Insight gleaned from experience led Robin Wallace to a personal perspective of Beethoven's life and resilience in the midst of silence.

In February, the University celebrated award recipients, 175 years of Baylor history and the bright future ahead.

A collaboration with the Texas Business Journals indicates that the state’s business leaders value innovation and see a need for enhanced research opportunities with universities.

In this series, Baylor Magazine asks members of the Baylor Family to discuss the foundational pillars of Illuminate, the University’s strategic plan.

As the fall semester began, Baylor welcomed its most academically qualified freshman class in the institution’s history.

At the regular Fall Faculty Meeting Aug. 28, Baylor officially announced plans to pursue Research 1/Tier 1 (R1/T1) recognition by building on Illuminate, the University’s strategic plan, which will guide Baylor toward joining the nation’s top research universities.

Raising the bar of excellence for the next generation of problem solvers

Among the graduating McNair Scholars at Baylor this past year, five entered graduate programs this fall at Boston College, Mississippi State University, Syracuse University, University of Iowa and University of Missouri

As the month of August came to a close, the University celebrated the gifts of more than 60,274 alumni and friends to date in support of our Give Light campaign.

A Baylor planetary geophysics assistant professor is shedding new light on the far side of the moon.

Excessive concern for profits could hurt supervisors’ coveted bottom lines, a study shows. Dr. Matthew Quade, assistant professor of management in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, was the study’s lead researcher.

NBA veterans share story of friendship, call for unity

Baylor biology major Anirudh Gothwal co-authored a study that shows a lack of racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials for cancer drugs. 

Six programs are represented in the 2019 Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame induction class, which consists of eight members.

The Black Glasses Film Festival started out as a student-run exhibition and has become a staple of Baylor’s Department of Film and Digital Media (FDM).

Head Acrobatics & Tumbling Coach

Senior Biology Major, Baylor Volleyball team member

Associate Director of Athletics - "B" Association

Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Theater, Kings College

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

A record-breaking $100 million gift to Baylor is accelerating the realization of Illuminate, the University’s strategic plan to enhance all aspects of a transformational Baylor education by investing in teaching, research and service to become a preeminent Christian research university. 

Members of the Baylor Family discuss the University's commitment to Research and Scholarship Marked by Quality. Impact and Visibility.

Baylor University united our brand behind the iconic, interlocking BU, which has roots on campus reaching back nearly 100 years.

Recent hybridization of the Gulf killifish — a large minnow common in the heavily polluted Houston Ship Channel — has enabled the species to rapidly adapt to extreme pollution, a Baylor study found. 

Dedicated in 1954, Tidwell Bible Building has served as a cornerstone of Baylor’s academic endeavors with Baylor students of all majors passing through its halls. 

Amulti-year effort to unify the Baylor brand across all facets of the University culminated in the launch of the Baylor United campaign, revealing a rebranding of the Baylor Athletics programs and a new University Brand Mark. 

Baylor's historically strong anthropology department looks to the future with a focus on health.

This spring, Martha Lou Scott, BS ’71, EdD ’84, retired from her role as associate vice president for student life after nearly 49 years of service to the University.

Proper assessment of challenges facing children dealing with trauma is a key step on the road to healing. And a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will help Baylor faculty refine and improve the process.

When the Lady Bears’ went 33-2 and made the Sweet 16 in 2017-18 for the 10th year in a row, Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey knew she had the pieces in place to make a deeper run in the NCAA Tournament.

A new chemical synthesis strategy to harvest the rich information found in natural products — organic compounds isolated from natural sources — has led to the identification of novel, simpler derivatives with potential to selectively protect neurons, according to a Baylor-led study.

Multiple Baylor students earned Fulbright honors in a single academic year for the 15th consecutive year. 

Students explore informed global engagement, faith, discipline-specific learning and service to seek solutions to real-world challenges through missions.

For the first time in program history, two Baylor players were selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

Discovery of an ancient vase bearing one of the longest hieroglyphic texts uncovered in the Central America lowlands offers clues into the mysterious breakdown of Maya civilization, according to a Baylor scholar who led the excavation.

The expertise of Baylor faculty and representatives who are actively shaping and advancing their disciplines is sought after by their peers and media as well as by University students in academic settings.

Alumni follow different paths to chart innovative designs for golf, Formula One, residential and commercial projects.

For the fifth consecutive season, Baylor Acrobatics and Tumbling claimed the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association (NCATA) national title. 

In spring 1945, a group of Baylor students prayed for spiritual renewal for 90 straight days. Their prayers led to a movement that helped inspire ministries around the world, from the Journeyman mission program to the Passion Conferences.

Senior Biochemistry and Anthropology Major
Belton, Texas
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recipient, 2018
Baylor2 Medical Track Program

Baylor’s recently launched Baylor Built program received remarkable support through a lead-off gift of $500,000 by Jeremy, BA ’97, and Kristy Fudge of Parker, Texas.

Baylor’s Center for Christian Music Studies in the School of Music has been awarded a four-year $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. as part of its Strengthening Congregational Ministries with Youth Initiative.

A $2 million gift made by Baylor parents from California will establish an endowed Chair in Global Leadership within Baylor’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work.

Last fall, Baylor announced the launch of Give Light — a $1.1 billion fundraising campaign to support Illuminate, the University’s strategic plan. Among the campaign’s capital priorities is a $50 million renovation/expansion of Memorial and Alexander halls, home to Baylor’s Honors Residential College.

Two decades after his time at Baylor, Doug Brandt, BSA ’97, makes his way back to Waco about once a year, usually taking in a football game. 

Kalani Brown scored six of her 17 points in a crucial 15-2 Baylor fourth-quarter run as the Lady Bears pulled away from Iowa State, 67-49, in the Big 12 Conference Tournament title game. 

Muffled music drifts under closed doors, mingling together down a long corridor of offices and rehearsal rooms in Baylor’s Glennis McCrary Music Building.

Accreditation Reaffirmed for Next Decade

For more than 100 years, graduates have carried the mission and practices of the Baylor School of Education (SOE) to Texas classrooms and beyond — as teachers, superintendents, psychologists, health education and sport management professionals, scholars and more.

City of Waco selected for a top University honor

Nancy W. Brickhouse, PhD, was named University Provost Feb. 27 to help lead Baylor toward the goal of becoming the preeminent Christian research university. 

Film director John Lee Hancock, BA ’79, JD ’82, and screenwriter/developer Derek Haas, BA ’91, MA ’95, returned to campus in late January to participate in a question-and-answer session for students, hosted by Baylor’s film and digital media department.

Dr. Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Baylor’s first African-American professor, was honored Feb. 26 in a well-attended ceremony in which a 50-pound, 2-foot bronze bust was unveiled near the mathematics department in the Sid Richardson Building. 

Members of the Baylor Family discuss the University's commitment to Transformational Undergraduate Education.

Two of the University's cherished student-led organizations achieve benchmark anniversaries.

A look at Illuminate plans and transformational education, plus the campaign for Baylor

Associate Professor of English
College of Arts and Sciences

Midland, Texas

Faculty-in-Residence, Senior Lecturer Chemistry and Biochemistry
College of Arts and Sciences