…re performance, Funes offered for the first time an official state apology for Romero’s murder. The entire performance can be viewed on Colón’s blog, elsalvadormusical.com. The first part is embedded below. Sic ’em, Carlos!…
…t Baylor was that when you work with kids who don’t learn the material the normal ways, you have to teach outside the box. Now a sixth grade teacher at Waco’s Lake Air Intermediate School, Milam has found a novel way to reach her students — by incorporating Baylor’s All University Sing into her lesson plans. Because of language difficulties or learning disabilities, many of Milam’s students struggle with reading. “All of these kids are smart enoug…
Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes’ interest in biomedical research half a century ago will benefit Baylor students beginning this fall, as some BU freshmen join students from 36 other universities and colleges in an undergraduate research project that will walk them through discovering, studying and even naming a bacterial virus. Baylor was selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a non-profit medical research organization started by Hu…
…day. The movie stars Sandra Bullock and is based on the true story of a homeless teenager who, after being taken in by a new family, fulfills his potential on the football field, earning a college scholarship and eventually making the NFL. (See the trailer here.) Variety and The Los Angel*]}*es Times each speak well of the film; closer to home, my wife has been excited to see this since she saw the first preview, even before we knew of the Baylor conn…
…at he was ready to judge Kirsten Dickerson as your typical suburban Los Angel*]}*es wife until they began talking, and he learned her story. Dickerson, a 1996 Baylor grad, is worried about impoverished women across the globe, and is doing something about it. Not only did she and her husband adopt a little girl from China; Dickerson has also, with a friend, established a non-profit group called Raven + Lily that aims to help women in poverty all over t…
…12 and Academic All-America selection was a first-round pick of the Los Angel*]}*es Dodgers in this year’s Major League Baseball draft. Miller was the 36th overall pick, selected in the supplemental first round with the Dodgers’ first pick of the day. He is the 10th first-round pick in Baylor history; six of those have come in the last 12 years. The Channelview, Texas, native saw more action as a hitter than as a pitcher at Baylor, but will be develop…
…nell suffered in her home country, too, often going hungry and enduring homelessness as a child in Liberia during her native land’s civil war. In time, the tragedies led both Walai (pictured) and Brownell to Baylor’s School of Social Work, from which each graduated this spring with a master’s degree. Both aim to use their degrees to help their countrymen back home. Walai hopes to use the skills she learned at Baylor to develop a community for thos…
…t study, the EPA will now expand its investigation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Want to learn more? Beyond the official press release, you can read coverage from Newsweek, U.S. News, BusinessWeek, Forbes as well as from the Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Los Angel*]}*es Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, and of course the Waco Tribune-Herald. ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and the Discovery Channel ea…
…k at work. Skelton, a 1992 graduate, will take a bit longer to get back to normal but is already working on a few cases from an apartment in Dallas, where he is staying to be close to his doctor for follow-up appointments. The pair plan on working together for one more venture soon; both signed up long ago to be organ donors, but they also want to get the word out about the need for live donation. Langston says the entire waiting list for kidney d…
…r helping train the live bear mascots. Moore, now a screenwriter in Los Angel*]}*es, took a lead into the show’s last round and had good fortune when it came to the Final Jeopardy category: “Actor-Directors.” Moore answered (questioned?) correctly for the win, and thus gets to play again on today’s show (check your local listings). This isn’t the first Baylor/gameshow connection; you might remember back to last fall, when “What is Baylor University?”…
