WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2012) - Baylor University has enrolled 15,364 students in fall 2012, the university's largest overall enrollment in its 167-year history, as well as another high-achieving and near-record freshman class, according to official 12th-day enrollment statistics compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Testing.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2012) - Baylor University's Law School will begin operating a clinic to assist those who may be eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. An estimated 150,000 young unauthorized immigrants in Texas are eligible for relief from immediate deportation.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 29, 2012) - Baylor University today celebrated the midpoint of construction on the Jim and Nell Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center with a "Topping Out" ceremony at the site of the new facility. Made a reality through a generous lead gift from Waco residents Jim and Nell Hawkins, the center will propel the Baylor Tennis program to new heights.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 21, 2012) - Baylor University scientists are developing a soils database that will help geologists and soil scientists to more quickly and accurately analyze data from fossilized soils to determine and reconstruct ancient climates.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 15, 2012) - In East Africa, the complex interaction of geologic processes and climatic changes over the past 35 million years have shaped the extraordinary diversification of over 2,000 species of cichlid fish in Lakes Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 16, 2012) -- New school meal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have prompted schools to hire chefs, enlist parents and communities for input, and recruit students to do food tastings, said a Baylor University dietitian and past chair of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics legislative and public policy committee.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 14, 2012) -- Baylor University announced today a gift in excess of $7 million from the estate of esteemed economist, educator and civil servant Dr. Richard Benjamin Goode of Washington, D.C., which primarily will benefit the Richard and Liesel Goode Endowed Academic Scholarship Fund.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 10, 2012) -- A new political ad by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in which he accuses President Obama of "waging war on religion," is an opening salvo in religious rhetoric that likely will escalate as the November election approaches, predicts a Baylor University political expert and author.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 10, 2012) -- Baylor University's on-campus art museum is set to loan a large painting from its collection to The Museum of Russian Art (TMoRA) in Minneapolis, Minn.

WACO, Texas (July 20, 2012) - The Baylor University Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday night to move forward with construction of the University's $250 million football stadium complex, pending a favorable final vote by Waco's City Council on Aug. 7. The Baylor Stadium project is expected to help stimulate riverfront development, revitalize downtown Waco and bring jobs and economic development to the region.

WACO, Texas (July 18, 2012) -- People are more likely to show forgiving behavior if they receive restitution, but they are more prone to report they have forgiven if they get an apology, according to Baylor University research published in the Journal of Positive Psychology.

WACO, Texas (July 18, 2012) -- Fans of Facebook hate groups, while using new media to target President Obama and his family, are relying heavily on old stereotypes of blacks as animalist, evil or shiftless -- including depictions of the President as a chimp or sporting a bandana and a mouth full of gold teeth, according to a Baylor University study.

WACO, Texas (July 10, 2012) -- Paul DuPont -- newly armed with a master's of divinity degree and with experience as an associate pastor under his belt -- turned wrestler during a recent week's visit to Baylor University. That's wrestling as in grappling with the languages of Hebrew and Greek in ancient documents. DuPont was one of 31 international students chosen to attend a summer institute at Baylor University that gave them the chance to examine rare artifacts and texts under the mentorship of leading international scholars.

WACO, Texas (June 9, 2012) -- Dr. Rodney Stark, co-director of Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, has received WORLD Magazine's 2012 Book of the Year Award for The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion.

WACO, Texas (July 4, 2012) - Baylor University postdoctoral research associate Azeddine Kasmi, Ph.D., will present the latest results on the search for the Higgs boson from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment at the International Conference on High Energy Physics currently underway in Melbourne, Australia.

WACO, Texas (July 2, 2012) - Methamphetamine abuse leads to an increase in child abuse and neglect, which causes an increase in foster care admissions, according to a study from Baylor University.

WACO, Texas (June 20, 2012) -Baylor University has created the iCivics Summer Fellowship program sending a professor and two students to Washington, D.C. this week to work with the iCivics national team.

WACO, Texas (June 19, 2012) - Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business has published its latest quarterly Keller Center Research Report, an online source of academic articles focused on residential real estate research and summaries of scholarly journal articles and books relevant for real estate sales agents.

WACO, Texas (June 18, 2012) --In the small Texas town of Del Rio, about five miles from the Mexican border, lies Westlawn Cemetery, a place where the poor and lost are buried in unmarked graves, their identities unknown. A group of Baylor University professors and students hope to give those buried there a name and return them to their loved ones.

WACO, Texas (June 18, 2012) -- Traveling through time and place, Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex will take visitors on an exotic journey and reveal secrets from the ancient Maya this summer.

WACO, Texas (June 14, 2012) - Many churches are missing opportunities to involve Christian women in philanthropy, with ministry leaders too often speaking "man to man" -- despite the fact that women now control more than 51 percent of personal wealth nationally, according to a 2012 national survey.

WACO, Texas (June 13, 2012) - A company's share price and its CEO's compensation can be influenced by third-party endorsements of the CEO, as well as the strategic options, called managerial discretion, that executives have at their disposal to manage the company, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Business Research.

WACO, Texas (June 13, 2012) -- Research into alcohol's effect on juvenile rats shows they have an ability to build up a physical, but not cognitive, tolerance over the short term -- a finding that could have implications for adolescent humans, according to Baylor University psychologists.

WACO, Texas (June 8, 2012) - When George W. Truett Theological Seminary student Matt Oberhelman decided to attend the music mission trip to Malaysia and Hong Kong, he was not quite sure what to expect.

WACO, Texas (June 8, 2012)- Baylor Interior Design Program Coordinator Dr. Adair Bowen's belief that her program is a strong one has been affirmed by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. The Accreditation Commission awarded Baylor's program another six years as an accredited interior design institution.

DALLAS, Texas (June 7, 2012) - Officials from Baylor University and Dallas Baptist University (DBU) announced the creation of a program that will expand nursing education opportunities at Baylor for DBU students.

WACO, Texas (June 4, 2012) -- As voters increasingly rely on websites of presidential primary candidates for news, they run a risk because candidates' online attacks are not vetted through traditional "watchdog journalists" and other gatekeepers to determine accuracy or fairness, according to a study by Baylor University researchers.

WACO, Texas (May 18, 2012) -- How good are married couples at recognizing each other's emotions during conflicts? In general, pretty good, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher. But if your partner is angry, that might tell more about the overall climate of your marriage than about what your partner is feeling at the moment of the dispute.

WACO, Texas (May 17, 2012) - Baylor University announced today that the university has received a major gift from Sheila and Walter Umphrey, BBA '59, JD '65, of Beaumont, for Baylor Stadium, the university's new on-campus football stadium. This generous gift - which ranks among the top 10 capital gifts in university history and top five gifts in Baylor Athletics' history - will support construction of the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Bridge at Baylor Stadium that will be built over the Brazos River, connecting the new stadium with Baylor Law School and the Baylor campus.

WACO, Texas (May 15, 2012) -- Jerry A. Pattengale, Ph.D., a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, has been named the recipient of The IWU (Indiana Wesleyan University) World Changing Faculty Award.

WACO, Texas (May 14, 2011) - Following a nationwide search, Dr. Dennis O'Neal, has been named the new dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. His appointment is effective Aug. 6, 2012.

WACO, Texas (May 11, 2012) -- A restored 1890s community on the Brazos River -- The Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village of Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex -- will re-open on Saturday, May 12, after having undergone a two-year revitalization. Nestled on a hill adjacent to the Mayborn Museum Complex, the Historic Village will offer museum visitors a realistic glimpse into the past.

WACO, Texas (May 11, 2012) - After nearly two years of planning that included the active participation of faculty, students, staff, alumni and a community of friends throughout the nation, Baylor University Regents today unanimously approved a new strategic vision named

WACO, Texas (May 10, 2012) -- Women, listen up: "It's Your Time, " according to the 2012 theme of National Women's Checkup Day on Monday, May 14. But too many busy women don't find the time to care for themselves, says Suzy Weems, Ph.D., a registered dietitian and chair of the department of family and consumer sciences at Baylor University.

WACO, Texas (May 8, 2012) -- Hindu and Buddhist groups have grown steadily in the United States since changes in immigration laws in 1965 and 1992, with particularly high concentrations in Texas, California, the New York Metropolitan Area, Illinois and Georgia, according to a Baylor University professor who helped compile the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census.

WACO, Texas (May 7, 2012) - Bill Clifton, chairman of the Cooper Foundation, today announced an award of $250,000 to Baylor University to construct a microgravity research facility within the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC). The BRIC is the cornerstone building of the research and discovery park under construction by Baylor University and its community stakeholders Texas State Technical College in Waco (TSTC), McLennan County, and the cities of Bellmead and Waco.

WACO, Texas (May 1, 2012) -- Baylor University graduate and actor Elizabeth A. Davis was startled out of a sound sleep in her New York City brownstone on Tuesday morning by her downstairs neighbor. The neighbor had huge news for Davis -- word that the performer had just been nominated for a Tony Award.

WACO, Texas (April 30, 2012) - A standing room-only crowd at Baylor University's Waco Hall enthusiastically greeted retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor - the nation's first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court - as she joined Baylor President Ken Starr for "On Topic," his series of conversations with high-profile leaders on contemporary issues facing the nation.

WACO, Texas (April 25, 2012) --The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium -- a finding that may have implications for humans with damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to memory and learning, according to a Baylor University researcher.

WACO, Texas (April 17, 2012) - What should be a fairy tale day -- a woman's wedding -- could turn into a nightmare for a bride-to-be who goes on new feeding-tube diet to lose 20 pounds fast, says a Baylor University professor who is a former chair of a public policy committee for the American Dietetic Association.

Waco, Texas (April 13, 2012) - Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing is among more than 525 schools of nursing in the United States that have pledged to enhance the quality of health care available to veterans and their families by signing on to support the Joining Forces campaign.

WACO, Texas (April 10, 2012) - One hundred years after Arthur Eldred of New York earned the first Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America, researchers with Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and Program on Prosocial Behavior have released findings from a nationwide, scientific survey that demonstrates the significant, positive impact Eagle Scouts have on society - from holding leadership positions in their workplace and neighborhood to voting and volunteering to protecting the environment and being prepared for emergencies.

Welcome home celebration will be held for Lady Bears Wednesday at the Ferrell Center.

WACO, Texas (March 13, 2012) - Baylor University's Board of Regents announced today that the university has received a leadership gift - the largest capital gift in university history - from Elizabeth and Drayton McLane Jr. for Baylor's new on-campus football stadium alongside the Brazos River. With this naming rights gift, the McLane family asked that the new football facility be named Baylor Stadium. The generous gift will lead on-going fundraising to support stadium construction.