Stumbled across this article today in Texas Lawyer about the role of faith at religiously affiliated law schools. The article talks quite a bit about Baylor Law School, and while we’ve often read about how Baylor Law focuses on preparing students for the courtroom in very practical ways, there’s another angle to the preparation as […]
When athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was hired last year, one of his charges was to help organize mission trips for Baylor’s student-athletes, as the former football letterman described in this Baylor Magazine feature. This month, Yeary is leading a 16-member team to Kenya for two weeks, where the group will work with existing ministries to […]
Baylor students spread across Waco last weekend for the spring Steppin’ Out, volunteering all over the city: helping clean up the shores of Lake Waco, working on a parking lot at Rapoport Academy, and helping repaint several homes around town, among a number of projects. (Click here for a photo gallery from Saturday’s events.) But […]
We’ve mentioned the ONE Campaign’s efforts here before; a relatively recent student group at Baylor, the ONE Campaign quickly moved into the top 50 campus chapters in the nation last year, and this year has taken another large leap, ranking as the No. 3 ONE campus in the nation out of over 800 participating universities! […]
Earlier this week, Baylor was named to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which “recognizes colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and effective community service.” Teaching students the importance of service has always been at Baylor’s core, as seen in both the University’s longstanding mission statement and the more recent Vision […]
Baylor students, faculty and staff were among over a million Americans nationwide who spent the day before today’s historic Inauguration answering President-elect Barack Obama’s call to service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Bears joined many from the Waco community through the HOT Urban Gardening Coalition, helping weed, mulch, put down compost, and plant vegetables, […]
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 […]
You might remember our stories this spring about Kristin Elliott, at the time a high school senior preparing to enroll at Baylor. Kristin was named ABC World News Tonight’s Person of the Week back in May after the network learned of her battle with cancer and her work to start an AIDS orphans house in […]
Christmas is a time for giving, as we remember the perfect gift God gave us. It seems an appropriate time to share this story that a friend passed along; I think it is an excellent illustration of how Baylor graduates continue to serve long after they’ve left Steppin’ Out and spring break mission trips behind. […]
I absolutely love Christmas music, and I’m always on the hunt for new recordings, be they obscure (Fernando Ortega’s “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella“) or downright unusual (“The Star Wars Christmas Album“). So I was excited to read that a couple of Baylor students and a local church are using Christmas music to raise funds […]
