Being a Christian university with a long Baptist heritage, one would expect Baylor to have particularly excellent professors in religion, both at the undergraduate and graduate (seminary) level. And one would not be disappointed. For example, the following two honors just came to my attention recently. Dr. Doug Weaver, director of undergraduate studies and an […]
Another month, another award for a Baylor professor… This weekend, math professor Dr. John M. Davis will receive the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America at the group’s annual meeting. I love what Davis has to say about the University: “I came to Baylor because of the emphasis […]
Fighting through laryngitis, a team of Baylor Law students recently was crowned national champions at the prestigious National Trial Competition, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers. The duo of Joel Bailey and Eric Policastro (pictured at right in this team photo) beat out approximately 300 teams to claim the top spot at the […]
If you picked up a newspaper or turned on the news just about anywhere in the country late last week, chances are good you saw the results of a Baylor study that found human medications and personal care products in fish from several American rivers. The study — the first of its kind on such […]
I liked math in high school, and even enrolled at Baylor planning on minoring in mathematics or statistics. That lasted all of about six weeks, as I discovered that calculus and the math classes that followed were not my cup of tea. Along the same lines, the wife of one of my best friends has […]
Last spring, a group of Baylor theatre professors earned rave reviews for their performances at a festival in Dallas. This spring, they’ve taken the show to New York City, where earlier this month “The Unseen” began a three-week off-Broadway run, and expanded their production to include even more of the Baylor family. The cast consists […]
In 1966, Dr. Owen Lind came to Waco fresh off earning his Ph.D. at Missouri to begin Baylor’s Limnology program (the study of fresh bodies of water — or as Dr. Lind puts it, “the oceanography of lakes”). Earlier this month, Lind was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science […]
News 8 Austin this weekend ran a nice profile (including video) on the Baylor Experimental Aquatic Research (BEAR) facility and the work Baylor researchers are doing there. The facility allows professors and students to conduct experiments that could help the Environmenal Protection Agency (EPA) set better water quality standards, which in turns means better water […]
Over the next two weeks, 24 professors from Baylor’s School of Music will invade Belgium, presenting 21 concerts and recitals, 78 master classes and workshops, 12 scholarly lectures and presentations, and seven governmental relations events. The scope of “Baylor in Belgium: An American Music Festival” is unprecedented among American universities, as Baylor representatives will appear […]
Dr. Kevin Chambliss, a Baylor chemistry professor, recently received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the use of alternative feedstocks to produce biofuels. Plenty of studies have examined producing ethanol from corn, but some experts are beginning to question the use of corn alone as a source of fuel, noting […]
