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Football star turned doctor now hosting TV show on FSN

…icine Institute in Houston; in fact, he performed the surgery to repair current Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin’s torn ACL earlier this week. As if all that wasn’t enough, Adickes is now hosting a new show on Fox Sports Houston: Athlete 360, a 30-minute program examining various aspects of sports medicine and featuring the stories of athletes such as Mark Schlereth, Dikembe Mutombo and Kevin Everett. Episodes air every other Thursday on FS Houst…

Daughter’s fight for health leaves former Lady Bear facing staggering bill

…rred to Baylor from Grayson County College and played in 46 games from 1999-2001 during head coach Sonja Hogg’s final season and head coach Kim Mulkey’s first year at Baylor. Neely graduated from Baylor with a degree in social work in 2002, and three years later, she and her husband were blessed with a child, Ashlyn. At the age of 13 months, however, an unknown virus caused significant damage to Ashlyn’s brain, leaving her unable to move the right…

Baylor iTunes U site launches with free audio and video downloads

…r the Baylor Business Review podcast, or reviewing lectures and speeches from recent events like the Alleluia! Music Conference and “Three Perspectives on Economics and Faith.” Chapel services, the new “Baylor All Stars commercial,” this spring’s listening sessions regarding the university’s presidential search, student Snapshots — all this and more is available for free download at www.baylor.edu/itunes. Sic ’em, Bears on iTunes!…

Proposal would unite Baylor, Alumni Association to serve BU family

…sity (something the Waco Tribune-Herald endorsed in an editorial yesterday), so that as one unit Baylor can better focus on serving and connecting to the University’s nearly 120,000 living alumni. (The entire proposal can be read online here.) I’m excited to see how this develops and enthusiastic about the potential such a move would have helping the University meet the needs of Baylor alumni around the globe in coming years. Sic ’em, Baylor and B…

Results of Baylor study on clergy sexual misconduct could help congregations

…re abuses of power such as this. For more on the survey, including videos of five abuse survivors telling their stories and resources that congregations can use, visit www.baylor.edu/clergysexualmisconduct. Sic ’em, Dr. Garland and Baylor researchers whose work makes an impact!…

Kudos to all who make Line Camp possible

…ifetime. They do this because they want to make a difference in the Baylor community for now and for the future. They are truly amazing people, and Baylor should be proud of every single one of them!” We are proud! Jason’s letter reiterated what I thought while reading the cover story on Line Camp in the new issue of Baylor Magazine (hitting homes this week). The writer — like me, a Baylor grad who began here before Line Camp started — tagged alon…

Baylor football featured in ESPN The Magazine

…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 tickets are on sale now, as are tickets for the Baylor-Texas Tech game to be played in November at the new Cowboys Stadium. (Individual game tickets go on sale next week.) Get ’em while you can! Sic ’em, Baylor…

Baylor named ‘Best Buy’ in new Fiske Guide to Colleges

…le information and cost to determine which universities received the “best buy” honor. The list of 44 “best buy” schools includes only three other schools in Texas and just one other Big 12 Conference institution. [UPDATED: A couple of samples of what Fiske says about Baylor: “Baylor’s commitment to academic excellence and an incredible alumni network ensures a great education and a chance to get a job…” “One of Baylor’s greatest strengths is the…

Young alum’s fashion industry connections to help impoverished women

…ittle girl from China; Dickerson has also, with a friend, established a non-profit group called Raven + Lily that aims to help women in poverty all over the world get their goods to a larger market in the West. Dickerson (pictured at far right with a sewing group in India) credited her studies at Baylor and her experiences working with Mission Waco for helping to open her eyes to such needs and how she could help. Raven + Lily will launch its firs…

Introducing BaylorProud 2.0!

…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…