Once again, Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business ranks among the top 50 undergraduate business schools in the country, according to the results of a nationwide survey of students conducted by BusinessWeek. Hankamer was particularly lauded for its “small classes, strong accounting program, and focus on ethics.” Baylor ranked among the top 10 in the nation […]
For the fifth straight spring, the Baylor men’s and women’s tennis teams are Big 12 Conference champions; each squad will enter this week’s Big 12 Championships as the No. 1 seed in its bracket. Head coach Matt Knoll’s men, currently ranked No. 5 in the nation, won their eighth straight regular season conference championship (ninth […]
Being a Christian university with a long Baptist heritage, one would expect Baylor to have particularly excellent professors in religion, both at the undergraduate and graduate (seminary) level. And one would not be disappointed. For example, the following two honors just came to my attention recently. Dr. Doug Weaver, director of undergraduate studies and an […]
Even with the season complete, head coach Kim Mulkey’s Baylor women’s basketball team continues to make headlines. Thursday, senior Jessica Morrow was selected as the 27th overall pick of the WNBA Draft by the Atlanta Dream. Morrow finished her Baylor career among the Lady Bears’ career leaders in 3-pointers (No. 4), blocks (No. 9) and […]
Another month, another award for a Baylor professor… This weekend, math professor Dr. John M. Davis will receive the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America at the group’s annual meeting. I love what Davis has to say about the University: “I came to Baylor because of the emphasis […]
We’ve talked a lot about Baylor’s basketball success lately, but Baylor’s other sports merit recognition for their recent successes as well. A quick snapshot of where things stand midway through the spring: * Right now, the Bears have four reigning Big 12 Players of the Week: baseball’s Shaver Hansen, softball’s Whitney Canion, men’s tennis’ Denes […]
Fighting through laryngitis, a team of Baylor Law students recently was crowned national champions at the prestigious National Trial Competition, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers. The duo of Joel Bailey and Eric Policastro (pictured at right in this team photo) beat out approximately 300 teams to claim the top spot at the […]
Tuesday night, the Baylor men’s basketball team played at the most famous basketball arena in the world — New York City’s Madison Square Garden — for the first time since appearing in the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. (You don’t remember that? Baylor standout Jackie Robinson does.) The glitz and glamour didn’t faze the […]
In 1966, Dr. Owen Lind came to Waco fresh off earning his Ph.D. at Missouri to begin Baylor’s Limnology program (the study of fresh bodies of water — or as Dr. Lind puts it, “the oceanography of lakes”). Earlier this month, Lind was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science […]
The No. 7-ranked Baylor women’s basketball team will make its sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance (and its eighth in head coach Kim Mulkey’s nine seasons at Baylor) beginning Sunday, when the No. 2 seed Lady Bears will face 15th-seeded UT-San Antonio around 9 p.m. in Lubbock; the game will be televised on ESPN2. Twice before, […]
