Points of Pride - Academics

Meet Baylor’s expert on employee stress & health and organizational behavior

Dr. Sara Perry, associate professor of management in Baylor’s School of Business, teaches and conducts research in management-related topics, including negotiation, employee stress and health, innovation and leadership. Her specialties include organizational behavior, negotiation, human resource management and industrial/organizational psychology. Perry’s research may be especially helpful to recent and soon-to-be college grads — something media […]

Baylor faculty & students honored for career contributions and promising new research

It’s always impressive when any one Baylor student or professor wins a statewide, national or even international award — but yet again, Bears have been winning so many awards that we can’t write about them fast enough! Take a moment to check out these six amazing Bears and the work they’re doing in their respective […]

Six unique collections you’ll find right here at Baylor

It makes sense that you’d find the oldest and largest library of pure Texana in the State of Texas at the oldest institution of higher education in Texas — and if you’re a Baylor Bear, you’re likely at least a little familiar with the university’s Texas Collection. But you probably aren’t aware of some of […]

Baylor’s Mayborn achieves nation’s highest honor for U.S. museums

After a rigorous review process, Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex has achieved a significant milestone: accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) — the highest national recognition an American museum can achieve, and an honor only 3% of museums nationwide have earned. The accreditation means that the Mayborn meets national standards and best practices for […]

New to the ‘Baylor Connections’ podcast? Here’s where to start

Not everyone can make it to campus to learn more about a program of interest, or find time to visit with President Livingstone about Baylor’s exciting future ambitions. But… through the “Baylor Connections” radio program and podcast, the Baylor Family can regularly hear directly from Dr. Livingstone and dozens of other Baylor leaders and professors about what’s happening […]

Give Light projects: An expanded Memorial & Alexander for the Honors Residential College

Last fall, Baylor announced the launch of “Give Light” — a $1.1 billion fundraising campaign to support the university’s strategic plan, Illuminate. Among the campaign’s planned capital projects is a $50 million renovation/expansion of Memorial and Alexander halls, home to Baylor’s Honors Residential College. What will that entail? First off, the project includes a complete […]

Baylor names finalists for 2020 Cherry Award, nation’s largest award for top teaching

Last week, Baylor announced the finalists for the university’s 2020 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. (If you’re unfamiliar with the Cherry Award, it’s a unique honor — not only honoring professors for great teaching, but investing in their work with a gift of $250,000. It’s the largest monetary gift for teaching presented by a college […]

Baylor School of Education celebrates its 100th birthday

Baylor’s School of Education is celebrating quite the birthday this year. The school has now officially spent 100 years as its own academic unit, making a difference in the lives of educators, students, superintendents, scholars and more. To celebrate the past century, the school has put together an incredible, detailed timeline of their 100 years […]

$2 million gift boosts Baylor’s Global Mission Leadership Program

A generous $2 million gift made by anonymous Baylor parents from California will support Baylor’s nationally renowned Global Mission Leadership (GML) initiative, a unique program that prepares Christian leaders to become catalysts for change in communities all over the world. The GML program, established in 2009 within within Baylor’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, provides […]

Meet Baylor’s nationally recognized expert on water quality and environmental science

Long before he became a distinguished professor and a national leader in the study of environmental science, Bryan Brooks was simply a child fascinated by his grandfather’s experiences. His grandfather, a missionary the Philippines, told young Bryan stories of service, such as how they drilled wells to supply clean water for smaller communities upstream from […]