Baylor in the News – May 29-June 4, 2022
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WACO, Texas (June 5, 2022) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on the art of teaching students how to bring landscapes to life on canvas, a pilot program that fully offsets the cost of milk for customers using SNAP and the future of food, including prescription diets.
June 1, 2022
Waco Tribune-Herald: Linda Livingstone: Marking 5 years in Waco, my hometown
President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., reflects on her life at Baylor and in Waco after returning as president of the university on June 1, 2017. “I am so proud to call Waco home, and I look forward to deepening my ties to this dynamic, growing city in the years to come.”
June 2, 2022
The New York Times: SPACs Were All the Rage. Now, Not So Much.
Mike Stegemoller, Ph.D., The Harriette L. and Walter G. Lacy Jr. Chair of Banking and Finance, is quoted in this article about SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies), which have been the preferred way for companies to go public, but Wall Street is losing its appetite due to changing market conditions and the threat of regulation.
Chromatography Online: Elyssia Gallagher and Coauthors Named Recipients of the 2022 Ron Hites Award
Elyssia Gallagher, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, along with her coauthors O. Tara Liyanage, Ana V. Quintero and Jacob B. Hatvany, are the 2022 recipients of the ASMS Ron Hites Award, which recognizes annually an exemplary paper published in the previous two volumes of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS).
Institute for Public Relations: Making a Great Leader: Servant Leadership and Ethics of Care
Marlene S. Neill, Ph.D., an associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media at Baylor who researches ethics, internal communication and public relations leadership, co-authored a recent study on the concepts of servant leadership and ethics of care, which stress the value of interpersonal relationships, listening to others and empathy and are critical to public relations practice.
June 3, 2022
Baylor Connections: Winter Rusiloski
AUDIO: From stark renderings of the Texas desert to soaring mountain scenes, Winter Rusiloski brings landscapes to life on canvas. Rusiloski serves as associate professor of painting in Baylor’s Department of Art and Art History and is an award-winning professional painter. In this Baylor Connections, she discusses the scenes that draw her to paint and examines the meaning of teaching the art to students.
Waco Tribune-Herald: Jubilee Market pilot program makes milk more accessible for SNAP participants
Jubilee Food Market, a nonprofit grocery store sponsored by Mission Waco, is launching a pilot program in partnership with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty that fully offsets the cost of milk for customers using SNAP. Quoted in the article is Jeremy Everett, executive director and founder of Baylor Collaborative.
WebMD: The Future of Food: Still Too Soon? Personalized Diets
James Marcum, Ph.D., professor of philosophy who researches the philosophy and history of science and medicine, is quoted in this article about precision nutrition (sometimes called “personalized nutrition”), which uses artificial intelligence and data collected from other people to predict how your body will react to specific foods.
WebMD: The Future of Food: In the Future, Will You Get Food by Prescription?
James Marcum, Ph.D., professor of philosophy who researches the philosophy and history of science and medicine, is quoted in this article about a growing movement to approach food as if it were literal medicine by tailoring meals to treat specific conditions, providing prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables, and improving the nutrient content of the food we eat.
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