A slip of the tongue lead to the wrong winner to be announced at this year’s Stompfest competition on Friday.
Out of the three groups in the independent category, the Asian Students Association was announced winners while the Baylor Transfer Council were given the award of Audience Favorite.
First Lady Alice Starr kicked off the sixth annual Walk for Autism on Fountain Mall on Sunday by announcing a partnership between Baylor and Scott and White Healthcare.
The partnership would create a diagnostic clinic dedicated to recognizing the onset of intellectual disabilities.
A documentary screening hosted by the School of Education has sparked a discussion among students about global education and inequality.
The screening of “Girl Rising” was at 3:30 p.m. Monday Kayser Auditorium, which was filled to near capacity.
As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, left her marks on many parts of the world — including Baylor.
In a statement released Monday, President Ken Starr recalled his relationship with the woman he described as “the U.K’s second greatest prime minister of the 20th Century.” According to Starr, after meeting Thatcher in 1998, they developed a personal relationship.
Students can come see anthropology meet health sciences this afternoon.
Assistant professor of anthropology candidate Carla Pezzia’s lecture, “Faces We See, Hearts We Do Not Know: Intersubjectivity, Mental Health, and Environment amongst the Kaqchikel Maya,” combines public health and anthropological approaches to analyze indigenous populations.
Zeta Tau Alpha won Stompfest 2013, beating out six other contenders for the title. This is the fourth year in a row Zeta Tau Alpha has won Stompfest.
Recycling norms on campus will be shattered. Glass recycling is coming to Baylor.
All buildings certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) on campus and Moody Memorial Library will have the ability to recycle glass.
Eleven countries in 11 months — this is the reality for one Baylor student this fall.
Chicago sophomore Marissa Hyland is taking a year off from Baylor to go on an 11 month mission trip. She will spend her would-be junior year participating in the World Race, a program under the organization Adventures in Missions.
The Starbucks in the Dutton parking garage will close at the end of the spring semester.
“Unfortunately, it was not economically sustainable,” said Lori Fogleman, director of media communications.
Through the continued partnership of the Heart of Texas Autism Network and members of the Baylor community, the sixth annual Walk for Autism will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday on Fountain Mall.
The Heart of Texas Autism Network is a non-profit organization established six years ago by a Waco support group for parents with children who have autism spectrum disorders.
The network has worked closely with Baylor, specifically the Baylor Autism Resource Center, since its formation.
The war begins Monday, when eleven sororities will compete against each other in hopes of winning $250 for the winner’s philanthropy of choice. The week-long competition, known as War of the Roses, is sponsored by Pi Kappa Phi fraternity to raise money for Push America and the Arc of McLennan County. Both organizations aim to increase volunteerism and fundraising to help people with disabilities.
Harnessing the power of social media in a job search could make finding the best fitting career incredibly simple.
Baylor’s Center for Career and Professional Development hosted Ryanne Janca, a talent acquisition specialist with Enterprise Holdings, during one of its professional development sessions for students Thursday.
Students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to join the Baylor community today to support cancer research and education.
The 6th Annual Relay for Life runs from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday on Baylor campus at Fountain Mall.
Students were given the opportunity to speak up on Wednesday night at a Student Government town hall meeting. Attendees voiced opinions and concerns about building projects such as Baylor Stadium, the new business hall, and South Russell renovations.
A Baylor senior is joining an elite group of students who received one of the highest honors in collegiate science.
Tiffany Huang, a Fishers, Ind., senior, received an honorable mention from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program in recognition of her pursuance of engineering research.
Whether you know it or not, you play a vital role in market research almost every day of your life.
Professionals from two marketing research firms, Decision Analyst and Research Now, discussed their understanding of marketing research as well as how to get a foot in the door for employment, with a group of Baylor students during the professional development program’s final First Wednesday event of the semester.
Eric Metaxas, host of Breakpoint broadcasts, New York Times bestselling author and noted Christian speaker, will visit Baylor today.
The Baylor Institute of Religion is hosting “An Evening with Eric Metaxas” at 7 p.m. in the Powell Chapel, where Metaxas will discuss his career, work and best-selling biography, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.”
In its second annual Changing Hope and Awareness Week, Kappa Delta Kappa sorority hopes to educate the community about child abuse and prevention.
CHILD, which stands for Changing Hope Into Lasting Difference, is a week dedicated to Kappa Delta’s main philanthropy: child abuse prevention.
The Baylor Lariat, Round Up yearbook and Focus magazine are accepting applications for all positions for the 2013-2014 school year.
Student Publications director Paul Carr said the hours a student will work will depend upon the position for which the applicant is hired.
A Baylor fraternity reached out to students and the Waco community to help raise money for one of its own. Delta Sigma Pi hosted a fundraiser Tuesday and Wednesday to help Baylor graduate, Kelsey Warren. Warren was involved in a bad car accident on March 14. The fundraiser was hosted for Warren and her family to help out with travel and accommodation expenses. Warren’s parents live and work in Hanford, Calif.
This year Delta Epsilon Psi raised $8,000 for diabetes research.
The fraternity presented a check to a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation representative at a lecture, “Juvenile Diabetes: Its Impact and the Race for a Cure,” held Wednesday night in the Baines Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Steppin’ Out’s annual spring service day is tip-toeing closer.
Registration for both students and organizations to get involved in Steppin’ Out ends Friday.
Many students can relate to the race for classes at registration and the disappointment that can accompany not getting into a certain class or a section with a favorite professor.
If successful, a new waitlist feature for Bearweb could change the way students sign up for classes.
The Spring 2013 Make A Difference Career Fair on Tuesday catered to service-oriented students who seek to improve the world they live in.
Baylor’s Office of Career & Professional Development offered students an opportunity to explore positions at 19 nonprofit, government and social service organizations. The fair was held to attract students who want to make a difference and may not be interested in other fairs that are more focused on corporate or technical career opportunities.
Medicine and spirituality are not often talked about side by side.
Dr. David Levy, a neurosurgeon and author of “Gray Matter,” a book on the intersection of medicine and faith, will speak with students and faculty at 6:30 p.m. today in the B110 Baylor Sciences Building.
Students without transportation will have the chance to attend the memorial service of North Richland Hills senior Daniel Jones.
Students must call the Bobo Spiritual Life Center, at 254.710.3517, by the end of Wednesday to reserve a spot on a bus.
Dr. Paul Harvey, a University of Colorado professor of history, made it clear to Baylor that there is no cookie-cutter mold for Jesus.
Attendees got the opportunity to understand Jesus through different sets of eyes Monday in Kayser Auditorium when Harvey gave a lecture entitled “The Battle for Jesus During the Civil War.”
Here are the results from the 2013 Student Foundation Bearathon and 5K Run. Congratulations to everyone that participated. Listed are…
Students, faculty and staff are mourning the loss of North Richland Hills senior Daniel Jones who died Saturday during Student Foundation’s annual Bearathon.
Jones was nearing the end of the half-marathon when he collapsed on Fifth Street. The 23-year-old, who was first treated at the scene, died an hour after being transported to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center.
We’ve all heard of teachers who go the extra mile, but not very many who would travel from Waco to Atlanta, Ga., just to help their students compete in a professional selling competition.
Charles “Chuck” Fifield, senior lecturer of marketing, was presented with the 2013 Academy of Marketing Science’s Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award in a ceremony on Thursday. Fifield’s colleagues nominated him for the award for routinely going above and beyond what is required of him as a teacher.
