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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.

Texas ranks second in the nation with citizens suffering from food insecurity according to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A Baylor professor has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the poem “Ovide moralisé” from Old French into English, for the first time.

The Baylor Agape Connection, a student organization beginning its first full semester this fall, has tapped into a previously underrepresented area of interest on campus— building friendships with senior citizens.

The risk management department stands ready to protect students by educating them about campus safety this Thursday in an all-day event that will include a number of presentations. The risk management department is hosting “OsoSafe Campus Safety Awareness Day” to increase students’ knowledge of safety in a variety of different areas.

The Fall Physics Colloquium series is set to continue today with a lecture detailing how planets are made. Dr. Victor Land, a postdoctoral research associate at Baylor, will give an hour-long lecture, “The Early Stages of Planet Formation,” today at 4 p.m. in E125 of the Baylor Sciences Building.

Baylor has added a fourth Fulbright scholar this year with David Bond West, a May 2011 graduate from San Antonio. He is enrolled at the University of Iceland, where he is working toward a master of arts in Medieval studies.

Three-hundred seventy two foreign nationals, 246 victims on four planes, 2,606 casualties in the North and South towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. These are the casualties of Sept. 11 that will never be forgotten, and Friday’s “Tribute to Fallen Heroes” honored everyone of them.

The memory of those who lost their lives on the morning of Sept. 11, many while selflessly serving to save others, was lifted high during a special commemoration service Sunday in Waco Hall.

People of different backgrounds and ages gathered in front of the Pat Neff Hall bell tower as Baylor’s carillonneur Lynnette Geary played a memorial recital on Sunday for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001. A carillon is a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard.

By Daniel C. Houston Staff Writer Three Baylor professors of religion discussed weighty theological issues pertaining to the Sept. 11,…

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The memory of those who lost their lives on the morning of September 11, many while selflessly serving to save others, was lifted high during a special commemoration service Sunday in Waco Hall.

People of all different backgrounds and ages gathered in front of the Pat Neff Hall Tower as Baylor’s Carillonneur Lynette Geary played a memorial recital on Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001.

From Texas to New York, all Bears have a story to tell. Relive unforgettable moments and memories of staff and students in honor of the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.

The “Tribute to Fallen Heroes,” which took place at 3 p.m. today, served as a time of remembrance of the Sept. 11th attacks and of soldiers who have laid their lives down in the line of duty, as well as a celebration of those who still serve and who have served. The Lost Heroes Art Quilt, which had been displayed in Moody Library was also featured at the event.

By Robyn Sanders Reporter The “Tribute to Fallen Heroes,” which took place at 3 p.m. Friday, served as a time…