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Texas executed a man Wednesday for his role in the hate crime that a Baylor study says resulted in the unfair labeling of the small East Texas town of Jasper as racist.

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.

Experience Austin City Limits through the lens of Jed Dean. Featuring artists such as Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, and Kanye West, the Austin City Limits Music Festival is sure to make some noise. Enjoy the show.

During times of economic frustration, political change and visible controversy surrounding issues such as the rights of gays and lesbians, researchers from Baylor set out to further explore how religion affects the views and beliefs of Americans in the 21st century.

For many, the underpass where Interstate Highway 35 crosses over South 5th Street in Waco marks just another section of Texas asphalt. But to others, it represents a place of hope, healing and changed lives.

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.

Ten Muslim students broke the law by shouting down a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine in a carefully drafted and executed plan that flouted repeated calls to behave by campus officials, a prosecutor said Monday.

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.

On Sunday, Waco residents have the opportunity to learn about the life of the homeless by walking a mile in their shoes.

Five students will represent Baylor in the final round of an international business case competition in November.

Baylor graduates Chris and Nate Naramor, Pepperdine graduate Matt Naramor and their father, Dan, prove that success can run in the family. Their company, Graslon, manufactures and sells unique and innovative camera accessories in Chino, Calif.

Members of Diverse Verses, a student organization on campus, hope to help break the Baylor bubble while enhancing the social scene through poetry and the spoken word.

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.

A West Texas teenager who collected $17,000 in donations after telling people she was dying of leukemia and had only had six months to live faces theft charges after police determined she lied about being sick.

With the constant conversation about global warming and carbon footprints, students have an opportunity to help the environment by using public transportation .

Baylor students and faculty are reaching out to help the children of the city of Bastrop find a semblance of normalcy amid tragic circumstances.

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 body of Joshua Campbell was found in the Brazos River Wednesday just before 6 p.m., according to the Waco Police.

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.

When firefighters with the Whitney Fire Department needed assistance last week controlling a series of fires that threatened more than 80 homes, they turned to two Baylor experts who helped them predict with accuracy when and where the fires were likely to spread.

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.

Nathan Adair, a 2001 Baylor graduate, has been dining on $1 a day for 30 days in order to raise poverty awareness– a challenge that will end at the end of the week.