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WACO, Texas (Oct. 8, 2012) - From singing contests to game nights, Baylor's department of multicultural affairs has it all. This year's Hispanic Heritage Month features different events throughout the month of October, all with different types of entertainment.

WACO, Texas (Oct. 5, 2012) - "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." -1 Corinthians 13:13.

WACO, Texas (Oct. 5, 2012) -- Baylor University art and theatre students are joining to re-interpret a 1964 "performance art" by Yoko Ono as a tribute to a work that has been interpreted variously through the decades as anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ageist and -- both during the Vietnam War and in the wake of 9/11 -- as pro-peace.

WACO, Texas (Oct. 3, 2012) - Business Review, a radio production of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University that presents the latest in business trends and research, is being released to the national public radio market after seven years of local broadcast on Baylor's NPR affiliate KWBU-FM 103.3.

WACO, Texas (October 1, 2012)- According to the Centers for Disease Control, "about 1 in 88 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)" and research shows a steady increase in its occurrence. In an effort to provide support for parents and those with ASD, the Baylor Autism Resource Center (BARC) is providing additional services and programs--autism assessment, parent workshops, special education and advocacy services and a support group for those with Asperger's syndrome.

WACO, Texas (Oct. 1, 2012) - From Mount Holyoke after a thunderstorm to the heart of the Andes Mountains, panoramic landscapes are a sight to behold, particularly from an easel. Distinguished guest lecturer Alan Wallach, Ph.D., visits Baylor's Allbritton Art Institute to offer a perspective on the Hudson River School, the first generation of American landscape painters.

WACO, Texas (Oct. 1, 2012) - Keith Devlin, Ph.D., a commentator known as "The Math Guy" on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, will be the guest lecturer for the Fifth Annual Baylor Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor University.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) - Internet marketing and cold calling are among the topics in the fall edition of the Keller Center Research Report, published by Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) - The Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research (CRASR), a partnership between Baylor University and the City of Waco, has announced the guest speakers featured in its Fall 2012 Seminar Series. Lectures will be given at 12:20 p.m. in the Baylor Sciences Building, Room A.108.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) -- Award-winning author Anne Fadiman will be the featured guest for the 2012 Beall-Russell Lecture hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor University at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, in Room 510 in the Cashion Building of the Hankamer School of Business, 1428 S. Fifth St.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) - The Martin Museum of Art will to host two events in October to engage art enthusiasts as part of its "Family and Faith Series," exploring the relationship between families and the spiritual life.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) - Baylor University welcomes John P. Giesy, Ph.D., a world-renowned ecological researcher, for a lecture hosted by the department of environmental science in the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor University and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. The lecture will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, in the Baylor Sciences Building, Room D.109.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) - Baylor welcomes Merold Westphal, Ph.D., to the Fall Philosophy and Religion Colloquium Series. The series is made possible by the generosity of Baylor graduate, Dr. B.R. Eubanks.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 27, 2012) - Yuko Prefume, senior lecturer in the division of Asian and African languages in the department of modern foreign languages in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been selected as the 2012 Texas Foreign Language Association Teacher of the Year in Japanese at the higher education level.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 26, 2012) - The Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research (CASPER) has announced the guest speakers featured in the Fall 2012 Seminar Series. Lectures will be given at 1:30 p.m. in the Baylor Sciences Building, Room E.231, unless otherwise noted.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 26) - The smash-hit musical comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" opens tonight as a cast of more than 20 people indulge audiences in an interactive experience. The "fourth wall" between cast and audience disappears as actors turn out and talk to the conductor or dialogue about how they are actors in a play.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 25, 2012) - The undergraduate entrepreneurship program at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business is ranked No. 2 among the more than 2,000 schools nationwide surveyed by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur Magazine. Baylor was the highest ranked school in Texas.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 24, 2012) -- When people set out on a 2,180-mile trail, they may be looking for recreation, gorgeous landscapes or an escape from day-to-day existence. But the Appalachian Trail, which passes through 14 states from Georgia to Maine, also has become a modern-day pilgrimage rather than a mere journey through the woods.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 24, 2012) -- Moving through the traditional stages of grief can be as unpredictable as playing a pinball machine, with triggers of grief acting like pinball flippers to send a mourner into a rebound rather than an exit, according to a case study by a Baylor University researcher and a psychologist at Brooke Army Medical Center.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 24, 2012) - Joan Breton Connelly, Ph.D., professor of classics at New York University, will present a lecture titled, "The Parthenon Revisited: Daughters, Democracy and the Ultimate Sacrifice."

WACO, Texas (Sept. 24, 2012) - Baylor University will host "OsoSafe," the university's annual Campus Safety and Awareness Day from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, during Dr Pepper Hour in Barfield Drawing Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center. The event will be followed by a "live burn" on Fifth Street of a mock dorm room to demonstrate how quickly a fire can spread in a dorm room setting.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 21, 2012) - The hustle and bustle of junior year brings on many challenges and new opportunities. For David Dreier, opportunities have flourished into great successes.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 20, 2012) - Presidential campaigns of the past come to the forefront again as Baylor University's W.R. Poage Legislative Library opens "Race for the White House," a fascinating exhibit of past presidential campaign materials ranging from campaign buttons to intriguing 3-D materials.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 20, 2012) -- "The Dark Knight and the Saint: Reflections on Batman and St. Augustine" will be the topic of a lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 25, by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D., Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life in Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 19, 2012) - The School of Music at Baylor University will host Latin Grammy award-winning pianist Pablo Ziegler and the Pablo Ziegler Trio as the first performance in this year's Distinguished Artist Series. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, at Roxy Grove Hall in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012) - The Baylor School of Music Lyceum series welcomes internationally acclaimed artists and teachers to share their professional knowledge and skills directly with Baylor students. This semester kicks off with music theorist Robert Gjerdingen.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 19, 2012) - Bipolar disorder has been a difficult and controversial condition to diagnose, particularly in youth. The disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood and energy.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012) - The department of religion at Baylor University will host British theologian Graham Ward, Ph.D., for a special lecture entitled "The City and The Birth of Modern Theology." The event will take place at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 2012 at Miller Chapel in the Tidwell Bible Building 600 Speight Ave.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012): Movies and math collide this Thursday Sept. 20 for a special event hosted by Baylor Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology (BURST) and the Baylor Math Club. Tom Banchoff, Ph.D., is a well-known mathematician specializing in geometry from Brown University, where he has taught since 1967. He will be joined by movie maker Dano Johnson.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012) - "The Cross and the Book," a symposium about higher education and secularization in the 19th century, will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 20, as part of Baylor University's commemoration of the bicentennial of the birth of Robert Browning.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 18, 2012) - Marlan O. Scully, Ph.D., Baylor University Distinguished Researcher and member of the National Academy of Sciences, has been named as the 2012 recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize, the highest award conferred by The Optical Society for his groundbreaking research in quantum optics.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 14, 2012) -- Baylor University and community leaders, former students and generous library supporters gathered together Sept. 14 to dedicate Armstrong Browning Library's "Garden of Contentment," a beautifully landscaped, versatile outdoor gathering space and garden, the final piece in fulfilling Dr. A.J. Armstrong's original vision for the library.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 17, 2012) - The department of spiritual life at Baylor University will host the "Be the Change" Conference beginning Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. This annual student-led event offers the Baylor community a perspective on mission activities in the world through keynote speakers, breakout sessions, guest mission practitioners, missions organizations, cross-culture events and other learning opportunities.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 17, 2012) - Gregory Leman, Ph.D., has been named director of Baylor University's Innovative Business Accelerator (IBA), which helps new technology companies grow their business more rapidly by taking advantage of the University's research and academic intellectual capital.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 13, 2012) - Ever since the Enlightenment, Western Christians have striven to come to terms with modern science, to understand the impact of advances in geology, astronomy and higher criticism of Scripture, and to assess how to incorporate those insights into education.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 14, 2012) -- C. Stephen Evans, Ph.D., University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University, has won first prize in the C.S. Lewis Book Prize Competition, awarded for the best book published in the philosophy of religion or philosophical theology written for a general audience in the last five years.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2012) - Creation and evolution, earthquakes, and soil databases are among the topics that Baylor University's department of geology will discuss this fall. The Geology 5050 Colloquium Series begins this Friday Sept. 14.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 13, 2012) - Baylor University President Ken Starr will welcome renowned constitutional law scholar Akhil Reed Amar - Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and author of America's Constitution: A Biography and America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By - to the Baylor campus for "On Topic With President Ken Starr," a series of compelling conversations on contemporary issues, at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in Waco Hall.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 12, 2012) - The department of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University has announced guest speakers for the Fall 2012 Physics Colloquium. Lectures will be given at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Baylor Sciences Building, Room E.125.

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 (Sept. 11, 2012) - Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art will host a photography exhibit by artist Keith Carter. The exhibit, Fireflies, features images reminiscent of childhood memories. Informed by Carter's own imagination-filled days, these images allow the viewer to escape to the stories, dreams, and fantasy worlds of a child's mind.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 10, 2012) - Baylor University Carillonneur Lynnette Geary will play a memorial recital on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, on the McLane Carillon in Pat Neff Hall Tower. The program is presented in memory of those who perished in the assaults.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 7, 2012) - Donna LoSasso, DNP, RN, NNP-BC, an assistant professor at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON), has been selected by the National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP) to serve as a council member. Her two-year term will begin in October when she is recognized at the organization's Annual Educational Conference in Palm Springs, Calif.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 6, 2012) - Baylor University's Institute for Family Business will honor the 2012 Texas Family Business of the Year award winners and finalists at an awards banquet on Thursday, Nov. 8 at the University's Bill Daniel Student Center.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 5, 2012) - The department of modern foreign languages at Baylor University welcomes Perry Gethner, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of French at Oklahoma State University, who will present a lecture on "Early Modern Female Playwrights and the Struggle for Center Stage" at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in room 102 of Morrison Hall.

In observance of Labor Day, Baylor University administrative offices will be closed and no classes will be held on Monday, Sept. 3.

WACO, Texas (Sept. 4, 2012) -- Murder mysteries, music-filled sagas, aeronautical documentaries and football die-hards will make their debut as Texas Independent Film Network and Baylor University's Film and Digital Media team up for the Fall 2012 Film Series.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 30, 2012) -- "It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" - a Thursday, Sept. 6, lecture about the decoding of the Maya 2012 calendar -- will be the first in a short series of lectures at Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex in conjunction with the museum exhibit Encounters with the Maya.

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. 28, 2012) -- Hypocrisy among Christians isn't what bothers most of the unchurched, but rather "bloody denominational struggles and church fighting in-house" -- a marked contrast to Jesus' "undogmatic openness," said David Garland, Ph.D., dean of Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary during its fall convocation.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 24, 2012) - Daniel Hare, a 2009 alumnus of Baylor Law School, has been named the law school's director of career development-employment relations in the Office of Career Development. As director of career development, Hare will work with Angela Cruseturner, assistant dean of career development, to recruit, develop and maintain relationships with legal employers.

AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 24, 2012) - The Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAJF) has announced grants to 11 nonprofit organizations - including Baylor Law School - that will help fund legal aid services for Texas veterans. With these grants, public interest and pro bono lawyers will be able to provide legal representation to low-income Texas veterans with basic civil legal problems such as denial of benefits or disability, family law matters arising from deployment and other issues that may arise due to a veteran's absence from home during military service.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 23, 2012) - From Day One of Baylor's existence, chapel has been a part of the lives of students and faculty. Chapel not only offers an opportunity to escape from the typical classroom setting, but it stimulates fellowship through worship and theological learning within the Baylor community.

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (Aug. 23, 2012) - University students, including engineering students from Baylor University, will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket. The launch is scheduled to take place between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. CT Friday, Aug. 24, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. The launch was originally scheduled for Aug. 23 but was scrubbed due to boats in the hazard area.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 22, 2012) - Four faculty members at Baylor University have analyzed 2012 election topics ranging from young voters' behavior to candidates' religious affiliations to ranking polls to social media's role in politics.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 21, 2012) - As head football coach Art Briles and the Baylor Bears prepare for their season opener, Baylor University will kick off the 2012 football season with a community-wide Traditions Rally at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at Floyd Casey Stadium. The event - which is free and open to the public - will feature a pep rally with members of the team and coaching staff, a performance by country music recording artist Cory Morrow and a fireworks show.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 22, 2012) -- Baylor University's Staff Council announced today the Endowed Scholarship Fund Honoring Baylor Staff has reached its goal and will begin disbursing funds to students in fall 2012.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 22, 2012) -- The Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie -- a former journalist and broadcaster who broke the "stained-glass ceiling" when she was elected the first female bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church's 200-year history - will speak on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University.

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. 20, 2012) - The Brazos Ensemble, a faculty chamber music group from Baylor University, will present a recital on Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall, in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

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 (August 13, 2012)- Baylor University's environmental science department has a few reasons to celebrate. Several graduate students in the department took home awards at the American Water Resources Association's (AWRA) Summer Specialty Conferences and Regional Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Conference.

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)- As summer nears an end, nearly 500 Baylor students will receive their diplomas during Baylor University's annual summer commencement at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Ferrell Center. Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary will hold its commencement ceremony for 32 graduates at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, at the seminary's Powell Chapel.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 9, 2012) -- Baylor University College of Arts & Sciences Dean Lee C. Nordt has announced a realignment of leadership structure and responsibilities. Effective Aug. 1, the 26 departments in Arts & Sciences have been organized into two academic divisions, each under the leadership of a divisional dean.

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 (Aug. 9, 2012) - Waco and McLennan County residents are reporting higher rates of feeling safe in their local neighborhoods, according to survey results released today by Baylor University's Center for Community Research and Development (CCRD).

WACO, Texas (Aug. 7, 2012) - In a continuing effort to provide alumni, parents and the general public with a convenient online ordering system for Parents and Family Weekend, Homecoming special events and single-game football tickets, Baylor University will launch single-game and event ticket sales on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 7, 2012) -- Dr. Bradley Bolen, senior lecturer in piano in Baylor's School of Music, recently took part in The Youth Excellence on Stage (YES) Academy's annual performing arts program in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The program offers aspiring musicians, dancers and actors an opportunity for intensive study.

WACO, Texas (Aug. 7, 2012) - They came to cultivate their Baylor University spirit. By the time they left, they had planted deep roots not only on campus but in community gardens around their soon-to-be hometown city of Waco. Nearly 1,600 incoming freshmen attending July's Baylor Line Camps sowed the seeds of worldwide leadership and service by partnering with the HOT Urban Gardening Coalition (HOTUGC) for this year's city-wide community service project.

WACO, Texas (August 2, 2012) - Being selected as one of only five for any national competition is exciting. Kaylyn Smith has found herself in an even better position, as the competition can help put her career on the fast track while she is still an undergraduate.

WACO, Texas (July 31, 2012) - Dr. Michael Alexander, an associate professor of string music education, has been named the 2012 Orchestra Director of the Year by the Texas Orchestra Directors Association.

WACO, Texas (July 31, 2012) -- Two Baylor graduates were awarded participation in the prestigious Lilly Graduate Fellow Program. Sarah Berry and Stephen Margheim, B.A.s '10 and '12 respectively, will participate in the three-year post-doctoral program.

WACO, Texas (July 18, 2012)- Baylor sociology Ph.D. student Jenna Griebel was awarded with nearly $10,000 in grants for research this summer.

WACO, Texas (July 31, 2012) -- Baylor senior Brittany Lozano recently won not one, but two competitive scholarships for her impending trip to Japan. Lozano won the Freeman-ASIA scholarship earlier this summer, and she was recently notified that she won the Bridging Scholarship as well.

WACO, Texas (July 31, 2012)- When Dr. John Seaman, professor of statistical science at Baylor University, began working with his former Ph.D. student Stacey Lindborg, he didn't realize what exactly it would lead to. His work with Lindborg was just the beginning of a strong collaboration between Baylor's department of statistical science and Eli Lilly and Company--a union that was recently honored by the American Statistical Association with the Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award.

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 13, 2012)- Even after winning Miss Texas and continuing the national headline-grabbing success of her alma mater, dubbed the "Year of the Bear", DaNae Couch, B.A. '10, is humble.

WACO, Texas (July 13, 2012) -- Construction is under way at Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library on the "Garden of Contentment," a beautifully landscaped, flexible outdoor gathering space and garden that will complete Dr. A.J. Armstrong's original vision for the library.

Pieces of a whole: that is the best way to describe the new exhibit at Baylor's Martin Museum of Art.

WACO, Texas (July 13, 20120) -- Nearly 300 participants will gather at Baylor University for the annual Alleluia Conference -- an event to provide training sessions for church music ministers, choirs and musicians, as well as concerts and worship sessions open to the public -- on Tuesday, July 17, through Friday, July 20.

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 (July 9, 2012) -The Baylor Angel Network (BAN) has invested more in Texas-based start-up companies this year than in any year since it was established in 2008. Its latest investment in six companies brings its investment of early stage capital to more than $1 million so far this year, according to BAN Executive Director Kevin Castello.

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.

The Interscholastic Moot Court Program at Baylor Law School, ranked fifth best in the country, will take part in the Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship in Houston. Only the top 16 schools in the country compete in the national championship, which will be held in January and is sponsored by Andrews Kurth LLP and the University of Houston Law Center.

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 (July 1, 2012) - Follow-up results to a 2008 survey on Baylor University's image in Waco and McLennan County show a dramatic increase how local residents rate Baylor and the extent to which Baylor's athletic success transformed the university's image in the community. The survey was conducted by the Center for Community Research and Development (CCRD) at Baylor.

HONG KONG, China (June 29, 2012) - President Ken Starr of Baylor University (Texas, USA) has bestowed the Baylor University Distinguished Achievement Award on Hong Kong business executive and scholar, Dr. James Sai-Wing Wong. Wong graduated from Baylor in 1960 at age 20 with a degree in mathematics and physics and has had a long career in academia and business.

WACO, Texas (June 28, 2012)- Celia Heidbrier, who graduated in May from Baylor University with a degree in German, was recently selected for a prestigious English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Austria. Though affiliated with the Fulbright Program, her ETA is funded through the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

WACO, Texas (June 25, 2012) -- Baylor University is mourning the death of Dr. Susan E. Colón of Hewitt, Associate Dean of the Honors College, Assistant Director of the University Scholars Program, and Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors Program at Baylor. She passed away Sunday morning after a six-month battle with cancer.

WACO, Texas (June 22, 2012)- After finding out that she had won the Hattie Hemschemeyer Award, Mary Brucker, Ph.D., was "stunned, but composed - until she saw her brother, niece and two of her oldest friends who had been hidden until the presentation - then the tears came," explained Mary Ann Faucher, Ph.D., an associate professor at Baylor's Louis Herrington School of Nursing, and one of Brucker's colleagues.

Waco, Texas (June 21, 2012) - In April 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Students from Baylor University Law School will try to prove there was negligence in this maritime disaster during their upcoming "Big Trial" court program.

WACO, Texas (June 21, 2012)- When Linda Plank, Ph.D., interim associate dean for academic affairs at the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor, found out that she would be taking part in a competitive national nursing leadership fellowship this summer, she was naturally excited. The fact that it will be held in Colorado Springs, Colo. only sweetened the deal.

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.