This morning, visitors to the Mayborn Museum Complex will get to hear astronaut Greg Chamitoff discuss life in space — live from the International Space Station! Chamitoff is in the middle of a six-month stay at the space station, which orbits the planet over 200 miles above Earth’s surface. Traveling nearly 18,000 miles an hour, […]
Earlier this month, a number of Baylor professors and administrators gathered for an Academic Summit organized by President Lilley and Provost O’Brien to review the tenure process at Baylor and to make suggestions for its improvement. Master Teacher Robert Baird moderated and shared his thoughts about the summit in an opinion piece for the Waco […]
Baylor’s School of Social Work is perhaps the University’s fastest growing program; 86 students graduated from the program last month, double the previous year’s class. To put that in perspective, the three-year-old program graduated more students than Truett Seminary, Baylor Law School and the Louise Herrington School of Nursing. Baylor social work students from Waco […]
Incoming freshmen and their parents are all over campus this month for orientation. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peak at some of the students who will make up this fall’s incoming freshman class. Here are a few more faces you’ll see on campus in August when the class of 2012 […]
With gas prices soaring ever higher — nearing $4.00 a gallon for even regular unleaded here in Waco, and even higher in other parts of the country — researchers at Baylor are investigating ways to make at least one alternative fuel cheaper to produce. Dr. Kevin Chambliss, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is leading […]
Russia is an important actor on the world stage in just about every arena, one of a few key players that will help direct international happenings for the foreseeable future. For that reason, it’s good to see today’s Baylor students — tomorrow’s leaders — studying Russian language and culture. Three Bears were selected to receive […]
Baylor Law students regularly have the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam, but this tidbit is the icing on the cake: A pair of Baylor students were among the top three individual scorers on the February exam. Dallas native Thomas Keane earned the second highest score on the exam, while Ashley DeForest […]
When colleges and universities talk about rankings, they’re usually referring to the ones annually released by U.S. News and World Report. The publication’s lists make a big splash when they are released every year and have come to be the most relied-upon evaluation of a school’s academic standing. But at the end of the day, […]
Statistics — particularly wins and losses — help make measuring success in athletics easy. What we really like to see are long runs of success — like the 43-1 record in Big 12 play that Baylor’s women’s tennis team has racked up the last four seasons. Baylor’s School of Music has its own success rate […]
Two of Baylor’s newest alumni will soon be teaching English in Germany as the University’s latest recipients of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Lauren Hughes and Cleyera Martin both graduated on Saturday — Hughes with a degree in international studies and Martin with a degree in German. Both students enjoyed significant study-abroad experiences while at Baylor, […]
