The new Star Trek movie doesn’t come out until next May, and of course it’s set far further in the future than that. But here in 2008, the Discovery Channel and Wired magazine each recently covered the work of two Baylor physicists who have outlined how warp drive — a faster-than-light engine that allowed interplanetary […]
Acting President Harold Cunningham wasted no time in getting to work last week, announcing Thursday afternoon the appointment of Dr. Elizabeth Davis as interim provost. Davis replaces outgoing provost Randall O’Brien, whose last day at Baylor was August 1; O’Brien will soon begin transitioning into his new role as president at Carson-Newman College, a small […]
Baylor’s branch of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) celebrates its 60th birthday today as one of the oldest and best programs in the nation. Detachment 810 was formed at Baylor in 1948, just 10 months after the creation of the Air Force as a separate military branch. And it’s only gotten better […]
A growing number of Baylor graduate students are pursuing a pair of master’s degrees that work uncommonly well together. In addition to earning their master of divinity degree from Truett Seminary, they also are earning a master’s degree from the School of Social Work, combining both the theoretical and the practical sides of ministry. “What […]
As a student, I spent one semester writing for The Baylor Lariat. I certainly didn’t write anything worthy of an award — but this year’s Lariat students did, and they’ve been rewarded for it. The Lariat was named the best student newspaper in Texas by the Houston Press Club and was ranked second in the […]
It’s unusual enough at most schools for undergraduate students to get the opportunity to be involved in university-level research (though not so unusual for Baylor undergrads). But high school students? Forget about it. That is, unless you’re a part of one of Baylor’s summer programs. Students entering their senior year of high school are eligible […]
Dr. Byron Johnson, co-director of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR), helped President George W. Bush with the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001, and since then Johnson has been among the leaders in studying whether faith-based initiatives really work. Shortly after returning from speaking at a […]
If I asked you to picture a scientist, chances are good that you’d picture a man. In the past, that might have been fair; even in the early 1970s, women made up less than 10% of the science and engineering workforce. In just one generation, however, that number has jumped past 25% — and Baylor […]
Future nurses from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing delivered much-needed health care to hundreds of children in Ethiopia and Uganda this spring on the school’s annual mission trip. (Read a nice wrap-up here, and even more here.) But after long days at the clinic, the students and their patients found time for fun, too, […]
Baylor and the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) are launching a new program that will financially support graduate education at Baylor for outstanding students who have earned degrees at Texas Baptist universities. The goal, according to BGCT-related university presidents, is that the program will help keep their alumni in Texas for graduate work at […]
