Exactly a week after receiving All-Big 12 honors from the league’s coaches, Baylor junior Aaron Miller became the seventh student-athlete in Baylor baseball history to earn Academic All-America honors, following in the footsteps of pitcher Pat Combs (1988), first baseman Charley Carter (1998), pitcher Jason Jennings (1998-99), outfielder Jon Topolski (1998-99), first baseman Ross Bennett […]
Debate was my primary extracurricular activity all through junior high and high school. In fact, my first exposure to Baylor came the summer before I entered eighth grade, when I came to debate camp at Baylor. I returned for debate camp in high school, and my familiarity with campus from those two stays was what […]
It was a busy weekend for many of Baylor’s athletic programs, and a pretty successful one: * Most notably, head coach Glenn Moore’s Lady Bear softball team swept through the Waco Regional, advancing to the program’s third Super Regional in five years. Baylor will head north to play at No. 5 seed Michigan Friday and […]
I’m a big fan of the sitcom 30 Rock, so when I heard that a Baylor student had been recognized as one of NBC’s top interns, I immediately pictured Kenneth the page. But senior Shaun Patterson’s duties while interning for NBC during her stint with the Baylor Communication in New York program were far more […]
Baylor softball had a good week, following up a host of all-conference honors with the news last night that the program will be hosting an NCAA Regional at Getterman Stadium this weekend! Head coach Glenn Moore’s Lady Bears enter NCAA play for the fifth time in six years after finishing third in the Big 12 […]
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, Baylor is tied for the conference lead with five Big 12 titles this season (and second in the league in conference championships over the past six years). But the Bears excel in the classroom, too. Three programs (baseball, women’s golf and soccer) led the Big 12 in […]
While we’re talking professors… Baylor has announced the finalists for the 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the single largest award in the nation given to an individual for being a great teacher. The finalists are mathematics professor Dr. Edward B. Burger of Williams College, English professor Dr. Roger Rosenblatt of Stony Brook […]
It’s the time of year for students to receive honors, but they get to give some out, too. Most notable: the Collins Outstanding Professor award, which this year goes to Dr. David W. Eldridge, professor of biology and director of clinical laboratory science. What led students to vote for Eldridge? Perhaps it starts with his […]
As the end of the spring semester nears (finals start tomorrow!), it seems I get news of another student winning an award almost every day. Here’s just a sampling: Senior Melissa Yeakley (pictured at right) has received a Critical Language Scholarship to study in China this summer as part of the U.S. government’s National Security […]
To be honest, I did consider just copying and pasting the last entry I wrote about Baylor Law and the bar exam, or the one before that. That’s because for the 12th time in the last 16 offerings, Baylor Law School students claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. Of the […]
