Dr. Lee S. Shulman will deliver the next Presidential Symposium Series lecture on Thursday, titled “Learning to Profess: Challenges and Opportunities for Liberal Education in Faith-based Universities.”
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As the death toll of tsunami victims in Japan approaches 11,000, Baylor students are raising donations and awareness across campus. The Japanese Student Association has set up donation stations in the Baylor Sciences Building, Hankamar School of Business, and residential and dining halls.
Student body senate passed several bills and revisions in yesterday’s meeting, several of which financed events held by various student organizations.
Beyond the vocals and the guitar strings lies a message echoing in the hearts of Baylor students.
Regardless of status, race or denomination, many Christians all over the world are observing the season of Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter.
As convenient as it is to have a treadmill or elliptical reveal the amount of calories burned during an exercise, these machines are not as accurate as believed. Many cardiovascular machines are 15 to 20 percent off in calculation of calories burned, Van Davis, assistant director for fitness and nutrition education.
Baylor’s Zeta chapter of Delta Epsilon Psi is hosting its fifth annual Sugar Free Bowl April 2 and 3 at the Westmore Intramural Field by the Baylor Sciences Building.
As flowers blossom and the leaves on trees grow fuller and brighter with the rising temperatures, the season begins its transition to springtime.
Two new initiatives to increase student retention are being created in an effort led by the Foster Success Center, but the initiatives will not focus only on freshmen — some will also be geared toward improving the sophomore students’ experience and helping parents encourage their students.
Junior ROTC cadets from across Texas will march to Baylor’s campus this weekend for the Baylor ROTC’s Bear Invitational Drill Meet.
The university denied the Sexual Identity Forum’s request for an official student organization charter for a final time last Friday, leaving officers of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender discussion group dissatisfied and seeking a more thorough explanation.
The 77th annual Diadeloso will be all country, according to Student Activities, which revealed its plans for the “Deep in the Heart of Dia” theme Wednesday night.
Due to a heavy wave of Internet phishing, Baylor Information Technology Services is cautioning students, faculty and staff to read their email carefully before responding to any requests.
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Former Lady Bears basketball forward Morghan Medlock shared her experience with domestic violence Wednesday during Take Back the Night on Fountain Mall.
Zionsville, Ind., junior Cole Chapman knows how to save money. His company, College Cardboard, is being nationally recognized in the College Entrepreneurs Organization spring newsletter. Chapman developed College Cardboard, a company that sells cardboard boxes to students on move-out day for a low price and then delivers them to students’ doors.
Baylor celebrated the 19th annual International World Water Day on Tuesday by limiting its water usage.
Visitors attempting to access the Baylor Lariat’s website Tuesday morning were greeted with a message saying the site was temporarily down after a huge influx of traffic from a user’s post on the social news website Reddit.
Funds for the President’s Scholarship Initiative recently surpassed the $20 million level. The initiative was publicly announced in September and is slated for completion in May 2013.
In the developing world, electricity is a rare thing. The efforts of Brian Thomas, senior lecturer of electrical and computer engineering, Richard Hansen, founder and CEO of Soluz, Inc., and Megan Rapp, a U.N. consultant and graduate student of Columbia University, are helping move these struggling countries towards sustainability by presenting various potential solutions to the energy deficit.
Baylor alumnus Dr. Jerry Haag has been named vice president for university development, ending a national search begun in the fall to fill the position. He will begin work at Baylor on April 18.
There is some information that can never be unlearned. This is how Ron Soodalter, co-author of “The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today,” described the realization of slavery in America.
After the recent disasters in Japan, several of Baylor’s exchange students found themselves facing the challenges of truly comprehending what had happened in their homelands and trying to find ways to help from afar.
Baylor’s Xi Sigma chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity members, who serve as mentors to Waco youth, hope to expand their mentoring relationships by also having mentors of their own among Baylor faculty and staff.
Baylor students attending the first workshop for the I Heart Me Campaign last Thursday, learned about self-worth and how to express an agape love not only for themselves but for everyone around them.
The College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice Provost of Research will sponsor a presentation Thursday featuring distinguished evolutionary biologist, geneticist and former Dominican priest Dr. Francisco J. Ayala.
Student Senate voted on several issues that included funding for Relay for Life to increasing the number of printers in the Baylor Sciences Building.
As 2010 Baylor alumna Jennifer Rader stood in her kitchen making Ramen noodles for lunch on March 11, her apartment building in Sendai, Japan, started to shake with the tremors of the country’s most violent recorded earthquake to date. She turned off the gas to her stove and, as the shaking worsened, decided to open her door so that if the building shifted it wouldn’t get stuck. But it wouldn’t budge.
Dr. Kevin Jackson, vice president for student life, is expected to come to an official decision today on whether to grant a charter to a group promoting discussion of issues pertaining to gay and lesbian students, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Eight Baylor students used their spring break to develop their careers by attending the 13th Annual National Collegiate Sales Competition hosted by Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga.
