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Changing Diets — Not Lower Physical Activity or Infectious Disease Burden — May Best Explain Global Childhood Obesity Crisis

WACO, Texas (Jan. 19, 2021) — Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of the traditional diet — but not in total number of calories burned daily — is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children’s body fat, according to a study led by Baylor University that offers insight into the global obesity ...

Baylor Researchers Earn Department of Energy Grant to Study Impact of Urban Pollution on Thunderstorm Activity (January 7, 2021)

Prehistoric ‘Sea Dragon’ Discovered on the English Channel Coast Is Identified as a New Species (December 9, 2020)

Huddles — Not Electronic Communication — May Be the Best Way for Hospital Workers to Cope with Information Glut During COVID-19 (December 7, 2020)

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Baylor University Senior Wins Highly Competitive Foreign Service Fellowship

WACO, TX (Dec. 15, 2020) — Baylor University senior Sophia Fulton has won a Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship, a highly competitive national award for students who want to become United States Foreign Service officers, with special emphasis on trying to diversify the Foreign ...

Baylor University Senior Selected for Prestigious Mitchell Scholarship from US-Ireland Alliance (December 14, 2020)

Dr. Kenneth Van Treuren Announced in AIAA Class of 2021 Associate Fellows (October 22, 2020)

Baylor Conductor-in-Residence Stephen Heyde Awarded the National 2020 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Music Performance (October 21, 2020)

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Baylor Expert: Don’t Lose Focus on Spiritual and Mental Well-being

WACO, Texas (Oct. 27, 2020) – October marks the halfway point to the fall semester and can carry all the excitement, stress and anxiety of another academic term winding to a close. The month also typically marks one of the busiest times of the year for university counseling centers across the ...