It’s Dr. Annie Ginty’s job to study stress — a subject we can all relate to. In fact, when she tells people her area of expertise, they generally joke that they’d be excellent subjects for her research because of all of the pressures they face. More specifically, Ginty seeks to better understand the links between […]
Even if she had never received “one of the most significant recognitions ever bestowed upon a Baylor faculty member,” Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa’s contributions to New Testament scholarship and higher education would be impressive. She has served as a past president of the world’s largest professional organization of Biblical scholars, written numerous influential books and […]
Since 2017, Dr. Emily Smith has taught courses on global health in Baylor’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences. She has a Ph.D. from North Carolina and an adjunct position at the Duke Global Health Institute. She’s also married to a Baptist pastor and has two small children. Online, that all comes together in […]
Some of the world’s most significant challenges are being addressed at Baylor. Across campus, BU professors and their students are conducting high-level research that advances understanding on issues like cancer, renewable energy, physical health, and diet — just to name a few. In the weeks ahead, be on the lookout for five of those researchers […]
For the fifth time in six years, Baylor School of Music students have won a national title at The American Prize — the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the classical arts. The Baylor Symphony Orchestra won first place at the prestigious competition four years in a row, from 2015-18. Now this year, the […]
If you’ve ever liked an advertisement, but been unable to fully express exactly what you found appealing about it, then you can begin to understand the value of Dr. JaeHwan Kwon’s research. With the help of a wand-sized infrared device, he tracks even the tiniest eye movements and facial expressions to see how and where […]
Figuring out if, when and how Baylor would bring students back to campus for the fall was no small decision; a campus-wide team began working things out all the way back in April, just a few weeks after the spring semester moved online. Since then, countless Baylor administrators, faculty and staff have worked to create […]
It’s been 30 years since Dorina and Marius Mitrea made the life-changing decision to leave everything behind in Romania and come to the United States to pursue careers in higher education. Their success might make it all seem obvious now — after 20+ years at Missouri, they joined Baylor’s math department last year — but […]
No matter your relationship to higher education, there’s a good chance you’re aware of the importance of professors getting published. To be published means a professor’s research appears in a peer-reviewed academic journal, having been approved by a group of peer editors and then distributed to a wider academic audience — thus contributing to the […]
Countless Baylor Bears have spent the last few months on the front lines of COVID-19 — serving as doctors and nurses, researching vaccines, and more. Baylor senior Shiva Dhiman is one such Bear. Dhiman, a public health major from San Jose, Calif., spent this summer interning with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), […]
