It’s Homecoming Week! 101 years ago, Baylor held the first collegiate Homecoming in the nation, and that tradition continues this weekend. The festivities begin Wednesday night with a worship service on Fountain Mall led by BU alums The Robbie Seay Band. Pigskin Revue showcases the best of All University Sing Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights […]
Thanks to a pair of Baylor graduates, the very youngest members of the Baylor family can now learn about their parents’ alma mater as they learn their ABCs. B is for Baylor, written by Jane Hampton Cook, BA ’92, and illustrated by Erin Dobbins, BA ’09, is designed to teach toddling future graduates not only […]
The Baylor family can be a humble bunch. Each of this year’s 10 Baylor Meritorious Achievement Award recipients expressed surprise to receive the honor, saying that so many others were more deserving. And while it’s true that Baylor is blessed to count all sorts of leaders and servants among its alumni and supporters, each of […]
Speaking of Bears in movies… We’ve got another one, but this time, the movie doesn’t star a Baylor graduate; it’s based on his life. Heaven’s Rain, released last month, tells the true story of Brooks Douglass, BBA ’85, the son of a Baptist pastor, who at the age of 16 witnessed his parents’ shooting at […]
In our post last week on “Baylor faces you’ll find at the movies and on TV“, we asked you to let us know if we missed anyone, and you responded. In addition to the handful of actors and actresses we highlighted last week, the most notable name we left off was The Office star (and […]
Back in December, we wrote about Baylor grad Hunter Smith (BS ’08) and his work with an Austin-based group of engineers in modifying a car so it could be driven by an iPhone app. How would Smith ever top that? Easy; he and another BU alum, Chris Culver (BS ’08), worked on Waterloo Labs‘ latest […]
After writing a couple of weeks ago about Baylor professor Chris Hansen’s two honors at recent film festivals for his movie Endings, I’ve been bombarded with word of other Bears currently appearing on television or in films. Here’s a round-up of the Baylor alumni (and one student!) that I know of who are currently appearing […]
The list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” compiled earlier this year by Modern Healthcare magazine includes a lot of recognizable names: President Barack Obama at No. 1, followed by others like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (No. 3), Bill Gates (No. 8), Sen. Harry Reid (No. 12) and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (No. 16). Right […]
This weekend, Baylor alum, award-winning Christian artist and “Rise Up” anthem composer David Crowder is leading an all-star worship conference at Baylor intriguingly titled “Crowder’s Fantastical Church Music Conference.” Before going any further, you just have to watch the video Crowder put together advertising the conference: The line-up of speakers and artists scheduled for this […]
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 […]
