If you attended Baylor in the late 1980s/early 1990s, you had not one, but two future major league general managers as classmates. Jeff Ireland, a record-setting kicker on Baylor’s football team from 1988-91, has served as general manager of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins since January 2008 and recently had his contract extended through the 2014 […]
When Travis Mills’ daughter, Chloe, reaches for her father, she playfully grabs at an arm that is no longer there. It’s a moving image in the trailer for Travis: A Soldier’s Story, a film documenting the struggles and triumphs of Staff Sergeant Travis Mills, one of just five American soldiers to survive a quadruple-amputation injury in […]
Last week, the Associated Press ran a story on the demise of the care package, specifically those being sent by parents to their college-age children. The story cited stories of how parents from all across the country support their kids — but even the Ivy League-educated reporter noted there was something unique about Baylor parents: […]
A chance conversation between two Baylor professors while walking across campus has led to new insights on how pollutants and other man-made stressors impact marine animals. While strolling across the Baylor campus to get coffee, Dr. Stephen Trumble, an assistant professor of biology, was describing to his colleague how biologists use the layers in a […]
Baylor’s official Fall 2013 enrollment numbers are in: 15,616 students (the largest enrollment in university history), including a record undergraduate enrollment of 13,292 students and the most diverse student body in Baylor history (33.9% minority enrollment). We figured this would be a good time to run down some of Baylor’s social media numbers as well: […]
As president and CEO of Baylor Health Care System, Joel Allison, BA ’70, has overseen a great deal of change during the past year. But one honor has remained amazingly consistent for the Baylor graduate; for the ninth time in the last 10 years, Allison has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most […]
Last week, it was Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business that was recognized for its affordability; this week, it’s Baylor Law School. A study by The National Jurist magazine found Baylor to be the one of the top two “best values” in the nation when it comes to private law schools, trailing only BYU and ahead […]
When we talk about Baylor legacy families, we usually mean an alum whose child or children also attended Baylor. Sometimes the green and gold stretches to include a grandparent, uncle, aunt or cousin. But this — this is a legacy. Dr. A. Dale Allen, a longtime Hankamer School of Business professor, and his wife, Anita, […]
Hundreds of Waco residents visited Baylor’s new research park during an evening open house last week. A large portion of the crowd was no doubt there to see how an old tire plant — one that once provided hundreds of jobs for Wacoans, but had been shuttered for more than 25 years — could have […]
For more than two and a half years, Syria has been torn apart by civil war. The United Nations reports that more than 100,000 Syrians have died, and alleged use of chemical weapons has drawn increased attention from the international community of late. Waco has proved to be a refuge of sorts for two Syrian […]
