Sometimes all someone needs is a listening ear, even if that ear belongs to a stranger from a much younger generation.
Year: 2011
Baylor dining halls provide a wide variety of choices for faculty and students each day, and with the food service provider, Aramark, Baylor has been able to increase the amount of healthy options and quality meals in the dining halls.
Every spring brings Baylor Baseball new faces, new obstacles and new questions. Not every season, however, brings with it a question of who will don the catcher’s mask.
The Lady Bears’ (5-0) next victory will be not just No. 6 on the young season, but also head coach Glenn Moore’s 400th win at Baylor.
The No. 16 ranked baseball squad returns to the diamond today with new hitters, pitchers and potentially game-morphing rule changes.
It’s that time of year when friends and classmates look more haggard than usual, disappear each night between the hours of 5 and 10 p.m. and are caught breaking into dance routines in odd places around campus.
Coach Steve Smith spoke at length Wednesday about his team’s upcoming baseball season. But by the end, it seemed the 17-year Baylor coach had more questions than answers.
Looking to further increase the online footprint for their artists, Uproar Records has begun utilizing a new website for artist promotion.
Everyone has at some point, been asked the question: If your house suddenly went up in flames and you could only salvage one item, what would you race to save? The concept for a Baylor photography professor’s most recent book of portraits called “What I Keep” is a lot like this question. Through photographs, Susan Mullally documents underprivileged people and their most valued items.
Despite the smaller number of available slots for the class of 2016 due to recent deferments, potential applicants to the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine should not expect a stricter application process.
One moment can change your life forever. This is one of the messages of Alejandro Gomez Monteverde’s critically acclaimed film “Bella.”
The 2011 Baylor graduating senior class will surprise one Baylor professor with the receipt of the 2011 Collins Outstanding Professor Award during the first week of March.
Due to SING-related absences, student senate tabled the Disqualifications Redefined Act, which addresses the electoral code, at Thursday’s meeting.
Common Grounds will host magician Michael Ammar who will be exhibiting his up-close sleight of the hand tricks for a Waco audience.
Two Baylor law professors will play an integral role in the process to redraw district lines in light of data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday.
Starting this month, four Baylor students will be mentoring at the Juvenile Probation Center as an optional fourth semester of the Science of Society Engaged Learning Group.
Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing has received accreditation for its new nurse-midwifery program by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education’s Board of Review.
“There was once a time, children, when an actor could be a movie star or a TV star, but not at the same time. I know, it sounds silly. But that’s the way Hollywood worked.”
The film “Taken” changed Liam Neeson’s acting life. When the action film was released in 2008, the Irish actor was 56 – an age when most actors start looking for parts as grandfathers or crusty old neighbors.
Members of the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee meet in Indianapolis this week for a mock tournament trial run that will mostly involve throwing up their hands in advance of this year’s free-for-all.
For thousands of people around America, Monday was a day full of pink and red balloons and bears, with flowers and vases and chocolate-covered sweet things. Laughter, hugging and excitement hovered around the millions of people experiencing “love”’ But the sweetest sound for many wasn’t a serenade or love song – it was the day Spring Training began.
The ability to go to a museum and enjoy the exhibits, being able to walk into an emergency room and explain an illness or injury, going to a movie for pleasure, the safety net of an emergency phone in an elevator — these are all things most people are able to do with ease, and often take for granted.
With the Egyptian Revolution leading to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year authoritarian rule and seeming unrest sweeping across Iran, Algeria, Bahrain and much of the rest the Middle East, democracy is becoming a cultural buzz word.
Last week, Baylor University regents met in Dallas to consider a variety of issues of importance to the continued growth, prosperity, impact and influence of Baylor University. Amid reports from university President Ken Starr and other administrators on a variety of topics, including Baylor’s popularity as measured by the strength of its expected incoming freshman class, and the vitality of our endowment during the first half of the current fiscal year, regents voted to retain the services of an architectural firm to help us begin to consider our next campus residential community.
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The Department of Multicultural Affairs is looking for a diverse group of students to serve as mentors to incoming freshmen in the fall. Applications are due today. For additional information or for an application, visit www.baylor.edu/multicultural.
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A response to a survey on Baylor’s sustainability efforts has sparked debate on the hot-topic issue on campus: parking.
Most students’ spring break plans include sunbathing, relaxing and escaping from the classroom. But for eight family and consumer science students, spring break will be an application of what they’ve learned in the classroom as the childhood development team travels to Belize for an academic mission.