Several Baylor University faculty members have been honored this spring with prestigious awards for their scholarship and classroom teaching. Click on the following links for more information.
Baylor's Senior Class selected Maxey Parrish, lecturer in journalism at Baylor, as the recipient of the 2005 Collins Outstanding Professor Award.
Dr. Eric Rust, associate professor of history, has been selected to receive the 2005 Centennial Professor Award, which will allow him to research efforts by the Nazi authorities to reconfigure the meaning of Christmas.
Baylor honored Dr. Robert Baird, professor and chair of the philosophy department, with the Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year Award during the annual Honors Convocation April 6 in Armstrong Browning Library.
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance presented its highest honor to Baylor adventure educator Buddy Gilchrest.
Christopher J. Hansen, assistant professor of communications studies at Baylor University, won a platinum award for best original screenplay for a drama at Worldfest 2005 in Houston, one of the three oldest film festivals in North America.
The Baylor Alumni Association honored four retired faculty members and two retired administrators during a May 7 luncheon co-sponsored by the Baylor Retired Professors/Administrators Program.