As the 2009 Major League Baseball season kicks off for most teams today, fans in Arlington have a good chance of seeing two and possible all three Baylor alums currently in the big leagues — Texas Rangers David Murphy and Jason Jennings and Cleveland Indian Kelly Shoppach — as the two teams square off at […]
Last spring, a group of Baylor theatre professors earned rave reviews for their performances at a festival in Dallas. This spring, they’ve taken the show to New York City, where earlier this month “The Unseen” began a three-week off-Broadway run, and expanded their production to include even more of the Baylor family. The cast consists […]
As a Baylor student from Houston, I often drove through the small town of Hearne (population 4,690) headed to and from home along Highway 6. About the only thing I knew about Hearne was that it had two convenient pit stops, a Sonic and a Dairy Queen (like most Texas small towns). But like most […]
We wrote last fall about former NBA star David Wesley’s return to Baylor as a student manager for the men’s basketball team. Wesley, a 14-year NBA veteran, is back on campus to finish his degree, fulfilling a promise he made to his mother. ESPN picked up on the story and ran an excellent “Where Are […]
A quick perusal of the magazine rack at your local bookstore this week will find the face of a Baylor Bear staring back at you. Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard and often recognized as one of the top CEOs in the world, graces the cover of the current issue of Fortune Magazine as part of […]
In reading this morning’s announcement from the Board of Regents of the formation of a Presidential Search Committee and a Presidential Search Advisory Committee, I’m happy to see that every aspect of the Baylor family will have input in selecting Baylor’s 14th president. The Baylor Alumni Association, Faculty Senate, Staff Council and Student Government each […]
Though they’ve opposed each other in more than 4,000 cases over the last five years, lawyers Scott Skelton and Keith Langston always had one thing in common: they’re both Baylor Law graduates. Now, the two East Texans have something else in common — a kidney, donated by Langston to Skelton after the latter suffered kidney […]
Just a quick note this morning to share a story forwarded to me by a friend; I think it illustrates the kind of leaders we are blessed to have here at Baylor. The story is relayed in a blog post written by a Truett Seminary graduate who now lives in Missouri; you can read about […]
Though the NFL Draft is still two months away, the league held its draft combine this past week, inviting many of the top prospects in the country to work out in front of a collection of scouts and other NFL personnel. Among the invitees were two Baylor offensive linemen, Jason Smith and Dan Gay. Smith […]
Dallas-based Texas Instruments is credited with creating the first silicon transistor, an invention that is at the heart of modern technology. Today’s radios, telephones and computers never would have existed if not for the transistor. And who was leading that Texas Instruments team? Baylor alumnus Gordon Teal, who for his work will be inducted into […]
