Four students will represent Baylor at the American Collegiate Intramural Sports Fitness National Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 30 and hope to bring home the win this time around.
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For those brave enough to spend four weeks without the English language, Baylor in China has proven to be a rewarding program.
Pastel-colored eggs, oversized chocolate bunnies, people dressed in their colorful Sunday best for church: These are all images of what most would consider a typical American Easter celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
If you find yourself passing out cupcakes to friends and only getting silence in return, you might have used salted butter.
While Baylor students waste countless dining hall meals, Waco families go to bed hungry.
Busy college schedules mean that eating sometimes comes secondary to studying or other activities.
Three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching will visit Baylor this fall, each giving two lectures in their respective departments as well as their official Cherry Award lecture.
In celebration of Earth Week, Baylor sustainability has dedicated the first three days of this week to educating the university about leading a sustainable life.
A Baylor senior has earned a highly coveted position working for the French Ministry of Education as part of the Teaching Assistant Program in France.
With the popularity of Zumba exercise classes, Baylor Fitness hoped to attract many faculty, students and others from the Waco community to participate in Zumba exercise and raise money for Japan at the same time.
A runoff Tuesday will determine both the student body president and internal vice president elections.
The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gobsmacked.
Outnumbered and outgunned, the members of the Air Force ROTC professional officer course fought valiantly but were ultimately defeated Wednesday at Powerplay Paintball in Waco.
In an age when supermarkets overpower local growers in the race to supply consumers with affordable produce, it seems that gardening has been neglected.
Every year, millions of children all over the world lose their parents, either from disease, hunger, disaster or abandonment. In the book of James 1:27, one of the hallmarks of “pure and undefiled” religion is to care for the orphans and to take up their cause.
The 2011 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative began its spring focus Wednesday in the Garden Level Study Commons of Moody Memorial Library. The conference, entitled “Seeking Evidence of Impact”, was put on in part by Baylor University Libraries and the Academy for Teaching and Learning and will continued Thursday in the same location.
Members of Baylor Medical Service Organization were treated with a visit from a local life flight helicopter crew and the Waco Fire Department on Wednesday in the Ferrell Center parking lot.
Baylor’s Rho Eta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., is currently celebrating Delta Week, an event designed to support the sorority’s five thrusts.
Campaign season has been largely unproblematic so far this year — with only one charge brought against a student government candidate — which some believe is a result of the recent revisions to the electoral code. The season will begin wrapping up today, with voting beginning at 8 a.m.
President Ken Starr told Baylor staff on Tuesday they can better serve what he described as a “needful generation” of students.
Graduating seniors looking for help with their job search need only turn to Career Services for assistance.
Recycling has more than doubled since 2007, rising from 7 percent to 18 percent. The amount of recycled materials has increased from 160.3 tons to 443.4 tons due to an increase in the number of recycling receptacles in buildings, and residence halls and trash cans around campus.
The possibility of severe Texas Equalization Grant cuts has caused leaders of colleges and universities across the state to speak out on behalf of the financial aid program. Today, President Ken Starr will send an email to members of the Baylor family, calling them to support the TEG program and contact their state legislators to express concerns about the proposed cuts to the program.
The 2011 Collins Outstanding Professor has been awarded to a professor in the biology department.
Between school, work, relationships and homework, balance can be a difficult thing to achieve. Baptist Student Ministries took students on a retreat last weekend to Balcones Spring, where leaders encouraged students to take a step back from all their responsibilities and worries in an attempt to find balance. This retreat was specifically focused for sophomore students, said Nancy-Page Lowenfield, graduate assistant for Formations-BSM.
While safety may be a concern for students on campus late at night, Campus Living & Learning provides a free shuttle service from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for all on-campus residents. The shuttle is a golf cart driven by one of six safety and security education officers.
Students can get a head start on their summer workout plans and experience a sampler of the Bearobics classes that Baylor offers during the Beach Blanket Bash.
The 2010 Lariat staff won 14 regional awards from the Society of Professional Journalists this past weekend, including these nine first-place awards:
Student Body President Cristina Galvan “I want to continue to ensure that the student voice is heard and acknowledged and…
Student senate passed 12 bills, including a controversial bill that would reallocate Student Senate’s diversity committee into its community affairs and public relations committees, during its last meeting of the semester.
