Profiles

Some may look at the Baylor Sciences Building and just see classrooms. Some may look at a professor and only think of them as a teacher. But when you look closer, you’ll see the heart of Baylor’s mission. Inside the BSB, professors and students are engaged in groundbreaking research with the power to change lives.

Amjad Dabi was studying civil engineering in Damascus, Syria, when he met Dr. Bradley Bolen, who teaches piano at Baylor University, in the summer of 2010. As part of American Voices, a nonprofit cultural and diplomacy organization founded in 1993, Dr. Bolen spent six weeks in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon teaching piano to people who

In early 2024, Baylor Provost Dr. Nancy Brickhouse invited Dr. Barry Hankins to document the history of Baylor’s 30-year transformation into a R1 research university. “She wanted me to write a book about how Baylor grew into one of the best research universities in the country, while it became even more intentional about its Christian

You don’t let life happen; you make it happen.  These simple words seem to have reverberated in Melissa Lasater’s head for the past several decades.  When she was just a little girl growing up in New Braunfels, her grandmother was everything to her: A role model, a friend, and in this case, a sage bearer