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McLane Stadium set for 10th season of Baylor Football

…and — like “61-58” for the next generation, or some “Sailor Bear Magic” at Homecoming — and the pursuit of more Big 12 titles. As head coach Dave Aranda’s program leads McLane toward its second decade, there’s also the culture of “person over player,” pursuing excellence off the field as they deliver it on gameday, making us all proud. Happy first decade, McLane Stadium! We’ll see you soon — September 2, when the Bears host Texas State to kick off…

What is Welcome Week at Baylor?

…year begins. In short, Welcome Week encourages new students to engage and embrace Baylor’s traditions while helping them connect with new friends and the campus they’ll call home for the next four years — the start of relationships and memories that will last a lifetime. Sic ’em, incoming Bears!…

The top 7 moments of Baylor Line Camp 2023

…3 Worshipping God alongside hundreds of your new best friends? Priceless. “Open the eyes of my heart, Lord Open the eyes of my heart I want to see You I want to see You…” 🎶 🔊 🔰 Baylor Line Camp 📍 Independence, TX pic.twitter.com/fxtPZSAxTA — Baylor University (@Baylor) July 14, 2023 Really, it doesn’t get much more BaylorProud than Line Camp. It doesn’t get much more Baylor than this: 💚 Singing “That Good Old Baylor Line” 💛 followed by a #SicEm 💚…

Welcome to the Big 12, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado & Utah!

…Devils, including an 87-78 win over then-No. 14 ASU in November 2008 that propelled the Bears back into the top 25 early in the Scott Drew era.) The University of Colorado was founded in Boulder in 1876, and enrolls about 40,000 students each year. Athletically, the Buffaloes were a long-time member of the Big Eight (1947-95) before joining Baylor as a founding member of the Big 12 (1996-2011). Colorado football won five Big Eight titles and one…

Hurd Welcome Center now open as Baylor’s ‘front door’ to campus

…open Monday through Saturday, 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sundays from 2-10 p.m.) Sic ’em, Hurd Welcome Center! [Want to learn more about how the Hurd came to be? Tune in to live webinars on August 8 and August 17 to hear from representatives at Vaughn Construction and Populous Architectural Design.]…

Baylor researchers earn $2.5 million grant to prep mental health providers for local schools

…unately, school districts often face a shortage of qualified mental health professionals to help meet those needs. Baylor researchers in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work are working to bridge this gap in Central Texas. Carrie Arroyo, Mary Zane Nelson (BSW ’08, MSW ’10) and Dr. Stephanie Boddie recently earned a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare licensed mental health providers for work in schools — and t…

“I don’t need easy, I just need possible”: A Baylor alumna’s inspirational story

…athe or speak on her own again, and that she would never be able to return home. Instead, Dickson returned home just five months later. Through all this, her motto has become, “I don’t need easy, I just need possible.” It’s the title of her website, displayed on t-shirts worn by friends and family, and is the pending name for the foundation she’s working to launch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZQsP6nOwY Since her illness, Dickson has only inc…

Fall 2023: Baylor’s #BestFallEver?

…aff and alumni. Its innovative, 100-foot-tall columns, spirit and coffee shops, meeting rooms and more will offer plenty for Baylor fans to see inside. The building will open with a soft launch in August, followed by a public ribbon-cutting (and a Bailey Zimmerman concert for students) in early September. * Meet the Bears! Meet the Bears is an annual tradition heralding the start of the season for Baylor Athletics, but there’s even more to it this…

Top Waco high school grads are staying home this fall — at Baylor

…at Lorena High School just outside Waco, did a little bit of everything: a National Merit Commended Scholar, National Honor Society officer, kids’ ministry volunteer, even a math tutor. As a pre-med student at Baylor, she’ll major in nutrition and minor in American Sign Language. Haven Rounke, salutatorian at Rapoport Academy’s Meyer High School in East Waco, won four VASE medals from the Texas Art Education Association. He plans to study theatre…

Daring mighty things: Baylor’s Young Alum of the Year leads at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab

…entually landed a summer internship and then a full-time job at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Today, Sirohi serves as an end-to-end information systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab, working on a project called NISAR — a spacecraft that utilizes radar imaging to understand how the Earth is changing. The work has implications for climate science, resource management, and more back on Earth. “(This work is) about enabling our understanding…