If you’re gonna be the best at something, “giving” is a good choice. Thanks to the generosity of so many Bears, Baylor University has been named Carter BloodCare’s 2017-18 College of the Year! Last year, Baylor students, faculty and staff donated more than 1,000 units of blood — enough to save 3,000 lives. A major […]
When prospective students look to U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings over the coming year, they’ll again find Baylor’s light shining bright among the top universities in the state, conference and country. For the seventh year in a row, Baylor ranks among the top five Texas universities and as one of the Big 12 Conference’s […]
When Baylor volleyball opens the 2018 season Friday night, they’ll be looking to build on what’s becoming a golden era for the program. The last two seasons have been the best in Bears history, and preseason rankings indicate their opponents anticipate that run of success continuing. Head coach Ryan McGuyre’s squad is ranked 16th in […]
Baylor soccer turned heads across the country last fall with a stirring postseason run that featured some of the sport’s most dramatic moments of the season. In a memorable month of November, the Bears earned their first-ever Big 12 tournament championship and reached the NCAA’s Elite Eight for the first time in program history. As […]
For the fourth year in a row, the Baylor Symphony Orchestra has won the American Prize in Orchestral Performance as the nation’s top collegiate orchestra! The American Prize is a national nonprofit competition in the performing arts. Baylor’s orchestra is the first ensemble in any of the competition’s categories to ever win first place four […]
In 2014, we wrote about Jolene Damoiseaux, a Baylor senior who was researching maternal mortality and had traveled through Kenya with her student organization. While there, she met with expectant mothers who shared a common problem: getting to the hospital to give birth. The women faced an average hike of three miles through rough terrain […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest, most prestigious award for humanities and social sciences Ph.D. candidates researching questions of ethical and religious values. This year, just 21 students nationwide have been honored as Newcombe Fellows — and one of those is a Baylor Bear. Teresita Lozano, a 2010 Baylor music education graduate who is […]
As the recipient of a recent Fulbright award, Baylor nursing professor Lori Spies has spent much of the last year and a half traveling across the globe — from India to Vietnam to Zambia — researching and training nurses on how to handle noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension. One of more than 50 Baylor Bears […]
For the eighth consecutive year, Baylor University has been named one of the country’s “Great Colleges to Work For” following a nationwide survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. What’s more — Baylor is 1 of just 10 large four-year universities nationwide to earn elite Honor Roll status in the survey. This marks Baylor’s seventh Honor […]
Already this year, Baylor’s Focus Magazine has been named the best student-produced magazine in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists, and The Baylor Lariat has been honored as the top student newspaper in the state by both the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and the Houston Press Club. Those are just three of the 100+ individual […]
