Baylor in the News – Nov. 1-7, 2020
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WACO, Texas (Nov. 8, 2020) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on patience and stress while waiting for election results, a new multidisciplinary partnership between Baylor University and Compassion International that could make an impact on global child poverty and measuring the relationship between art and faith.
Nov. 1, 2020
ABC Science (Australia): Children feature in COVID-19 and QAnon conspiracies, but these just most recent examples of a 'very old, powerful fear'
Philip Jenkins, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Program on Historical Studies of Religion in Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, is quoted in this article about COVID-19 conspiracy theories based on fears about child abuse and removal.
Nov. 2, 2020
KWKT-TV: Election day and mental health awareness
VIDEO: Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research & faculty development in the Diana Garland School of Social Work, is interviewed for this story on election stress and personal mental health care
KWTX-TV: Waco: Bank opens in East Waco for first time in 100 years
VIDEO: Stephen Sloan, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Oral History at Baylor, is quoted in this story about the first bank to serve East Waco in more than a century.
Nov. 3, 2020
Baptist Standard: Pilot project first step in Baylor partnership with Compassion
Lori Baker, Ph.D., vice provost and professor of anthropology, is quoted in this article about a major multidisciplinary partnership between Baylor University and Compassion International that could make an impact on global child poverty, beginning with an online education pilot project involving a few bilingual pastors in Guatemala.
Baptist Standard: Conference encourages love and unity in divisive times
Jeremy Everett, executive director at the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, was among the speakers at the 2020 Micah 6:8 Conference, hosted by the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission and Howard Payne University.
KWBU-FM: TFNB Your Bank For Life Opens First Bank in East Waco in Over 100 Years
AUDIO: Baylor history research is cited in this radio story about the grant opening of the first bank in East Waco in over 100 years. The last known bank in East Waco was opened in 1913 but closed between 1915 and 1916.
Nov. 4, 2020
Reform Austin: Is That Nail-Biter of an Election Making You Anxious?
Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research & faculty development in the Diana Garland School of Social Work, is quoted in this article about higher levels of mental health struggles in 2020 and steps people can take to help with mental health and wellbeing
Baptist News Global: Compassion International and Baylor form partnership against poverty
Ending poverty among children and their families is the goal of a new partnership between Baylor University and Compassion International. The effort will pair Baylor’s educational expertise with Compassion’s historic mission to address persistent family poverty and bring about global human flourishing.
Nov. 5, 2020
Waco Tribune Herald: Baylor's Heyde receives prestigious award
Stephen Heyde, The Mary Franks Thompson Professor of Orchestral Studies and Conductor-in-Residence in the Baylor School of Music, has received the nationally acclaimed 2020 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Music Performance from the Lilly Fellows Program.
The Washington Post: As Election Day drags into Election Week, the waiting is the hardest part
Sarah Schnitker, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and an expert on virtues such as patience, is quoted in this article about the impatience of Americans waiting on election results, with their nerves already frayed from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov. 6. 2020
Baptist News Global: Study asks how art influences faith
Two Baylor University scholars – psychology researchers Wade Rowatt, Ph.D., and Sarah Schnitker, Ph.D. – and a third at Fuller Theological Seminary are setting out to determine the relationship between two difficult, if not impossible, things to measure: art and faith.
Baylor Connections: Sutton Houser
AUDIO: Baylor Student Body President Sutton Houser shares details about the duties and responsibilities of student body presidents, what it means to be a voice for students and takes listeners inside his work with Baylor leadership, local churches, campus initiatives and more.
KWKT-TV: Local political expert predicts election will end ‘soon’
VIDEO: Patrick Flavin, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, is interviewed for this story about the history of presidential elections results.
Waco Tribune-Herald: Baylor working to keep virus under control with end of fall classes in sight
Baylor University is working to keep COVID-19 cases under control for the final weeks of on-campus fall classes, while preparing for unknown budgetary factors that remain for the spring semester, President Linda Livingstone told regents during their meeting Friday. The Baylor Lariat and Baptist Standard also reported on the Board meeting.
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