By Josh Siatkowski | Staff WriterFive months after a team of sophomores formed the first cohort of University Innovation Fellows at Baylor, the organization is bringing in a new class of freshmen to ensure continuity of the group and its impacts. San Antonio freshman Abbie Green, McGregor freshman Chloe McCauley, The Woodlands freshman Alan San Miguel and Anaheim, Calif., freshman...

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By Emily Schoch | Staff WriterBaylor has been honored with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation, celebrating the university’s ongoing commitment to urban forestry, sustainability and environmental stewardship. The Tree Campus Higher Education by the Arbor Day Foundation is a program that celebrates universities for intentionality behind providing tree education, which serves as a tool...

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By Kristy Volmert | Staff WriterWhere do you see yourself in five years?Next week, students have the opportunity to connect with people who were in their shoes not so long ago and have now jumped into their future careers. Student attendees will hear about the experiences of alumni as they actively live in the times that they called their "future"...

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By Marisa Young | ReporterMany students are looking forward to the Easter holiday, but for others, there is a lingering dread regarding the break due to food insecurity. Baylor’s on campus food pantry, The Store, is offering resources in the form of food bags to provide for students in need. Director of The Store Steven Fernandez said the holidays are...

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By Ryan Otteson | ReporterThe Latinx Association for Health and Science is a student organization that strives to inspire increased diversity at Baylor and encourage others to give back to their communities. Their goal is to help students become well-rounded healthcare professionals in the future. LASH provides pre-health and STEM students with a group of people who are of similar...

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By Marisa Young | ReporterWoman-owned nonprofit Esther’s Closet exists to empower women in Waco who face economic or educational boundaries in entering the workforce. It seeks to fill this need by providing both physical and educational resources to women in need, and all services are free.“The mission of Esther's Closet is to enhance women's skills through career development,” Coordinator Heaven...

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By Blake Hollingsworth | Staff WriterBaylor Law School held a webinar Wednesday afternoon on growing attacks against the judiciary and how they threaten the foundation of American democracy. The discussion centered on the importance of judicial independence and the consequences of public mistrust in the legal system.“This isn’t new,” Wendy May-Dreyer, the head of iCivics, a civic education nonprofit, said....

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By Cole Gee | Staff WriterSocial media was ablaze after Open AI introduced the new GPT-4o, which allows users to use the AI to generate images. Sam Altman, Open AI CEO, said they were receiving so many new users that the "company's servers were melting."This could be traced back to the popular Studio Ghibli trend, where users used the image...

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By Delaney Newhouse | Focus EditorHow do we prefer the poor? The Catholic teaching of a preferential option for the poor is a key component of liberation theology. According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it is a special commitment of the church to strengthen the whole of a community by uplifting its most vulnerable. Heather Reynolds, Michael...

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By Blake Hollingsworth | Staff WriterThe Brazos River basin contains more impaired stream segments than any other in Texas, but the river’s ability to tolerate pollution depends largely on the consistency and volume of its flow. Much of the Brazos’ pollution challenges stem from how the surrounding land is used, said Dr. Peter Allen, emeritus professor of hydrology and engineering...

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