Baylor baseball's Josh Ludy was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, Nathan Orf was selected Newcomer of the Year, Steve Smith was tabbed Coach of the Year, and a school-record 11 players were named to the All-Big 12 teams, as voted on by the league's coaches on Tuesday.

As a freshman living on campus, I met and got to know the four guys who would, almost a decade later, be groomsmen in my wedding. The experience of living in such close community with other young men and women, all in the same stage of life, was a priceless part of my Baylor experience. [...]

WACO, Texas (May 17, 2012) - Baylor University announced today that the university has received a major gift from Sheila and Walter Umphrey, BBA '59, JD '65, of Beaumont, for Baylor Stadium, the university's new on-campus football stadium. This generous gift - which ranks among the top 10 capital gifts in university history and top five gifts in Baylor Athletics' history - will support construction of the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Bridge at Baylor Stadium that will be built over the Brazos River, connecting the new stadium with Baylor Law School and the Baylor campus.

WACO, Texas (May 14, 2011) - Following a nationwide search, Dr. Dennis O'Neal, has been named the new dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. His appointment is effective Aug. 6, 2012.

Stop me if you've heard this one before... For the 15th time since July 2001, Baylor Law School students have claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. Of the 54 Baylor students who took the three-day exam for the first time in February, 50 passed, a 92.59% success rate. Only one [...]

WACO, Texas (May 11, 2012) - After nearly two years of planning that included the active participation of faculty, students, staff, alumni and a community of friends throughout the nation, Baylor University Regents today unanimously approved a new strategic vision named Pro Futuris that will guide the University's path over the next decade. The vision will go into effect on June 1, 2012.

WACO, Texas (May 11, 2012) - Five Baylor University students and recent graduates have been selected to receive the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship - the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government - bringing the number of Baylor students and/or graduates who have received the honor since 2001 to 31.

May 11, 2012
This is the last of a six-part series examining the successes and failures of Baylor University's 10-year growth and visioning plan known as Baylor 2012.

May 10, 2012
Fifth article in a six-part series examining the progress of Baylor University's 10-year growth and visioning plan known as Baylor 2012. This article focuses on the economic impact of the plan on Waco and Central Texas.

WACO, Texas (May 10, 2012)- Andrea Dixon, Ph.D., associate professor and the Frank M. and Floy Smith Holloway Professor of marketing at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, has been named to serve on the Academic Council for the American Marketing Association (AMA).

If your mother is like mine, from the time you left home, she has urged you to call more often, write more often, visit more often. It's not nagging; it's because she loves you. (Parents, perhaps now you relate more to the mother than the child.) "Alma mater" means "dear mother," and given the way [...]

WACO, Texas (May 9, 2012) - Baylor University announced today that the university has received a major gift from John Eddie Williams Jr., BBA '76, JD '78, of Houston for Baylor Stadium. This generous gift, which ranks among the top five capital gifts in university history, will support construction of the university's new on-campus football stadium - Baylor Stadium - to be built alongside the Brazos River. With this naming rights gift, the field at Baylor Stadium will be named John Eddie Williams Field.

Baylor University's push to increase its research activity was not only a hallmark of its Baylor 2012 plan but also one of its most controversial components.

During the past decade, Baylor University made the leap from being a school known for its classroom teaching to one where research is also a recognized part of the mix.

Baylor University hit many of the lofty benchmarks laid out in the school's ambitious 10-year plan approved by regents during the at-times tumultuous presidency of Robert Sloan.

Nothing provides more concrete evidence of Baylor University's drive to become one of the nation's top schools than its massive building campaign during the past decade.

Baylor's No. 2-ranked baseball team has clinched the regular season Big 12 Conference Championship outright. It's the third Big 12 title for the Bears and the third outright conference title in program history.

WACO, Texas (May 7, 2012) - Bill Clifton, chairman of the Cooper Foundation, today announced an award of $250,000 to Baylor University to construct a microgravity research facility within the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC). The BRIC is the cornerstone building of the research and discovery park under construction by Baylor University and its community stakeholders Texas State Technical College in Waco (TSTC), McLennan County, and the cities of Bellmead and Waco.

Baylor 2012 means little to Conrad Williams. The senior engineering major never read the vision document Baylor leaders crafted 10 years ago and is far removed from the controversy it once stirred on and off campus.

The Big 12 Conference has announced the unanimous selection of Bob Bowlsby as Commissioner of the Big 12 Conference. Bowlsby is recognized as one of the most respected athletic administrators in the nation, having spent the last six years as director of athletics at Stanford University.

WACO, Texas (May 3, 2012) - For the 15th time since 2001, Baylor Law School students have claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam with a 92.59 percent success rate, the highest pass rate for students from the nine Texas law schools.

Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor's athletic success in 2011-12, let's just go straight to the facts: 80 combined wins across the "big three" sports (football, men's and women's basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history. 118 combined wins (and counting) across the "big four" (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly [...]

WACO, Texas (May 1, 2012) -- Baylor University graduate and actor Elizabeth A. Davis was startled out of a sound sleep in her New York City brownstone on Tuesday morning by her downstairs neighbor. The neighbor had huge news for Davis -- word that the performer had just been nominated for a Tony Award.

The end of the school year is upon us -- finals start Wednesday -- and, as usual for this time of year, individual honors are rolling in. Students in the Baylor Graduate School, in particular, have been raking in the recognition over the last month or so. Here are just a few of the recent [...]