Thanks to a generous Baylor graduate, Fountain Mall finally has its fountain back. The Rosenbalm Fountain (pictured above) was dedicated at Homecoming last month. Despite the heavy rains of late, skies above Waco cleared just long enough for Dr. Thomas Rosenbalm, BS ’50, MS ’51, to get to see his fountain in action before the dedication […]
You’re familiar with the Golden Rule: treat others how you’d want to be treated. But what if we flipped that and treated ourselves how we treat others? Recent Baylor alumna and graduate student Lauren Bagwell, BSED ’15, explored this idea in a TED Talk she gave last month at SMU. Lauren has struggled with binge eating disorder […]
Add this to the list of “would have seemed crazy just a few years ago, but now just makes sense”: ESPN’s College GameDay is returning to Baylor for a second straight year. All eyes will be on Waco Saturday, with GameDay broadcasting live from Baylor between 8-11 a.m. and then a primetime match-up between No. 4 Baylor […]
When Aleena Garcia was a 7th grader at Waco’s Live Oak Classical School, she got good news: Live Oak was starting a football team. For an avid sports fan and athlete like Garcia, a football team meant opportunity. But she also received some bad news that year: Her parents weren’t going to let her play. Despite […]
Baylor sophomore Deanna Spencer, an elementary education major from Austin, always knew that she was destined to follow the family tradition. But that didn’t just mean attending Baylor. You see, Deanna is a second-generation bear of an extra sort; like her father before her, Deanna is one of a select group of students who don the Bruiser costume as […]
Don’t call Baylor’s newly-minted starting quarterback a freshman. Head coach Art Briles isn’t. Freshman is now “a word we don’t use,” Briles told the media on Monday. And when asked if he would simplify the nation’s top offense or temper the team’s lofty expectations with a young quarterback newly thrust into the starting role, his answer was even more direct. […]
The year was 1900. Baylor was just 55 years old; even its earliest graduates were still around to visit their alma mater. The university was still relatively new to Waco, and newer still to the increasingly popular sport of “foot ball.” As the university grew, students, faculty and alumni wanted reliable campus news. Thus, on Nov. 8, 1900, The […]
Here at Baylor, John Eddie Williams, BBA ’76, JD ’78, is well-known as a legendary attorney and transformative giver whose name adorns the field at McLane Stadium. In Houston, he is also known as one of the nation’s leading attorneys — one who happens to have a big heart for Houston’s underserved. Last month, Williams was honored […]
