Every two years, Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching brings one of the nation’s best professors not already on the BU campus to Waco for a semester, allowing Baylor students to benefit from his or her excellence in the classroom. The award is our country’s only national award presented by a college or […]
In rural Kenya, mothers-to-be face challenges shared by expectant mothers in underdeveloped nations around the globe, transportation chief among them. They know they need to get proper care, but getting to a clinic or hospital often proves too difficult. Baylor senior Jolene Damoiseaux (pictured above), a biology major from the Houston area, met many of […]
While the Baylor campus has been quiet over Christmas break, construction projects have been moving ahead at full steam. The video above gives a good look at 15 months worth of work on Baylor’s newly renamed McLane Stadium. (Check out the live construction camera here.) With eight months to go until the first kickoff, brick […]
In addition to spreading the Gospel around the world, Christians throughout history have spearheaded efforts to abolish slavery and encourage economic growth, female literacy, a free press, education and many other advances that are the bedrock of stable, democratic societies. That’s just one of many reasons Baylor President Ken Starr gave in a recent op-ed […]
Next month, President Ken Starr will deliver the opening address at a conference on religious freedom in Rome, co-sponsored by Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion and organized by Georgetown University’s Religious Freedom Project. The two-day conference, “Christianity and Freedom: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” will highlight the contributions of Christianity to the understanding and practice […]
Can parents use digital cameras and smart phones to potentially screen their children for the most common form of pediatric eye cancer? A joint study by Baylor University and Harvard Medical School researchers says “yes.” Retinoblastoma is a rare but aggressive eye cancer that mostly occurs in children under the age of 5. Dr. Bryan Shaw […]
A 2000 study by Christianity Today found C.S. Lewis to be the most influential Christian author of the 20th century. Whether you’ve studied C.S. Lewis’ works for a doctoral dissertation or merely enjoyed The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in school (or a movie theater), there’s no disputing the man’s influence. With this Friday marking […]
Baylor Nation is used to keeping up with the rankings in football, basketball, even <shameless plug alert> social media. But it turns out that professors at Baylor can be involved in compiling some important rankings as well. In 2001-02, Baylor management professor Blaine McCormick, along with Hillsdale College professor Burton Folsom Jr., asked dozens of historians and […]
Research shows that about 80% of American adults use the Internet to seek out medical information. And chances are that if you’ve ever looked up your symptoms online, at least one possibility suggested a terminal disease — even if it just turned out to be a cold or allergy. Most likely, you shrugged off that […]
Why is Baylor annually regarded as one of the nation’s top values in private higher education? Perhaps because of the well-rounded education students receive. For the fourth straight year, Baylor was named among the top 2% of colleges and universities nationwide when it comes to high quality core-curriculum. The university was one of 22 institutions […]
