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Baylor ranked among nation’s top 50 “Best Colleges for Veterans”
The U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges Rankings” each year are among the most discussed rankings in all of higher education, and Baylor routinely is ranked among the best. But there’s another ranking-within-the-ranking for the Baylor Family to be proud of: Once again in 2018, Baylor has been named among the top 50 Best Colleges […]
90 years ago this fall, Baylor’s band earned its “Golden Wave” moniker
Baylor’s marching band has been an integral part of the university for well over 100 years — but it wasn’t until 90 years ago this fall that it became the Golden Wave Band we know and love today. On Nov. 17, 1928 — after months of deliberation, fundraising, and even some fabric mishaps — the Baylor […]
Baylor Law School Hosts 11th Annual McLennan County Adoption Day
WACO, Texas (Nov. 16, 2018) – On Friday, Nov. 16, Baylor Law School, in partnership with McLennan County Department of Families and Child Protective Services, celebrated its 11th annual National Adoption Day with more than two dozen central Texas families as their adoptions were finalized.
Baylor Law School Hosts 11th Annual McLennan County Adoption Day
WACO, Texas (Nov. 16, 2018) – On Friday, Nov. 16, Baylor Law School, in partnership with McLennan County Department of Families and Child Protective Services, celebrated its 11th annual National Adoption Day with more than two dozen central Texas families as their adoptions were finalized.
Baylor Media and Public Relations: Dr. Dennis Myers Installed as Inaugural Holder of The Danny and Lenn Prince Chair in Social Work
Nov. 16, 2018
Baylor University today announced the installation of Dennis R. Myers, Ph.D., as the inaugural holder of The Danny and Lenn Prince Chair in Social Work within the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work. The installation was part of the Career Resiliency in Senior Living Leadership Symposium, a conference to provide support and education for licensed nursing home administrators to withstand job stress and pressures.
Dr. Dennis Myers Installed as Inaugural Holder of The Danny and Lenn Prince Chair in Social Work
WACO, Texas (Nov. 16, 2018) – Baylor University today announced the installation of Dennis R. Myers, Ph.D., as the inaugural holder of The Danny and Lenn Prince Chair in Social Work within the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work. The installation was part of the Career Resiliency in Senior Living Leadership Symposium, a conference to provide support and education for licensed nursing home administrators to withstand job stress and pressures.
KWBU-FM (Waco/NPR): Baylor Connections – Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media
Nov. 16, 2018
AUDIO: On this week’s episode of Baylor Connections, host Derek Smith interviews Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., a leading researcher on social media and politics, stereotypes found on social media and media framing of women and people of color. Moody-Ramirez examines various angles of modern communication, including how social media has changed the way people consume and disseminate information. Baylor Connections is a weekly radio program/podcast that introduces the people behind Baylor’s teaching, research and distinct role in higher education.
KWBU-FM (Waco/NPR): David and Art – “Emotion”
Nov. 12, 2018
AUDIO: On the weekly radio feature “David and Art,” David Smith, Ph.D., senior lecturer of history in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, discusses how the arts can be powerful enough to move us to tears, sometimes when we least expect it. Smith hosts this weekly feature that focuses on how history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history.
KXXV-TV (Waco, Temple, Killeen/ABC): Oldest artifact ever discovered in North America found in Bell County
Nov. 15, 2018
VIDEO: Recent discoveries in a Central Texas archeological site may re-write history as scientists from Baylor, Texas A&M and the University of Texas have confirmed that some of the artifacts they’ve found in Bell County are the oldest ever discovered in North America. “What we’re doing is, we’re pushing back the boundaries, we’re defining basically the new knowledge of when humans came into North America,” said Steven L. Forman, Ph.D., professor of geosciences in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences and a co-author on the research published in Science Advances.
PR Web: Kelley Kronenberg Welcomes Don W. Allen and Michael J. Rigelsky to Its Orlando Office
Oct. 28, 2018
Don W. Allen, B.B.A. (Finance) ’89, has joined the Orlando office as a partner in the business law firm of Kelley Kronenberg. Allen has nearly three decades of experience handling workers’ compensation issues in Florida courts. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, the Florida Supreme Court, the United States District Court Middle District of Florida and the United States Supreme Court.
The Dallas Morning News: Baylor President Livingstone: The university is under a microscope and we must rebuild trust
Nov. 16, 2018
Q&A with Baylor President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., about returning to Baylor as the University’s leader, addressing the past issues regarding sexual and interpersonal violence and how she is focused on helping Baylor move forward.
Women’s World Day of Prayer Brunch to be Hosted at Baylor on Nov. 29
WACO, Texas (Nov. 16, 2018) — “Woven Together in Unity,” a Women’s World Day of Prayer Brunch, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Piper Great Hall of George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Featured speaker and guest of honor will be Carolyn Porterfield, former Missionary Journeyman in Japan and retiring Missional Lifestyle Leader for Texas Woman’s Missionary Union.
'Two Heads Are Better Than One’ — a New Approach to Nursing Education — Gets High Marks from Students in Baylor Study
A new “buddy system” of nursing education — in which two students work together as one nurse to share ideas, set priorities and make clinical decisions for patient care in the “real world” of nursing — is effective, according to a study by Baylor University’s <a href="https://www.baylor.edu/nursing/" target="_new""><b>Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas</b></a>.
Baylor Moves Up to No. 6 Among Top 25 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies
WACO, Texas (Nov. 15, 2018) - Baylor University offers one of the nation’s top entrepreneurship programs for students who aspire to launch their own businesses, according to the latest rankings released by The Princeton Review and featured in Entrepreneur magazine. Baylor’s entrepreneurship program in the Hankamer School of Business moved up to No. 6 in this year’s rankings of the top 25 Best Undergraduate Programs for Entrepreneurs.
Baylor Moves Up to No. 6 Among Top 25 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies
Broadway World: WaterTower Theatre Announces Cast & Creative Details for The Great Distance Home
Nov. 8, 2018
Kelsey Leigh Ervi, B.F.A. (Performance) ’11, will direct and Christopher Llewyn Ramirez, B.F.A. (Theatre Performance) ’13, is one of the cast members of WaterTower Theatre’s production of “The Great Distance Home” at the Addison Theatre Centre Nov. 23-Dec. 16. Ervi is associate artistic director for WaterTower Theatre while Ramirez is a member of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at Dallas Theater Center.
Bryan W. Brooks, Ph.D., Honored as Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Bryan W. Brooks, Ph.D., Honored as Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
WACO, Texas (Nov. 15, 2018) – Bryan W. Brooks, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and director of Baylor University’s Environmental Health Science Program was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) for his outstanding leadership and science. Brooks received the award at the SETAC meeting in Sacramento, California on Sunday, Nov. 4.