No matter how you get your news, chances are good you’ve seen a story lately on “phubbing” — short for “phone snubbing,” the act of using or being distracted by your cell phone while in the company of your spouse or significant other. The phenomenon and its effects have been discussed everywhere from the Today Show to TIME magazine. What you […]
It’s just physics-based hypersonic boundary-layer stability and transition prediction — it’s not rocket science. Okay, it is rocket science. That the subject of Baylor professor Joseph Kuehl‘s research — for which he has earned a large research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program. Dr. Kuehl, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering […]
It’s been almost 40 years since two Central Texas men stumbled across a large bone sticking out of a Waco creek bed and brought it to Baylor for identification. Friday, that event reached its culmination as the Waco Mammoth National Monument was welcomed into the National Park System (NPS). [CNN: “Texas mammoth herd site is a new national […]
Five years ago this summer, Ken Starr took office as Baylor University’s 14th president. Since that day, President Starr has focused his energies on advancing Baylor’s mission of providing an outstanding education that combines academic excellence with unwavering Christian commitment. Over the last five years, he’s led the university and its students, faculty, staff and alumni […]
You probably don’t spend too much time thinking about your brain’s grid cells — you know, the neurons that allow us to make sense of where we are spatially and to navigate the places we go. Dr. Lisa Giocomo, BA ’02, does. And the research she conducts at her Stanford University lab is breaking new ground in helping build a […]
Not once, not twice, but three times has this Baylor Bear received a national award for her research. For the third time in six years, Baylor doctoral candidate Stephanie Wong, MS ’12, has won the Farvolden Award from the National Groundwater Association for her studies. In 2015, she claimed top honors for her research paper, “Insights in Karst Groundwater-Stream Interactions […]
We snagged a good one, Baylor Nation. Baylor has announced the appointment of world-famous philosopher John Haldane as a distinguished professor in philosophy beginning this fall. While Haldane may not be a household name to many Bears, it certainly is in the world of philosophy. He’ll be leaving his homeland of Scotland, where since 1983 he has taught at the […]
Since the beginning, Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) has had two goals: to develop (and implement) plans to end hunger in Texas, and to create methods that can be reproduced elsewhere around the country. THI’s work has already made an impact. THI has gathered and trained more than 1,100 community-based organizations — churches, libraries, hospitals, schools, shelters, etc. — that are […]
What does Heaven look like in your mind? Does it have streets of gold, or angels playing harps on clouds? Perhaps you think of departed friends or family members with whom you’ll reunite. What about Hell? Do you imagine a cave filled with flames, or devils with pitchforks? Chances are, most of the images that […]
Most new parents take hundreds of pictures of their newborns. Thanks to a pair of Baylor professors, those photos can now be used to screen for pediatric eye cancer — a simple act that could save the eyesight (and maybe even the lives) of children before it’s too late. Baylor chemistry professor Bryan Shaw and computer […]
