Even after their bye week, Baylor football continues to receive votes in this week’s AP Top 25 poll. Baylor volleyball, however, has gone one better, breaking into the top 25 after beginning the season a program-record 11-0! Head coach Jim Barnes’ team received votes in this season’s first three AVCA polls before jumping to No. […]
Well THAT was a fun weekend… An extra day off for Labor Day and watching the big Baylor football win at Wake Forest headlined the holiday weekend, but that wasn’t all for Bear fans to enjoy. Baylor volleyball went 3-0 on the weekend, BU soccer won Friday and Sunday, and both Baylor’s men’s and women’s […]
Competing at the Leonard Falcone International Tuba-Euphonium Competition, arguably the top annual amateur competition for the two instruments, two Baylor students and one recent graduate came away with high honors. In a field comprised of tubists of all ages, two students from Baylor’s School of Music — graduate student Clay Garrett and senior Kevin Butler […]
Yet another Baylor professor was honored for his work in the classroom recently, as business professor Dr. James Garven received the Excellence in Teaching award from the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), the premier international academic association for research in risk management and insurance. Many students say Garven’s class is both the hardest and […]
With the buzz around the Baylor football program at its highest level in years, individual Bears are beginning to be noticed not only regionally, but on a national level. Five Baylor student-athletes have been named to the watch lists for national honors, starting with quarterback Robert Griffin. Though just a sophomore, Griffin was among 33 […]
Political science professor Dr. James Curry was recognized earlier this year by the Texas Legislature for his work at Baylor, as the House passed a resolution honoring his service to students. A former chair of the department, Curry now serves as the Bob Bullock Professor of Public Policy and Administration and directs the Bob Bullock […]
Sure, you’ve heard all about Baylor’s incredibly successful men’s and women’s tennis teams. How each squad won the Big 12 regular season title for the fifth straight year. How both teams again won the Big 12 Tournament. How they both advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals this spring. And how they each finished among the top […]
As Baylor football begins preseason drills today, members of the national media are continuing to pick up on the optimism surrounding the Bears’ program. Following a surge of positive coverage this spring, the current issue of ESPN The Magazine includes an excellent four-page feature on how head coach Art Briles has led Baylor football forward. […]
In 2076, when the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., opens the time capsule it laid during the nation’s bicentennial 100 years earlier, one of the artifacts they will find is evidence of the work of Baylor graduates. The cantata God with Us, written by Hal Hopson, class of 1954, was enclosed in the capsule as […]
Researchers have wondered for years if some people have a genetic disposition towards addiction, with alcoholism being the most common affliction. A recent study by a Baylor professor may have found that link. Dr. Doug Matthews, professor of psychology and neuroscience and a member of BARC (the Baylor Addictions Research Consortium), pinpointed a region on […]
