When 7-year-old Camille Whitt sat in her motorized swing for the first time, she paused for a brief second. Camille had long ago physically outgrown her old infant swing, but an undiagnosed neurological disorder has limited her development to the level of a 4- to 6-month-old — the age many children enjoy swings the most. As Camille sat […]
Greer Tidwell, BSES ’85, and his daughter Brittainy, BSME ’15, have a lot in common. For starters, they’re both Baylor engineering graduates; they also both love the outdoors. It’s a love that came naturally. Greer grew up on a farm outside of Nashville, where his father, Greer Tidwell Sr., was an early environmental engineer. He passed on […]
What’s life like inside the Pentagon? One Baylor student is about to find out. Joseph Mabbitt, a senior Russian major and Baylor Air Force ROTC student, earned a highly-coveted internship at the Pentagon for this coming summer. He’ll be working in the Secretary of the Air Force/International Affairs office, which exists to “strengthen US and […]
The city of North Bay, Ontario, was founded in 1891 because of its location along a main canoe route vital to the fur trade. Today, North Bay is a typical Canadian mid-sized city, with a strong sense of community, low cost of living, and home to two local colleges. But in recent years, the city’s population has dipped […]
Martha Lou Scott‘s leadership potential became apparent while she was still a Baylor undergraduate student. Five months before she earned her diploma, university administrators made sure Martha Lou would be sticking around campus after graduation, hiring her for a job in the Office of Women’s Residence Halls. Forty-five years later, multiple generations of Baylor students have benefitted from that […]
On paper, opening a restaurant that charges no set prices (and allows anyone to eat for free) doesn’t seem like a sound business decision. But Bread of Life Community Deli in Meridian, Idaho, exists to do more than earn a profit. “Our goal is to love people,” owner Cameron McCown, a 2010 Baylor graduate, told KTVB-TV […]
All kinds of people come to Heal The City in Amarillo, Texas: A mother who brought her son because she couldn’t afford the shots needed to keep him in school. A woman with arthritis and nerve damage who waited nearly two hours in the cold for the doors to open. A man who came shortly […]
If you’ve checked Facebook, your local news, or even just surfed the Internet this week, you’ve probably heard this story by now — but you might not have heard all the details. Since it was first reported by Waco news station KWTX, this tale has been shared by dozens of media outlets, including People magazine, NBC’s TODAY, ABC’s Good Morning America, the […]
It’s been three years since we first wrote about Dr. Bryan Shaw’s research at Baylor on retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer that primarily affects children under the age of 5 (including Shaw’s son, Noah). Last year, Shaw teamed with Baylor computer science professor Greg Hamerly to take his work a step further; together, the pair released an app that can actually […]
Passionate people and innovative ideas — it takes both to tackle a project as large as ending hunger. Fortunately, Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) is blessed with an abundance of both, and the nation is taking notice. Last month, a THI student volunteer was honored by the White House, and the organization as a whole was […]
