There are all kinds of environmental studies and research efforts going on Baylor, and doctoral student Jason Taylor is only the latest to benefit from it all. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Taylor has earned one of only a handful of the highly competitive Science to Achieve Results (STAR) […]
Fresh on the heels of the Baylor Religion Study comes another Baylor research effort that is again bringing positive press to the University, and more importantly, may promise relief to the millions of women worldwide who suffer from hot flashes as they go through menopause. The study, headed up by Baylor professor Dr. Gary Elkins, […]
Two years ago, Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion released the results of the first Baylor Religion Survey, and the study’s findings earned national attention, topped by a front page story in USA Today. Earlier this month, the study’s authors shared what they found in wave two of the survey, once again shining the national […]
In the last 15 years, 18 Baylor students have received one of the prestigious Fulbright scholarships, which provide those students with the opportunity to study abroad in order to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” Now, Baylor’s faculty are getting in on the act. Dr. […]
The new Star Trek movie doesn’t come out until next May, and of course it’s set far further in the future than that. But here in 2008, the Discovery Channel and Wired magazine each recently covered the work of two Baylor physicists who have outlined how warp drive — a faster-than-light engine that allowed interplanetary […]
It’s unusual enough at most schools for undergraduate students to get the opportunity to be involved in university-level research (though not so unusual for Baylor undergrads). But high school students? Forget about it. That is, unless you’re a part of one of Baylor’s summer programs. Students entering their senior year of high school are eligible […]
Dr. Byron Johnson, co-director of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR), helped President George W. Bush with the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001, and since then Johnson has been among the leaders in studying whether faith-based initiatives really work. Shortly after returning from speaking at a […]
If I asked you to picture a scientist, chances are good that you’d picture a man. In the past, that might have been fair; even in the early 1970s, women made up less than 10% of the science and engineering workforce. In just one generation, however, that number has jumped past 25% — and Baylor […]
With gas prices soaring ever higher — nearing $4.00 a gallon for even regular unleaded here in Waco, and even higher in other parts of the country — researchers at Baylor are investigating ways to make at least one alternative fuel cheaper to produce. Dr. Kevin Chambliss, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is leading […]
Watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island growing up, my favorite character was always the Professor; I loved the way he could build anything, it seemed, out of a couple of coconuts. Baylor students are working on something similar — working to design multiple low-cost products that can be created from coconuts in poor coastal regions, where […]
