In its current issue, WORLD magazine names Baylor professor Dr. Rodney Stark’s The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion its Book of the Year for 2012. Stark, co-director of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion and Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences since 2004, is no stranger to such honors. The […]
Many Baylor graduates can point to one particular class that shaped their future careers. For May 2012 graduate Austin Barnes, BBA ’12, it was a unique offering he took a year ago in the Hankamer School of Business called “Sales for Social Impact.” Funded by a generous grant from 3M and taught by faculty in […]
Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, passed away Tuesday at age 91. Bradbury often wrote of visiting other worlds; now, two Baylor graduates are working together to find the physics and engineering necessary that would make that idea a reality, allowing for true interstellar […]
If you want to study or teach internationally after graduating from college, there are few more prestigious opportunities than the Fulbright Program. Established by Congress in 1946 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, each year the program sends some of the nation’s brightest and most ambitious students across the world to continue their […]
The end of the spring semester brought with it two more Baylor professor of the year awards, and the honorees highlight some of the variety found in Baylor’s faculty. Dr. Roger Kirk, the 2012 Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year, was named one of Baylor’s Master Teachers in 1993; Dr. Richard Russell, the 2012 […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… For the 15th time since July 2001, Baylor Law School students have claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. Of the 54 Baylor students who took the three-day exam for the first time in February, 50 passed, a 92.59% success rate. Only one […]
Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor’s athletic success in 2011-12, let’s just go straight to the facts: 80 combined wins across the “big three” sports (football, men’s and women’s basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history. 118 combined wins (and counting) across the “big four” (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly […]
An old friend and a new project brought U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to Baylor this week. O’Connor’s long history with Baylor President Ken Starr is the common bond. The first female Supreme Court judge in U.S. history was Starr’s guest Monday afternoon in his continuing interview series, “On Topic with Ken Starr.” […]
The end of the school year is upon us — finals start Wednesday — and, as usual for this time of year, individual honors are rolling in. Students in the Baylor Graduate School, in particular, have been raking in the recognition over the last month or so. Here are just a few of the recent […]
It hasn’t been all that long since I was a student at Baylor, but when I walk the campus these days, I marvel at how many of the facilities students benefit from today have gone up since I graduated. The one that stands out the most is the Baylor Sciences Building (pictured; click on image […]
