Baylor Line

By Jena Howie Courtney Webb ’10 never imagined she would be selected as grand prize winner of Vogue magazine’s American Beauty Sweepstakes, when she submitted her five-sentence contest blurb online. Little did she know that winning the sweepstakes would land her a job in New York City, a professional mentor, and the opportunity of a […]

By Jena Howie and Catherine West Fall has finally arrived on Baylor’s campus, just in time for Parent and Family Weekend. As students unpack their boots and sweaters for this weekend’s game against TCU, they look forward to welcoming their families to Waco. Michael Allen Coppell, TX Junior “My parents haven’t been down to Waco

By Catherine West For Greg Plett ’86, a day at the beach involves more than tanning and swimming — it involves an artistic masterpiece. To keep himself busy while his kids play in the ocean, this computer science major from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, spends his time creating elaborate sand sculptures. Taking between four and five

By Catherine West With an art career that all started at age four with a box of crayons and a coloring book, Baylor alumna Jennifer Moreman ‘04 currently has art pieces housed all over the world. Raised in Dallas, Moreman found her calling in middle school.  After graduating from Trinity Christian Academy, she followed in

By Jena Howie Joseph Kickasola, associate professor in Baylor’s department of communications, lives sixteen hundred miles from campus, but the students don’t mind. As the director of the Baylor Communications in New York program, he orchestrates a semester-long program that allows students to intern in the city while taking a full semester of coursework through

By Jena Howie A Waco resident and Baylor fan has found a way to hold on to special memories without cluttering your closet with mementos- especially T-shirts. We wear T-shirts all the time to show support for various activities and for some reason, we tend to hold onto our T-shirts for way too long. They

By Catherine West Senior Stefan Huber from Nederland has had a Baylor experience most high-school students only imagine. Not only is this health science studies major filling out medical school applications, but he is also preparing for the 2012 football season. Number 54 on the field, Huber plays center for the Baylor Bears. For the

New BAA board president seeks constructive dialogue By Daniel Houston Photo by Rod Aydelotte The Baylor Alumni Association recently spoke with Elizabeth Coker, 2012-13 president of the BAA Board of Directors and Texas 258th District Court judge. Coker ’89, JD ’92, talked about her Baylor education, law background, and priorities for the BAA in the

By Daniel Houston Baylor is offering a series of academic camps this summer for gifted and talented students to foster creativity and problem-solving, while encouraging them to eventually pursue a college education. Baylor’s University for Young People (UYP) features diverse academic programs — including book clubs, robotics projects, philosophy, painting and cooking classes, among others

By Daniel Houston The Texas Collection is in the final stages of an ambitious project to digitally archive more than one hundred years of Baylor history. The staff plans to launch a completed collection of digitized and fully searchable copies of the Lariat student newspaper, the Round Up student yearbook, and official university press releases