The Baylor Board of Regents approved an ambitious set of capital investments at its Homecoming meeting today, including the construction of a new $70 million east-campus student housing and dining complex.
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Former United States secretary of state and national security adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice will join Baylor President Ken Starr at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Waco Hall to talk about her new book and discuss her time working in President George W. Bush’s administration.
At 11 weeks old, two Sumatran tiger cubs have made their debut at the Cameron Park Zoo.
Attending her first homecoming at only six-months old, Allison Deily, a 2006 Baylor alumna from Houston, has only missed two homecomings in her entire life. Quite like Allison, Boerne senior Martha Garrison first came to homecoming when she was three -months old. Their stories are different, but both revolve around family and a tradition that has seemed to become almost second nature to them.
Many Baylor alumni will have an opportunity to see new structural campus changes that have taken place over the past year for the first time this weekend.
Baylor honored 12 people Thursday for their commitment and effort to spreading Christian values in the world, presenting them with various Meritorious Awards following a Board of Regents dinner held at the Andings Exhibition Gallery in the Mayborn Museum.
Killing entire races of people, slaughtering men, women and children and showing no mercy: such topics don’t often make their way into the typical Bible bedtime story, but according to Dr. Philip Jenkins, these darker and often bloodier passages cannot be ignored.
In an age when celebrity diva Kim Kardashian can grab headlines by spending (and earning) millions on her nationally-televised wedding, only to implode her marriage 72 days later, one Baylor couple is hoping for something much less dramatic: a free wedding.
Baylor Oso Public Relations, a student-run public relations agency and class, is offering enrollment to advertising and marketing majors for the spring semester.
Before the season began, the Sooners-versus-Aggies game looked to be the deciding factor of the Big 12 champion.
Thursday was the 49th annual kick-off of the Waco-McLennan County Library book sale at the Extraco Events Center Waco and book lovers are thrilled for the opportunity to peruse more than 110,000 books, DVDs, videos, CDs and more.
Anonymous compliments posted around campus have boosted self-confidence this semester.
A member of the Pi Sigma Epsilon chapter at Baylor will compete in a national selling competition in March 2012.
Interior design isn’t as easy as it looks. Those that do it right can win big, and those who try it at all at Baylor know the degree is far from fluff.
A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate’s request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence less than a week before the man is set to be executed.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposed the federal government should extend work visas allowing illegal immigrants to move freely between the U.S. and their home countries — but stressed that he opposes amnesty or a path to citizenship.
The Baylor Graduate Council approved a new joint-degree program last week that will offer students the opportunity to earn both a Master of Social Work and a Master of Business Administration simultaneously.
The dean for student development defended on Wednesday the department of multicultural affairs’ decision to sponsor the “Hispanic Civil Rights Forum,” a Sept. 21 event that has become the object of criticism in a recently introduced Student Senate bill.
“Everything is connected” was the simple message of Dr. Brian Coppola’s lecture on Wednesday afternoon in the Baylor Sciences Building.
A third former employee considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she deemed aggressive and unwanted behavior when she and Cain, now a Republican presidential candidate, worked together during the late 1990s, the woman told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She said the behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.
Several thousand Occupy Wall Street demonstrators gathering in Oakland forced a halt to operations at the nation’s fifth busiest port Wednesday evening, pledging to stay until at least 10 p.m. PDT Wednesday and escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches, rallies and tent encampments since it began in September.
Nestled between the Collins and Dawson residential halls is a two-story red brick building called Martin House. Inside, interior design students work diligently on design projects, often late. To three senior interior design majors, Martin House has been their base of operations for the last three years.
NEW YORK — With our wireless Internet connections and far-ranging cell phones, it’s easy to forget the hard-wired electricity that powers our homes and gadgets until the lights go out.
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Baylor introduced a new department this fall called Community Engagement Service and Scholarship, with the goal of consolidating all things student service.
Baylor’s new chair in environmental science has had his share of hazardous waste experience. Dr. George Cobb developed a plan to help remediate the United States’ largest hazardous waste site where 100 years of copper smelting has taken its toll on a 100-square-mile expanse of land in Deer Lodge, Mont.
On a YouTube clip that has gone viral, brash Texas handgun instructor Crockett Keller defiantly tells Muslims and non-Christian Arabs he won’t teach them how to handle a firearm.
Chris August and Sidewalk Prophets will perform at 7:30 today on Fountain Mall as a part of Baylor’s Homecoming worship service, but their performances will also be the conclusion of another celebration, the 60th anniversary of Word Records, a company started by a Baylor student.
A series of four armed robberies have occurred on the western edge of Baylor’s campus since Oct. 15, with the most recent occurring Sunday.
Two solar array systems have been installed at the Cameron Park Zoo as the result of a $140,000 donation by the Sun Club, a sub-group of Green Mountain Energy Co.
