The nation’s oldest collegiate Homecoming celebration returns exactly a month from today: Baylor Homecoming 2017! If you haven’t already, it’s time to make your plans for Homecoming. Clear your calendar for Oct. 19-21 and schedule your visit now; a limited number of tickets are still available for some of the weekend’s main events, including a few for the Baylor-West Virginia football […]
Every Sunday morning for the last 25 years, Church Under The Bridge has transformed a nondescript patch of concrete underneath I-35 across from the Baylor campus into a church where it doesn’t matter what you’re wearing or where you live. Countless Baylor students have ventured over from campus to join worshippers — many of whom are […]
Have you ever heard someone say that cockroaches could survive a nuclear war? The idea is common enough today that even the Mythbusters have looked into it — and it’s an idea first noted by a Baylor grad. Dr. H. Bentley Glass, BA ’26, MA ’29, made that observation while studying the effects of radiation in […]
In many ways, the key word for Baylor football in 2017 is “new.” A new head coach. New assistant coaches. New offensive and defensive philosophies. New emphases on involvement and service, both on campus and in the community, and on building both good football players and good men. Yet for fans, the gameday experience will […]
In 1836, 41 delegates gathered at Washington-on-the-Brazos to formally sign the Texas Declaration of Independence. In 1845, Republic of Texas President Anson Jones signed the charter for Baylor University in Independence, Texas. And in 1875, the state of Texas created its first independent school district: Brenham ISD. Nearly a century and a half later, the superintendent […]
On Facebook earlier this week, Baylor asked a simple question of the university’s 200,000+ followers: What one piece of advice would you share with #Baylor freshmen on their first day of college? Baylor alumni and others were quick to respond, sharing more than 5,000 words worth of wisdom. Feel free to read through all their advice […]
For the last five years, explorers from Baylor and three other colleges have painstakingly uncovered a puzzle in Huqoq, Israel. Buried underground for centuries, an ancient synagogue filled with elaborate mosaics has emerged from the rubble, and amazingly, many of the 1,500-year-old artifacts have been found mostly intact. This summer, the excavation team uncovered even […]
Whether in the halls of Congress or the streets of Waco, Jeremy Everett, MDiv ’01, spends his days addressing a topic that has become a burning passion — fighting hunger. Everett is the founder and executive director of Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI), an organization that began in a small office in a Baylor parking […]
Get ready — tickets for #BaylorHomecoming and #BaylorFamily Weekend events go on sale — online only — at 10 a.m. this Tuesday, Aug. 1. Returning to Waco for Homecoming (Oct. 19-21)? Visit www.baylor.edu/homecoming/buy to get your tickets for the football game against West Virginia, Pigskin Revue and the Class Reunion Gatherings, hosted by the Baylor Alumni Network for those who […]
As Baylor’s Board of Regents holds its regular summer meeting this week, seven new Regents are taking their seats at the table for the first time: two serving at-large, one elected by alumni, one from the “B” Association, two student Regents, and one faculty member. Each of the seven is new to the job, but certainly not new to the […]
