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Texas Banned DEI at Public Universities. Here’s What Baylor is Doing Instead.

Leave a Comment / Campus / By Grace Simpson

Dr. Elizabeth Palacios spent 40 years of her career at Baylor. During that time, she learned what it takes to succeed as a Hispanic woman within the predominantly white Baylor faculty. “For a long time, I was the only minority faculty in the School of Education,” Palacios explained. “They would hire [minority faculty], but they […]

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Digging Into the Past

Leave a Comment / Campus / By Tyler Hicks

The sun hung high over the badlands of New Mexico when Dr. Daniel Peppe crouched over a patch of rock. It was the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Peppe, associate professor of geosciences at Baylor University, was hard at work on a long-running project. With careful, practiced sweeps, he brushed away the layers of

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We Hold These Truths: An Editor’s Note for The Baylor Line Magazine’s Spring 2026 Issue

Friends, Freedom is one of those words that feels self-evident. It elicits certain thoughts, emotions, colors — a flag, maybe, or an open road. We think we know what it means to be free until we sit with it long enough. The newest issue of The Baylor Line Magazine made me sit with it. How

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Science at the Edge of Survival

Leave a Comment / Campus, Spring 2026 / By Roger Munford

Dr. Cory Smith has an ambitious dream — one of his primary goals is to develop a next-generation warfighter monitoring system to optimize performance and safety for military personnel operating in austere conditions. “My mission and passion are very much to develop the next-generation warfighter monitoring system,” Smith said. “I want to create the systems,

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The Call of Duty

Leave a Comment / Campus, Spring 2026 / By Marianne Dougherty

Nick Bradford, who will graduate from Baylor with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2027, was on active duty with the Army before enrolling at Baylor. Initially he didn’t plan to self-identify as a veteran, preferring instead to “keep my cards close to my chest,” but he’s grateful Veterans of Baylor (VoB) encouraged him

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The Centennial Class of 1945

Leave a Comment / Features, History, Spring 2026 / By Jonathan H. Reynolds

When I was ten years old, my maternal grandmother, Velma Ray Kay Hugghins, was driving me to the store when she turned toward me with a seriousness I had never seen before. “In 2045,” she began, “there is a time capsule on Baylor’s campus that will be opened 100 years after it was sealed. I

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The [Un]Remarkable Life of Rufus B. Spain

Leave a Comment / Profiles, Spring 2026 / By Kourtney Nering

It was the events of December 24, 1944, that Rufus Buin Spain, a then-21-year-old Army soldier from Pickens County, Alabama, recalled as most impressive from his time in World War II. That Christmas Eve, the Belgian vessel SS Leopoldville, hastily loaded with materials and reinforcements for the Battle of the Bulge, had been torpedoed by

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Did Any Baylor Bear Ever Have a Wilder, Woolier, More Explosive Life Than Col. George Wythe Baylor?

Leave a Comment / History, Spring 2026 / By Robert F. Darden, Editor emeritus

George’s tumultuous life is the stuff of legends, of Hollywood action movies, of dime store novels. He was a restless pioneer. A leader. A stone-cold killer. A mass of contradictions. It’s not a pretty story at times, certainly not by today’s standards, but few people in the American west lived a more eventful life than

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In the Beginning

Leave a Comment / History, Spring 2026 / By Kourtney Nering

In the 1920s, a sociology textbook landed Baylor University in the entire Baptist General Convention of Texas’ spotlight. In the 2000s, a small research center called the University’s academic freedom into question again. A century after its first evolution controversy, the nation’s largest Baptist university is still wrestling with the same question: What does a

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The Baylor Brief – June 5, 2026

Leave a Comment / The Baylor Brief / By Grace Simpson

Cross-Faith AI Consortium Baylor is a part of a newly formed multi-university academic consortium – The Consortium for Evaluation of Faith and Ethics in AI (CEFE-AI). In collaboration with Brigham Young University, the University of Notre Dame, and Yeshiva University, researchers have discovered a pattern of religious perspectives being excluded from AI responses. “More than

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