Profiles

Dr. D.M. Edwards has been consecutively donating to Baylor longer than some current students’ parents were alive. Since 1974, Edwards’ scholarships have totaled over $1 million to help students in various fields — athletes, legacies, library interns, the school of music, nursing and students from Smith County. Fittingly, he was named Philanthropist of the Year. […]

When Jim Bryson got fired from his marketing research job two years after he graduated Baylor (’83), he didn’t know what he’d do. But he couldn’t have guessed that 33 years later, he would be married with four kids – three adopted from Russia and one that doctors told him would be impossible. Or that

Strolling down Austin Avenue, you can’t help but notice the neon sign that reads “cookies” and the sweet smell that quickly follows. Hanna Austin, a second semester junior at Baylor University, opened shop last summer when her original cookie recipe took Waco by storm. Bittersweet was founded from the quest to create the perfect chocolate

In 2017, Julie Copenhaver quit her stable job working at Baylor and decided to travel the world. She purchased a storage shed and packed up her life in Waco, the place she had called home since college, and traded in her life for a dream many would find daunting. The seed was planted at a