Baylor President Ken Starr returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., Thursday to speak on the importance of good leaders having a courageous entrepreneurial spirit, among other topics on leadership.
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Baylor’s freshman class earned the highest standardized test scores an incoming class at Baylor ever has and helped drive overall enrollment past the 15,000-student mark for the first time.
Research just got easier for Baylor students and faculty. The University libraries have joined the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a global resource archive that acquires, preserves and provides access to resources for researchers that are often prohibitively expensive.
With the constant conversation about global warming and carbon footprints, students have an opportunity to help the environment by using public transportation .
A team of Baylor faculty from the mechanical engineering and chemistry and biochemistry departments has received a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation.
The libraries at Baylor have joined the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The CRL is an association that acquires, preserves and provides access to resources for researchers that are often prohibitively expensive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,…
The memory of those who lost their lives on the morning of September 11, many while selflessly serving to save others, was lifted high during a special commemoration service Sunday in Waco Hall.
People of all different backgrounds and ages gathered in front of the Pat Neff Hall Tower as Baylor’s Carillonneur Lynette Geary played a memorial recital on Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001.
By Robyn Sanders Reporter The “Tribute to Fallen Heroes,” which took place at 3 p.m. Friday, served as a time…
A quilt commemorating soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, will be on display today in the Allbritton Foyer of Moody Library.
A new exhibit at the Poage Legislative Library presents a visual memorial of the Sept. 11 attacks, focusing on the sequence of events, the initial responses and the lasting aftermath.
Baylor will be the first of nine schools to kick off IBM’s Smarter Planet Comes to You University Tour on Tuesday at the Cashion Academic Center.
Students in the market for an internship or post-graduation job can potentially find employment at Baylor Career Services’ STEM Job Fair, Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. on the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Center. This is the first successful year to hold the fair in the last two years due to the previous state of the economy.
A new student organization, Veterans of Baylor, is coming to campus this fall with the help of retired Lt. Col. Matt Pirko.
The Baylor department of Physics is now able to image individual atoms using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, under the direction of Dr. Zhenrong Zhang, assistant professor of physics.
Students are not the only ones working hard to make A’s these days. Universities across the country are striving to have their core curriculum recognized with a grade of ‘A’ in the American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s report “What Will They Learn?”
The Paul L. Foster Success Center is starting a Most Likely to Succeed Career Challenge, in which students must complete nine out of 13 events, such as attending a mock interview or going to a career fair. Once these events are completed, students become eligible for a drawing for an iPad2. Events start Tuesday and the competition ends Nov. 11.
Student government at Baylor has been around since 1913, but the group still plans to raise awareness for the work it does on campus. Zach Rogers, student body president, traveled to send-off parties for future Baylor students and also represented student government at every Line Camp and orientation this summer.
Baylor’s two ROTC programs have moved out of their longtime home on the southwest corner of campus in the old university health center into a newly renovated facility in the Speight Plaza Parking Garage.
Spiritual Life has promised a weekend of relaxation and spiritual growth to new students Friday and Saturday at Freshman Retreat.
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently named Baylor to its honor roll of great colleges to work for, for the first time. Thirty national universities categorized as large four-year colleges were named to the honor roll, among them Sam Houston State University and Texas Christian University.