Silobration with Mt.Joy
The popular indie rock and folk band Mt. Joy is coming to Waco!
This October, the band will perform at Silobration, hosted by Chip and Joanna Gaines at the Magnolia Silos. Mt. Joy will kick off the weekend at Foster Pavilion, with special guest Ax and the Hatchetmen. More live music will follow at the Silos throughout the weekend, including The Fray on Friday, Oct. 23; Dylan Gossett on Saturday, Oct. 24; and a special Sunday morning gathering with Cory Asbury on Sunday, Oct. 25.
Tickets are currently on sale.
Summer Missions
Over the course of the summer break, hundreds of Baylor students go across the globe to participate in Baylor mission trips. Each trip is led by a Baylor faculty member who helps students understand how they can use their unique gifts and talents to serve the people around them.
Dr. Doug Henry, Dean of Baylor’s Honors College, recently returned from leading a missions trip to Greece, where students served homeless individuals and refugees.
“From the very beginning, we try to set expectations high,” Henry said, according to an article from Baylor Magazine. “We want [students] to be thoughtful, and to be able to tie what they’re experiencing into that sense of calling—whether they’re in engineering, English or whatever they study.”
New Ethics Major
The Honors College and the College of Arts & Sciences are jointly offering an exciting new ethics major. The ethics major will be a primary major within the Bachelor of Philosophy degree starting this fall.
“This new interdisciplinary major blends serious moral engagement with deep disciplinary understanding,” Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Dr. James R. Brockmole said, according to an article from the Honors College. “Students completing this program will leave Baylor equipped to drive ethical decision-making in public policy, healthcare, education, technology, culture, law, and many other fields. I’m thrilled for the College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors College to launch this innovative program to develop the leaders our world sorely needs.”
Admission to the program will be competitive, and students will complete 18 hours of required ethics coursework, 12 hours in a chosen concentration, and 6 hours of ethics electives.
Baylor Lawyers Win Big at Advocacy Competition
Graduates from Baylor Law School won top prizes at the Fifth Circuit Appellate Oral Advocacy Competition.
The competition, hosted by the Young Lawyers Committee of the Bankruptcy and Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit, strengthens oral advocacy skills through a mock appeal modeled after a real U.S. Supreme Court case.
Tiffani Skroch, JD ’24, won two of the competition’s top honors — her courtroom championship and Best Advocate in her courtroom. Kristopher Ruiz, JD ’22, and Jessica Cox, JD ’21, competed as a team and won their courtroom championship. Ruiz was also recognized as Best Advocate.
Skroch felt prepared for the competition because of Baylor Law’s advocacy curriculum.
“Baylor’s advocacy program is unique in that it prepares you to present your argument based on the judges, which is not necessarily how you may have practiced or what you expected,” Skroch said, according to an article from Baylor Law. “At the end of the day, an oral argument is not a speech, it’s a conversation.”
Baylor Professor on The Odyssey
With Christopher Nolan’s newest film, The Odyssey, hitting theaters, Baylor great texts professor Dr. Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray shares her thoughts on what it takes to put a story like this on the big screen.
Murray is not only an academic whose work centers around reading and analyzing ancient texts, but she is also a screenwriter and filmmaker. Her unique background has made her especially excited to see Nolan’s most recent undertaking.
“Movies are an incredibly powerful medium, and that’s why I’m so excited to see Christopher Nolan tackle The Odyssey, because the reality is millions of people will be thinking about and talking about The Odyssey for a long time to come, who would never have picked up the book,” Murray said, according to a Baylor Press Release.
Murray created a nonprofit called The Greats Story Lab to help readers engage with the Great Texts, like The Odyssey.
“There was no grand plan when we started experimenting with The Greats Story Lab,” Murray said. “I saw this need at the time for my students, who are digital natives and spend a lot of time on digital platforms.”
USA Today Reader’s Choice Awards
Baylor University’s Baylor Line walkout tradition was nominated for Best Walk-Out Tradition as part of USA Today Sports’ 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards.
One of 20 nominees, The Baylor Line is an honored tradition where all freshman students rush the field at McLane Stadium and form a tunnel to welcome the football team onto the field. Students wear gold jerseys with their chosen name or nickname on the back.
You can vote for The Baylor Line in the Readers’ Choice Awards here.
