Baylor University News

One of the most unsettling rites of passage of being a medical student or junior physician is one's first encounter with a patient who has no prognosis for recovery.

Homegoing services are scheduled for Tyler Alexandra Jefferson on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at 11 a.m. at the Liberty Baptist Church of Tyler with the Rev.

Robert S. Cook, who retired as director of the Florida Baptist Convention's Family Life Department in 1989, died Nov.

The Second Annual Greater Waco Community Education Summit drew to a close Friday with a focus on another issue that concerned Wacoans have been working to change - poverty.

As Jessica Wilkinson counts her blessings, state and national leaders meet to talk about the problem she and millions of Americans face.

The body of a missing teenage boy was discovered early Thursday morning. Police say their investigations led them to arrest three of the boy's acquaintances, two of whom have now been charged with murder.

With startling new statistics released this week showing children in Texas are the hungriest in the nation and that our state is the second hungriest, it is evident that Texas is falling behind in feeding its residents.

Cleburne High School senior Alexis "Lexy" Hitchcock has been honored by the 2010 National Merit Scholarship program as a commended student.

Beginning Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, the International Psoriasis Council will host its second symposium at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Talk of the Neighborhood highlights Central Texans' achievements. * Class Acts * * Daniel Bland , formerly of Waco, has accepted a research fellowship with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

By GENE TRAINOR FORT WORTH - Tuition at Texas Christian University will increase 6.2 percent for the 2010-11 school year to $30,000 for a full-time undergraduate, officials announced Monday.

A Baylor University economics professor told lawmakers on Monday that Arizona's private-school tax-credit scholarship program saved the state $44 million to $186 million last year.

Dr. Arnold Hugh Meckley, 79, of Junction, passed away at Wilford Hall Medical Medical Center in San Antonio on Nov.

Two young computer whizzes from politically connected families hook up early in their careers.

If you're serious about the education of your children and grandchildren, or just the next generation in general, then you've already registered for the second Greater Waco Community Education Summit, which begins Wednesday evening at the Waco Convention Center.

United markets named 'Texas Family Business of the Year' The Institute for Family Business at Baylor University recognized United Supermarkets as the "Texas Family Business of the Year" in the Large Business category at the 20th annual Texas Family Business of the Year awards banquet held recently at Baylor University's Bill Daniel Student Center ...

Talk of the Neighborhood highlights Central Texans' achievements. * Class Acts * * Jamie M. Olejarski , class of 2001 valedictorian of Reicher Catholic High School and a 2005 graduate of Baylor University, received her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in May.

A former Baylor University student is seeking felony deferred probation after pleading guilty Thursday to stealing laptop computers and other electronic items from fellow students at Baylor's Moody Library.

The Baylor University athletic department plans on honoring Fort Hood hero Sgt. Mark Todd during their football game with Texas this weekend.

After years of steady improvement, bar exam passage rates at St. Mary's University School of Law fell this year for the first time since 2005.