Earlier this month, singer/songwriter Ashley Cleveland was nominated for the “Best Traditional Gospel Album” Grammy for her latest release, “God Don’t Never Change.” The album is a celebration of vintage black gospel songs that Cleveland says was inspired by Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. Cleveland says she and her husband, guitarist Kenny Greenberg, independently […]
My wife and I spent Saturday afternoon at the Waco Mammoth Site as it opened to the public for the first time. It’s quite an experience to walk down the wooded path from the site’s Welcome Center to the building which houses the open dig site and then look down from the catwalk onto the […]
Work that began three years ago as a potential journal article by English professor Dr. Joe Fulton has evolved into not just a complete book, but one worthy of the prestigious Landry Award, given annually to the best book on Southern studies published by LSU Press. Fulton’s book, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, takes an […]
For 40 years, the General Tire & Rubber Co. was one of the largest employers in Waco — up until industry changes led to the plant’s closing in 1985. For most of the past 25 years, the company’s 2 million-square-foot facility sat dormant just up I-35 from Baylor. Friday, plans were announced to turn the […]
The natural features that make the Waco suburb of Woodway so scenic can also cause problems for home builders, as some of the city’s slopes are prone to landslides — a situation clearly unsafe for a home’s foundation. However, while these conditions affect only a fraction of the city, the danger has caused some homebuilders […]
Apple introduced the computer mouse to the masses in 1984 with the introduction of the Macintosh computer, but the invention was first demonstrated nearly 20 years earlier at a conference in San Francisco by its inventor, Dr. Douglas Engelbart. His presentation — which also introduced such features as hyperlinks, e-mail and video conferencing — has […]
In addition to unveiling a university Facebook page (10,500 fans and counting!) a month or so ago, Baylor has also launched an iTunes U site, offering free downloads of over 300 audio and video files, with more being added weekly. Sports fans will enjoy seeing video highlights posted just a couple of hours after each […]
You might have seen Baylor’s name in the news recently attached to a study on clergy sexual misconduct that found 3% of adult women who regularly attend religious services have been the victim of clergy sexual misconduct. (For example, stories ran in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Associated Press.) The study found that the […]
These days, it seems everyone from President Obama on down is searching for some way to fix America’s health care problems. Two Baylor professors have laid out a plan that would provide universal health care without creating a government entitlement program or threaten the insurance coverage or health care of Americans who have coverage. In […]
Fans of The Learning Channel (TLC) might have seen the work of a Baylor professor and not even realized it. This spring, TLC ran four documentaries — “Half Ton Mom,” “Half Ton Dad,” “Half Ton Teen,” and “Survival of the Half Ton Teen” — in which the subjects seek gastric bypass surgery in an attempt […]
