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WACO, Texas (Apr. 28, 2014) - Imagine yourself in wedded bliss, reaching your honeymoon suite—and realizing your new husband plans to end your life by the end of the night. How would you survive?

WACO, Texas (April 28, 2014) – The Baylor University International Studies major recently celebrated its 60th anniversary.

WACO, Texas (April 25, 2014) – Baylor’s Honors College will welcome Brett Foster, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Wheaton College, at 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, in the Beckham Room of the Bill Daniel Student Union Center.

WACO, Texas (April 25, 2014) – Baylor University’s undergraduate scholarly publication, “The Pulse,” will host its annual student lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the Alexander Reading Room to celebrate the publication of its spring edition.

WACO, Texas (April 24, 2014) – The Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University will host a new annual lecture, the Bill and Roberta Bailey Family Lecture in Christian Ethics, named in honor of Bill and Roberta (Hatch) Bailey for their family’s commitment to Baylor, Waco and the church.

WACO, Texas (Apr. 24, 2014) - Baylor Missions was busy living out its purpose over spring break 2014.
At the beginning of what most students utilize as a much-needed week off, 90 dedicated Baylor faculty, students, and staff boarded planes to take helping hands to five global destinations: El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, the Dominican Republic and Eagle Pass, Texas.

WACO, Texas (April 25, 2014) – The Baylor School A Cappella choir and the Baylor Chamber Orchestra will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Requiem Mass” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, for the school’s 111th annual President’s Concert in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave.

WACO, Texas (April, 23, 2014) -- Karla Leeper, Ph.D., vice president of board and executive affairs and chief compliance officer at Baylor University, will be resigning her position at Baylor to become the chief of staff to the President at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Ga.

WACO, Texas (April 23, 2014) – In recognition of the best original films produced by students in Baylor’s Film & Digital Media department this year, the 15th annual Black Glasses Film Festival will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Jones Theatre.

WACO, Texas (April 17, 2014) – Baylor’s Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) will welcome Nick Farah, president of the L-C Platform Systems Sector, at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Baylor Sciences Building, Room B110.

WACO, Texas (April 22, 2014) -- Baylor University is mourning the passing of Daniel B. McGee, Ph.D., professor and Emeritus Melton Endowed Chair of Religion at Baylor University, who died Saturday, April 19, in Waco at the age of 80.

WACO, Texas (April 22, 2014) – In honor of Baylor’s math club becoming a chartered organization on campus for the first time, and in recognition of April as National Mathematics Month, the department of mathematics will host the first annual Mobius Lectures Tuesday through Thursday of this week.

WACO, Texas (April 17, 2014) — Paul La Bounty, Ph.D., associate professor of health, human performance and recreation (HHPR) in the Baylor School of Education, is the recipient of the Collins Outstanding Professor Award for 2014. The Collins Professor is chosen each year by a vote of Baylor’s senior class.

WACO, Texas (April 16, 2014) – In observance of Easter, Baylor University will not hold classes and will close administrative offices Friday, April 18, through Monday, April 21. Other university buildings will have altered hours.

WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014) – It’s not always easy to get first responders and emergency workers to talk candidly about “the job,” particularly something as devastating as the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the City of West in April 2013.

WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014) -- Sung Joon Jang, Ph.D., one of the nation’s preeminent quantitative criminologists, has accepted a post as Research Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior within Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR).

WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014)—Which is better for learning — small groups or full-classroom instruction? Does individual teacher attention really improve a struggling student’s reading? How do you get rambunctious boys to behave?

WACO, Texas (April 14, 2014) – House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Everett, M.Div. ’01, director of the Texas Hunger Initiative at Baylor University, to the National Commission on Hunger.

WACO, Texas (April 14, 2014) –Baylor’s student-run pro-life organization Bears for Life will host David Solomon as he gives his lecture, “Can We Do Without Dignity? Disability, Bioethics, and the War Between Autonomy and Dignity,” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in the Alexander Reading Room.

WACO, Texas (April 11, 2014) – The Institute for Studies of Religion will welcome Ernest Istook at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in the Kayser Auditorium in Hankamer School of Business. He will present his lecture titled “Being an Underdog is a Great Opportunity: An Approach to Life, the Universe…Even Politics.”

WACO, Texas (April 11, 2014) – Fifteen students from Baylor’s Model Organization of American States recently won the presidency of the model for the sixth consecutive year at the Washington Model Organization of American States (WMOAS).

WACO, Texas (April 11, 2014) – The department of philosophy at Baylor University will host Michael Slater, Ph.D., lecturer of theology at Georgetown University, as he gives his lecture “James and Dewey as Theorists of Religion,” at 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Room 108 of Morrison Hall, 1410 S. Fifth St.

WACO, Texas (April 10, 2014) — Baylor University School of Education announced the establishment of two new Professional Development Schools (PDS) in partnership with Midway ISD at Midway Middle School and Spring Valley Elementary, beginning fall 2014.

WACO, Texas (April 10, 2014) — Bryan W. Brooks, Ph.D., professor of environmental science and biomedical studies in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences and director of the environmental science graduate program and the environmental health science program, will lead the research core on a four-year, $4.4 million project aimed at designing chemicals and materials that are less toxic to humans and the environment.

WACO, Texas (April 9, 2014) – Eleven Baylor students claimed the top awards in every division at the recent Howard Payne Model United Nations Security Council simulation at Howard Payne University.

WACO, Texas (April 9, 2014) - Two Baylor University alumni –- the late Judge Jack English Hightower, BA '49, LLB '51, and Ella Wall Prichard, a 1963 Baylor graduate and former member of the Baylor Board of Regents –- were honored April 9 at the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference in San Antonio. Judge Hightower was selected posthumously for Outstanding Services to Libraries Award, while Prichard received the Benefactor Award.

WACO, Texas (April 9, 2014) – Baylor University students and faculty in the Medical Humanities program will gather April 11-12 for the 15th annual Medical Humanities Retreat, long the “spiritual center” of a program that focuses on the sacred nature of a vocation in medicine.

WACO, Texas (April 8, 2014) — Lori Baker, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University, spoke Saturday, April 5 at Amnesty International’s 2014 Human Rights Watch conference in Chicago.

WACO, Texas (April 8, 2014) – It’s a little hard to explain just what Diadeloso is to someone who isn’t an Oso, but it’s more than a day of frivolity and shenanigans on a random Thursday in spring.

WACO, Texas (April 8, 2014) -- Baylor University's Model Arab League (MAL) team won 10 delegate awards – the most for the team in a decade – after participating in the Southwest Model Arab League regional held April 3-5 at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

WACO, Texas (April 7, 2014) -- Baylor University is mourning the passing of longtime Baylor Dining Services staff member Jackie Birdwell. Birdwell, who worked in the SUB for nearly 50 years, died March 31 at the age of 65.

WACO, Texas (April 7, 2014) – Baylor’s department of philosophy will hold the ninth annual Philosophy of Religion Conference from Thursday, April 10, through Saturday, April 12, at the Armstrong Browning Library and the Waco Hilton.

WACO, Texas (April 4, 2014) – The Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) at Baylor University will host Neal Krause, Ph.D., associate chair and the Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor of Health in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, as he lectures at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 8.

WACO, Texas (April 4, 2014) – Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion will dissect a heavily weighted question – “Does the family matter?” – at a symposium on “The Crisis of Faith in Church and Culture” at 9 a.m. until noon Monday, April 7, in the Paul Powell Chapel of Truett Theological Seminary.

WACO, Texas (April 4, 2014) – The Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) at Baylor University and Baylor University Press will co-sponsor a lecture by Jing “Cathy” Zhang, assistant to the director at Renmin University of China’s School of Liberal Arts. Her lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8.

WACO, Texas (April 4, 2014) – The Baylor department of history will welcome Chris Given-Wilson, Ph.D., professor of history at St. Andrews University, at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in Morrison Hall, Room 120.

WACO, Texas (April 3, 2014) - The Baylor Executive MBA program in Austin has announced the expansion of its curriculum to include a healthcare concentration option – one of the first of its kind in Austin. Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2014.

WACO, Texas (April 3, 2014) – Students from the Baylor trumpet studio represented the Bears with great success on March 23 as they earned third place in the trumpet ensemble division at the 2014 National Trumpet Competition.

WACO, Texas (April 3, 2014) -- Ryan S. King, associate professor of biology in Baylor’s College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a $600,000 grant to estimate the appropriate phosphorus level in the Illinois River and nearby rivers and streams and help settle an on-going legal dispute between Oklahoma and Arkansas that reached all the way to the Supreme Court in 1992.

WACO, Texas (April 2, 2014) –Baylor University student organizations will volunteer to work together during Steppin’ Out on Saturday, April 5, to improve Waco through community service.

WACO, Texas (April 2, 2014) – The department of philosophy in Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences will host two lectures Friday, April 4, with University of Georgetown theology professor Erin Cline, Ph.D., and Baylor Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Jonathan Kvanvig, Ph.D.

WACO, Texas (April 1, 2014) – Sponsored by Baylor’s department of classics, The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) will host its annual conference on Baylor’s campus April 2 through 5, including a presentation by Steven Saylor, author of numerous books on classics, including “Raiders of the Nile” and “The Seven Wonders.”

WACO, Texas (April 1, 2014) – In an effort to provide expanded assessment and therapy services for Central Texas children with developmental disabilities, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, Baylor University and McLane Children’s Scott & White today launched the Baylor University Center for Developmental Disabilities (BCDD) during a celebration and open house at the clinic’s new home at Hillcrest MacArthur Center, 2201 MacArthur Dr., in Waco. The ceremony coincided with the first day of National Autism Awareness Month.

WACO, Texas (March 31, 2014) — The 2014 Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State will be held at Baylor University on April 1 and 2, with this year’s speaker to be Michael I. Meyerson, professor and author of Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America.

WACO, Texas (March 31, 2014) -- People who are materialistic are more likely to be depressed and unsatisfied, in part because they find it harder to be grateful for what they have, according to a study by Baylor University researchers.

Media Advisory: WACO, Texas (March 31, 2014) – Baylor University and McLane Children’s Scott & White will host an open house ceremony and tour to launch the Baylor University Center for Developmental Disabilities (BCDD) from 2 to 3 p.m., Tuesday, April 1, at Hillcrest MacArthur Center, 2201 MacArthur Drive, Waco, Texas. The ceremony coincides with the first day of National Autism Awareness Month.

WACO, Texas (March 31, 2014) – “He who controls the media controls the culture.”
So says Ted Baehr, Ph.D., publisher of Movieguide.org, and founder and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission. Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion will host Baehr as he addresses the topic of media’s profound influence in his lecture “Triumphing Over Our Greatest Challenge” at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 2 in the Cox Lecture Hall of Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (March 31, 2014) – Early strengthening activities can lead to a decrease in cardiometabolic health risks in children and adolescents, according to results of a new study by a Baylor University professor and a team of researchers.

WACO, Texas (March 28, 2013)—The 28th annual Northcutt Lecture will present a lecture by teacher, composer and author Carl Schalk, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University, at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 1, in Meadows Recital Hall, in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave.

WACO, Texas (March 28, 2014) – Baylor’s Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Scholars Week will be Monday, March 31, through Thursday, April 3.

WACO, Texas (March 27, 2014) – Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card – the man who whispered the words “America is under attack” to President George W. Bush on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 – will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (March 26, 2014) —The Greater Waco Area Superintendents (GWAS) group, a partnership organized by Baylor University’s School of Education, was recently recognized as an “Exemplary K-12 Partnership” by the Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE).

WACO, Texas (March 26, 2014) – Baylor’s Keston Center for Religion, Politics, & Society will welcome Alexander Ogorodnikov at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 28, in the Carroll Library, Room 316. He will share his experiences of persecution under Russian Communist rule in a lecture titled, “My Experiences as a Religious Dissident in Russia.”

WACO, Texas (March 26, 2014) – Baylor Opera Theater will present a pair of one-act comic operas from England on Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, with both performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Roxy Grove Hall at Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave.

WACO, Texas (March 25, 2014) - On March 27, the Martin Museum of Art will open its annual Baylor Art Student Exhibition, which will feature students’ original work, with a variety of it available for purchase. The exhibition will run through April 15 in the museum, at the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, 60 Baylor Ave.

WACO, Texas (March 24, 2014) – After spending a year immersed in an elementary school getting to know students, teachers and the public school system, journalist Ron Berler believes he knows how to save America’s “failing” schools.

WACO, Texas (March 24, 2014) – The department of English in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences will host the 20th annual Beall Poetry Festival Wednesday, March 26, through Friday, March 28. The three-day celebration of contemporary poets will include readings, a panel discussion and the Virginia Beall Ball Lecture on Contemporary Poetry.

WACO, Texas (March 24, 2014) – Ever wish you could just get your foot in the door at the most profitable companies in the nation? Luckily for Baylor students, companies will bring the door to them at the Marketing and Professional Sales Career Fair Wednesday, March 26, in Room 510 of Cashion Academic Center.

WACO, Texas (March 21, 2014) – The Baylor Honors College will host Graham McAleer, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Maryland, as he presents two lectures Monday, March 24, and Tuesday, March 25.

WACO, Texas (March 21, 2014) – The Baylor School of Music will present the Dean’s Honor Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in Roxy Grove Hall.

WACO, Texas (March 21, 2014) – Speaker, author and teacher Tomi Grover, Ph.D., will speak at Baylor University on March 24 as the final of four speakers in Baylor’s Academy for Leader Development’s Leadership Lecture Series.

WACO, Texas (March 21, 2014) – Baylor Theatre will begin its run of “The Learned Ladies” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25.

WACO, Texas (March 20, 2014)-- Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken Starr announced today the appointment of members of the University’s Provost Search Committee. The Committee is charged with leading the global search to identify the University’s next Provost.

WACO, Texas (March 19, 2014) – Two years ago this month, Baylor University received a visionary gift from distinguished Baylor alumnus and philanthropist Drayton McLane Jr., BBA ’58, and his family to initiate fundraising to support an ambitious dream: a $260 million on-campus football stadium alongside the scenic Brazos River. That single transformational gift – at the time the largest capital gift in University history – initiated unprecedented momentum and launched a fundraising effort that has resulted in record-shattering financial support of Baylor benefiting all areas of the University, from academics to athletics.

WACO, Texas (March 19, 2014) – The 2014 Baptist General Convention of Texas’ Women in Ministry Conference will be held on Monday, March 24, in George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University, with the theme “Embracing Leadership.”

WACO, Texas (March 18, 2014) – A small, unobtrusive plaque hangs outside the doors of George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Many pass it daily as they go to and from the classes, chapels and offices inside. But the plaque holds great significance for Truett, a testimony to its care for the environment.

WACO, Texas (March 18, 2014) – The Baylor University department of history will welcome the Rev. Bill Miscamble, Ph.D., at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20 to present his lecture titled, “Roosevelt, Truman and the Revolution in American Foreign Policy: How it Happened and Why it Still Matters,” in Tidwell Bible Building, Room 209.

WACO, Texas (March 17, 2014) – Mark Hurd, BBA ’79, President and Board Member of Oracle Corp., will deliver the keynote address on “Big Data in a Shrinking World” on Wednesday, March 19, during the eighth annual Global Business Forum sponsored by Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business and the McBride Center for International Business. Hurd’s presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business, 1401 S. Fifth St., on the Baylor campus.

WACO, Texas (March 17, 2014) — More than 40 percent of pregnant low-income women discharged from the hospital after a diagnosis of false or early labor did not want to be sent home, with the most common reasons being that they were in too much pain or lived too far away, according to a study by Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON) and Parkland Health & Hospital System.

WACO, Texas (March 14, 2014) – Baylor’s departments of classics, religion, English and Great Texts will host a lecture Tuesday, March 18, by Oliver Nicholson, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s department of classical and near eastern studies.

WACO, Texas (March 14, 2014) – Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion will host “Remembering Armageddon: A Symposium Commemorating the First World War, 1914-2014” on Wednesday, March 19, in the Armstrong Browning Library.

WACO, Texas (March 14, 2014) – The Church Music Forum in Baylor’s Center for Christian Music Studies will host Diane Greene, executive director of worship, music and fine arts at the First Presbyterian Church of Houston, at 6 p.m. Monday, March 17.

WACO, Texas (March 12, 2014) – Tony Talbert, Ph.D., professor in the Baylor School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, received the McGraw Hill Distinguished Scholar Award in recognition of his career of scholarly contributions to qualitative and ethnographic research.

WACO, Texas (March 11, 2014) -- Baylor University graduate programs in law, business, health disciplines, the sciences and education were among those nationally ranked in the 2015 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings.

WACO, Texas (March 7, 2014) - Baylor University today announced a variety of gifts made by alumni and friends to create the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium, an on-campus, $18.1-million facility whose final design and construction were approved in October by Baylor’s Board of Regents.

WACO, Texas (March 8, 2014) – In celebration of March as the month of Texas’ independence, Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum Complex will offer special events and activities from 1 to 3 p.m. every day during Spring Break, March 10 through 14, in the Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village.

In conjunction with National School Breakfast Week (March 3-7, 2014), the Texas Hunger Initiative, based out of the Baylor University School of Social Work, has released the second edition of its Texas School Breakfast Report Card. The report demonstrates what participation in school breakfast programs looks like across the state, as school officials try to create a healthy, hunger-free learning environment for students.

WACO, Texas (Mar. 3, 2014) - Pastor "Bob" Xiqiu Fu, who Christianity Today calls "probably the world's best-known Chinese Christian," will speak at Baylor University on March 4 as the third of four speakers in Baylor's Academy for Leader Development's Leadership Lecture Series.

WACO, Texas (March 2, 2014) – Because of icy conditions on local roads, bridges and overpasses, Baylor University will delay opening until 10 a.m. Monday, March 3, 2014.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 28, 2014) – The Baylor department of history will welcome Katherine French, Ph.D., the J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of Medieval English History at the University of Michigan, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Morrison Hall, Room 100.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 28, 2014) – With the countless genres of modern music available to listeners today, music of the Renaissance era can easily become buried under current top hits. There are some groups who aim to keep that music alive, however, and the Baylor School of Music will welcome world-renowned Piffaro, The Renaissance Band at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Roxy Grove Hall.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 28, 2014) – The Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion will welcome Bishop Daniel E. Flores of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, as he presents his lecture, “The Church, The State and the Shifting Dynamics of Public Secularity,” Monday, March 3.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 27, 2014) - Baylor University today announced the appointment of Mark A. Newton, BA '85, senior pastor at First Baptist Church of San Marcos, as director for church engagement in the University's Division of Constituent Engagement. He will begin his new duties at Baylor on March 19.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 27, 2014) - Roger E. Kirk, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Master Teacher in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences and recipient of the 2012 Cornelia Marschall Smith Award, will present his lecture, "What I Have Learned About Teaching Statistics," in honor of the award on Friday, Feb. 28.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) -- To better their survival chances, entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses in rural areas must successfully pitch their ventures to "faraway, unknown banking officials" rather than relying on local lenders as in the past, according to a Baylor University study.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) - Baylor University is mourning the passing of Fred S. Hulme Jr., senior lecturer in information systems in the Hankamer School of Business, who died Feb. 23. Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church, 1300 Columbus Ave. in Waco, with Dr. Byron Weathersbee officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, at Oakcrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) -- Lori Spies, R.N., a nurse practitioner and senior lecturer in Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON) in Dallas, has been named one of 24 registered nurses chosen for D Magazine's third annual Excellence in Nursing Awards.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) - Baylor University's department of multicultural affairs will sponsor the culminating event for its celebration of Black History Month -- The Evolution of Black History Culture Show -- from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) - The Baylor Society for Early Christianity (BSEC), a student organization within Baylor's department of religion, will present a panel discussion and lecture on Emperor Constantine's role in religious history. The panel will be at 4 p.m. Thursday, February 27, in Kayser Auditorium in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2014) - The Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER) at Baylor University will host its spring seminar series on Feb. 28, March 4 and April 4.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 24, 2014) - Baylor University is mourning the passing of faithful friend and alumnus Joe E. Baxter of Waco, who died Feb. 22 at his residence.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 24, 2014)–Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business will host the third annual New Venture Competition Feb. 28 to March 1. The New Venture Competition is a national, two-day, dual round business plan competition for students.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 21, 2014) - He has been called "The Most Important Coach in America." He is one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America, was named Syracuse University's Most Distinguished Alumni and was the Colts Man of the Year.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 21, 2014) - The Baylor department of art and the Martin Museum of Art will present three short faculty lectures at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, Lecture Hall 149.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 21, 2014) -- "My Life in the Freedom Struggle: An Incomplete Odyssey," a Black History Month lecture by political scientist and civil rights activist Leslie Burl McLemore, Ph.D., will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, in Morrison Hall, Room 120.

WACO, Texas and DALLAS (Feb. 20, 2014) - Baylor University today announced that it will make its renowned MBA program available online beginning this May. Applications for the program are currently being accepted.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 19, 2014) - Baylor University's department of multicultural affairs and the Big 12 Council on Black Student Leadership will host the One for All Soiree Gala from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in the banquet room on the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Building.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 19, 2014) - The Center for Christian Music Studies at Baylor University will host one of the five 2014 Festival of Youth Choirs Friday, Feb. 21, through Sunday, Feb. 23, sponsored by the organization YouthCUE.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 18, 2014) - A Baylor tradition since 1953, All University Sing is one of the most anticipated events on campus for students, faculty and alumni each year. This year's event - held Feb. 20-22, 27-28 and March 1 - features seven-minute, Broadway-style acts from 19 student organizations, all competing for the highly coveted first, second or third place awards.

WACO, Texas (Feb. 19, 2014) -- Vivian Gamblian, RN, MSN, coordinator of simulation at Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas has been selected through competitive application for the year-long Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators.