When Baylor first got involved with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life last fall, the University was challenged to raise $25,000 for the cause. When the donations were totaled up from April’s student-organized event, the inaugural All University Baylor Relay for Life had raised over $100,000. Nationwide, more than 4,000 similar events collected a […]
Watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island growing up, my favorite character was always the Professor; I loved the way he could build anything, it seemed, out of a couple of coconuts. Baylor students are working on something similar — working to design multiple low-cost products that can be created from coconuts in poor coastal regions, where […]
In her first spring as head soccer coach at Baylor, Marci Jobson took the team’s usual spring scrimmages and added a little something extra: the chance to raise money for charity. Jobson created the Play for Hope Tournament, held last weekend at Betty Lou Mays Field. Baylor defeated Trinity, TCU and Texas State by identical […]
Wednesday may have been American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back” program, but Baylor students have been participating in something similar for much longer. Last Saturday, hundreds of students, faculty and staff volunteered for Steppin’ Out, the University’s semi-annual service day. This year’s group painted homes, picked up trash and helped out at an animal rescue shelter, […]
Over 500 runners participated Saturday in Student Foundation’s fifth annual Bearathon, and the record turnout likely will mean a record fundraising total for student scholarships once the contributions are tallied. The event shows what is possible when students, alumni and Waco residents come together. Bearathon is organized by students, and last year raised $15,000 for scholarships. […]
Last fall, we wrote about the four (now five) Baylor students who were planning to bicycle from Waco to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise awareness for suicide prevention. The guys are still at it, and have now gained national attention for their work. Earlier this month, the quintet hosted the “Dean’s List” music video countdown on […]
Baylor students, faculty and staff annually volunteer more than 150,000 hours of local community service. The hope is that such an attitude of service continues long after graduation. One young Baylor alum recently was honored for her service, receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award, which was created by President Bush in 2002 “as a way […]
A couple of days ago, we wrote about how Baylor Law School was providing an excellent service to the community with its People’s Law School. Today comes word that a number of Baylor business school students are getting in on the act, as well, working with the A.J. Moore Academy to help local low-income families […]
Baylor’s has joined a growing number of universities in opening a campus chapter of ONE, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of extreme poverty. In fact, the Baylor chapter has grown so quickly that it already ranks among the top 50 in the nation. For its efforts, Baylor got to send a representative to […]
The Baptist Standard picked up on a story recently about work that Baylor researchers are doing to bring clean water to a town in Mongolia. Dr. Rene Massengale, an assistant professor of biology, is leading the project. Industrial mining in the area has led to environmental contamination, which in turn has led to water laced […]
