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After barbering a collective 102 years in Baylor's barbershop, Ervin Davis and Norman Gilchrest are closing a chapter of the university's history. To honor Davis and Gilchrest, Baylor Student Activities will host a free reception from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Dec. 16, in the first floor lobby of the Bill Daniel Student Center, 1311 S. Fifth St.

Robert Griffin III - affectionately known as RG3 - Baylor's junior quarterback, was named winner of the 2011 Heisman Trophy at tonight's Heisman ceremony in New York City.

Ashley Palmer, doctoral student in the department of sociology and assistant director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning (ATL) at Baylor University, has received the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award and will be recognized at the 12th annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Jan. 25-28, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

Susan Johnsen, Ph.D., professor of educational psychology in the School of Education at Baylor University, was awarded the President's Award last month for her work in the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC).

Third-year law student Kacey VanDeaver was named Baylor Law School's newest "Top Gun" on Dec. 5, after winning the intrascholastic Bob and Karen Wortham mini-trial competition.

Four faculty members received awards for outstanding research from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business. The awards provide funding for the professors to continue research in their field of study. Recipients were chosen through a competitive application process.

Two Baylor University doctoral students in the College of Arts and Sciences have made school history by winning two awards at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), the leading global environmental science society, held in Boston last month.

The U.S. Senate unanimously has confirmed Baylor University and Baylor Law alumnus Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap as United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas.

An article by Dr. Ryan S. King, associate professor of biology at Baylor University, has been selected and evaluated by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), a database of more than 100,000 evaluations of the top 2 percent of published articles in biology and medicine.

Students enrolled in the Advanced Textiles class offered through the department of family and consumer sciences will present a poster session of their final projects and conduct tours of the new textiles labs, NX-16 Body Scanner and interior design program areas from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in Baylor's Goebel Building, 1418 S. Third St.

Following a nationwide search, Dr. Shelley F. Conroy, Ed.D., M.S., R.N., has been named as the new dean of the Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON) at Baylor University. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2012.

The Baylor University and Waco communities are invited to attend Baylor's annual Christmas on Fifth Street celebration beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1.

In conjunction with Baylor Law School faculty, the Baylor Law Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta International will hold its second annual Professor Auction benefiting Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in the Student Lounge at the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center, 1114 South University Parks Dr.

Dr. Rodney Stark, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and co-director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, will present a lecture, "Doing History A Second Time Around," at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business on the Baylor University campus.

Having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home, according to a Baylor University study published online in journal, Personnel Psychology. The study found that stress and tension caused by an abusive boss have an impact on the employee's partner, which affects the marital relationship and subsequently the employee's entire family.

Baylor University has announced a significant naming gift from Baylor Regent Dr. Kenneth Q. Carlile and his wife, Celia, of Marshall, Texas, for the Carlile Equestrian Building. The new facility will strengthen Baylor Athletics' nationally recognized Equestrian program by providing a locker room, coaches offices and meeting space at the Willis Family Equestrian Center.

The Baylor University Graduate School will host its annual Army-Baylor Family Day this Saturday, Nov. 19, prior to the game between No. 25 Baylor and fifth-ranked Oklahoma. The event celebrates 60 years of partnership between Baylor University and the United States Department of Defense.

After changing his major from engineering to computer science, then from music to film and digital media, Baylor senior Adrien Lavergne finally has found his niche in French. The Houston senior, who is studying French with minors in music and film and digital media, was recently named one of six winners in the national Vista Higher Learning Video Contest.

Baylor University's department of geology dedicated the Thomas T. Goforth Paleomagnetism Laboratory recently, in honor of Dr. Tom Goforth, professor-emeritus, who served in the geology department of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1987 until his retirement in 2007, including nine years as department chair.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Baylor University will not hold classes and administrative offices will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 23, through Sunday, Nov. 27. Other university facilities will modify their hours.

The Baylor University family grieves the loss of W. Dewey Presley of Dallas, who passed away Nov. 9 at the age of 93. A faithful steward and committed Christian, Presley has left a rich legacy that will not be forgotten by the Baylor community.

A sleek white remotely-controlled robot soon will be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich future curriculum for children in grades K-12 across Texas and perhaps the nation. The VGo robot will be demonstrated by staffers from Baylor University Libraries at an area education summit in Waco on Thursday, Nov. 17.

Alan Jacobs, Ph.D., Clyde S. Kilby Chair Professor of English at Wheaton College, will present "Writers Save: How Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen the Doubters," at the Second Annual Drumwright Family Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Reading Room of Alexander Residence Hall, 1413 S. Seventh St.

Wes Moore, youth advocate and New York Times bestselling author, will lecture on leadership in public life at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at First Baptist Church of Waco. The event, which is free and open to the public, is a part of the annual

Baylor film and digital media, a division of the communication studies department, will show its final Texas Independent Film Network movie screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in Room 101 of Castellaw Communications Center, 219 Baylor Ave.

For the first time, the Executive MBA program (EMBA) at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business has been named among the best programs in the world by Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 Executive MBA ranking. Baylor is ranked 37 worldwide, and the program, which includes campuses in Dallas and Austin, also ranked third among programs in Texas.

"The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918" will be the topic of a lecture by Dr. Gabriel Weisberg, professor of art history at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Room 149 of the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on the Baylor University campus.

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The Baylor University Honors College and the department of spiritual life will host a screening of "Heaven's Rain," co-written by Baylor alumnus Brooks Douglass, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in Room 101 of Castellaw Communications Center on the Baylor campus. The event is free and open to the public.

An iron pour and sculpting by members of the Texas Atomic Iron Commission and art students from Baylor and other Texas universities will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. today, Nov. 11, at the foundry outside the east side of Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, 60 Baylor Ave. at University Parks.

Baylor Theatre's second production of the season, "The Ruby Sunrise," will raise its curtain on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The show will run through Nov. 20 in the Mabee Theatre of the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on the Baylor campus.

Baylor University today announced a gift of $3.6 million from Carl and Martha Lindner for the establishment of the Carl and Martha Lindner Global Mission Leadership Initiative Endowed Fund benefitting Baylor's School of Social Work. The Lindners' generous gift allows Baylor to continue this important program, the focus of which is to identify and educate global Christian leaders who are God-called and mission-driven to become catalysts for holistic change in international communities.

Baylor University's accounting program is one of the best in the country, according to the results for first-time candidates of the 2010 Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam released by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA).

Baylor University's Executive MBA program is ranked 35th in 2011, up from 39th in 2010, for United States-only based programs, according to the Financial Times' 2011 rankings.

Baylor University's School of Music will present Martin Katz, Arthur Schnabel Collegiate Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., for piano master classes on Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12, and Dr. Jeffrey Nytch, composer and director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at the University of Colorado-Boulder, for a concert on Monday, Nov. 14.

With the Hispanic population in the United States expected to nearly triple by 2050, a Baylor University linguist has developed a course tailored to meet the crucial need for medical professionals to cross language and cultural barriers.

Baylor University students and faculty will have a chance to "learn from the pagans" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Armstrong Browning Library Foyer of Meditation when visiting scholar James O'Donnell, Ph.D., professor of classics and provost at Georgetown University, presents, "The Death of the Gods: What We Can Learn from the Pagans."

Baylor University marketing professor Jim Roberts, Ph.D., will sign copies of his new book, "Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy," from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, Nov.15, at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at 4909 West Waco Drive.

For the 14th time since 2001, Baylor Law School students claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam with a 95.88 percent success rate, the highest pass rate for students from the nine Texas law schools. Of the 97 Baylor students who took the three-day exam in July, 93 passed on their first try.

WACO, Texas (Nov. 4, 2011) - At its annual Homecoming meeting today, the Baylor University Board of Regents approved $120 million in capital improvements, the largest investment in construction on the Baylor campus since the Baylor Sciences Building in 2004. Construction will be financed through the issuance of bonds and will include a new 700-bed residential complex and dining facility on the east side of campus, the renovation of the Marrs McLean Science Building and Phase 2 of initial construction on academic and research space in the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC).

Baylor Law School will hold its fall commencement at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at Waco's First Baptist Church. Professor Jeremy Counseller will deliver the commencement address. Roberto Nass-Worthington, the highest ranking student in the graduating class, will deliver student remarks.

David Williams, Headmaster of Glendale Preparatory Academy of the Great Hearts Academies, will speak about liberal education and teaching opportunities at the Great Hearts schools at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the Drawing Room of Baylor's Memorial Residence Hall, 1425 S. Seventh St.

Baylor University President Ken Starr will welcome Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D., 66th U.S. Secretary of State and the nation's first female National Security Advisor, to the Baylor campus for "On Topic With President Ken Starr," a series of compelling conversations on contemporary issues, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Waco Hall on the Baylor campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Texans who liberated European concentration camps are telling their stories in video interviews with the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University. The two-year project to document Texans' role is funded by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. It educates citizens to increase understanding of the past and encourage individual responsibility for society's actions. Transcripts will be given to libraries in liberators' hometowns, liberators' families and Holocaust museums in Texas.

Attorney Joe Hicks will present a lecture, "On Corporate Ontology: Is a Corporation a Person? And What Difference Does it Make?" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in Room 100 of Morrison Hall on the Baylor University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Cyber ethics will be the focus of this year's Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business Nov. 7 to 18. The forum is held each year to encourage students, faculty, alumni and business leaders to engage in a discussion of today's ethical issues and explore the responsibilities of business professionals faced with ethical dilemmas. All of the events listed below will be held in the Cashion Academic Center and are free and open to the public.

Baylor University is planning a "bear hug" welcome for the thousands of students, alumni and families who make the journey back to their Waco home for the university's 102nd anniversary celebration Homecoming beginning Wednesday, Nov. 2, through Saturday, Nov. 5.

Baylor University students won four first place awards, including two team awards, at a Dallas Interior Design Boot Camp known as the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Texas Chapter 2011 Student Symposium. The students competed over Baylor's "Fall Break" weekend on Oct. 14 and 15 and won after contending with other Texas universities, including the University of Texas and Texas Tech University.

Media are invited to attend/cover a free concert by Chris August and the Sidewalk Prophets at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 2 at the Fountain Mall on the Baylor University Campus. Media are also invited to attend a 1:45 p.m. photo event in front of the original Word Records Building at 4800 W. Waco Drive, during which Waco Mayor Jim Bush will present a proclamation to current and former Word Record executives and staff.

Baylor University will welcome several distinguished speakers and performers to campus this fall. Below is a list of the lectures, conferences, symposia, and performances that will be held during November and December at Baylor.

Baylor University has been named one of the Best Values in Private Colleges by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Kiplinger ranked 100 private universities and 100 liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding education with economic value.

An immuno- and growth-suppressant drug used to prevent rejection in human organ transplants and to treat some forms of cancer has proven effective in suppressing seizures in mice when used intermittently, says a Baylor University neuroscientist who contributed to research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Dr. Brian Coppola, The Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, will present "The Liberal Art of Chemistry: Stories about Human Nature" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in Room D109 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave.

Kevin Gosa, violinist, and Jake Armerding, saxophonist, of the Fretful Porcupine will present "Embodying Music: The Case for Live Music in a Digital Age" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the Drawing Room of Memorial Residence Hall, 1425 S. Seventh St.

Baylor University students, faculty and staff will step out of their comfort zones and into work boots for Steppin' Out, Baylor's biannual day of service, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at various locations throughout the Waco community.

The Baylor University School of Music and Campus Diversity Committee will present "American Voices: Art in Difficult Places," a lecture and recital focusing on traditional Kurdish and Arabic music, at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, in Recital Hall II of Waco Hall on the Baylor University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

"Lights! Camera! Propaganda!", "Invite Your Friends -- But Don't Trust Them!" and "Iron Curtain Meets Red Carpet" are some of the attention-getting sentiments that have cropped up on posters advertising the Cold War Film Festival at Baylor University in November, a four-night event featuring four films.

Although members of the Baylor Women's Leadership Team that visited Kenya last summer were unable to meet in person with Professor Wangari Maathai - the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement - they were inspired by her vision of mobilizing community consciousness and reducing poverty through the simple act of planting a tree.

Dr. Joshua S. Parens, professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas, will lecture on "Judaism and Philosophy: Maimonides' Revolution" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in Memorial Drawing Room of Honors Residential College on the Baylor University campus. The event, presented by the Baylor Honors College, is free and open to the public.

"Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century University," the 2011 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, will convene Thursday, Oct. 27, through Saturday, Oct. 29. Among the featured speakers at the international event will be eminent Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann; Andrew Delbanco, named in 2001 by TIME Magazine as "American's Best Social Critic"; Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School; and Candace Vogler, chair of the philosophy department at the University of Chicago.

The Baylor University Chamber Singers and the Baylor University Chamber Orchestra will honor the late Robert H. Young, Ph.D., with a memorial concert at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, in the Foyer of Meditation at Armstrong Browning Library, 710 Speight Ave.

Dr. Heather Macdonald, Chancellor Professor of Geology at the College of William and Mary, will present "Behind the Scenes: From Strong Geoscience Courses to an Energized Community" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, in Room D109 of the Baylor Sciences Building on the Baylor University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library will celebrate its "guardian angels" at the annual Benefactors Day lecture and concert at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the McLean Foyer of Meditation of the Armstrong Browning Library, 710 Speight Ave.

Baylor University's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Chi Omega sorority chapters will host the annual All University Bed Races and Chili Cook-Off at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at Fountain Mall on the Baylor campus. The event, which is open to the public, will raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

A Baylor Law moot court team of Sarah Scott, Saba Syed and Anna Williams defeated SMU to win the Emory Civil Rights-Liberties Moot Court Competition last weekend in Atlanta.

What began as a doctoral dissertation 10 years ago in North Carolina has become a multi-award-winning book for one Baylor University professor.

Aspiring sports reporters and fans will have an opportunity to meet and ask questions of some of the nation's leading sportswriters and commentators during a panel discussion from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Oct. 21, in the Baines Room at the Bill Daniel Student Center on the Baylor University campus. The event is hosted by the Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media in Baylor's College of Arts and Sciences.

Baylor journalism alumnus Pat Dougherty, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Anchorage Daily News who covered Sarah Palin's rise in national politics, will lead a political discussion from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in room 245 of the Castellaw Communications Center on the Baylor campus. The discussion is part of a larger celebration called "Baylor University: A Legacy of Excellence in Journalism Education," which recognizes more than 110 years of educating students for careers in journalism.

The Texas Collection at Baylor University will host James P. Bevill, author of the award-winning book The Paper Republic, who will speak about the epic struggle for money, credit and independence in the Republic of Texas, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in Bennett Auditorium on the Baylor campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Baylor University's division of film and digital media will host a showing of the 2010 drama "Dance With the One" from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in Room 101 of Castellaw Communications Center on the Baylor campus.

Internationally renowned physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, Marlan O. Scully, Ph.D., who is best known for his work in theoretical quantum optics, has been named distinguished research academician of science and engineering at Baylor University.

Baylor University's Piper Center for Family Studies and Child Development, recently accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, will mark the accomplishment with a celebration from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the center, 315 Washington Ave.

Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of America's foremost public intellectuals and recent recipient of the prestigious Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life at Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR). She will present a lecture at Baylor on Oct. 19.

Because students and faculty will be given a fall break, Baylor University will not hold classes on Friday, Oct. 14.

Baylor University is known for its Baptist faith, but few understand the purpose of its establishment. On Thursday, Oct. 20, the Historical Studies in Religion program, which is part of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor, will host a "Symposium on the Revival that Founded Baylor: Baptist Faith in Frontier Texas" to shed light on the revival that helped inspire the university's founding.

Academy Award-winning writer and director John Patrick Shanley will present a lecture, "The Art of the Playwright," at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in Room 510 of Cashion Academic Center on the Baylor University campus. The event, which is free and open to the public, is this year's Beall-Russell Lecture in the Humanities.

Dr. Fred Yaw Bio, director of the University Hospital at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, will lecture on leadership in contemporary social issues at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business on the Baylor University Campus.

The Texas Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) joined Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and a diverse group of corporate, education, nonprofit and government leaders to kick off the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign on Oct. 12. The Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign is a public-private partnership with the nation's leading child anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength and the Texas Hunger Initiative, a capacity-building collaborative project out of Baylor University's School of Social Work.

Baylor Opera Theater will perform a pair of one-act comedies, Douglas Moore's "Gallantry" and Thomas Pasatieri's "Signor Deluso," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, and also on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Roxy Grove Hall on the Baylor University campus. The events are free and open to the public.

The Baylor University Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media is celebrating more than 110 years of educating students for careers in journalism on Oct. 20-21 with a special emphasis on the classes of 1958 to 1976, fondly known as the Cheavens-McHam era.

Scot McKnight, Ph.D., the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago, will be the featured speaker at George W. Truett Theological Seminary's Parchman Endowed Lecture Series from Oct. 11-13.

Representatives from McLennan Community College and Baylor University announced today the creation of the Baylor@MCC Co-Enrollment Program, which will strengthen the ties between the two institutions by offering a formal program for students who will be enrolled at both MCC and Baylor.

The first in a series of annual joint conferences in the philosophy of religion involving Baylor University, Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame will begin Thursday, Oct. 6, on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.

Saxophonist Stephen Page, performer and recording artist, will perform at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in Roxy Grove Hall on the Baylor University campus. He will be accompanied by Dr. Cameron Hoffman, collaborative pianist at Baylor. The event is free and open to the public.

Finalists in Baylor Law School's annual Dawson & Sodd P.C. Moot Court Competition demonstrated their courtroom skills before a distinguished panel of judges and a large audience Oct. 3 at the James Kronzer Appellate Advocacy Courtroom. When the judges returned their decision, the team of Jason Fenton and Tim Keane emerged as the winner over the team of Andrea Whalen and Tiffany Terndrup.

Dr. David Bressoud, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., will lecture as a part of the fourth annual Baylor Undergraduate Lecture Series in Mathematics on Thursday, Oct. 6, and Friday, Oct. 7, on the Baylor University campus. The events are free and open to the public.

Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta, The Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian at Yale University, will present "Dante's Exile and the Path of Salvation: Paradiso XV-XVII" at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Alexander Reading Room of the Honors Residential College, 1413 S. Seventh St., on Baylor University's campus.

Baylor University will welcome several distinguished speakers and performers to campus this fall. Below is a list of the lectures, conferences, symposia, and performances that will be held during October at Baylor.

Baylor University's School of Music will welcome woodwind quintet Windscape to the Baylor campus on Sunday, Oct. 2, and Monday, Oct. 3, as a part of the Lyceum Series and Distinguished Artist Series.

Dr. Allen J. Matusow, The W.G. Twyman Professor of History and associate director for academic programs at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, will present "Did Reagan Win the Cold War?" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in Kayser Auditorium at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, 1428 South Fifth St.

Robert Darden, associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media at Baylor University, will present the 2011 Cornelia Marschall Smith Award Lecture at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Room 101 of Castellaw Communications Center on the Baylor campus.

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In 2009, a young man from Connecticut entered Baylor University looking for new experiences. Two years later, he has uncovered a calling to leadership and international economics as a recently elected executive committee member of the selective Japan-America Student Conference (JASC).

Baylor University's Institute for Family Business, within the Hankamer School of Business, has been designated as regional coordinator for the North American Affiliate Board of the Babson College Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) project. Babson and Baylor are consistently ranked within the top Entrepreneurship programs in the nation.

Dr. Charles Davis, Walter Plumhoff Professor of Accounting at Baylor University, and Dr. Elizabeth Davis, executive vice president and provost at Baylor, are the authors of a newly published textbook Managerial Accounting.

The Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum, Baylor's nationally-ranked debating team, begins this season poised for a run at the national championship. Baylor's top debate team of seniors John Cook and Ashley Morgan will complete this week at the prestigious Kentucky Round Robin, which is reserved for the top eight individual debate teams in the country.

The Texas Hunger Initiative (THI), a capacity-building project of Baylor University's School of Social Work, has entered into a new partnership with Share Our Strength, a national non-profit organization, as part of its No Kid Hungry campaign. The four-year partnership provides THI with $230,000 for 2011.

Students are welcome to relax and enjoy fellow students' musical performances at this semester's first Acoustic Café from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Student Union Building (SUB) Den.

Be the Change Mission Conference, an annual event led by Baylor University students to give others a glimpse of global missions, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 27, through Saturday, Oct. 1, on various campus locations and surrounding areas.

The 21st annual meeting of the Texas Medieval Association will be held Friday, Sept. 30, to Saturday, Oct. 1, on the Baylor University campus.