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Student veterans and the Veteran Educational and Transition Services (VETS) program held a banquet in November for faculty, staff and other students who have gone above and beyond in support of the veterans’ academic journeys.

Ongoing commitment to sustainability Again honored by the Sierra Club, which named Baylor to its 2016 "Cool Schools" list

Baylor alumna Kirsten Dickerson leads a "slow fashion" revolution and helps alleviate poverty among women worldwide

Kristan Tucker, JD, was named Baylor's Title IX Coordinator in October.
During the fall semester, Baylor Interim President David E. Garland informed the Baylor family about two outside investigations--one with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the other with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
Steppin' Out, a Baylor tradition that began in 1985, continues to link the campus with the local community.
Baylor student publications claimed four national champion titles in 2016 and the Baylor Lariat was awarded its first Emmy.

Every fall, colleges and universities around the country teem with first-year students, who are excited--and maybe a bit anxious--to begin this new chapter in their lives.

Jason D. Cook became Baylor's vice president for marketing and communications and chief marketing officer in December.

Baylor professors and their students throughout the College of Arts and Science are engaged in high-level research focused on the fight against cancer.

The university's awards program acknowledges the distinctive mission of Baylor University and recognizes those who achieve success in a manner consistent with that mission.

Eight former student-athletes representing seven sports comprise the 2016 inductee class for the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame, honored each year during homecoming festivities.

Baylor University topped milestones for overall, graduate and undergraduate enrollment and again improved its freshman fall-to-fall retention and graduation rates.

Few people have explored more aspects of the Baylor campus than the university's photography team.

Baylor Researchers Examine Impact of Food Selection, Social Interaction on Weight Loss

Mack Rhoades is definitely more of a glass-half-full kind of guy. What others might view as challenges, Baylor’s new director of athletics sees as opportunities
In the 2017 U.S. News & World Report rankings released Sept. 13, Baylor moved up to No. 71 among national universities, tying the university’s highest ranking from 2014.

Softball, baseball teams serve in flood-ravaged Louisiana; Mulkey delivers school supplies

Are we as Christians called to participate in--or care about--politics or the political process?

350 student organizations offer Baylor students a chance to connect
Each summer, Baylor Missions sends students across the nation and around the world to use their talents and skills to spread God’s message.
Jimmy Walker turned his season around and etched his name into golf lore--as well as onto the sport's largest trophy.

Orphans in Zambia left their fingerprints on an art project by two Baylor University studio art majors on a women's leadership mission trip this summer to the southern African country.
Baylor has a long history of Olympic excellence.
Baylor University is once again named a Best Buy in the 2017 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges.
For the sixth consecutive year, Baylor University has attained elite Honor Roll status as a 2016 Great College to Work For, according to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Business major Kyle Boyd--a 6-foot, 2-inch, 230-pound freshman linebacker on Baylor's football team--made a promise to himself and his friends, and it's a promise he is keeping.

The fall 2016 semester meant the start of a new era for the Hankamer/Cashion complex and Penland Hall.

Texas Collection exhibits African-American photo collection

In July, Baylor Executive Vice President and Provost L. Gregory Jones announced three leadership appointments in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Baylor Interim President David E. Garland announced the designation of Master Teacher on three professors
In June 2016, Baylor welcomed the first alumni-elected Regents to service on the Board.
Baylor University Board of Regents Chair Ronald D. Murff, BBA '75, announced in September the appointment of a Presidential Search Committee that will lead the effort to select the university’s 15th president.

Baylor University takes action to improve prevention, response and support for survivors of sexual violence.
Grant Teaff's final game as Baylor's head coach was a 20-15 Bears' victory over Arizona in the 1992 Sun Bowl. He spent the next two years as the university's athletics director before becoming executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, a position he held until his retirement in February.
They are arguably the most annoying creatures any of us encounters on a regular basis. We swat at them, try to avoid them and occasionally kill them. But according to Baylor biology professor Richard Duhrkopf, mosquitos actually make our lives better--in a way.
Baylor graduate programs in law, business, nursing and health disciplines, education, engineering, the sciences and social sciences and humanities were among those nationally ranked in the 2017 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings released in March.
As far as universities go, the nation's No. 1-ranked Facebook page and No. 3-ranked Twitter account have something in common: They're covered in green and gold.

When Greer Tidwell, BSES ’'85, accompanied his daughter Brittainy, BSME '15, a then-prospective college student, from their home in Nashville, Tenn., to Baylor for a campus visit six years ago, he immediately noticed how much the campus had grown since his time as a student in the 1980s.

The School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) celebrated 20 years as an academic unit in 2015 with continued growth in scholarship, research and Christian stewardship.
Baylor University named Michelle Rae Hebl, Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychology at Rice University, as the 2016 recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
Baylor University is committed to building a community of respect, character, cultural literacy and leadership.
In the desolate Canadian wilderness along the southwest edge of the Canadian Shield in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, tens of millions of unforgiving acres contain the natural resource that spurs economies the world over--oil.

The story of how God's providence led two Syrian scholars from the same monastic order in Damascus to professorships at Baylor University
What began as a mission trip has become an internationally recognized honor for Dr. Shelby Garner, assistant professor at Baylor's Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON).
Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) collected more honors in February, one from the White House for a student volunteer and one from the Texas Department of Agriculture for the program as a whole.
Following a unanimous recommendation from the university search committee, Dr. L. Gregory Jones, formerly senior strategist for leadership education at Duke Divinity School and the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry, has been appointed executive vice president and provost. His wife, the Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones, associate dean for ministerial formation at Duke Divinity School, also will join Baylor as senior fellow in the Institute for Faith and Learning.
Baylor announced a $1 million gift from David and Amy Hunt of McLean, Va., to create the David and Amy Hunt Christian Missions Endowed Fund.
Baylor's Department of Student Activities, in conjunction with Sony Pictures, hosted an advanced screening of the film Risen, directed by Hollywood director, screenwriter and Baylor alumnus Kevin Reynolds, BA '74, JD '76, Jan. 26 at the Waco Hippodrome in downtown Waco.
The Young Messiah, about a youthful Jesus discovering the truth about himself, opened in theaters in March, following the success Risen--the tale of a cynical Roman tribune searching for a Jew rumored to have risen from the dead--which opened in February.
Baylor University and Baylor Alumni Association (BAA) announced the settlement of all claims in their pending lawsuit.

The dedication of the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation provided an opportune time to gather Baylor-connected leaders from key fields and hear from them about emerging trends during the Hankamer School of Business' Leadership+Innovation Summit. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt joined Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr for a conversation on leadership.
What if a common, familiar organism, considered a nuisance by many, could be used to clean a city's water supply while simultaneously creating the power it takes to do so? That's a question that Dr. Scott James, assistant professor in Baylor's departments of geosciences and mechanical engineering, seeks to answer.

As part of Homecoming 2015, Baylor University and the Baylor Chamber of Commerce unveiled a six-foot by nine-foot artistic structure to immortalize the University's Eternal Flame tradition.

The energy forum, led by Ray Perryman, BS' 74, president and CEO of The Perryman Group, included Baylor alumni who have helped shape the energy sector sharing their insights on navigating the ever-changing challenges of their industry. Participants were Halliburton Executive Vice President and CIO Mark McCollum, BBA '80 and a Baylor Regent; XTO co-founder Bob Simpson, BBA '70, MBA '71; and Western Refining Executive Chairman Paul L. Foster, BBA '79 and namesake of the new home for the Hankamer School of Business.