It’s been a good three days for Baylor’s tennis programs. Sunday, the No. 3-ranked women beat #20 Texas to claim the program’s third straight Big 12 Conference Tournament title, while the 11th-ranked men (playing without their top player) upset the No. 7 Longhorns to win the conference tournament for the fourth time in five years. […]
Longtime Baylor professor Dr. Wallace Daniel is this year’s Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year. As such, Daniel will receive $20,000 and will present a public lecture on campus later this fall. If you’re thinking, “Didn’t we just hear someone else named professor of the year?”, the answer is “sort of.” Dr. Mona Choucair, […]
Last weekend, Baylor hosted the Varsity Equestrian National Championships — the second straight year that the Bears have played host. In fact, Baylor will host the championships at the Heart O’ Texas Fair Complex next spring, too. Of all the NCAA championships, only baseball hosts its championship in the same city every year. Could Waco […]
Baylor senior Juan Yaquian’s life story could easily have turned out differently. At age 9, Juan’s father left the family, forcing his mother to work multiple jobs. But instead of following the easy path to trouble, Juan dedicated himself to his studies. His hard work paid off, as Yaquian will graduate next May with a […]
For the fourth straight year, Baylor is home to both the men’s and women’s Big 12 Conference tennis regular season champions. Think about that for a minute; it means that this year’s graduating class in each program has never known anything but winning conference championships! The No. 3-ranked Baylor women finished the year a perfect […]
When I heard that Dr. Mona Choucair won this year’s Collins Outstanding Professor Award, I was both overjoyed and completely unsurprised. For the senior lecturer with dual appointments in the English Department and the School of Education, it was only a matter of time. Dr. Choucair (BA ’86, PhD ’00) is the epitome of what […]
When head football coach Art Briles was hired last fall, much was made of his ability to turn around programs, going all the way back to his days in the high school ranks. Friday, the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame announced that Briles will be inducted into the Hall this May as part […]
Senior Angela Tisdale became the sixth Baylor player to be selected in the last seven years when the WNBA held its annual amateur player draft Wednesday night. Tisdale was the 33rd overall pick, going in the third round to the Chicago Sky. A 2007-08 All Big 12 first-team selection and a national player of the […]
I didn’t learn much in my high school economics class, and I never took economics at Baylor. But I was impressed to read last week that Baylor had gotten such positive feedback from the investment community when the University refinanced its long-term bonds. In order to do so, some outside funding agencies — groups like […]
Several Baylor programs were named among the nation’s best in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released in late March. The Baylor-U.S. Army doctoral program in physical therapy ranked fifth nationally, while the Baylor-U.S. Army master’s degree program in health administration ranked 20th. On the school’s main campus, Baylor […]
