It’s always impressive when any one Baylor student or professor wins a statewide, national or even international award — but yet again, Bears have been winning so many awards that we can’t write about them fast enough! Take a moment to check out these six amazing Bears and the work they’re doing in their respective […]
Time to celebrate, y’all: The Baylor Lady Bears are 2019 NCAA women’s basketball national champions! After building a big lead early, the Lady Bears overcame injury to perhaps the team’s most irreplaceable player to pull out an 82-81 win over Notre Dame. Call it the game of a million storylines: Senior Kalani Brown, after seeing her […]
After a rigorous review process, Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex has achieved a significant milestone: accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) — the highest national recognition an American museum can achieve, and an honor only 3% of museums nationwide have earned. The accreditation means that the Mayborn meets national standards and best practices for […]
Baylor’s acrobatics & tumbling team won’t have to go far to defend their national title this spring. The four-time defending NCATA champions will have the opportunity to defend their title right here in Waco later this month, as they host the 2019 NCATA National Championship at the Ferrell Center. Led by their fifth-year head coach Felecia […]
For the fourth time in program history, Baylor women’s basketball is headed to the Final Four! WBCA National Coach of the Year Kim Mulkey’s Lady Bears cruised past South Carolina on Saturday, 93-68, and Iowa on Monday night, 85-53, to roll into the Final Four. With all eyes (and defenses) focused on senior all-American Kalani […]
Last week, Baylor announced the finalists for the university’s 2020 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. (If you’re unfamiliar with the Cherry Award, it’s a unique honor — not only honoring professors for great teaching, but investing in their work with a gift of $250,000. It’s the largest monetary gift for teaching presented by a college […]
When Baylor was chartered in 1845, it was one of the first coeducational colleges or universities west of the Mississippi River — about 10 years before any public institution of higher learning would introduce mixed-gender learning, and a full 75 years before American women were guaranteed the right to vote. Since that groundbreaking beginning, countless […]
In a film career that’s spanned three decades, Baylor alum John Lee Hancock, BA ’79, JD’ 82, has written, produced and/or directed such hit movies as The Blind Side, The Rookie and The Founder. It might be hard to single out a single month that has been more special than others — but March 2019 has to […]
For the 11th straight season (and the 14th time in 16 years), the Baylor Lady Bears are headed to the Sweet 16! Seniors Kalani Brown and Chloe Jackson won their final two games in the Ferrell Center, as head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad advanced (again) by defeating Abilene Christian, 95-38, and Cal, 102-63, on Saturday […]
When Baylor was chartered in 1845, it was one of the first coeducational colleges or universities west of the Mississippi River — about 10 years before any public institution of higher learning would introduce mixed-gender learning, and a full 75 years before American women were guaranteed the right to vote. Since that groundbreaking beginning, countless […]
