Baylor libraries are working to expand their social media connections to benefit students, faculty and staff.

“Shakespeare’s Speculative Art,” by Dr. Maurice Hunt, research professor of English at Baylor, was published this summer and examines character development in Shakespeare’s plays through the uses of “specula,” which is the Latin word for mirrors.

Baylor has purchased the Hotel Waco property with the ultimate intention of expanding campus across the Brazos River, a Baylor spokesperson confirmed Monday.

Baylor Director of Athletics Ian McCaw released this open letter to the Baylor community Friday, praising the Big 12 Conference’s members, for pledging substantive, long-term unity, Baylor administration for working to secure the Big 12, and Baylor fans and supporters, for supporting the university and Baylor sports programs.

In addition to the traditional events of Parents Weekend, such as Parent-Faculty Coffee and After Dark, Baylor Chamber of Commerce is introducing a new event, Exploring Waco, which is aimed at getting parents out into the Waco community.

The shortest commute at Baylor may belong to the master and associate master of Brooks Residential College, Dr. Douglas Henry and his wife Dr. Michelle Henry.

Anyone walking through Fountain Mall lately may have noticed the tall green fences blocking off a construction site wedged near the tennis courts and Marrs McLean Gymnasium. This weekend that barrier will vanish and observers can view Baylor’s National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden for the first time, a project four years in the making.

Students living in residence halls will begin competing to conserve electricity at noon Sunday.

Baylor graduate students will soon present business cases alongside professionals in the finals of a case research competition that is geared toward professors and researchers.

Students of all cultural backgrounds are invited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month through a new series of events presented by the Multicultural Affairs Department.

The Sexual Identity Forum, an unofficial group of Baylor students, will re-apply this semester for a charter as an official student organization, according to one of its officers.

Baylor students are being given the unique opportunity to practice ancient languages and complete advanced research on rare manuscripts, ultimately leading to the publication of important, unknown texts.

This week, students can learn how to keep their heart healthy and find out if their cardiovascular health needs improvement.

After two years of inactivity, two Baylor students are trying to bring the National Association of Hispanic Journalists back to campus.

More than 100 years of Baylor history recorded in the Baylor Lariat are being archived and digitized for reader’s convenience. The Baylor Lariat project is collaboration between the Texas Collection, the Digitization Projects Group and the Baylor Student Publications.

Five experts on American history converged Monday at Baylor to give lectures on the impact of religion on the people and events surrounding the American Civil War. The lectures, part of the Symposium on the Civil War and Religion, were hosted by Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion.

Baylor will host a national speaking tour on networking today and give students the opportunity to learn techniques they can apply in the workplace.

When students think about taking a psychology class, they might think of studying different psychological disorders or looking at what factors make a person violent or aggressive. This semester, however, two Baylor professors are exploring the positive side of psychology.

Thursday’s Safety Awareness Day began with an ambiguously worded text message sent to the Baylor student body that many students thought implied an emergency.

The Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) will become the new home to prominent NASA artifacts, upon the building’s completion in 2012.

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.

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.