Baylor in the News – May 10-16, 2020
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WACO, Texas (May 17, 2020) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in local and national media stories as they shared their research and expertise on a variety of topics, including lynching and church history, the world of small satellites and COVID-19 related stories on developing patience in a pandemic, online storytelling and a Baylor partnership featured on ABC World News Tonight that is helping feed millions of children whose rural school districts are closed due to COVID-19.
May 10, 2020
Waco Tribune-Herald: Mother's Day comes with added challenges at Waco-area senior centers
Baylor gerontologist Jim Ellor, Ph.D., a professor of social work, said it's important to keep contact with seniors in living centers for their emotional well-being during this time of near-quarantine and on Mother's Day.
May 11, 2020
Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris Podcast: #246: Losing Your Patience? Here's How to Get it Back
AUDIO: Baylor psychology and neuroscience professor Sarah A. Schnitker, Ph.D., who studies virtue and character development, is a guest expert on patience and shares that patience is a quality we can train and develop through meditation and other strategies.
May 12, 2020
Baptist News Global: Churches are compelled to support practices to combat pandemic
Jeff Levin, Ph.D., University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Baylor, speaks with Baptist News Global about the pandemic and its relation to faith and health.
May 13, 2020
Christianity Today: What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Recalls About Lynching and Church History
AUDIO: Malcolm Foley, a Ph.D. candidate in religion at Baylor whose dissertation examines African-American Christian responses to lynching from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, is a guest on the “Quick to Listen” podcast about lynching and church history.
Baptist Standard “On the Way” Podcast: ‘Remember Us When You Come Into Your Kingdom’ with Jeremy Everett
AUDIO: Jeremy Everett, founder and executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and author of "I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis," is interviewed about his faith journey and how his faith informs his work to help alleviate hunger.
Baptist Standard: Voices: Congregations and social work moving into the unexpected
Julianna Marraccino, a dual Master of Divinity and Master of Social Work graduate student at Baylor, writes about how churches can take steps to establish a renewed identity as the body of Christ and as those who walk alongside their communities in a new normal.
Space Watch: Space Café WebTalk Recap: René Laufer ‘Talks SmallSats’ And Predicts Future Trends
VIDEO: René Laufer, Ph.D., associate research professor in Baylor’s Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER) and head of the Space Science Lab, provided insight into the SmallSat world and much more in this week’s Space Café WebTalk.
Houston Chronicle: With Stage Stores closure, a staple leaves rural communities
Charles Tolbert II, Ph.D., professor of sociology at Baylor who specializes in rural communities, is quoted in this article about the closure of Stage Stores and its sibling brands — Gordmans, Bealls and Palais Royal — that were for decades staples of rural communities across the country.
The New York Times: As Hunger Spreads With Pandemic, Government Takes Timid Steps
This article about the federal government beginning to take some steps to address hunger during the economic crisis mentions the USDA partnership with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and companies such as PepsiCo and McLane Global to begin sending food boxes to students in impoverished, rural school districts.
Waco Tribune-Herald: Waco's storytellers go online to reach kids
Online storytelling proved one way for Baylor University’s Office of External Affairs and its Solid Gold Neighbor program to help one of its community partners, the Waco Independent School District, after schools shut down at spring break for the coronavirus pandemic.
May 15, 2020
ABC News Prime: Feeding the Hungry: Initiative Getting Millions of Meals to Rural Children
VIDEO: Jeremy Everett, founder and executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, is interviewed by ABC News for this story about the Emergency Meals to You partnership between the USDA, Baylor and McLane Global to provide millions of meals to children in rural school districts closed due to COVID-19. Also interviewed were Denton McLane, BBA ’99, chairman of McLane Global, and Melissa Hunter, BA ’04, McLane Global's director of marketing. Additional stories covered the partnership on the websites of ABC News and Good Morning America.
Baylor Connections: Dr. Daniel Romo
On Baylor Connections, Daniel Romo, Ph.D., The Schotts Professor of Chemistry at Baylor, shares how he and his lab students synthesize natural compounds that spur potential drug leads for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and more.
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