Think back over your Baylor experience; chances are that a professor who made time for you played a key part in helping you along the way. For generations, Baylor has been known as a place where students are names and faces, not numbers, and where most classes are taught by professors with experience, not TA’s […]
The 2013 edition of U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” will come out in a couple of weeks, and as usual, the lists include plenty of Baylor graduate programs, from law to healthcare, education to sciences and humanities. You can read more about those rankings in this release. But one data point jumped […]
If March Madness success was determined by “core skills” instead of “court skills,” Baylor would come away champions. That’s the word according to the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), who each year grades colleges and universities on their core curriculum, measuring how well each school graduates students with a well-rounded education. In ACTA’s […]
University President Ken Starr has often remarked that as the world has grown smaller, the “Pro Texana” part of Baylor’s motto can no longer mean just “for Texas” or “for the state.” It must reach further; today’s Baylor students will impact not only the Texas of tomorrow, but the United States and even the world. […]
Five years ago, Baylor’s student publications (the Lariat newspaper, Round Up yearbook and Focus magazine) earned a total of 38 state and regional awards (though none were national). Not too shabby. But that has actually proved to be the low mark since then, as the three staffs have seen increased recognition each year for five […]
The Gilberto Gagliardi Trombone Competition is a highly specialized contest, aimed at finding the best tenor trombonists in the country age 18 and under. Three national finalists have been selected for 2012 — and one of them is a Baylor Bear. That one is Stephen Farrell (pictured), a junior in Baylor’s School of Music from […]
The remains of a 12-year-old boy found along the Texas border — almost certainly a migrant from Mexico — strike Baylor professor Dr. Lori Baker, BA ’93, MA ’94, hard. His clothes and belongings held no identification, and even a DNA test found no match. It’s for individuals such as this that Baker, an associate […]
Ten years ago this week, more than 1,000 guests attended the official dedication of George W. Truett Seminary’s new Baugh-Reynolds Campus. The new facility brought pastoral education back to the main Baylor campus for the first time since 1910, when Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (which began as Baylor Theological Seminary) left Waco for Fort Worth. […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day earlier this week, some of the most famous love letters ever were made available for viewing in their original handwritten form, thanks to a joint digitization project between Baylor and Wellesley College. Nearly 600 letters from poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, owned and housed at Wellesley, are […]
Baylor students with a love for performing arts have had a busy couple of weeks, as Baylor Opera Theater presented four shows of “Dido and Aeneas” last week and Baylor Theatre’s first show of the spring, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” is in the middle of its run right now. Directed by Eric Gibson, visiting […]
