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Baylor University Hunger Summit Aims to End Hunger in Texas
[11/6/2009]
Texas has plenty of food to go around.Yet it is the third hungriest state in the nation, with an estimated 1.3 million Texas residents going hungry daily. A Nov. 19 summit at Baylor University will look at ways to end hunger.
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Baylor Law School to Graduate 12 Nov. 7

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[11/6/2009]
Baylor University Law Professor Jeremy Counseller will deliver the keynote address at Baylor Law School's commencement exercises at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Miller Chapel. Additionally, Philip Haines, the highest ranking student in the commencement class, will deliver remarks. Baylor Interim President David Garland also will participate in the program and will award juris doctor degrees to 12 graduates.
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Baylor University Creates Awareness with Poverty Summit
[11/5/2009]
Baylor University students will build awareness of poverty issues around the Waco community with the Poverty Summit held Nov. 6 - 8 in the Bill Daniel Student Center on Baylor's campus.
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Baylor Researchers Identify What Makes Deadly Algae More Toxic
[11/5/2009]
Baylor University researchers have identified a key component that increases the toxicity of golden algae (Prymnesium parvum), which kills millions of fish in the southern U.S. every year.
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Hankamer School of Business Honors Texas Family Businesses
[11/5/2009]
Baylor University's Institute for Family Business will host the 20th annual Texas Family Business of the Year Awards Banquet, which will honor 20 Texas businesses that display values that honor the business itself, the community and the family.
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Baylor Welcomes November Chapel Speakers
[11/5/2009]
Baylor University's Spiritual Life department hosts Chapel speakers every Monday and Wednesday at 9:05 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. in Waco Hall on the Baylor campus. This November, students will be treated to faith-based editor, a "Born Again Don," and authors.
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Global Issues Lecture To Host Linguist
[11/4/2009]
Stephen Watters, international advisor to the Linguistic Survey in Nepal, will present "Language Diversity: A Tool for Unification or Division? Observations from Nepal" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, in room 116 at Draper Academic Building on the Baylor University campus.
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Dr. David R. Sorensen Presents "Listening to the Past" Library Lecture
[11/4/2009]
Dr. David R. Sorensen, professor of English and associate director of the honors program at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, will present his lecture, "Listening to the Past" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Hankamer Treasure Room in Armstrong Browning Library.
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Baylor Professor Wins Award for Book on Mark Twain
[11/3/2009]
Dr. Joe Fulton, professor of English at Baylor University, has been named winner of the 2010 Jules and Frances Landry Award for Best Book on Southern studies for The Reconstruction of Mark Twain. The book is a radical reappraisal of Twain and his evolving political allegiances and writings during and after the Civil War.
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Fall Calendar Includes Celebrated Artists, Performances, Lectures and Conferences
[10/30/2009]
Baylor University will welcome several distinguished speakers and performers to campus this fall. Below is a list of the lectures, conferences, symposia, and performances that will be held during November at Baylor.
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Baylor University Host Emmy Nominee Craig Wright at Theater Festival
[10/30/2009]
Playwright Craig Wright, known for his work on television's Dirty Sexy Money, Lost and Six Feet Under, will direct a play and host discussions at Baylor University's fourth semiannual Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, which will be Thursday, Nov. 5, through Saturday, Nov. 7.
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Four Centuries of Baptist Voices

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[10/29/2009]
Views of Baptist civil rights activists, itinerant preachers and missionaries are among those contained in a weighty -- literally -- 948-page volume released by Baylor University Press. The book,which traces 400 years of Baptist interpretations of the biblical book of Acts,is selling briskly.
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Baylor University Names Tennis Building in Honor of Mark Hurd, HP CEO and Baylor Alum
[10/28/2009]
Baylor University announced today the naming of the Hurd Tennis Building within the Baylor Tennis Center. The Hurd Tennis Building honors the generosity of Mark V. and Paula R. Hurd's support of Baylor's national championship tennis program and facilities.
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Baylor University's Executive MBA Program Makes Dramatic Climb in Financial Times' Rankings
[10/23/2009]
Baylor University's Executive MBA Program climbed 15 spots in the Financial Times' 2009 overall rankings to No. 73 worldwide. The program, which includes both Dallas and Austin campuses, ranked No. 1 in Texas for percent of salary increase, career progress rank and percent of women students.
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Endowment Established by the Prichard Family Foundation Strengthens Baylor University's Efforts to Preserve Traditional Black Music
[10/27/2009]
The Prichard Family Foundation has established the Lev H. Prichard III Traditional Black Music Restoration Endowed Fund, enhancing Baylor University's undertaking of a one-of-a-kind initiative to restore and preserve the profound influence of this genre of music.
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Unique Partnership Creates Region's First Research Park

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[10/23/2009]
A symbolic shift from 20th century manufacturing to 21st century technology took place Oct. 23 with the announcement of plans to turn a long-shuttered manufacturing plant into a modern research collaborative. A group of state, county and city governments and organizations and higher educational institutions in Central Texas announced the creation of the Central Texas Research and Technology Park, and the park's first project, the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) to be housed in the former General Tire facility on South Loop Drive in Waco.
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