WACO, Texas (April 8, 2015) – "Victoria" and other advanced medical simulators will be on hand at Baylor University’s main campus in Waco Thursday and Friday, April 9-10, at Teal Residential College in Baylor’s East Village.

WACO, Texas (April 7, 2015) – Baylor University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science has received a grant from Halliburton to develop a “Ladies and Legos” program that engages women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields to encourage and empower young women in college through active dialogue and community support.

WACO, Texas (April 7, 2015) – Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences will present a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and Humanities Symposium from 12:30-5 p.m. Thursday, April 9, on the fifth floor of Cashion Academic Center.

WACO, Texas (April 2, 2015) — Renowned international preacher and minister Joel C. Gregory, Ph.D., professor of preaching at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary, will give two Easter Sunday sermons at Kensington Temple London City Church, the largest church congregation in London.

WACO, Texas (April 2, 2015) – Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary will present its annual Parchman Endowed Lecture Series on Tuesday, April 7, and Wednesday, April 8, in the Paul W. Powell Chapel. The topic of the lecture series is “Friendships in the Kingdom: Missional Practice in the 20th Century World Christianity.”

WACO, Texas (April 1, 2015) – Baylor University today announced a lead gift by Louise “Lou” Herrington Ornelas of Tyler, Texas, that made possible the purchase of the Baptist General Convention of Texas building in Dallas for use as the new home for Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. Baylor will begin plans to renovate the facility, to be named the Louise Herrington Nursing School Building, to house the outstanding academic programs and simulation training for which the School is nationally recognized.

WACO, Texas (April 1, 2015) – In honor of the Easter holiday Sunday, April 5, Baylor University will shut down classes and administrative offices beginning Friday, April 3, through Monday, April 6.

WACO, Texas (March 27, 2015) – Three preeminent scholar/teachers from U.S. universities have been selected as finalists for Baylor University's 2016 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award – with the single largest monetary reward of $250,000 – presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching.

WACO, Texas (March 27, 2015) – Lidija Novakovic, Ph.D., an associate professor in Baylor University’s department of religion in the College of Arts & Sciences, will present a lecture titled “The Story of a Missing Body: The New Testament Accounts of the Discovery of the Empty Tomb” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Miller Chapel located inside Tidwell Bible Building.

WACO, Texas (March 27, 2015) – The 29th Annual Northcutt Lecture will feature a talk by Ruth Duck, Ph.D., hymn writer and professor of worship at Northwestern University’s Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Duck will give a lecture titled, “Sing Praise, Sing Lament, Sing Joy: The Psalms As Congregational Song” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the McLean Foyer of Meditation of Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (March 26, 2015) – Reformed Swiss theologian Karl Barth can be counted as one of the great minds of Protestant theology in the 20th Century.

WACO, Texas (March 25, 2015) - Baylor University’s department of communication sciences and disorders in the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences will welcome deaf education scholar Jean Andrews, Ph.D., for lectures at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Cowden Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.

WACO, Texas (March 24, 2015) – The annual Baylor Art Student Exhibition will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the Martin Museum of Art.

WACO, Texas (March 23, 2015) – The Jewish State: redemption or quagmire?
That is the question Allan Arkush, Ph.D., professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, will address in his lecture from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in Draper Room 139.

WACO, Texas (March 23, 2015) – Baylor University’s department of English in the College of Arts & Sciences will welcome renowned poets to the 21st annual Beall Poetry Festival from Wednesday, March 25, to Friday, March 27.

WACO, Texas (March 20, 2015) – It was the 1850s – only a few years after the first women’s rights convention – when Sallie McNeill enrolled at Baylor University as one of its first female students.

WACO, Texas (March 20, 2015) – Baylor University’s School of Music will present its annual Dean’s Honor Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, in Roxy Grove Hall.

WACO, Texas (March 20, 2015) – Baylor University’s department of religion in the College of Arts & Sciences will welcome church historian Bill Leonard, Ph.D., to present a lecture at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Kayser Auditorium.

WACO, Texas (March 19, 2015) – Following a nine-month national search, Baylor University Provost and Executive Vice President David E. Garland, Ph.D., has announced the appointment of Michael K. McLendon, Ph.D., as dean of Baylor’s School of Education.

WACO, Texas (March 17, 2015) — A new youth worship leader camp featuring renowned musicians David Crowder, Robbie Seay, Shaun Groves and Leslie Jordan will be held concurrently with this summer’s Alleluia Conference at Baylor University.

WACO, Texas (March, 17 2015) – Baylor University’s Honors College and Great Texts Program will welcome Millicent Marcus, Ph.D., to the Pence Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in the Alexander Reading Room.

WACO, Texas (March 17, 2015) – Kendall N. Houk, Ph.D., Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present this year’s Gooch-Stephens Lecture Series from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, and from 3:30 to 4:30 Friday, March 20, in the Baylor Science Building Room B110.

WACO, Texas (March 16, 2015) – Growing up in the Lone Star State, one is bound to known plenty about Texas history, but what about the women in the story?

WACO, Texas (March 12, 2015) — “Remembering Genocide” — a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide that left some 1.5 million people dead when the Ottoman Turkish Empire decided to annihilate Christian minorities — will be held at Baylor University on March 16 and 17.

WACO, Texas (March 12, 2015) – Baylor University’s Honors College will welcome Stephen Chapman, Ph.D., for a lecture on historical interpretations of the Bible at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in Miller Chapel.

WACO, Texas (March 12, 2015) — Global Religious Freedom Summit, a panel discussion featuring Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken Starr, former Congressman Frank Wolf and Bob Fu, president and founder of the China Aid Association, will be hosted by Baylor China Aid from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Kayser Auditorium of Hankamer School of Business.

WACO, Texas (March 11, 2015) – Baylor’s Honors College will show the Italian film “We Have a Pope” (2011) from 7-9 p.m. Monday, March 16, in the Alexander Reading Room in Alexander Residence Hall.

WACO, Texas (March 11, 2015) – The ninth annual Global Business Forum, presented by the McBride Center for International Business in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, will be held March 16 to 20, and will examine "The Global Classroom: Issues in International Education."

WACO, Texas (March 10, 2015) – Baylor University graduate programs in law, business, health disciplines, the sciences and education were among those nationally ranked in the 2016 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings.

WACO, Texas (March 5, 2015) – In partnership with the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America project, Baylor Bookstore will host an in-store celebration of Dr. Seuss Day on Friday, March 6. Read Across America’s Dr. Seuss Day is an annual event held to encourage reading with younger children by celebrating the birthday of famous children’s book author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel.

WACO, Texas (March 5, 2015) – Because of inclement weather conditions, Baylor University will delay opening until 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 5, 2015. Classes will begin and Baylor offices will open at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Baylor Law School classes will begin at 9:15 a.m. Thursday.

WACO, Texas (March 3, 2015) – David DiPasquale, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor in the department of political science and Islamic civilization and societies program at Boston College, will share his lecture "Alfarabi in Thirty Words: An Introduction to his Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle" from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Cox Lecture Hall of Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (March 3, 2015) – The Baylor University Women’s Choir and female vocalists from local high schools will join talents as part of the 11th annual Women’s Choir Festival Concert at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in Jones Concert Hall.

WACO, Texas (March 2, 2015) - Baylor University’s Department of Communication in the College of Arts & Sciences will welcome Claire Sisco King, Ph.D., to present a lecture titled “Mapping the Stars: Celebrity and the Politics of Metonymy” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Castellaw Communications Center Room 101.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 27, 2015) - Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON) has received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to partner with Baylor Scott & White Health North and Baylor Institute of Rehabilitation to develop, test and validate an evaluation model to measure geriatric competencies.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 27, 2015)–Abdul M. Saadi, Ph.D., assistant professor of Arabic in Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences, will bring to life the thoughts and teachings of 9th-century exegete and apologist Moshe Bar Kepha at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Cox Lecture Hall in Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 26, 2015) — Let the games begin.
Baylor University's entrepreneurship program is preparing to host its Fourth Annual Baylor New Venture Competition Friday, Feb. 27 to Saturday, Feb. 28.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 26, 2015) – Baylor University’s Academy for Leader Development will welcome Bryan Stevenson, J.D., founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, for its annual lecture series at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Waco Hall.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2015) – Following a six-month search that drew interest throughout the country from nationally known biblical scholars, seasoned administrators and prominent Texas Baptists, Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken Starr has announced the appointment of New Testament scholar Todd D. Still, Ph.D., as the fifth dean of Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2015) – Baylor University’s Honors College and the Paradosis Center for Theology and Scripture at John Brown University will welcome Brian E. Daley, Ph.D., S.J., endowed professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, to the annual Wilken Colloquium.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2015) – It seems only appropriate for one great man to honor another.

Jerome McGann, Ph.D., University Professor and John Stuart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will be the keynote speaker in a celebration of the career and legacy of former Baylor professor of English Clement Goode, Ph.D., at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, in the McLean Foyer of Meditation in Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 24, 2015) – Baylor University’s Keston Center for Religion, Politics and Society will host a lecture and panel discussion titled “Defenders of the Faith: Then and Now” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Baylor’s Michael Bourdeaux Research Center. The event will focus on how the history of Eastern European religious persecution applies to current events.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 23, 2015) – Baylor University will close early at 1:15 p.m. today (Monday, Feb. 23, 2015) because of inclement weather conditions. Offices will be closed, and all classes after 1:15 p.m. have been canceled. The 2:15 p.m. class at Baylor Law School will be held as scheduled. However, all classes at the law school after 2:15 pm. have been canceled.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 23, 2015) – Because of icy conditions on local roads, bridges and overpasses, Baylor University will delay opening until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. All Baylor offices will open at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, and classes will begin at 9:30 a.m. Classes at Baylor Law School will begin at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Former reporter Macarena Hernández, whose work was plagiarized, will speak about her experience
WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2015) — The documentary “A Fragile Trust” tells the story of the biggest plagiarism scandal in the history of The New York Times, and Macarena Hernández, now the Fred Hartman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Baylor University, is the reporter whose work was plagiarized.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2015) – Julia Hejduk, Ph.D., professor of classics in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, spends a lot of time with dead people.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2015) – Baylor’s School of Music will welcome one of the world’s most widely celebrated ensembles, the Takács Quartet, and violist Lawrence Power to its Distinguished Artist Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Roxy Grove Hall.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2015) – Located in the heart of Dallas, Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing will host its fourth annual “Going for the Gold Gala” at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Hilton Anatole.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 18, 2015) – Baylor University is mourning the passing of Baylor Law School Professor Matt Dawson, a towering figure in the Texas legal profession and a cherished member of the Baylor Law School family. Dawson died Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the age of 98.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 17, 2015) – Spring 2015 is here, which means All-University Sing has a new repertoire of song and dance. Performances will take place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19-28 in Waco Hall.

Marketing and sales executives from the Dallas Cowboys will take part in a Q&A panel discussion at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Kayser Auditorium, located in Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. The event is free and open to the public.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 13, 2015) – Color does not define people; their actions are what leave a legacy.

Join Baylor’s Department of Multicultural Affairs in celebrating Black History Month 2015 throughout the month of February. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Black is My Color, Not My Story.”

WACO, Texas (Feb. 13, 2015) —International Justice Mission Vice President of Mobilization Bill Clark will speak at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, in Cashion Academic Center’s fifth floor banquet room as part of Baylor’s Academy for Leader Development lecture series.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 13, 2015) – At its regular February meeting, Baylor University’s Board of Regents voted to approve a new Ed.D. in K-12 Educational Leadership and authorized $31 million to refurbish Penland Hall, renovate Memorial Dining Hall and expand the Baylor Energy Complex and Electrical Substation to meet the campus energy needs of the future.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 12, 2015) – Baylor University’s Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir will present its annual Gospel Fest at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in Waco Hall.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 12, 2015) — Love will be in the air at Armstrong Browning Library come Valentine’s Day. The library will host its Seventh Annual Valentine’s Day Extravaganza, “Angelic Remembrances,” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in the McLean Foyer of Meditation.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 11, 2015) – What happens when a group of humanities students retreat?
They advance towards the big issues.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 10, 2015) – Baylor Law School presents its 10th annual People’s Law School, a free half-day curriculum of courses designed to educate the public about their legal rights and to make the law user-friendly. Courses begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at Baylor Law School. Registration is available online.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 10, 2015) - For the 11th consecutive year, the student-managed Philip M. Dorr Alumni & Friends Endowed Investment Fund has provided a generous financial contribution for student scholarships. This year, $150,000 will be distributed by the fund.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 9, 2015) – I see London, I see France. Baylor presents “The Underpants.”
Baylor Theatre Arts presents comedian Steve Martin’s “The Underpants,” an adaptation of a 1911 German farce playing off one housewife’s royally public wardrobe malfunction. “The Underpants” will show at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10-14 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15 at the Mabee Theatre in Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 9, 2015) – In honor of the thousands of cookbooks in its archives, The Texas Collection at Baylor University will host "Cooking in Texas," a panel discussion exploring Texas food and cuisine, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, in Bennett Auditorium.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 9, 2015) – The public will have a rare opportunity to view historical 19th-century documents that belonged to Baylor University's namesake and co-founder Judge R.E.B. Baylor during a ceremony at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Jim Kronzer Appellate Advocacy Classroom and Courtroom at Baylor Law School.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 6, 2015) – Beginning at 6 p.m., the lights atop Baylor University's Pat Neff Hall tower will be illuminated red, instead of the traditional green, in support of the American Heart Association's National Wear Red Day and the Go Red for Women campaign.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 5, 30) – Don’t be fooled by the title, “Sacred Harp Sing.”
The annual sing event is not centered on a stringed instrument, but rather a shape-noted hymnal book dating back to the mid-1840s titled, “The Sacred Harp.” Hosted by Baylor’s Center for Christian Music Studies, the annual Baylor Sacred Harp sing will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in the Great Hall of George W. Truett Theological Seminary.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 4, 2015) – Baylor University’s Department of Physics in partner with Meera Chandrasekhar, Ph.D., the 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Professor at Baylor, have organized a series of public science talks on Thursday nights at the Mayborn Museum Complex. The talks will take place at 7 p.m. beginning Thursday, Feb. 5, through Thursday, April 30.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 3, 2015) – The vision behind the Marketing and Professional Selling (MAPS) Professional Development Program (PDP), offered in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, is to prepare students for a successful college-to-career transition.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 3, 2015) – The Mayborn Museum Complex will host a presentation of “The Buffalo and Horse in the Southern Plains Culture” with Larry Belitz, a Plains Indian material culture consultant at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, and at 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, to celebrate the museum’s 10th anniversary.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 3, 2015) – In honor of Black History Month, the Baylor University’s department of history will host scholar Debbie Z. Harwell, Ph.D., managing editor for Houston History magazine. Harwell will present a lecture based on her book, “Wednesdays in Mississippi: White Gloves and Quiet Power as Catalysts for Change,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, in Morrison Hall, Room 120.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 3, 2015) – Baylor University’s Honors Residential College will present its spring Formation Series beginning Feb. 5, welcoming distinguished guest speakers who will explore what it means to be formed as a whole person.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 2, 2015) – Baylor University President Ken Starr will welcome Catholic University of America President John Garvey and Yeshiva University President Richard Joel for an “On Topic” conversation on the “The State of Higher Education: The Calling of Faith-Based Universities” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2015) – The Baylor School of Music will host the 38th annual Lyceum Series this spring, offering the Baylor community the opportunity to participate in a program of mini-residencies by some of the nation’s leading musical authorities.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2015) – “I wanted to tell a story that would help regular people and policy makers look at the people who are suffering in the crisis and ask themselves ‘Are the immigrants dying equal human beings with us?’”

WACO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2015) – Baylor University School of Music will present the 21st annual Midwinter Organ Conference, “The American Organist,” Sunday, Feb. 1, to Tuesday, Feb. 3, in various performance halls on campus.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 28, 2015) – Baylor University’s Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER) will welcome several distinguished guest speakers as part of its spring seminar series.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2015) – Baylor Opera Theater will raise the curtain on the Italian classic “Elixir of Love” for its first production of the year. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, and run through Saturday, Jan. 31, in the Jones Theater located inside the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2015) – The Baylor University Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), Baylor’s department of religion and Baylor University Press will welcome Carolyn Osiek, Ph.D., the Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament emerita at Brite Divinity School, to speak as part of the OVPR Colloquium Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, in Miller Chapel.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2015) – What defines a Christian marriage?
According to A.G. Roeber, Ph.D., professor of early modern history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, the answer goes deeper than “with God as my witness.”

WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2015) -- THIS MATTERS, a series of dialogues at Baylor University that connect leaders from diverse perspectives to offer context to society's most challenging questions, will explore the intersection of freedom of speech, religion and the role of satire in society during a panel discussion at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, in the SUB Den.

MCKINNEY, Texas (Jan. 26, 2015) – Baylor University and Collin College today announced the creation of a formal Baylor Bound transfer agreement that will help students transfer more easily between the two institutions and expand educational opportunities for young people all across Texas.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 23, 2015) — Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary has been awarded a $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. as part of the Endowment’s “Initiative to Strengthen the Quality of Preaching.”

WACO, Texas (Jan. 23, 2015) – What do a French writer and a French king have in common?

WACO, Texas (Jan. 22, 2015) – Baylor University’s Department of Spiritual Life looks forward to welcoming noteworthy guests to chapel services this spring.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 22, 2015) -- As a part of Baylor’s Department of Physics 2015 Spring Physics Colloquium Series, two visiting lecturers will speak about string theory and nanophotonics.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 22, 2015) – Baylor University will welcome alumnus (David) Crowder and the Crowder Neon Steeple Tour to Waco Hall at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 8.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 19, 2015) – Baylor University announced today that former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, who represented Virginia’s 10th District in Congress from 1981 until his retirement on Jan. 3, has been named the Jerry and Susie Wilson Chair in Religious Freedom.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 16, 2015) – The Martin Museum of Art will present works by Karl Umlauf, a Baylor University art professor and Artist-in-Residence, from Tuesday, Jan. 20, through Sunday, March 1.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 16, 2015) – He had a dream. Even so many years later, Martin Luther King Jr.’s contagious vision of human rights and equality continues to inspire and uplift. In honor of Dr. King, Baylor University along with local organizations will be hosting a series of events to celebrate and memorialize his life and legacy.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 15, 2015)—Summoning Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 13, 2015) — Baylor University is mourning the passing of Ralph Storm, a distinguished alumnus, former Trustee/Regent and Founders Medallion recipient, who with his late wife, Jean, lived a life devoted to God, each other, their family and alma mater. Ralph Storm died Jan. 7 in California.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 9, 2015) — Baylor University and President Ken Starr will host a luncheon conversation among Central Texas superintendents and local pastors to explore the ways pastors can support local teachers and schools and advocate for high-quality public education in their communities and across Texas. The event will take place at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary, located at 1100 S. Third Street.

WACO, Texas (Jan. 5, 2015) – Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex will host Scholastic’s “The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm” traveling exhibit Jan. 17-April 12, 2015.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 28, 2014) -- Baylor University is mourning the passing of Dr. Randy Lofgren, B.M.Ed. ’62, M.M. ’70 and Ed.D. ’74, retired associate vice president of constituent engagement, who died Dec. 26 at the age of 74. A memorial service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Calvary Baptist Church, 1001 North 18th A Street in Waco, with Dr. Randall O'Brien officiating.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 23, 2014) – To commemorate the Baylor Bears’ recent Big 12 Championship and upcoming trip to the 79th Goodyear Cotton Bowl, the Baylor Bookstore and Bruiser’s Locker Room have released a fresh assortment of official Big 12 Championship and Cotton Bowl merchandise. The collection includes new t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, hats and more for men, women and children. To maximize fan access, the collection also will be available on the bookstore’s website as well as at the Cotton Bowl.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 22, 2014) – Following a global search led by a committee representing Baylor University faculty, staff and students, Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr today announced the appointment of Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H., dean and professor of epidemiology in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University and professor of neurology and pediatrics at SLU’s School of Medicine, as executive vice president and provost.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 18, 2014) – Baylor University today announced a $2 million gift from Jerry and Susie Wilson of Dallas that will establish an endowed chair in religious freedom to support the University’s educational mission and its Institute for Studies of Religion.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 11, 2014) – As 2014 comes to a close, so does time for many students at Baylor University. For those graduating from Baylor and George W. Truett Theological Seminary this winter, commencement ceremonies will take place Dec. 19 and 20.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 10, 2014) - In observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, Baylor University facilities will have altered hours and administrative offices will be closed Dec. 24-Jan.4.

WACO, Texas (December 9, 2014) – Do you believe in the Ghost of Christmas Past?

WACO, Texas (Dec. 5, 2014) – The Baylor Wind Ensemble is experiencing a busy end to its semester as the group prepares for an upcoming four-state tour and culminating performance at The Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference hosted in Chicago.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 5, 2014) – The Mayborn Museum will welcome the Central Texas Area Model Railroaders (CentraMod) and their trains for the “All Aboard the Mayborn Express” exhibit from Dec. 7 through Jan. 5, 2015.