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 […]
Updating a story from almost a year ago… Baylor researchers continue to make progress in their efforts to develop low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions. Most recently, the group (headed by Dr. Walter Bradley, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Baylor) has found a way to use coconut husks in […]
This one almost slipped by me… The November/December issue of Biz Ed, a magazine about business education, included an article called “Judging the Journals” that explained how schools measure just which academic journals qualify as “scholarly” — an important determination when looking at a faculty member’s publications. For the article, the AACSB (The Association to […]
