Halloween is the one day a year where Americans are neither surprised nor scared to find ghosts, goblins and boogeymen on the front porch. But a surprising number of people believe in those and other curiosities — UFOs, Bigfoot, and the like — not just at Halloween, but yearround. Baylor professors Dr. Carson Mencken and […]
Back in December, we wrote about Baylor grad Hunter Smith (BS ’08) and his work with an Austin-based group of engineers in modifying a car so it could be driven by an iPhone app. How would Smith ever top that? Easy; he and another BU alum, Chris Culver (BS ’08), worked on Waterloo Labs‘ latest […]
Yesterday, the main story on the front page of USA Today — the most widely circulated print newspaper in the U.S. — was about the work of two Baylor professors and their new book, America’s Four Gods. Sociology professors Dr. Christopher Bader and Dr. Paul Froese based their work on results from the biennial Baylor […]
On this date in 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi — a key moment as the Civil Rights Movement fought to end racial discrimination throughout the 1960s. Almost half a century later, oral historians are still working to capture the history of those who lived through […]
Film and digital media professor Chris Hansen doesn’t just tell his students how movies are made; he shows them. Hansen has written and directed three films: The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah (released in 2006), Clean Freak (2008), and now Endings (2010). His most recent effort, Endings was filmed in and around […]
With the nation’s largest active duty armored post just 60 miles down the road at Fort Hood, issues surrounding the military are never far from the hearts of many at Baylor. For instance, each class in the School of Social Work’s graduate program typically has at least one or two students who are married or […]
When you think “research,” you probably tend to think of people in white labcoats working with test tubes or lasers or something. There’s certainly plenty of that kind of work going on at Baylor, from cancer research to particle colliders to water quality studies. But research can mean a lot of other types of study, […]
The federal government’s National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.46 million grant to Baylor professors Dr. Kevin Pinney and Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick that will help fund the pair’s research and testing of new compounds that could fight cancerous tumors. Pinney (pictured, a Baylor professor of chemistry and biochemistry since 1993) and Trawick (a […]
It’s common to hear NASA engineers referred to as “rocket scientists,” both for their area of study and their noted genius. NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston served as host to the 2010 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Region IV Student Conference, welcoming some of the best of tomorrow’s aerospace engineers for a […]
Eight years after launching Vision 2012, Baylor’s traditional emphasis on undergraduate education is stronger than ever, as evidenced in programs like the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching (the single largest monetary award of any national higher ed teaching honor) and in statistics like Baylor’s average class size (nearly half of undergrad classes have […]
