…forward. (Those with a subscription to ESPN Insider can read the article online.) As the article notes, there’s plenty to be excited about. Four Bears earned Preseason All-Big 12 honors from the league’s coaches, not including quarterback Robert Griffin, who was named Monday to the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List. The Bears kick off the season one month from today at Wake Forest in a nationally televised match-up. Season ticket…
…your stories, and we’ll pick our favorites to run in the future here on the blog. We look forward to what you have to share! (You also may note that our URL has changed slightly. You might want to make sure your bookmarks point to www.baylor.edu/baylorproud or www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud; either will get you here. RSS readers will need to be updated with the new feed link, too.) Thanks for your readership and your participation in the Baylor fami…
…f. Head coach Greg Priest’s Baylor men’s team finished seventh at the regional, missing qualifying for the NCAA Championships by six strokes but still matching the team’s best regional showing since ever. * Last but not least, coach Todd Harbour’s Baylor track and field claimed three conference titles at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships. Junior Erin Bedell won the women’s 1,500 meters, and Baylor swept the men’s and women’s 4×400-meter relays. The…
…* Ronald Dean Murff, BBA ’75, senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of Guaranty Financial Group Inc., the second largest publicly traded financial services holding company in Texas; * Kathy Wills Wright, BSEd ’85, MSEd ’88, president of Legacy Educational Foundation and former acting director of the USA Freedom Corps, an organization created by President George W. Bush to connect volunteers with service opportunities. This i…
…Missions teams can make donations online at http://www.baylor.edu/spirituallife/index.php?id=53462. Sic ’em, student-athlete missionaries!…
…has attended a historically African American church in Memphis, toured the National Civil Rights Museum, and visited with one of Ole Miss’ first African American students. Before returning to Waco, the tour will have visited eight cities in five states (not including Texas). While traveling between cities, the groups are also having some very frank discussions on some of the race issues that face America today. Both students and faculty are sharin…
…electing Baylor’s 14th president. The Baylor Alumni Association, Faculty Senate, Staff Council and Student Government each recommended specific people to serve on the advisory committee. Four professors, two alumni, one staff member and one student were selected to serve and will be joined by a BGCT/Texas Baptists representative and a Waco community leader to give voices to those constituencies as well. In addition to those representative voices,…
…e of alternative feedstocks to produce biofuels. Plenty of studies have examined producing ethanol from corn, but some experts are beginning to question the use of corn alone as a source of fuel, noting that it takes a great deal of energy to produce biofuel from corn and that a growing need for corn as fuel would likely lead to growing prices for corn as food, disproportionately hurting some poorer areas of the world. Thus, Chambliss and others a…
…os that are in the book, and we’ve compiled them into this slideshow, complete with music from Baylor’s Wind Ensemble. I will say that the slideshow really is only a sneak peek; seeing the photos on page at 10 x 12 inches, with the accompanying text not included in this slideshow, gives an even more powerful effect than what you’ll see here. Hopefully you’ll enjoy both! If you can’t make it to the bookstore to purchase your copy, you can also orde…
…restingly, even as shoppers spend an average of $1,000 each year on Christmas gifts, December is consistently the month when the largest number of online gifts are made to the University. Many year-end donors choose to give in memory or in honor of loved ones or members of the Baylor family who have touched their lives. As we near the end of 2008, I want to thank all of you who have supported Baylor this year, whether that was by your treasure, yo…
