Students, faculty and members of the community gathered together and celebrated black heritage.
The 26th Annual Black Heritage Banquet was put on by the Association of Black Students in conjunction with the Department of Multicultural Affairs.
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Students, faculty and the Waco community are coming together this week to discuss higher education issues as part of the School of Education’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
The series will take place Thursday and Friday, and is free and open to the public.
At first thought, some people may associate research with mad scientists in a lab with test tubes and chemicals. Plano senior Olivia Ho does research every week, but she doesn’t work with test tubes or chemicals.
Social science research, which includes fields like sociology and psychology, involves the study of people and their interactions with one another.
Move over paper textbooks: The future of education is here.
A group of 30 high school students from Waco and La Vega traveled across Baylor’s campus Saturday using iPads and a specialized augmented reality app to find and solve math problems.
Baylor licensed jewelers will be showing rings with the Baylor brand seal from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today through…
With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his resignation Monday and leaving the already troubled Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.
Not even his closest associates had advance word of the news, a bombshell that he dropped during a routine meeting of Vatican cardinals. And with no clear favorites to succeed him, another surprise likely awaits when the cardinals elect Benedict’s successor next month.
Baylor will soon be getting a new business school building capable of promoting a 21st century learning environment.
The new 275,000-square-foot facility will be located on a development area close to the East Village, west of Bagby Avenue and between Third Street and Fourth Street.
Valentine’s Day came early to South Waco Elementary.
The Parent Resource Center at South Waco hosted a Valentine’s event Monday. Students and their families decorated sugar cookies and made valentines out of paper.
Campus Kitchen at Baylor baked the cookies and took them to the school.
At Baylor, the season of Lent will begin with a university-wide service observing Ash Wednesday.
The service will be held at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the George W. Truett Seminary’s Paul W. Powell Chapel.
“The service will focus on our need for forgiveness and grace, as we begin a season where penance is one of the primary themes,” said Dr. Burt Burleson, university chaplain.
South Russell Residence Hall will officially close down for renovations this summer, but tuition for the 2013-2014 year will not increase due to the construction.
The Baylor Board of Regents authorized $12 million for the refurbishment process at its meeting on Friday. The residence hall will be closed next year and work is expected to be finished in 2014.
The Heart of Texas Veterans Coalition is hosting a free crafting event from 1-5 p.m. Saturday to make Valentines for…
Submit your FAFSA by March 1 to be given priority consideration for financial aid. Those received after this date will…
Mentoring underprivileged kids in the Waco area proves rewarding and beneficial for professors and possibly Baylor students.
Byron Johnson, Co-Director and ISR Distinguished Professor, of Social Sciences, received the Lone Star Big Brother award on Jan. 30 for his service with Waco’s Big Brother Big Sister program.
A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it more difficult to use unmanned aerial drones in Texas.
Terrill Republican Lance Gooden wants to make it illegal to use a drone to monitor private property without express permission or a search warrant.
CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted confirmation hearing. On a second controversial topic, he said that after years of reading classified intelligence reports, he still does not know if waterboarding has yielded useful information.
The scholarship hunting process for tuition valued at more than $43,000 a year can be a daunting task for students.
The first place Baylor students can look for scholarships is the student financial services site, www.baylor.edu/sfs.
Do the names Bessie Coleman, Constance Baker Motley, Maggie Lena Walker and Mary Church Terrell ring a bell?
How about Rosa Parks?
They’re all trailblazers in the civil rights movement, according to University of Houston history professor Dr. Linda Reed, who presented a lecture last night at Bennett Auditorium.
Weeks after New York enacted the nation’s toughest gun laws, California lawmakers said Thursday they want their state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, particularly the Connecticut school massacre.
Democrats who control the state Legislature revealed 10 proposals that they said would make California the most restrictive state for possessing firearms.
Student Government debated a bill at length Thursday that calls Baylor’s administration to action to make $10,000 worth of improvements to the Bear Trail.
The bill’s author, Arlington sophomore Dominic Edwards, explained to the Student Senate that the bill calls for the administration to install two stretching structures at the start of the Bear Trail, additional water fountains along the trial, as well as additional lighting and signage showing the correct path to follow.
Dr. Linda Reed, associate professor of history at the University of Houston, will present the lecture “Women Movers and Shakers…
Baylor Law School ranked 24th in the Top 25 Law Schools in the nation, according to GraduatePrograms.com.
The rankings, released Tuesday, came as a result of student ratings and reviews from more than 4,000 graduate students and recent graduates from over 150 accredited law schools across the United States. The rankings use a 10-star system, with one star being the lowest and 10 stars being the best.
Baylor’s school colors are gold and green, and it takes the green part very seriously.
As part of one of Baylor’s efforts to become more ecologically friendly, two water bottle refill stations, called EZH20 are now on campus. One can be found in the Bill Daniel Student Center and the other is on the garden level of the Moody Memorial Library. The potential for additional installations in the future depends on the student demand on campus.
Of the 88 flu cases the Baylor Health Center has seen since August, 83 of them have been this semester.
As of Wednesday, the Baylor Health Center has seen 10,174 patients since the beginning of the fall semester.
According to clinic records, the influenza virus is the most likely virus to crop up on campus and can have negative effects on coursework.
Dr. Sharon Stern, the medical director at the health center located on the second floor of the McLane Student Life Center, said the clinic is normally well equipped to handle the virus without seeking help from outside sources.
In celebration of Black History Month, the multicultural affairs dept. is hosting the Black Heritage Banquet.
Jasmine Guy will speak at the banquet, which is organized by the Association of Black Students in conjunction with the multicultural affairs dept.
The banquet will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday on the fifth floor of Cashion Academic Center. Tickets can be purchased at the Bill Daniel Student Center until 5 p.m. today. It is $10 for students and $20 general admission. Baylor groups can also reserve a table for the event for $90.
WASHINGTON — Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.
“Our financial condition is urgent,” declared Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. But Congress has voted in the past to bar the idea of eliminating Saturday delivery, and his announcement immediately drew protests from some lawmakers. The plan, which is to take effect in August, also brought vigorous objections from farmers, the letter carriers’ union and others.
IRVING, Texas — Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it’s likely to anger major constituencies and worsen schisms within Scouting.
The delay, which the Scouts attributed to “the complexity of this issue,” was announced Wednesday after closed-door deliberations by the BSA’s national executive board. Under consideration was a proposal to ease the longstanding ban on gays by allowing sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on the membership of gay Scouts and adult leaders.
Wacoans will have a chance to speak with Texas legislators about hot-button topics before the end of the 83rd legislative session in May.
The Texas Tribune’s Hot Seat series will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the Stone Room at the Ferrell Center. The series will focus on topics from the legislative session—including public education and healthcare—and it will feature Texas Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, Texas Rep. Kyle Kacal and Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell.
IRVINE, Calif. — Police said Wednesday night they are looking for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in the shootings of a Cal State Fullerton basketball coach and her fiancé, and they say the man is armed and dangerous.
Former LAPD officer and U.S. Navy reservist Christopher Jordan Dorner is a suspect in the killings of Monica Quan, 28, and Keith Lawrence, 27, who were found shot to death in their car at a parking structure Sunday night, Irvine police Chief David L. Maggard said at a news conference.
AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong on Wednesday was given more time to think about whether he wants to cooperate with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Separately, he learned that he’s about to be sued.
USADA, the agency that investigated the cyclist’s performance-enhancing drug use and banned him for life from sports, has given him an extra two weeks to decide if he’ll speak with investigators under oath. The agency has said cooperating in its cleanup effort is the only path to Armstrong getting his ban reduced. The agency extended its original Wednesday deadline to Feb. 20.
Meet at 1 p.m. Saturday to join the Indian Subcontinent Student Association for Uttran, a kite-flying festival in Fountain Mall.…
