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Olympia Fields, Ill. – Baylor men's golf will resume its 2022 fall slate at the Fighting Illini Invitational, beginning Friday at Olympia Fields Country Club.
Bears to participate in the $15K Lubbock event, starting Monday
WACO, Texas (Sept. 15, 2022) – Baylor University announced today the appointment of Aaron Wright, Ph.D., as the inaugural James R. Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Studies. Wright comes to Baylor from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and will provide interdisciplinary research and leadership from within the Department of Biology.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 15, 2022) – The Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society at Baylor University and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame will present a panel discussion on “Afghanistan: The Next Chapter” at 3 p.m. CT on Friday, Sept. 16.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 15, 2022) The Executive Committee of the Baylor Law Alumni Association has selected Michael P. Heiskell (J.D. ’74) as the 2022 Baylor Lawyer of the Year.
Bears will miss Dillon Doyle's voice in the first half of Saturday's game against Texas State.
Coming off five-straight sweeps, the 14th-ranked Baylor volleyball team will host the Baylor Classic on Thursday and Friday in the Ferrell Center, welcoming McNeese, Sam Houston and Tulsa for the two-day tournament.
More than 20 years later, Jake Baskin humbly admits that his biggest contribution to Baylor baseball was "staying out of the way in our apartment" when future first-round draft pick Jason Jennings was making his way to the ballpark.
McKenzie Wilson (softball), Allie Sczech (volleyball), Johnny Keefer (men's golf) and Laurenz Colbert (men's track and field) have been selected as the Student-Athlete Center for Excellence (SACE) September Champions of the Month.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 14, 2022) – Baylor University announced its official fall enrollment today, including an overall enrollment that topped 20,000.
The No. 14-ranked Baylor volleyball team swept North Texas on Tuesday night in the Ferrell Center, 25-6, 25-22, 25-20.
Baylor volleyball freshman setter Averi Carlson has earned her second Big 12 Rookie of the Week honor, announced Tuesday by the conference.
The latest round of NIL gear has arrived. The Baylor Bookstore is working with University partners to bring custom NIL apparel opportunities for football student-athletes to life, with additional options coming soon. Fans can now purchase name and number t-shirts or "shirseys" to rep and support members of the Baylor Football team.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 13, 2022) – National Daughter’s Day is Sept. 25, an oft-overlooked holiday that actually has been around since 1932 to honor the daughters in our lives. But much like the holiday, adult daughters themselves are often unnoticed for the important role they play in the lives of their parents. Allison M. Alford, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor of business communication at Baylor University, researches adult daughters and their “invisible labor” in maintaining the unity of a family.
HOUSTON, Texas (Sept. 13, 2022) – The best hour of the week – Baylor University’s Dr Pepper Hour – is entering its second year of its highly lauded Dr Pepper Hour Tour, delivering sweet treats and Baylor swag to high school students across the country. The four-week fall tour is focused on Texas while the eight-week spring tour will include stops in Texas, Arizona and California.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 13, 2022) – Ten extraordinary women and their histories will be introduced by 10 Baylor faculty members during the seventh annual Boundary Breaking Women’s Panel, sponsored by Baylor’s Women’s and Gender Studies program.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 13, 2022) – Baylor University was deeply saddened today to learn of the passing of Judge Ken Starr. Starr served as Baylor’s 14th President from 2010 to 2016, adding the title of Chancellor in 2013.
The No. 14-ranked Baylor volleyball program is ready for a Tuesday night matchup with North Texas in the Ferrell Center, with first serve set for 6 p.m.
It's hard to simulate an environment like the one Baylor played in Saturday night in Provo, Utah.
INDEPENDENCE, Minn. – Baylor men's golf tied for sixth at the season-opening Gopher Invitational Monday at Windsong Farm Golf Club.
Baylor hosts Texas State on Saturday
Baylor will face Iowa State on either ESPN2 or ESPNU
WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2022) – Baylor University’s transformational undergraduate academic programs and experiences were the major highlights in the latest Best Colleges rankings for 2023 released today by U.S. News & World Report.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2022) – For the 11th time, Baylor University has attained elite Honor Roll status as a 2022 Great College to Work For, according to a new survey by The Great Colleges to Work For program.
INDEPENDENCE, Minn. – Baylor men's golf climbed eight spots into a tie for sixth place following the opening two rounds of the Gopher Invitational Sunday at Windsong Farm Golf Club.
Spokane, Wash. – Baylor Soccer's Sunday afternoon match at Gonzaga has been canceled due to unhealthy air quality in the Spokane, Wash. area due to surrounding forest fires.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 11, 2022) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on voters’ perception of the level of democracy in their state, local theater production coming into the fall riding the momentum and energy of successful summer shows and importance of water data and how it can impact behavior.
The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball program swept Arizona State to kick off the last day of the Baylor Invitational, only to sweep Evansville and record a school record attack percentage against the Aces.
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's golf will open its 2022-23 season at the Gopher Invitational beginning Sunday in Independence, Minn.
The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball program is set for a Saturday doubleheader in the Baylor Invitational, facing Arizona State at 11:30 a.m. and Evansville at 7 p.m., both in the Ferrell Center.
Baylor defense needs to stop the run and limit BYU's big receivers.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 9, 2022) - Baylor University Department of Public Safety will host its annual Sic 'Em for Safety Day with events for students from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, on Fountain Mall.
The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball team swept Colorado State, 3-0, on Thursday night in the Ferrell Center to start off the Baylor Invitational.
I must admit that the First Gent and I are big fans of Baylor Athletics, especially during the week-long build up for a big football game like BYU this Saturday.
Bears have 23 former players opening the 2022 season
WACO, Texas (Sept. 8, 2022) – Baylor University officially launched its new institutional television commercial for 2022-23 that definitely will stand out in the “sea of sameness” among university commercials during athletics events this year.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 8, 2022) – A smartphone in your hand can quickly become a mobile safety device on the Baylor campus, thanks to the Baylor University Department of Public Safety.
Gavin Holmes' 72-yard punt return for a touchdown left cornerback Mark Milton speechless.
Baylor senior ranked No. 72 in the ITA preseason poll
The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball is set for its home opener on Thursday at 6 p.m. against Colorado State in the opening match of the Baylor Invitational.
WACO, Texas – Baylor's Adrian Boitan has been nominated to the Romanian team at the Davis Cup, as announced by the team captain this week.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 7, 2022) – The Department of Occupational Therapy in Baylor University’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences received notice in August that the department’s entry-level occupational therapy doctoral degree has received full accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
WACO, Texas (Sept. 7, 2022) – Baylor University is listed in the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2021 report released today by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).
Former Baylor head football coach Guy Morriss, who led the Bears to memorable wins over Texas A&M, Colorado and Kansas in his five-year run (2003-07), died Monday at the age of 71 at his home in Danville, Ky., after battling Alzheimer's for the last six years.
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's tennis alum Matias Soto will play for Team Chile in the Davis Cup for the third time in his career this month.
WACO, Texas – Baylor soccer's Hallie Augustyn has been named Big 12 Freshman of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday afternoon. This marks the first weekly award for the Bears this season.
Baylor volleyball's Riley Simpson earned her first weekly award from the Big 12 Conference, being named Rookie of the Week on Tuesday after her performance in three matches at the Pepperdine Asics Classic.
Monaray Baldwin, Hal Presley and Seth Jones emerge from the pack to lead Baylor's receiving corps.
Baylor takes on BYU on Saturday in Provo
Baylor produces nine plays of 23 yards or longer in win over UAlbany.
The No. 9-ranked Baylor volleyball team defeated UC Santa Barbara, 3-0, on Saturday morning in Firestone Fieldhouse to close the Pepperdine Asics Classic.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 3, 2022) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on travel as a theological practice, the test flight of NASA’s first moon rocket in 50 years and developing a roadmap to new quantum materials.
The No. 9-ranked Baylor volleyball team showed their prowess on Friday night in the 3-1 win over San Diego State at Pepperdine's Firestone Fieldhouse as part of the Asics Classic.
The No. 9-ranked Baylor volleyball team fell on Thursday night to Pepperdine, 3-1, after playing four hard-fought sets.
To conclude each week we celebrate Spirit Fridays on all Baylor campuses when we encourage the entire Baylor Family to fling their green and gold afar.
WACO, Texas – Baylor cross country posted identical second-place finishes at the season-opening meet Thursday morning at the Tornado Watch Invitational in Round Rock.
WACO, Texas – Baylor women's golf has signed Ilani Short, head coach Jay Goble announced Thursday. Expected to be a mid-year enrollee, she will join the Bears with four years of eligibility beginning in January 2023.
WACO, Texas (Sept. 1, 2022) – The U.S. Department of Education has renewed Baylor University’s five-year grant for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, which is designed to provide high-achieving college students from diverse backgrounds effective preparation for doctoral studies.
Sixth-year senior center Jacob Gall transferred from Buffalo.
WACO, Texas – Baylor cross country opens the season on Thursday morning at the Tornado Watch Invitational hosted by Concordia University. The men's 5K begins at 7:30 a.m., followed by the women's at 8 a.m. at Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, Texas.
The No. nine-ranked Baylor volleyball program is primed for the Pepperdine Asics Classic, taking place from Sept. 1-3 at Pepperdine's Firestone Fieldhouse.
Champions' TriBUne is a special feature through Baylor Athletics that gives you the student-athlete's perspective and the chance for them to share their own story. Taylor Whitfield, a sophomore from Highlands Ranch, Colo., came back from injuries last year to place in the cross country team's top three at the Big 12 Championships and NCAA regional. Majoring in Child and Family Studies, Taylor's Valor High School cross country team finished eighth in the nation in 2019. Baylor Cross Country opens the season at Thursday's Tornado Watch Invitational at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas
WACO, Texas (Aug. 31, 2022) – Baylor University will join City of Waco and McLennan County partners – in cooperation with the Waco/McLennan County Office of Emergency Management – to conduct a regular test of outdoor tornado sirens, beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2. In addition, Baylor will conduct a required test of the multi-tiered Baylor Alert emergency notification system, which is used to alert the campus community of a significant emergency or threat on or near campus.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 31, 2022) – The Baylor University Family will join together this week to celebrate and remember the life of Baylor Bear Judge Joy Reynolds, simply known as “Joy,” at the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat on the Baylor campus.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 31, 2022) – For a second year, faculty and students from the Department of Accounting and Business Law in Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business are partnering with Caritas of Waco on Sept. 13 on Project 58:10 to pack meals for those most in need.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 31, 2022) Since 2002, Baylor Law has hosted the Texas District and County Attorney Association’s (TDCAA) Advanced Trial Advocacy Course during the ‘intersession’ between the Summer and Fall Quarters.
Baylor volleyball's Averi Carlson was named Rookie of the Week by the Big 12 Conference on Tuesday, earning her first-career weekly award by the organization.
Baylor hosts UAlbany in season lid-lifter
WACO, Texas (Aug. 29, 2022) – Research led by Baylor University faculty and students will be explored on the national stage as they share their findings from the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project during a Season 10 episode of the popular primetime Discovery adventure series "Expedition Unknown," which premieres Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. CST on Discovery.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 28, 2022) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on the challenges college freshmen face when transitioning to a university, the impact of changes to schools’ flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve free meals and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a Baylor philosophy professor that will help schoolteachers explore disputed questions as a tool for discussing the nature of wisdom.
The No. 16-ranked Baylor volleyball team took down the reigning national champion, No. 3 Wisconsin, on Saturday afternoon in Fort Worth, winning 3-2.
The No. 16-ranked Baylor volleyball program fell in the season opener on Friday, 3-1, to fifth-ranked Minnesota in the first match of the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge in Fort Worth.
The No. 16-ranked Baylor volleyball program begins the 2022 regular season on Friday with the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge hosted by TCU in Fort Worth.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 25, 2022) – Baylor University announced today the appointment of Julia Chan, Ph.D., as the inaugural holder of The Tim and Sharalynn Fenn Family Endowed Chair in Materials Science. Chan, a 1993 Baylor graduate who built an international reputation as a leading scientist focused on the discovery of new families of quantum materials, will provide multi-disciplinary leadership for Baylor’s materials science efforts.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 25, 2022) – The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Learning and Organizational Change online program housed within Baylor University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education has been named a Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) Program of the Year 2022 winner.
We're nearly through the first week of the fall semester!
The Baylor Cub Club, the official kids club of Baylor Athletics, is back and better than ever for the 2022-23 athletic season.
WACO, Texas – Baylor football seniors Connor Galvin and Ben Sims have been named to the 2023 Reese's Senior Bowl Watchlist, as announced Wednesday by the all-star game.
"Future Bears Day", formerly known as "I'm Going to College Day", is returning for the 2022-23 Baylor Men's and Women's Basketball seasons.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 24, 2022) – In a first-of-its-kind study published in Frontiers of Marine Science, Baylor University marine biologist Sarah Kienle, Ph.D., and her research colleagues gathered baseline data on the ecology and physiology of the leopard seal, the enigmatic apex predator of the Antarctic.
Whether she's watching her own children, Sydney and London, or coaching Baylor track & field's J-Squad, Stacey Smith is a nervous wreck.
WACO, Texas – A pair of Baylor football players were named to the Associated Press Preseason All-America Team in fifth-year senior OL Connor Galvin and junior DL Siaki Ika, as announced Monday by the publication.
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WACO, Texas (Aug. 22, 2022) – A new review article in Science Advances co-authored by materials science researchers with Baylor University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) connects several decades of research on a family of intermetallic crystalline materials to find practical ways to design strongly correlated electronic, magnetic and superconducting phenomena.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 21, 2022) – Mark Childers, associate vice president for public safety at Baylor, discusses safety and security measures in place for parents.
WACO, Texas (Aug. 21, 2022) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on the dwindling butterfly population’s effect on the food supply, using an old-fashioned art form and 3D printing to remove barriers to chemistry for individuals with blindness or low vision, and the roaring marketing around the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT electric muscle car.
The Baylor volleyball team finished out preseason play with an exhibition win against Texas A&M on Saturday night in the Ferrell Center, 3-2.