By Julie Copenhaver Dr. Bolen continues to travel across the Middle East, making new friends while exploring various cities and cultures. His recent adventures involve shopping in old Damascus, the student piano and voice recital in Syria (preparations for the gala pictured here), and discovering a Syrian myth that ceiling fans cause stomach problems. Bolen […]

By Racquel Joseph Long before freshman orientation, some students’ first exposure to Baylor’s campus is at summer camp. By the end of this summer, almost forty groups will have set up camp across campus. Some are university-sponsored, some are independent, but every camp draws young people for instruction, growth, and fun. Baylor has plenty for

By Racquel Joseph Dr. Bolen has been busy updating his blog! In his latest entry, you can read about the chaos involved in getting a group of people from Erbil, Iraq, to Damascus, Syria, including a nighttime border crossing. Read about his adventures exploring the city of Erbil just before he left the country and

By Claire Moncla The Perfect Major: Studying science in college was not a hard decision for Katie Johns ’10, a Houston resident. “I’ve always liked learning about how things work, especially the human body,” she said. Johns said she picked neuroscience because it combined two other sciences she likes: psychology and biology. “Neuroscience combines the

The summer 2010 issue of the Baylor Line gives insight into the important cancer research Baylor professors are conducting. But what about students and alumni? There are many different kinds of research done at Baylor, and many undergraduate students have taken part in these research projects. Read on to discover more about Baylor research and

By Racquel Joseph University for Young People (UYP), an initiative of the Baylor School of Education’s Center for Community Learning and Enrichment, is a series of over thirty different summer classes offered for Waco-area gifted and talented students in first through twelfth grade. Dr. Mary Witte is the current director of UYP and Project Promise,

By Racquel Joseph Dr. Bolen is now Iraq-bound. In his latest entry, he experiments with an Arabic language generator as he finishes packing. Dr. Bolen’s June 27th and 28th updates are some of his last to be written on American soil. He writes of hectic last-minute preparations in the midst of Baylor’s Summer Piano Institute,

By TODD HVEEM Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle June 30, 2010 Former Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson felt the pressure of being a basketball coach and NBA executive for more than 30 years. But on June 18, at Waco’s Cottonwood Creek Golf Course, he found out what real pressure was all about. “It was all

By Racquel Joseph As a “creative academic” Baylor film professor Christopher Hansen takes a different approach to publishing his research and work. While academics in other fields publish books, articles, or scientific findings, Hansen produces feature-length films. Hanson’s first major film was the “mockumentary” The Proper Care and Feeding of an American Messiah, shot in

By Meg Cullar A grassroots, Facebook-based reunion of Baylor alumni—held Saturday, June 19—was deemed a big success by its organizers and guests. The founders of the Facebook page “Baylor in the 80s” organized the party, which was at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, next door to the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center. “I was a little