People Newspapers assistant managing editor Claire St. Amant’s resume is impressive for a 26-year-old: Phi Beta Kappa honoree. Graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. Lariat editor. Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. Now St. Amant can add one more line to her resume. The 2008 Baylor graduate was named one of the newspaper industry’s […]
If you want to study or teach internationally after graduating from college, there are few more prestigious opportunities than the Fulbright Program. Established by Congress in 1946 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, each year the program sends some of the nation’s brightest and most ambitious students across the world to continue their […]
Until Division I-A football implements a playoff system, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball remain the NCAA’s three biggest tournaments. Baylor teams have earned top-10 national seeds in all three sports this year. In March, the Lady Bears grabbed the No. 1 overall seed en route to their second national title, while the men were […]
Last summer, when it looked like the Big 12 Conference was about to fall apart and Baylor would be left scrambling for a new league, pundits across the nation said BU didn’t belong in a major conference. One year later, their songs have changed, thanks to Añodeloso — the Year of the Bear. Are you […]
The end of the spring semester brought with it two more Baylor professor of the year awards, and the honorees highlight some of the variety found in Baylor’s faculty. Dr. Roger Kirk, the 2012 Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year, was named one of Baylor’s Master Teachers in 1993; Dr. Richard Russell, the 2012 […]
Each year, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation recognizes women from all facets of media at the annual Gracie Awards. The 2012 Gracies were held last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Baylor grad Angela Kinsey, BA ’93 — better known as Angela Martin on NBC’s “The Office” — served […]
After another successful weekend, a school-record 16 of Baylor’s 19 varsity sports have earned postseason appearances. (The final three — baseball and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field — are all on pace to complete the perfect season for Baylor athletics.) * Baylor men’s tennis upset No. 9 Mississippi State on their own turf […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… For the 15th time since July 2001, Baylor Law School students have claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. Of the 54 Baylor students who took the three-day exam for the first time in February, 50 passed, a 92.59% success rate. Only one […]
For the first time in its nearly 90-year history, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas has a female president — and she’s a Baylor Bear. Jennifer Sampson, BBA ’92, had served the organization for 10 years, first as its CFO and then as executive vice president and COO, when she was named president and CEO […]
Earlier this spring, Baylor women’s basketball ranked No. 1 in the nation, with a program-record winning streak to their name and a Big 12 championship to boot. Baylor baseball can now say the same thing. Ranked No. 1 by Collegiate Baseball the past two weeks (the first time in program history) and having recorded the […]
