I never really thought about this when I was in college, but university professors don’t just take the summer as a time to sleep in and lay on the beach for three months. With an open schedule, many professors are able to use the summer months as a time to learn new skills or brush […]
Our neighbors to the north in the Dallas area were rattled by a 3.3-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning. While Texas isn’t exactly in the same league as California when it comes to quakes, it does have its share of seismic activity. Baylor scientists are working with scientists from across the country to map the United States’ […]
My wife and I (along with much of America) saw the new Star Trek movie this weekend. Neither of us qualifies as a “Trekkie”, but we did enjoy the movie, as did most of my friends who have seen it. The movie’s release has brought attention back to the Baylor researchers who last year outlined […]
Regardless of where you get your news — newspapers, radio, TV or the Internet — you’re surely being inundated with stories about the spreading swine flu. Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing has compiled a list of simple things you can do to stay healthy and hopefully avoid catching or spreading swine flu, regular flu, […]
If you picked up a newspaper or turned on the news just about anywhere in the country late last week, chances are good you saw the results of a Baylor study that found human medications and personal care products in fish from several American rivers. The study — the first of its kind on such […]
I liked math in high school, and even enrolled at Baylor planning on minoring in mathematics or statistics. That lasted all of about six weeks, as I discovered that calculus and the math classes that followed were not my cup of tea. Along the same lines, the wife of one of my best friends has […]
In 1966, Dr. Owen Lind came to Waco fresh off earning his Ph.D. at Missouri to begin Baylor’s Limnology program (the study of fresh bodies of water — or as Dr. Lind puts it, “the oceanography of lakes”). Earlier this month, Lind was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science […]
News 8 Austin this weekend ran a nice profile (including video) on the Baylor Experimental Aquatic Research (BEAR) facility and the work Baylor researchers are doing there. The facility allows professors and students to conduct experiments that could help the Environmenal Protection Agency (EPA) set better water quality standards, which in turns means better water […]
Dr. Kevin Chambliss, a Baylor chemistry professor, recently received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the use of alternative feedstocks to produce biofuels. Plenty of studies have examined producing ethanol from corn, but some experts are beginning to question the use of corn alone as a source of fuel, noting […]
As a kid, I was satisfied when the Supreme Court of Mom occasionally ruled in my favor in the case of Brother v. Sister over some vitally important issue like who got to pick what was on TV. This, however, is a much bigger deal. Last week, a Baylor law professor and two of his […]
