Join your fellow Bears at all the events around the Holiday Bowl — even in...
As with most bowl games, the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl is actually the culmination of several days of events in San Diego. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the highlights Bear fans in San...
View ArticleChristmas carols from BU trumpet students, Lubbock-area grads
Last year, Baylor School of Music professors Mark Schubert and Wiff Rudd challenged their trumpet students to approach a song like a handbell choir — to play the song, “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of...
View Article700+ Baylor students headed west for Holiday Bowl
When Baylor football takes the field at Qualcomm Stadium on Dec. 27 for the Holiday Bowl, they will be greeted by an impressive turnout of Baylor students. More than 700 students — about 5% of the...
View ArticleBaylor Law provides Christmas gifts for nearly 1,000 students at local...
Just before Christmas, the generosity of the Baylor Law School family allowed law school representatives to visit a local elementary school with a new, wrapped toy for every child in the school. (See...
View ArticleBaylor named among nation’s best colleges for African Americans
For 20 years, M. Clayton & Associates has studied colleges and universities across the United States, seeking to find institutions committed to helping African American students graduate. From more...
View ArticleIs this the most Baylor Proud wedding ever?
If there was ever a Baylor Proud wedding, it must have been this one. When Brad (BBA ’08) and Stephanie (BS ’08, MS ’10, PhD ’12) Doherty got engaged, they decided the wedding should be back where...
View ArticleSing 2013 tickets go on sale this week
The spring semester began Monday, but the students prepping for All-University Sing 2013 couldn’t even wait that long. Rehearsals for this year’s show began over the weekend — and performances are just...
View ArticleHappy 60th anniversary, Dr Pepper Hour!
In 1953, a Baylor staff member began to serve “frosted Coke” to students in the still-new Student Union Building’s Barfield Drawing Room. The informal gathering offered students a chance to socialize...
View ArticleHankamer School of Business looks toward new home on east side of campus
After Baylor Stadium, what’s next for the Baylor campus? How about a new home for the Hankamer School of Business? At their February meeting, Regents approved fundraising for a new facility on the...
View ArticleBaylor students join ‘Harlem Shake’ craze
The Today Show has done one. Ditto for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Even my great-aunt’s retirement community has shared their version online. So you knew it was just a matter of time until...
View ArticleScenes from Sing 2013
Now in its seventh decade(!), All-University Sing remains one of Baylor’s grandest traditions, as hundreds of students practice for weeks before putting on six nights of Broadway-style song-and-dance...
View ArticleDeBakey legacy lives on in Baylor medical humanities scholarship
Dr. Michael DeBakey joined the Baylor University family in 1948, when he joined the Baylor College of Medicine faculty (more than 20 years before the college became an independent institution). His...
View ArticleCities of Waco, Addison step forward to give young Baylor entrepreneurs a boost
In the last month, Baylor entrepreneurship students and alumni have received two big boosts, as the cities of Waco and Addison have each partnered with Baylor to provide the budding entrepreneurs a leg...
View ArticleBaylor social media efforts rank among nation’s best in higher ed
February was a busy month of milestones for many of Baylor’s social media offerings, as the Facebook page topped 111,000 likes, our Pinterest page picked up its 2,000th follower, and Instagram crossed...
View ArticleStudents skip skiing for spring break service
While the cliche remains that every college student spends spring break hitting the slopes or partying at the beach, hundreds of Baylor students spent their week off in a very different manner: serving...
View ArticleTop-ranked programs helping Baylor prepare tomorrow’s healthcare industry...
From individual honors to national rankings, Baylor continues to make its name known among universities preparing tomorrow’s healthcare industry leaders. Just this month, Baylor MBA candidate Hilary...
View ArticleStudents host annual Easter egg hunt for Baylor community kids
Every year, the ladies of Kappa Kappa Gamma host an Easter Egg hunt on Founders Mall (between Pat Neff and Waco Hall) for the children and grandchildren of Baylor faculty and staff. [Click here for...
View ArticleLady Bears’ loss brings out showings of support from Baylor family
If anything good came from the Lady Bears’ stinging one-point loss to Louisville on Sunday night in the Sweet 16, it was seeing how the Baylor family rose up together in support of the program and its...
View ArticleBaylor/Vitek’s GutPak named the nation’s top college dish
It’s official: Baylor/Waco is the home to the nation’s top “college eat” — Vitek’s GutPak! That’s according to almost 300,000 total votes cast online in a “March Madness”-style bracket conducted by a...
View ArticleStudents win National Trumpet Competition for second time in three years
The month of March brought a national championship to Baylor, after all; in fact, the winning team has all the makings of a potential dynasty. It’s just not in the world of sports. For the second time...
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