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Baylor grads’ vision serves thousands with free health care services in Amarillo

…ople, providing acute care and services in dentistry, podiatry, optometry, pharmacy, healthcare referrals and more to individuals who were often forced to ignore their health due to lack of access. Heal the City now features an Acute Care and a Shalom Chronic Care clinic, and recently hired a full-time doctor. Shalom, which means “wholeness,” captures the Keisters’ approach to serving patients holistically — focused not only on providing free medi…

Hardage’s career of service exemplifies ‘Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana’

…Ecclesia, Pro Texana” motto throughout the entirety of his career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHlod-vVkpg Although retired, Hardage is not through with ministry. He and his family can also regularly be found at Baylor events, both athletic and otherwise. “I think the opportunity to pursue higher education in a Christian institution, particularly at a place like Baylor, is a unique opportunity, one which should be taken advantage of today,” sa…

From Challenge to Celebration: First-gen #BaylorGrad celebrates a family milestone

…at could combine both: health law. As a medical humanities major with a pre-law track, his classes merged his interests in ethics and advocacy. Beyond the classroom, he became involved in Student Government, serving at different times as class vice-president, class president, senator, and Director of Policy. He also joined Student Foundation (that’s him taking the StuFu group selfie above), took a job in Undergraduate Admissions, and joined societ…

12 podcasts for Baylor Bears on the go

…conducted by Hankamer School of Business faculty and students and its real-world applicability. Co-hosts Bo Mello and Justin Walker sit down with Baylor business researchers to expand on studies covered in the Baylor Business Review magazine. Currents in Religion — Produced by the Baylor Department of Religion and Baylor University Press, this podcast hosts conversations with academics, writers and artists to explore some of the most interesting…

Happy 75th birthday, Baylor Religious Hour Choir!

…brating its 75th anniversary this spring. As one of Baylor’s oldest student-led organizations, BRH has spent the last three-quarters of a century building community, encouraging audiences through music, and serving others. BRH is an audition-based group, taking in about 50 students each year. Founded in 1948 by Dick Baker (who also wrote Baylor’s fight song, “Old Fite”), the choir took its name from its original purpose — to provide choral music f…

Baylor dedicates statues honoring first Black graduates outside Tidwell

…graduate in 1967, and I feel like we both graduated from Baylor.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-32rjWsU34 The Gilbert/Walker statues are a direct outgrowth of Baylor’s Commission on Historic Campus Representations, which in 2020-21 studied the history of the university and its early leaders relative to slavery and the Confederacy and offered recommendations that led to a plan to more fully tell the history of Baylor and its early leaders on c…

Diadeloso 2023: All the smiles, all the sunshine

…ve been the chilliest Dia in recent memory — sweatshirts abounded until mid-afternoon, making the day feel more like Homecoming than Dia — the sunshine ultimately won out, and it became a glorious Texas spring day. Traditional Dia activities like music performances, inflatables (like this water slide) and various sporting competitions were mixed with newer favorites like an exotic animal petting zoo, an indoor skating rink and a silent disco. http…

‘A Walking Miracle’: Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua’s return to the court

…dical professionals, including dedicated staff on Baylor Athletics’ Student-Athlete Health and Wellness team, Tchamwa Tchatchoua’s recovery was clearly moving along at a meaningful pace, leading to the shockingly quick return. A month after his early return to the court, he remains “a walking miracle.” Nine games in, Tchamwa Tchatchoua is averaging just over 6 points and 5 rebounds per game, but it’s not about the numbers as he and the No. 10-rank…

Baylor clinics benefit the local community, and allow students to learn how to serve

…ead music and play the violin, viola, cello or bass. The program offers low-cost group instructions to students from third to 12th grade and lowers the economic barrier that can prevent children from accessing music. Service programs such as Steppin’ Out and summer mission trips have been a part of the Baylor fabric for generations; these sorts of academic programs build on that foundation by helping students learn to use their Baylor education to…

What is NIL? And what does it mean for Baylor Athletics?

…or marks, and Opendorse, which allows companies and individuals to sign one-on-one deals with individual student-athletes. How can alumni and fans help? Those looking to support Baylor Athletics have long been encouraged to join the Bear Foundation, where fundraising efforts go toward student-athlete scholarships — and that’s still important; scholarships are the foundational starting point for supporting student-athletes. Giving to capital projec…