Fighting through laryngitis, a team of Baylor Law students recently was crowned national champions at the prestigious National Trial Competition, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers. The duo of Joel Bailey and Eric Policastro (pictured at right in this team photo) beat out approximately 300 teams to claim the top spot at the […]
Tuesday night, the Baylor men’s basketball team played at the most famous basketball arena in the world — New York City’s Madison Square Garden — for the first time since appearing in the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. (You don’t remember that? Baylor standout Jackie Robinson does.) The glitz and glamour didn’t faze the […]
In 1966, Dr. Owen Lind came to Waco fresh off earning his Ph.D. at Missouri to begin Baylor’s Limnology program (the study of fresh bodies of water — or as Dr. Lind puts it, “the oceanography of lakes”). Earlier this month, Lind was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science […]
The No. 7-ranked Baylor women’s basketball team will make its sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance (and its eighth in head coach Kim Mulkey’s nine seasons at Baylor) beginning Sunday, when the No. 2 seed Lady Bears will face 15th-seeded UT-San Antonio around 9 p.m. in Lubbock; the game will be televised on ESPN2. Twice before, […]
Forgive us while we go heavy on athletics for the next few days; with students just getting back from spring break, the buzz around campus is focused on Baylor basketball, and we’ll get to that in a minute. But first, I wanted to make sure some other impressive accomplishments don’t get lost among all the […]
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 just its fourth season as a varsity program, Baylor’s equestrian team moved into the No. 1 spot in the national rankings this week. Head coach Ellen White’s Lady Bears are 11-2 on the season, including a 5-1 mark against other Big 12 schools. Equestrian, Baylor’s 18th varsity athletic program, is classified as an “NCAA […]
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 […]
With the college baseball season beginning tonight (Baylor hosts Pacific, 6:30 p.m.) and the softball season just underway, a host of honors have come down the pipe in the last couple of weeks. As the Bears’ ace, junior Kendal Volz will start tonight’s season opener on the mound for the No. 8-ranked Bears. Projected to […]
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 […]
