News
March 13, 2000
A campus memorial service was held at 8 p.m. Monday, March 13, in Waco Hall for Ashley Lea Fuhrmann, a Baylor sophomore killed in an automobile accident near Huntsville on Saturday.
March 6, 2000
February 25, 2000
February 21, 2000
Baylor head women's basketball coach Sonja Hogg, one of the most successful coaches in the sport's history, announced her retirement Monday, effective at the end of the 1999-2000 season.
February 19, 2000
On a Saturday perfect for a game of softball, Baylor University officially dedicated its new state-of-the-art softball park during a ceremony held in an appropriate setting - right on the diamond.
February 16, 2000
Eight Baylor University staff members were named Outstanding Staff at the Annual Service Awards ceremony Feb. 16 in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
February 15, 2000
February 9, 2000
The North Texas Chapter of the March of Dimes presented Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing with a $50,000 Neonatal Nurse Practitioner grant -- the largest award given by the March of Dimes this year -- Feb. 4 at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas.
February 4, 2000
February 2, 2000
On Feb. 2, Baylor celebrated Founders Day, the 155th anniversary of its charter. The day's events featured presentation of the Founders Medal to Baylor Chancellor Herbert H. Reynolds and groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Truett Seminary campus.
February 2, 2000
Baylor University presented the Founders Medal, one of the highest honors the university bestows, to former Baylor Chancellor Herbert H. Reynolds during the celebration of Founders Day Feb. 2.
February 2, 2000
A jubilant crowd of more than 300 supporters witnessed what was once a dream become reality, as Baylor University broke ground Feb. 2 on the new $17 million, 64,000-square-foot George W. Truett Theological Seminary campus.
January 31, 2000
The much-anticipated groundbreaking ceremony for Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary will be held at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 2, at the corner of M.L. Cooper Drive and Dutton Avenue across from Russell Hall on the Baylor campus.
January 28, 2000
Best-selling novelist John Grisham, author of The Firm, The Testament and the soon-to-be-released The Brethren, will make a rare public appearance at Baylor University Friday, Feb. 25, to help launch Art & Soul, a program of public lectures and readings on faith and writing, scheduled for Feb. 24-27 at Baylor. Grisham's lecture will begin at 10 a.m. at Waco Hall on campus.
January 20, 2000
Baylor President Robert B. Sloan Jr. released the following statement Jan. 20 regarding the tragic hit-and-run accident Jan. 19 near the campus that claimed the life of Wichita, Kan., freshman Malisa Caffey:
January 19, 2000
Baylor University's Institute of Gerontological Studies has received a three-year $370,000 grant from the Administration on Aging to fund Senior Texans on Patrol (STOP), a program designed to help reconcile questions between Medicare beneficiaries and health care providers in Central Texas.
January 17, 2000
The Baylor Alumni Association will honor four graduates during its annual Distinguished Alumni Banquet at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.