The Baylor Alumni Association recently honored five graduates with its Distinguished Alumni award, and the recipients’ varied background provides an interesting sampling of what Baylor grads are doing after leaving the University. One has traveled the world and is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, while one has stayed right here as mayor of Waco. […]
January 2008 has been very good to Baylor sports fans. The Baylor men are enjoying their second straight week in the rankings, holding on at No. 25, while the most recent women’s polls have the Lady Bears at No. 6. On the heels of that success come preseason rankings for Baylor baseball and softball. After […]
Not to be lost in the excitement over the men’s five-overtime win at Texas A&M was the No. 6 Lady Bears’ win at Missouri, and more specifically, head coach Kim Mulkey’s 200th career victory. With a 200-54 career record, Mulkey is the sixth fastest coach in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history to reach 200 […]
For weeks, the Baylor men’s basketball program has seemed on the verge of breaking into the top 25. Monday, they finally made it. Head coach Scott Drew’s Bears are ranked 25th in this week’s Associated Press poll, marking their first national ranking since February 1969 — almost exactly 18 months before Drew was born. At […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently crunched the numbers on how many freshman National Merit Scholars enrolled at various colleges this fall. Baylor ranks 26th nationally with 84 such students, up two spots from a year ago. To put this in perspective, when it comes to attracting many of the country’s top high school students, […]
Did you know that Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching comes with the single largest monetary reward — $200,000 — of any national teaching award? Dr. Stephen D. Davis, a biology professor at Pepperdine, was yesterday named the 2008 Cherry Award winner. He will spend this fall teaching in residence at Baylor. In […]
Baylor’s has joined a growing number of universities in opening a campus chapter of ONE, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of extreme poverty. In fact, the Baylor chapter has grown so quickly that it already ranks among the top 50 in the nation. For its efforts, Baylor got to send a representative to […]
Baylor’s men’s basketball team has received a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so, given their impressive 12-2 start. But don’t forget the Lady Bears; head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad is ranked No. 8 in the nation and began conference play this week. Junior Rachel Allison (pictured) is the reigning Big 12 Player of the […]
Baylor’s reputation as a university with faculty recognized as leaders in their discipline received a nice boost this week as, for the second year in a row, a Baylor professor took home the New Scholars Achievement Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS). The CSGS, which includes all major graduate schools in 17 […]
Spring semester classes don’t start until Monday, but the spring athletic season is already underway. And if preseason prognostications hold up, the next several months should be a lot of fun for Baylor fans. Baylor’s men’s tennis team is ranked No. 4 nationally, with a pair of players in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA’s) singles […]
