In 3 weeks, Baylor will head down to Houston, Texas, to face the Illinois Illini in the fifth Texas Bowl held at Reliant Stadium.

Sitting on a 500-acre plot of land that overlooks the Nile River in Uganda is an orphanage housing more than 50 children, about half of whom lost their parents to the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized civilians in various regions of Africa for years.

Christmas often prompts strangers to give without need for compensation or recognition. Two Baylor employees have shared in this spirit anonymously for the past 10 years.

More than 9,000 miles separate Waco from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but Baylor engineers are shortening the educational gap between Baylor and universities in Vietnam.