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  • Waco Mammoth Site opens incredible experience to the public

    // Posted In Academics, Research, Videos

    …ation, the new issue of Baylor Magazine includes a feature detailing the 30-year history of the Waco Mammoth Site, including its push to become part of the NPS. (The magazine also includes longer looks at a couple of stories we’ve covered here before — an alum’s push to honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, and a Baylor study of clergy sexual misconduct that found the problem far more prevalent than previously realized. And don’t miss t…

  • Volleyball upsets UCLA to earn program’s first Sweet 16 appearance

    // Posted In Athletics, Honors, Videos

    …and ranked ninth in the latest AVCA poll, giving Baylor the program’s first-ever win over a top-10 team — and on the road, at that. It also was just the second time in the last 10 years that the Bruins did not advance to at least the Sweet 16. Head coach Jim Barnes’ Bears now advance to play 9th-seeded Cal on Friday in Gainesville, Fla. The winner of that match will face either No. 16 seed Florida or top-ranked Penn State for the chance to go to t…

  • Geologists map Waco suburb to help find stable places to build

    // Posted In Academics, Research, Service

    …need to make smart decisions on where to place not only homes but businesses, streets and utilities. Professors and students worked together to develop the map, dividing Woodway into five zones based on geological makeup. The team then put the map online (click here to view) for easy access, linking each zone to building ordinances about what can and can’t be built in each area. Woodway is one of only two cities in Texas to have such a map. Sic ’…

  • Behind-the-scenes efforts make Homecoming an annual success

    // Posted In Alumni, Service, Student life

    …goes on behind the scenes to provide alumni, students and others the first-class events and activities that take place each fall — most notably the Pep Rally/Bonfire and the Homecoming Parade (still the nation’s oldest and longest — watch online if you can’t make it out). But someone has to be working to prepare for the thousands of alumni who will descend on campus this weekend, and for these centerpiece activities and more, that someone is the…

  • Homecoming a chance to see what has been built upon Baylor’s foundations

    // Posted In Alumni, Just for Fun, Student life, Videos

    …of Baylor in 1909, when Baylor held the first collegiate Homecoming. Twenty-two years later, he finished writing his Message to the Class of 1931 but passed away before he could share it at graduation. Now known as the Immortal Message, the same man who asked alumni 100 years ago to “lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again” urged t…

  • Football star turned doctor now hosting TV show on FSN

    // Posted In Alumni, Athletics, Extraordinary Stories, Just for Fun, Videos

    …icine Institute in Houston; in fact, he performed the surgery to repair current Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin’s torn ACL earlier this week. As if all that wasn’t enough, Adickes is now hosting a new show on Fox Sports Houston: Athlete 360, a 30-minute program examining various aspects of sports medicine and featuring the stories of athletes such as Mark Schlereth, Dikembe Mutombo and Kevin Everett. Episodes air every other Thursday on FS Houst…

  • Daughter’s fight for health leaves former Lady Bear facing staggering bill

    // Posted In Alumni, Athletics

    …eries to stop the seizures; recovery will take months. Medical expenses from the surgeries and rehab have totaled over a million dollars. In October, a benefit concert will be held in Plano for Ashlyn to raise funds to help offset those costs to Michelle and her husband, with the $15 door charge going directly to the medical bills. Those who wish to donate separately to help out a fellow Baylor Bear can do so online, as well. Sic ’em, Ashlyn and M…

  • Proposal would unite Baylor, Alumni Association to serve BU family

    // Posted In Alumni

    …e bringing the BAA formally into the University (something the Waco Tribune-Herald endorsed in an editorial yesterday), so that as one unit Baylor can better focus on serving and connecting to the University’s nearly 120,000 living alumni. (The entire proposal can be read online here.) I’m excited to see how this develops and enthusiastic about the potential such a move would have helping the University meet the needs of Baylor alumni around the g…