When firefighters with the Whitney Fire Department needed assistance last week controlling a series of fires that threatened more than 80 homes, they turned to two Baylor experts who helped them predict with accuracy when and where the fires were likely to spread.
Year: 2011
Baylor’s Theta Nu chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega national fraternity recently outshined 250 other chapters across the country to receive the Top Chapter award for 2010-2011.
Nathan Adair, a 2001 Baylor graduate, has been dining on $1 a day for 30 days in order to raise poverty awareness– a challenge that will end at the end of the week.
Texas ranks second in the nation with citizens suffering from food insecurity according to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A Baylor professor has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the poem “Ovide moralisé” from Old French into English, for the first time.
The Baylor Agape Connection, a student organization beginning its first full semester this fall, has tapped into a previously underrepresented area of interest on campus— building friendships with senior citizens.
Boasting seven freshmen out of 29 players, the class of 2015 is well represented on the Baylor soccer team.
Despite their efforts, the Bears’ volleyball team couldn’t hand TCU its first loss of the season, as Baylor got swept 3-0 (19-25, 20-25, 24-26.)
The risk management department stands ready to protect students by educating them about campus safety this Thursday in an all-day event that will include a number of presentations. The risk management department is hosting “OsoSafe Campus Safety Awareness Day” to increase students’ knowledge of safety in a variety of different areas.
The Fall Physics Colloquium series is set to continue today with a lecture detailing how planets are made. Dr. Victor Land, a postdoctoral research associate at Baylor, will give an hour-long lecture, “The Early Stages of Planet Formation,” today at 4 p.m. in E125 of the Baylor Sciences Building.
Writer and director Craig Brewer (“Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan”) delivers a new version of the classic 1984 film “Footloose” that he says will be “more relevant today than it was in ‘84” in regard to the modern teenager.
Junior Ryan O’Rear led the Baylor men’s team to his career-best performance with a fourth-place finish at 4-under-par, and freshman Hayley Davis led the Baylor women’s team at second-place in her first collegiate tournament with a 2-under-par.
Gearbox Software creates some of the most popular video games on the market; the most recent success is the game known as “Borderlands,” an innovative role-playing first-person shooter that has sold more than 4.5 million copies worldwide. One the minds behind this important game took time to visit some classes here at Baylor.
Would you want to take a drug test just to go to classes? That’s the newest policy at Linn State Technical College in Missouri, which has mandated that all incoming freshmen, as well as returning students who have taken off a semester or more, submit urine samples for drug testing.
When I first heard about Baylor’s threat to sue Texas A&M and the SEC if the Aggies left the Big 12, I thought we were kind of like the annoying little brother not letting A&M leave when it wanted to.
Recently we got a tiny taste of fall – slightly cooler temperatures, leaves blowing down the street. It was just enough to bring back the nostalgia that this particular season always seems to carry with it, the memories that come out of nowhere, the longing to shift back in time or to a place we haven’t been in awhile.
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Not sure where you’re going after graduation? Come to the STEM job fair from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday…
Baylor has added a fourth Fulbright scholar this year with David Bond West, a May 2011 graduate from San Antonio. He is enrolled at the University of Iceland, where he is working toward a master of arts in Medieval studies.
Three-hundred seventy two foreign nationals, 246 victims on four planes, 2,606 casualties in the North and South towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. These are the casualties of Sept. 11 that will never be forgotten, and Friday’s “Tribute to Fallen Heroes” honored everyone of them.
The memory of those who lost their lives on the morning of Sept. 11, many while selflessly serving to save others, was lifted high during a special commemoration service Sunday in Waco Hall.
People of different backgrounds and ages gathered in front of the Pat Neff Hall bell tower as Baylor’s carillonneur Lynnette Geary played a memorial recital on Sunday for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001. A carillon is a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard.
By Daniel C. Houston Staff Writer Three Baylor professors of religion discussed weighty theological issues pertaining to the Sept. 11,…
At Baylor, fashion has gone to the dogs. Outfits made especially for dogs by Baylor apparel design students have won top prizes at the Fashion Group International Dallas Career Day competition and have also raised more than $12,000 to benefit Texas animal rescue shelters.
One downtown restaurant will be regularly opening its doors past closing time for a monthly event, beginning this week.
Thirteen acts were selected for the After Dark performance, set for Sept. 23. About 60 Baylor students auditioned Tuesday and Wednesday in Waco Hall for Baylor University’s After Dark student variety show.
Baylor soccer improved to 6-1-1 over the weekend behind two home 2-0 victories, increasing the Bears’ home winning streak to six games with a 5-0 home record this season.
Could SpongeBob be ruining your brain? In a Sept. 12th article from U.S. News titled “Is ‘SpongeBob’ Too Much for Young Minds?,” Steven Reinberg wrote “4-year-olds did worse in thinking skills after watching the cartoon, study says.”