In Baylor’s Department of Public Health, a one-credit-hour course aims to help students manage stress and build resilience, but questions remain about whether well-being can truly be taught.
Amid ongoing staff shortages, Baylor students are taking steps to ensure a smooth Easter break. Some turn to smaller airports, such as Dallas Love Field and Waco, while others plan to arrive early.
Baylor students set out to tackle one of the deadliest issues in college campuses across the country: accidental drug overdose. Cypress sophomore Avery Brunkhorst and Frisco junior Mikehla Gibbons founded a Waco Chapter of the national nonprofit End Overdose to do their part in fighting the epidemic.
Two current Pre-Health mentors, Placentia, Calif., junior Molly Laporte and Chicago junior Carter Wright, said the drive to mentor came from a desire to give freshmen the support they wished they had or deeply appreciated when they were in the same shoes.
As of Wednesday, Chief Investment Officer David Morehead said he expected the endowment to end the month near $2.5 billion, up from $2.4 billion at the end of September and a further increase from its $2.17 billion balance in May 2025. The endowment contributes 5% of its value back to Baylor each year, so each dollar the endowment makes puts five cents into Baylor’s operating budget.
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For the Texas Senate seats, Republican Sen. John Cornyn is in a primary runoff against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton on May 26. Cornyn led the March 3 primary 43% to 41%, but neither cleared the majority threshold. Trump has not endorsed either candidate. Democrats have not won statewide in Texas since 1994. Democratic state Rep. James Talarico won his party’s nomination over Rep. Jasmine Crockett. A March Impact Research poll showed Talarico leading Cornyn 43% to 41% and Paxton 44% to 43% among likely voters.
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After two years of stellar quarterback play from Sawyer Robertson, the Bears are turning to a room of fresh faces to captain the offense.
Junior infielder Robert De La Garza made his Baylor debut when the lights were brightest: facing the third-best team in the country in a major league park. His journey of grinding through two years at the JUCO level prepared him to perform for the Bears.
Welcome back to the Monday Morning Sports Buzz. In honor of Palm Sunday, I got some shots up on the ol’ minihoop this weekend. That’s as close as I’ll ever come to palming a basketball.
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At the Waco STEAM Center, participants are doing more than just learning, they’re gaining experiences by building projects and working with new technology.
ARTS & LIFE
After months of anticipation and a steady stream of aesthetic teasers, Melanie Martinez has returned with “HADES,” a dark, synth-laced alt-pop project that leans heavily into the sonic and visual world she has spent years perfecting.
Now more than ever, the confirmation of alien life is exactly what the world needs to bridge its divide. With economically and emotionally devastating wars and polarized thinking, something big could mend fences — and finding extraterrestrials would do just that.
I see more and more posts on my feed: cute church dresses, families posing with oversized bunnies, kids running through fields hunting eggs and baskets overflowing with candy. It all looks beautiful, but when did we lose the raw, real meaning of Easter?
The world and the feelings it inspires are often big, complicated and scary. A poem can take one of those feelings and distill it into something more palatable.
Artificial intelligence is becoming a staple of our society. It has become a part of everyday life, whether it’s a student using it for school or a teacher using it to make up class instructions. One avenue where AI can’t get enough is in our media.
Not recognizing ASL as a foreign language at Baylor is hindering not only the university’s focus on diversity and inclusion, but also the very Christian mission to spread the gospel to all people.
As of late, it feels like these massive April Fools’ campaigns have slowed down. In the past six years, I cannot remember a single company’s April Fools’ Day announcement that has truly grabbed my attention.
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