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Follow us on Twitter: WACO, Texas (April 19, 2021) — Baylor University’s department of religion has announced that Wemimo Bright Jaiyesimi of Lagos, Nigeria, has been named the recipient of the inaugural Robert L. Gilbert Scholar in Religion Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is named for the Rev. Robert Gilbert, B.A. 67, the first Black graduate of Baylor University, along with Barbara Walker, B.A. ’67. In 1970, Gilbert became the first Black student to enroll in Baylor’s religion gr...

by Cerenity Austin, student news writer, Baylor University Media and Public Relations WACO, Texas (April 13, 2021) — With President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, citizens nationwide received a second round of stimulus checks in the form of $1,400 per person and an additional $1,400 per dependent. The Rescue Plan also brought increased child tax credits and unemployment benefits. James Roberts, Ph.D., The Ben H. Williams Professor of Marketing in the Hankamer School o...

April 12, 2021 Empathy, feedback and shorter, focused meetings should be goals during crises — and ordinary times, national survey of professional communicators finds Contact: Terry Goodrich, Baylor University Media and Public Relations, 254-644-4155 Follow us on Twitter: WACO, Texas (April 12, 2021)— Managers should listen more, be empathetic and be sure they give feedback — even if they cannot solve a problem immediately, according to a Baylor University study that focused on workplace...

Media Contact: Eric Eckert, Baylor University Media and Public Relations, 254-710-1964 Follow us on Twitter: WACO, Texas (March 29, 2021) – As the United States continues its march to vaccinate millions of citizens against COVID-19, marketing researchers from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business have discovered a messaging model that motivates people to take preventive actions to battle the virus. Researchers Meredith David, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, teamed up fo...

WACO, Texas (March 31, 2021) – As National Autism Awareness Month begins in April, two Baylor University School of Education faculty members have received grant awards from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to fund research and training in behavioral intervention practices that improve outcomes for children with autism. Tonya Davis, Ph.D., BS ’02, MS ’04, professor of educational psychology and director of the special education program in the Baylor School of Educat...

Follow us on Twitter: WACO, Texas (Feb. 26, 2021) – Baylor University will engage in dedicated outreach with prospective students and their families as part of the Topgolf Live Stadium Series held Feb. 25-28 at McLane Stadium. The event is the first of seven at Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college stadiums this spring, followed by events at the universities of Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee. More than 40,000 prospective students have applied to Ba...

NOTE: January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month LISTEN: Dr. Stacie Petter discusses her research on the WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2021) – In the fight against human trafficking, law enforcement officers are forced to navigate many technological challenges to break up illicit networks and rescue individuals caught up in human trade. A Baylor University professor and a former student, now a faculty member at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), are working to ...

WACO, Texas (Jan. 7, 2021) – Baylor University researchers Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., associate professors of environmental science, have been awarded an $890,000 grant by the Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research (ASR) to examine the impact of urban pollution on thunderstorm activity. The grant, TRACER-MAP: Mapping Aerosol Processes across Houston during convective cell events, enables researchers to conduct measurements in Houston in the summer of 2021 to tie into an overarching, m...

Contact: Terry Goodrich, Baylor University Media and Public Relations, 254-644-4155 Follow us on Twitter: WACO, Texas (Dec. 9, 2020) – A mysterious small marine reptile dating from 150 million years ago has been identified as a new species that may have been capable of diving very deeply. The well-preserved specimen was found in a Late Jurassic deep marine deposit along the English Channel coastline in Dorset, England. The aquatic reptile has been determined to be part of the group known as ...