USA Today ran a nice article today on the Waco Mammoth Site and Baylor’s involvement in both the excavation of the site and its preparation for possible inclusion as part of the National Park System. In short, the site — located just outside Waco — is “the largest known concentration of prehistoric mammoths perishing from […]
Last week I took a tour of the new Paul L. Foster Success Center following its dedication. If I hadn’t known I was walking into the old Sid Richardson building, I would never have believed that this was the same place where I fought my way through so many math and science classes just a […]
Provost Randall O’Brien made a couple of points in a speech to faculty and staff last month that I’ve been meaning to write about. First, he noted that Baylor’s first-year scholarship dollars have more than doubled in the last five years, from $12 million in 2002 to $25 million this year. That increase almost certainly […]
As the nation’s leading Baptist university, it’s only fitting that a Baylor seminary would be producing tomorrow’s pastors. According to a nice article in the Waco Trib, Truett Seminary’s enrollment this fall is at an all-time high of 402 students. That’s a 6.6% increase from last year — more than five times the national average […]
From Lake Waco to the Brazos River to the creek running through the heart of campus, Baylor sometimes seems surrounded by water. (And that’s not including when a thunderstorm threatens to flood 5th Street…) Baylor grad student Laura Dobbins recently received funding from the EPA to study the life found in bodies of water like […]
Baylor has long been known as a good value, and it appears that students continue to recognize that. 91% of this year’s freshman class considered Baylor’s educational value “very important” in their decision to attend Baylor — far and away the #1 answer. A survey of Texas high school juniors considering applying to Baylor said […]
In a recent speech to Baylor faculty and staff, provost Randall O’Brien shared this tidbit that I haven’t seen anywhere else with those gathered: “In the area of research, since 2002 research expenditures have increased over 45%, with external, non-Baylor monies in support of Baylor research exceeding $13 million.” Sic ’em, research fundraisers!
By next spring, Baylor should have in place a new high-performance computer system that will aid University researchers in their own work and in collaborations with other universities. Put simply, the new system from Hewlett Packard is 35 times faster than what is currently in place, and about 1,000 times faster than your average personal […]
Data recently released by the College Board (creators of the SAT) indicates that Baylor is the third-most considered university among Texas high school seniors, trailing only Texas and Texas A&M and ahead of larger institutions such as Texas Tech, Texas State, North Texas and the University of Houston. In fact, the recent trend shows Baylor […]
Whether you’re one of the top quarterbacks or one of the top basketweavers, being in the top 50 in the U.S. in anything is a pretty impressive achievement. But to be named one of the top 50 undergrads in the nation? THAT’S something to write home about. Junior Shane Slowey, a University Scholar from Bryan, […]
