Personal experience drives Baylor expert’s scholarship on joy
The roots of Rev. Dr. Angela Gorrell’s insights into joy and suffering stem in part from a profound dichotomy she experienced in her personal and professional life. After receiving her doctorate,...
View ArticleHappy 20th birthday, Umphrey Law Center!
It was a transformative new facility along the Brazos River, raising a program to new heights and expanding the Baylor campus further along the water. We’re talking, of course, about the Sheila and...
View ArticleUpdated Tidwell Bible Building reopens after a 15-month total renovation
With the start of the new school year came the reopening of one of the most beloved buildings on campus: Tidwell Bible Building, which had been closed since May 2020 for an extensive renovation. The...
View ArticleClass of ’21: New faculty join growing Baylor Family
The Baylor Family is growing, and it’s not just incoming students seeing their numbers increase. This year, the university has welcomed more than 50 new faculty members and research staff. Professors...
View ArticleMeet the Baylor researchers starring in this year’s national brand campaign
You don’t have to search far to find Baylor faculty conducing high-level research. They’re in labs, classrooms and fields, where they drive breakthroughs for clean water, create tools for health and...
View ArticleBaylor makes U.S. News’ short list of best schools for both undergrad...
Only a fraction of the schools U.S. News reviews each year come out with high scores for both undergraduate teaching and undergraduate research opportunities. Baylor now ranks among the top 40...
View ArticleStatewide campaign shines light on Baylor’s research efforts
Very few universities today can (or would) claim to be preeminent research institutions that fearlessly proclaim the name of Jesus — but that is Baylor’s aim. We recognize that all truth is God’s...
View ArticleMeet the new dean of Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business
The road that led Dr. Sandeep Mazumder to Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business began in London, featured stops at some of the world’s most prestigious universities, introduced him to his wife and the...
View ArticleMeet Baylor’s expert on artificial intelligence and deep learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) used to be a fantasy, found only in science fiction. Today, it propels society forward in countless ways; even the phones in our pockets include multilingual translators,...
View ArticleBaylor prof offers resources for learning more about Hispanic heritage
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated each year from Sept. 15-Oct. 15 as a time for celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of Americans whose family cultures hail from Spain, Mexico,...
View ArticleU.S. News, Wall Street Journal again rank Baylor among nation’s best student...
If you ask a BU student or alum what Baylor means to them, you’re likely to hear stories about brilliant, caring professors, classes that stimulated their imagination and helped carve their future...
View ArticleBaylor student wins Texas State Japanese Language Speech Contest
About a month before the 2021 Texas State Japanese Language Speech Contest, Dr. Yuko Prefume (BA ’04, MSED ’06, EDD ’15), a senior lecturer in Japanese at Baylor, asked then-junior Matthew Ho if he...
View ArticleNow 200 episodes in, Baylor Connections shares BU stories straight from the...
Baylor is filled with faculty, staff and administrators whose fascinating work and deep sense of mission give us plenty of worthy stories to tell. But unless you’re on campus, you can’t always hear...
View ArticleBaylor prof offers resources for learning more about Asian and Pacific...
Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States each May — but since Baylor students are usually focused on final exams and then headed off for summer then, the university...
View ArticleMeet Baylor’s expert on Mark Twain and American literature
As the author of such classics as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain has long been considered by many to be “the father of American literature.” His writings,...
View Article‘The College Tour’ highlights the unique, invigorating Baylor experience
Earlier this month, The College Tour premiered its second season on Amazon Prime — a season that includes our beloved Baylor — and we could not be more thrilled! Hosted and produced by Amazing Race...
View ArticleFaculty hires, dorm updates, athletic facilities & more: A round-up of recent...
Universities are always busy places — but the next few years are going to be particularly busy at Baylor, following recent announcements from BU’s Board of Regents. Highlights include: * Faculty...
View ArticleBaylor Libraries unveils Black Gospel Archive & Listening Center for renowned...
For over a decade, Baylor Libraries has proudly tended to the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP), the world’s largest initiative to identify, acquire, scan, digitize, catalog and make...
View ArticleLargest research project in Baylor history to study human flourishing around...
When Dr. Byron Johnson first suggested the idea that is now the Global Flourishing Study, responses from potential collaborators ranged from “a pie in the sky” to “crazy.” Now, it’s being called a...
View ArticleHappy 70th birthday, Armstrong Browning Library!
The first indication a visitor receives that Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library is a special place is the entrance. Bronze doors, each weighing nearly a ton, open slowly as they dramatically reveal...
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