Oct
4
2013
Leukemia survivor, Baylor student meet after student’s life-saving donation

Leukemia survivor, Baylor student meet after student’s life-saving donation

Billy Allison is a 65-year-old Missouri resident who thought he would lose his fight with stage-four leukemia last year. Dillon Gasper is a Baylor junior who ran in the 2012 Waco Miracle Match Marathon and decided to sign up to be a bone marrow donor after the event. What transpired over the last year and …

L-3 Platform Integration Establishes Endowed Scholarship in Baylor's School of Engineering and Computer Science

L-3 Platform Integration Establishes Endowed Scholarship in Baylor's School of Engineering and Computer Science

WACO, Texas (Oct. 2, 2013) - Baylor University announced today the establishment of the L-3 Endowed Scholarship Fund in the School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), provided by a gift from L-3 Platform Integration to benefit future Baylor engineering and computer science majors. The scholarship represents another step in the meaningful partnership between L-3 and Baylor University ECS.

Baylor Professor Corey Carbonara Receives an Award from the International Cinematographers Guild

Baylor Professor Corey Carbonara Receives an Award from the International Cinematographers Guild

WACO, Texas (Sept. 23, 2013) -- Corey P. Carbonara, Ph.D., a professor of film and digital media in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, has been named the recipient of the Nat Tiffen Award for outstanding educational contributions to the art and craft of cinematography, awarded Sept. 27 in Los Angeles by the International Cinematophers Guild.

Grieving in the 21st Century: Tattoo Tributes, Mobile Memorials and Virtual Visitations

Grieving in the 21st Century: Tattoo Tributes, Mobile Memorials and Virtual Visitations

WACO, Texas (Sept. 23, 2013) -- "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" may be the traditional view when it comes to death. But "ashes to tattoos" is one unconventional way people have found to honor their dead, as mourning goes skin-deep, mobile, wearable and virtual this century.

Student Diversity, Freshman Retention Highlight Baylor's Fall Enrollment

Student Diversity, Freshman Retention Highlight Baylor's Fall Enrollment

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2013) - Baylor University has enrolled the most diverse student body in the University's 168-year history and set another overall enrollment record, according to official 12th-day enrollment statistics compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Testing. The fall enrollment report also shows fall-to-fall retention for last year's class of Baylor freshmen at its highest point ever.

Baylor Professors Use Whale Earwax to Develop New Method of Determining Lifetime Contaminant Exposure in Whales

Baylor Professors Use Whale Earwax to Develop New Method of Determining Lifetime Contaminant Exposure in Whales

WACO, Texas (Sept. 16, 2013) -- Baylor professors Stephen Trumble, Ph.D., and Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., have developed a novel technique for reconstructing contaminant and hormone profiles using whale earplugs, determining--for the first time--lifetime chemical exposures and hormone profiles--from birth to death--for an individual whale, information that was previously unattainable.

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