While many who live along the Gulf Coast are still without power and working to get their lives back in order after Hurricane Ike, Baylor University is doing what it can to help its students and their families. After the storm made its way through Texas, University officials began to contact the 800 or so […]
How did you spend your summer? For many Baylor students, the answer to that question is “helping others.” * Over 160 students visited AIDS clinics, installed hydro-electric generators, tutored children and shared the Gospel on Baylor-sponsored mission trips across the globe this summer. Baylor Magazine compiled this powerful series of journal entries and reflections on […]
After 73 days and 4,500 miles, the Alive Campaign riders crossed the finish line Sunday, biking into Anchorage, Alaska — right on schedule! (For background on the Alive Campaign for suicide prevention and awareness, click here.) The remaining four riders — Justin Brown of El Paso, Texas; Alyson Erikson of San Antonio; Nathan Lloyd of […]
I’ve got almost an entire shelf of books at home that I’ve bought or received as gifts that I haven’t yet found time to read, but I may have to skip over those and get this one first. Rebekah Ann Naylor, M.D.: Missionary Surgeon in Changing Times is a biography of Naylor, a Baylor graduate […]
Future nurses from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing delivered much-needed health care to hundreds of children in Ethiopia and Uganda this spring on the school’s annual mission trip. (Read a nice wrap-up here, and even more here.) But after long days at the clinic, the students and their patients found time for fun, too, […]
Baylor’s School of Social Work is perhaps the University’s fastest growing program; 86 students graduated from the program last month, double the previous year’s class. To put that in perspective, the three-year-old program graduated more students than Truett Seminary, Baylor Law School and the Louise Herrington School of Nursing. Baylor social work students from Waco […]
It’s been a month since the five Baylor students who make up the Alive Campaign team began their 4,312-mile, 72-day journey from Waco to Anchorage — on bicycle — and they’re still going strong! The team spent the weekend in San Francisco, seeing the sights during a much-needed rest day before hitting the road again. […]
Seven-foot center Mamadou Diene is a favorite around campus, nicknamed “The Mayor” for his friendly nature, and he has finished among the top three in the Big 12 Conference in blocks per game in each of his first three seasons. But it was his off-the-court activity that earned him the title of 2008 Big 12 […]
In 1979, sophomore defensive back Kyle Woods fractured his neck and severely injured his spinal cord during football practice; the injury left him paralyzed. Thanks to help from Baylor friends and family, Woods was eventually able to go back to school, graduating from UT-Arlington in 1993. He has spent the past 13 years as a […]
As you drive this summer, keep an eye out for college students on bicycles. The Baylor students who launched the Alive Campaign for suicide awareness last fall are now on the road! Six students are biking from Waco to Anchorage in a trip that they expect will take all summer. The group left from the […]
