey, BA ’93 — better known as Angela Martin on NBC’s “The Office” — served […]
Baylor’s Class of 2012 has come and gone, and with its graduation from the university comes the end of an era. “Baylor 2012,” the ambitious (and at times, controversial) strategic plan set forth a decade, has reached its conclusion. The vision included dozens of specific goals. Many were met; others hit unexpected obstacles, but there’s […]
Momentum continues to build toward a new Baylor football stadium. A month after Drayton McLane, BBA ’58, and his wife Elizabeth got things started with the largest capital gift in Baylor history, two more sizable gifts — each among the top 10 such donations ever at BU — have kept the ball rolling. The gift […]
Sixty years ago, Eddie Morris, BA ’52, graduated from Baylor — the first in his family to earn a college degree — and left soon after his last class for San Francisco, where he attended Golden Gate Seminary. In the six decades since then, Morris has pastored two Baptist churches in California and spent almost […]
As a freshman living on campus, I met and got to know the four guys who would, almost a decade later, be groomsmen in my wedding. The experience of living in such close community with other young men and women, all in the same stage of life, was a priceless part of my Baylor experience. […]
After another successful weekend, a school-record 16 of Baylor’s 19 varsity sports have earned postseason appearances. (The final three — baseball and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field — are all on pace to complete the perfect season for Baylor athletics.) * Baylor men’s tennis upset No. 9 Mississippi State on their own turf […]
