Congratulations to Drs. Ian Gravagne and Kenneth Van Treuren on receiving a $145,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support their Engaged Learning Group (ELG)! You might remember reading about their group, titled “Energy and Society: the costs and benefits of an energy-dependant civilization,” in the summer ’07 issue of Baylor Magazine. In short, […]
Growing up, bowling has always been a nice fall-back option for a family event when we couldn’t think of anything else to do. My parents bowled in a league before I was born (my mom’s garage is lined with old trophies), my wife and I went bowling almost weekly while we were dating, and we […]
A day after kicking a career-best four field goals to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-13 win, former Baylor kicker Matt Bryant was named the Bucs’ 2007 Man of the Year. The award honors players not just for their on-the-field actions — though one could certainly make a case for Bryant on those […]
Baylor’s accounting program led the nation in first-time pass rate on the CPA exam for both auditing and regulation, according to numbers released by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). The Baylor accounting program also finished among the top 10 nationally in three other areas. A quick run-down: * Auditing – 100% […]
We thought it worth note-ing (all awful puns intended) that freshman music major Zach Graff has been selected as a finalist in this year’s National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts “youngARTS” competition. Graff, a tuba player, is one of about 150 finalists selected from a nationwide pool of 7,000 applicants that includes musicians, […]
Baylor’s interior design program is one of the school’s smaller programs; in 2006-07, only one of the 2,400 bachelor’s degrees awarded by the University was in interior design. But that’s not stopping the program from bringing in accolades for Baylor. Last month, students claimed first and second place awards at the Texas Chapter of the […]
Head coach Scott Drew’s Baylor men’s basketball team purposely put together a tougher non-conference schedule this year to prepare the team for Big 12 play, and the squad is proving up to the challenge. Over the past three days, the men defeated Wichita State, Notre Dame and Winthrop to win the Paradise Jam championship. Notre […]
On Monday, we wrote about the results USA Today ran from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Today, we’ve got some more interesting data from the survey. Baylor clearly outshines its peers in two questions that encompass the entire college experience. First-year students and seniors were each asked “How would you evaluate your entire educational […]
According to data gathered by USA Today, Baylor students are happier with their college choice than students at similar schools across virtually all areas of the college academic experience. Over 250 universities across the country shared their data from the National Survey of Student Engagement with USA Today. The publication categorized Baylor as a high-research […]
If you were at this weekend’s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner. Dr. Armitstead is the only one I’ve […]
