His name adorns the seminary at Baylor, and the congregation he pastored for almost half a century, First Baptist Dallas, continues to be one of the nation’s more influential churches. Long after his death, the legacy of George W. Truett, AB 1897, continues to grow — and thanks to Baylor Libraries, his message will continue to […]
We’ve all heard that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. A new study says that’s almost right — but not the complete story. The research, conducted by an international team that included Baylor geology professor Daniel Peppe, says that the asteroid strike was part of a “perfect storm” of events that proved to be the dinos’ […]
Accounts of heroism from first-responders in West. An example of a church that’s changing the world. The story of a certain football coach whose revolutionary offense changed Baylor forever. These are just some of the options available to Baylor Nation as Bears everywhere hit the beach or otherwise work through their summer reading lists, while the prolific library of […]
You’ve seen the car decals, the t-shirts, perhaps even the tattoos honoring someone’s loved one. They’re all covered — along with the answer to “why?” — in Baylor professor Candi Cann’s new book, Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the 21st Century. Dr. Cann, an assistant professor in Baylor’s Honors College and the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core […]
One month from today — August 11, 2014 — Baylor University will become a tobacco-free, smoke-free campus, joining more than 600 other colleges and universities around the country. That means no smoking or use of any other tobacco products inside or outside of any Baylor-owned buildings, including those on campus, around Waco and in other […]
The sad plight of children losing their lives while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone has made national news this summer following the discovery of mass unmarked graves in a South Texas cemetery. Texas lawmakers, up to and including Governor Rick Perry, have called for immediate actions to help stop such tragedies from happening; the Texas Rangers have […]
As a first-grader, at an age when most children are playing with the popular toys of the day and watching their favorite cartoons, Kevin Healy was building a hovercraft out of a leaf blower. In high school, he built an electric car out of a 1981 Toyota Celica. So, what is Healy, a mechanical engineering major […]
For centuries, South African natives have used parts of the African bush willow tree in natural medicines, treating everything from headaches to dysentery. More recently, an Arizona State researcher has studied its potential for fighting cancer. It might sound presumptuous, but a Baylor undergraduate student has been hard at work building on Arizona State’s work. Senior Cassie […]
Parents have long encouraged their kids to eat their vegetables and run off their energy in an effort to keep their kids healthy. Should they be instructing their children to pump some iron, too? That’s probably going a bit too far… But the results of a new study co-authored by a Baylor professor do show that […]
Since 1970, Baylor’s Institute for Oral History has been collecting and transcribing interviews to preserve historical memories for posterity; since 2008, many of those interview transcripts have been made available online for researchers and lovers of history. Now, the Institute is taking things a step further by making the original audio files available online. Most […]
