John Patrick Shanley, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and Tony-awarded playwright, talked about his childhood, struggles and successes at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Cashion Academic Center as a part of the Beall-Russell Lectures in the Humanities.

Rolling through small Southern towns Monday in a campaign-style bus, President Barack Obama pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it down. Though the Senate moved to vote soon on an individual bill based on the plan, the proposal seems doomed.

Baylor’s Applied Ventures entrepreneurship course is offering students the chance to open, control and profit from their own businesses in a risk-free venture. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply for the course next semester.

Birds in Big Bend National Park may suffer few ill effects from climate change and wildfires in the future — and could even be better off, a Baylor study has found.

Government, non-profit and corporate leaders came together to celebrate the statewide launch of the Texas No Kid Hungry campaign Wednesday at Capitol Hill in Austin.