Diadeloso 2012: Back to the Future
…w Bears from all over the state and beyond for Diadeloso Texas at SeaWorld San Antonio on June 9. Get details here, then register online today! Sic ’em, Diadeloso!…
…w Bears from all over the state and beyond for Diadeloso Texas at SeaWorld San Antonio on June 9. Get details here, then register online today! Sic ’em, Diadeloso!…
…ates, but also from a long list of other countries. Some are predictable — Canada and Mexico rank second and third on the list — but many are not. India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey and Egypt each rank among the top 12 countries, with more than 100 Baylor fans in each. Even as Facebook’s overall growth has slowed, Baylor’s numbers have yet to plateau. The page launched in September 2009, topped 40,000 likes just more than a year l…
…on Post, Huffington Post (with a great video), CBS News, ABC News, NPR, CBC-TV (Canada), The Guardian (UK) and the Belfast Telegraph (UK), and that coverage sent people in droves to the Baylor website. Between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Feb. 14, the Browning Letters site was viewed more than 100,000 times per hour. Thankfully, Baylor’s servers were up to the barrage of traffic. Since then, several major media outlets have followed up to learn more about…
…ated crowd of 20,000 students and Waco residents watched as it took two-and-a-half hours to put out the flame; it would be another year before the heavily damaged building was rebuilt. [SEE: The original Baylor Lariat account of the fire || Texas Collection photos of the fire and its aftermath] Chapel services never returned to Carroll Library, moving first to a temporary construction and then to the newly built Waco Hall when it opened in 1930. I…
…aculty/staff, parents and friends of the university — are encouraged to go online and share any final thoughts on the plan between now and the end of March. [READ & RESPOND: Click here to review the draft of Baylor’s new strategic plan and to share feedback before the March 31 deadline.] Baylor administrators, led by Provost Elizabeth Davis, BBA ’84, will review any feedback received and make last-minute tweaks to the plan in time to present it to…
…keable.” A six-song EP, it is now available for download on iTunes and for purchase at lauracookseymusic.com. Cooksey’s songs range from the upbeat, pop-style “By Faith,” to the familiar worship track “Hosanna,” to the title anthem “Unshakeable.” Since graduating from Baylor’s School of Music, Cooksey has performed background vocals for Christian artists like Nicole C. Mullen, Natalie Grant and Mandisa and led worship for the “Women of Faith” tour…
…northwest of Fort Worth), is not the only Bear to have found such success online. For instance, Jason King, BA ’97, is a national college basketball columnist for ESPN.com, and recent graduate Ashley Killough, BA ’09, covers politics for CNN’s “Political Ticker” blog. “This is all the journalism experience I have; my high school was too small to have a newspaper,” says Pirtle. “I never imagined that I would be contributing to the Times while at B…
…d Press International: “Humble people more likely to help” United Kingdom Press Association: “‘Tis the season to be humble…” And so it goes… From the Huffington Post to Technorati, MSN Health to CBC/Radio-Canada, the quintet’s research has carried the Baylor name into countless reports — even into Spanish over on the National Institutes of Health website. Sic ’em, Baylor researchers!…
…softball, based on the temperature in Waco on Jan. 13, has prices set at just $57 for adults and $25 for youth. Those prices run through Jan. 29; click here to purchase. The Lady Bears open the 2012 season Feb. 10-12 by hosting the Getterman/QTI Classic.]…
…colleges “leading the way” in “going above and beyond” in providing gluten-free options. The report notes that Baylor offers a wide range of of gluten-free menu options, and menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner at each dining hall are posted online at dining.baylor.edu, along with nutritional facts for many of each meal’s offerings. That allows students with special dietary needs — not just gluten-free, but those with conditions requiring certai…