Film and digital media professor Chris Hansen doesn’t just tell his students how movies are made; he shows them. Hansen has written and directed three films: The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah (released in 2006), Clean Freak (2008), and now Endings (2010). His most recent effort, Endings was filmed in and around […]
Thousands of members of the Baylor family came together Friday to celebrate the inauguration of Judge Ken Starr as Baylor’s 14th president. The ceremony capped a week of events that began with Wednesday’s Student Dinner with the President and also included a panel discussion as well as two breakout sessions examining “The Role of the […]
Thousands of members of the Baylor family came together to honor Judge Ken Starr on Friday as he was inaugurated as Baylor’s 14th president. We’ll have a full report and photo gallery of all the week’s Inauguration events — from Wednesday night’s Student Dinner with the President through Friday afternoon’s installation ceremony — posted here […]
In 1902, Samuel Palmer Brooks was named the seventh president in Baylor University history. One of his first acts was to write a letter to all Baylor alumni, asking for their assistance in building up the university. On September 3 of that year, a few days after announcing the largest fall enrollment in school history, […]
Demand for a Baylor education is higher than ever before, with a record number of students applying to attend Baylor (more than 34,000) and a record freshman class (3,259 members of the class of 2014) adding up to, yes, a record enrollment (14,900, including 12,438 undergraduates). The academic quality of Baylor’s newest students remains strong, […]
Baylor is well-established as one of the best values in higher education, having been repeatedly named a “best buy” and “best value” by the Fiske Guide and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Why? There are plenty of reasons, from the challenging courses to the caring community that stems from Baylor’s Christian commitment, but one reason highlighted […]
With the nation’s largest active duty armored post just 60 miles down the road at Fort Hood, issues surrounding the military are never far from the hearts of many at Baylor. For instance, each class in the School of Social Work’s graduate program typically has at least one or two students who are married or […]
It sounds cliche to say that Baylor’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences has professors who are among the leaders in their field, but it’s literally true in this instance. Dr. Janelle Walter, a Baylor F&CS professor for more than 30 years, took office June 1 as the elected president of the Texas Association of […]
From Plato to Augustine, Leonardo da Vinci to Shakespeare, and Pascal to Einstein, history’s greatest thinkers have shared a common achievement: They have bridged the gap between the sciences and humanities, technology and art, and philosophy and theology. With that example in mind, Baylor’s Honors College and the School of Engineering & Computer Science partner […]
When you think “research,” you probably tend to think of people in white labcoats working with test tubes or lasers or something. There’s certainly plenty of that kind of work going on at Baylor, from cancer research to particle colliders to water quality studies. But research can mean a lot of other types of study, […]
