After Thanksgiving break, most Baylor students returned to campus to complete their final days of classes in advance of finals. Senior Barry Hartweg, however, spent the first week of December in Peru as a student ambassador to a UN climate conference. Hartweg arrived in Lima Nov. 29 as one of eight college students from across the U.S. chosen […]
Imagine being in elementary school and unable to communicate with teachers and students. You’re alienated, confused and unable to keep pace with your peers. This was Roy Castañeda’s children in the 1970s. Castañeda, whose household (pictured above) spoke primarily Spanish, brought a lawsuit against his local Texas school district, which he believed was allowing racial […]
In terms of lives saved or lost, it’s one of hospitals’ most costly problems: antibiotic-resistant infections such as staph and pneumonia. But Baylor students are on the case and digging for clues around Waco – literally. In a biology course known as “Small World Initiative,” Dr. Jacquelyn Duke (MS ’02, PhD ’06), Dr. Diane Hartman and their students are gathering […]
Seeing a lot of pink lately? That’s probably because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and many organizations take this to mean they should turn their product pink for 31 days. Here at Baylor, however, we prefer a more direct approach. Thanks to a $900,000 grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, […]
More than 3 billion people worldwide are at risk from tropical diseases that spread easily and contribute to a repeated cycle of poverty in nations across the globe. Thousands of miles away from the epicenters of these diseases, in labs here at Baylor, those 3 billion people have allies in Baylor professors and their students, who right now are […]
No matter where you go, you’re likely to find someone engrossed in his or her cellphone while going about the day’s business (and quite a few of us are guilty of that ourselves). The omnipresence of the cellphone is particularly acute among college students, no doubt prompting a few parents to exclaim to their children, […]
Plenty of people care about the environment and the quality of life for humans and animals, but not many have the opportunity to directly impact on the future of our planet. Baylor University’s Dr. Bryan Brooks, professor of environmental science and biomedical studies, is one of the lucky few. As part of the Molecular Design […]
Baylor alumna and doctoral candidate Sarah Stair’s interest in science, math and engineering began innocently enough, as she built Lego towers and entered egg drop contests as a child. These days, her work is a little more advanced — and it’s bringing quite a bit of attention to both her and Baylor. Stair, BS ’12, MS ’14, was […]
The Illinois River, a tributary of the Arkansas River, runs for 145 miles through Arkansas and Oklahoma. For decades, the two states have fought over pollution in the river, with Oklahoma blaming Arkansas for polluting the river with elevated phosphorus from municipal waste water and poultry fertilizers, which leads to an increase in algae growth. […]
It feels like something from The Jetsons or Star Trek, but it’s much closer to reality than to TV Land. A team from GE, working with faculty and students from Baylor’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, are moving towards a push-button device that could, in an instant, tell you just how many calories are on your plate. Today, they’ve […]
