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Meet the Single-Digit Guys: Newcomers highlight Baylor Football’s 2026 leaders

…with memories of attending games like the 2013 win against Oklahoma as a 10-year-old. He came here as a preferred walk-on in 2023 and has since played in 27 games, earning a starting role as a redshirt sophomore last season. Ryan Davis (9), senior defensive end/linebacker — A 6-foot-4 senior transfer from Kansas State, Davis boasts a form of institutional knowledge despite being in his first year at Baylor. That’s because at Kansas State, he playe…

Baylor ranked among the world’s best universities in two recent studies

…s, you can also add a host of others for Baylor: No. 4 nationally for First-Year Experience, top 20% of national universities, top 10 nationally in Fulbright qualifiers, top 75 colleges for best leaders… And the list goes on. Of course, rankings don’t tell the whole story about Baylor — you can’t put a number on Baylor’s Christian faith, after all — but since so many people use them for comparing schools, it’s nice to see Baylor well-recognized, b…

Sendero founder Hunter Harlow shares his love for Baylor and Waco

…ear that’s popular with millennial and Gen Z shoppers. The geologist-turned-entrepreneur? That’s Hunter Harlow (BS ’10), who thought his love for the outdoors would lead him into the oil and gas industry (hence the geology). Instead, he found his calling with a western wear store in downtown Waco that has since exploded into popular culture, partnering with brands like Whataburger. And as it turns out, a surprising amount of what Harlow learned in…

Baylor’s nurse-midwifery program jumps to No. 16 nationally in latest U.S. News rankings

…cts a curriculum intentionally built to bridge classroom learning with real-world practice. At LHSON, nurse-midwifery students move quickly from theory to hands-on experience, working alongside experienced clinicians in hospitals, birth centers, and community health settings. That immersive approach helps students develop the confidence and clinical judgment needed to support women through pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum care. The result:…

For Baylor profs like Don Carpenter, knowing students by name is just the beginning

…room. Each semester, he invites every one of his students to schedule a one-on-one meal or coffee meeting through a simple offer he calls, “You book, I’ll buy.” The gatherings aren’t about grades or assignments. Instead, Carpenter uses the time to learn about each student’s background, aspirations and experiences. “I get to know that person uniquely,” Carpenter explains. “Then I get to interact with them throughout their time in the business schoo…

Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s Oral History archives

…dmother would say, ‘This is my son’s daughter,’ and ‘This is your cousin so-and-so through so-and-so.’ As a child, you really don’t know, but you hear the names. So I was aware of some of the names. What it did for me was to give me a sense of time and place. I knew that I came from some people who could accomplish some things through some horrible circumstances. It was like a reunion. A giant reunion of everybody who had descended from the Stroud…

Welcome home, Willie Nelson!

…one presented Nelson with his own Baylor Line jersey and an official Alumni-by-Choice decree. (Nelson attended BU for four months in 1954 on the G.I. Bill before deciding “I really wanted to play music more than I wanted to be a lawyer.”) A cancelled concert at Baylor in 1988 led to a longstanding rumor that Baylor had banned Nelson from performing. As it turns out, the “ban” really was nothing but a rumor, and President Livingstone personally ext…

Congrats, Baylor Class of 2026!

…r portraits || Senior Celebration photos] Among the Class of 2026: a father-son combo, former Baylor women’s basketball All-American NaLyssa Smith, and the first graduates of the newly renamed Moody School of Education. For those who just graduated: As a proud Baylor graduate who walked across that same stage many years ago, the best piece of advice I can give you is to stay in touch. Update your alumni contact information so that wherever your fu…

Baylor Esports claims conference title in first varsity season

…this first year, Baylor’s roster is a mix of recruited, scholarship student-athletes and varsity walk-ons drawn from the student body. The goal is to build to four scholarship programs next year, and perhaps more in future years. “The really cool thing about sports is that it has a community impact,” Stanley says. “There’s community in these games; students organize, plan, get together to play, even have watch parties for professional events. We w…

Inaugural TEDxBaylor University speakers offer inspiration, motivation

…re you brave enough to claim them?’” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEh4ZS-Ukh0&list=PLERdEVLVJFGQfUET5KEW6NHMQ86zc3pub&index=6 “Belonging together, flourishing together” — Dr. Erik Carter, the Luther Sweet Endowed Chair in Disabilities and Executive Director of the Baylor Center for Disability and Flourishing, remembers growing up in a world apart from individuals with disabilities. They were nearby, of course, but often separated in classrooms,…