No. 1 Ranked Lady Bears to Play for Share of 9th Straight Big 12 Title Wednesday

WACO, Texas – The No. 1-ranked Baylor women's basketball team can clinch at least a share of its ninth-straight Big 12 regular-season championship with a win against Kansas in Wednesday's 6 p.m. game at the Ferrell Center that will be televised by FOX Sports Southwest.

Lady Bears return to No. 1 in the nation — joining many other Baylor programs

For the first time since March 2013, the Baylor Lady Bears are back at No. 1 in the nation! That’s according to the most recent AP poll, in which head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad received 24 of 28 first-place votes to claim the nation’s top spot. At 17-1 on the season and with wins over […]

Baylor University Celebrates Black History Month

WACO, Texas (Jan. 29, 2019) – Baylor University will host a variety of events throughout the month of February in honor of Black History Month, an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of blacks in U.S. history.

Understanding the foundational pillars that support Illuminate

Last year, the Baylor Family was introduced to Illuminate, the university’s academic strategic plan to guide Baylor further towards its goals as a preeminent Christian research institution. A lot of attention has been paid to the plan’s five academic initiatives — signature areas such as health and data sciences where Baylor has a lot to […]

MBB Looks for Season Sweep at No. 19 Iowa State

No. 1 Ranked Lady Bears to Play for Share of 9th Straight Big 12 Title Wednesday

WACO, Texas – The No. 1-ranked Baylor women's basketball team can clinch at least a share of its ninth-straight Big 12 regular-season championship with a win against Kansas in Wednesday's 6 p.m. game at the Ferrell Center that will be televised by FOX Sports Southwest.

Men’s Golf One Shot Back at All-American

THE RUNDOWN

No. 12/15 Bears Complete Four-Game Sweep of Holy Cross

No. 12/15 Baylor baseball finished off a four-game sweep of the Holy Cross Crusaders with a 6-1 win Sunday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark.

Arizona Republic: He objected to a photo of coal miners who appeared to be in blackface. He never imagined the backlash.

Feb. 15, 2019
Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., professor of journalism, public relations and new media in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, is quoted in this article about a Phoenix restaurant’s controversial photo of coal miners who appeared to be in blackface. Moody-Ramirez is a nationally recognized expert on the history of blackface and coauthored the book “From Blackface to Black Twitter.” Historically, she explained, blackface was used “to justify the institution of slavery and justify discrimination against African Americans.”

Baptist Standard: Absence of lament in worship leads to spiritual stagnation

Feb. 13, 2019
Public worship that fails to include lament leads to spiritual stagnation, an Old Testament scholar told a crowd at Baylor’s Truett Seminary. “When we do not have lament as part of the worship of the church, we do not model for people growth in their relationship with God. The absence of struggle in that relationship guarantees only stagnation,” said William H. Bellinger, Ph.D., The W. Marshall and Lulie Craig Chair in Bible, who presented the W.C. Dobbs Endowed Lecture in applied Christianity. He spoke about the book of Psalms as “A School of Prayer.”

Baylor Proud: 4 Baylor Bears whose lights are shining bright

Jan. 17, 2019
Over the past year, you might have noticed we’ve been focusing a lot on “Baylor Lights.” One of the University’s goals has been to share stories from the Baylor Family about how Bears are shining their light on our campus, in their communities and across the world. We’ve heard from so many amazing Bears who are doing just that.

Baylor’s Model United Nations Team Achieves Success at Texas Model United Nations Conference

What is Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project?

Since 2008, a “search and rescue mission” has been underway in the basement of Moody Library. A true labor of love, this work has found its way into dusty tape and record collections, made friends with unsung heroes of the civil rights movement, been featured extensively in national media, and even has a home in […]

Meet Baylor’s nationally recognized expert on business and entrepreneurship

Maybe you’ve heard, or maybe you haven’t, but Baylor’s entrepreneurship program is among the best in the nation. So perhaps it comes as no surprise that one of our entrepreneurship professors is highly sought out as an expert on the subject. Dr. Peter Klein has taught entrepreneurship at Baylor since 2015, and also serves as a […]

Baylor baseball opens 2019 with highest preseason ranking in a decade

When head coach Steve Rodriguez fills out the lineup card for the 2019 Baylor Baseball season opener, he’ll have plenty of familiar faces to choose from. The cyclical nature of college sports doesn’t allow this very often, but the Bears are returning the entire batting order and starting pitching rotation from a 2018 team that […]

Baylor couples share their campus love stories

Baylor’s campus swings have earned their reputation for romance, and professors who tell you your future spouse may be in the room know what they’re talking about. So it’s no surprise that when Baylor asked its Facebook followers to share if and how they met they spouses at Baylor, the responses came flooding in. You […]

Baylor Geosciences Graduate Student Honored with Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

WACO, Texas (Feb. 18, 2019) – Jiajun (Dylan) Jiang, teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the department of geosciences in Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences, was selected as a recipient of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding TA Award for demonstrating excellence in his teaching assistant position.

C-SPAN Bus to Visit Baylor Campus Feb. 20

WACO, Texas (Feb. 18, 2019) – The C-SPAN Bus – a 45-foot, state-of-the-art mobile classroom – will be traveling through Central Texas this week in partnership with its cable and satellite affiliates. The C-SPAN Bus will make a stop on the Baylor University campus from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, on Speight Avenue between Waco Hall and Tidwell Bible Building.

Women More Likely to Believe the Bible Is Literally True, But Study Finds this May Have More to Do with Intimacy than Gender

WACO, Texas (Feb. 18, 2019) — Women are more likely than men to believe the Bible is literally true, but a recent Baylor University study finds this may have more to do with how people relate to God than it does gender. Both men and women who report high levels of closeness to God take the Bible more literally – and this confidence grows stronger as they seek closeness to God through prayer and Bible study.

Baylor’s Model United Nations Team Achieves Success at Texas Model United Nations Conference

WACO, Texas (Feb. 15, 2019) – The Baylor University Model United Nations team participated in the Fifth Annual Texas Model United Nations Conference (TexMUN) Friday, Feb. 1, to Sunday, Feb. 3.