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Maybe you’re looking for a nice day trip from your home in DFW, Houston, Austin or San Antonio. Maybe it’s a stop on a longer summer vacation drive across Texas. Maybe it’s your (or your child’s) Orientation or Line Camp that brings you this way.
Whatever your reason for visiting Waco this summer, there’s plenty to see and do. A quick Google search reveals the classic favorites the Baylor campus, Cameron Park (and Cameron Park Zoo), the Dr Pepper Museum, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum, etc. so we’re going to do a little bit deeper dive.
June 3, 2021 // Posted In Academics, Research
Dr. Greg Garrett is particularly gifted at telling all types of stories. As a specialist in creative writing, he’s told stories of truth and passion. He’s analyzed media for its effects on past and modern societies. And over the past year, he has been focused on telling stories of race and justice.
His most recent book,
“Racial mythologies have been deeply embedded in American life, from film to legal codes to theology to popular and material culture,” says Garrett. “Racial mythologies about the inferiority of other races are untrue in the way we usually think of myths as lies, but they’re also powerfully true in the way that people have oriented their lives around them and used them to make sense of the world. I’m interested in the way these dynamics shapes the way we understand our lives, the world, God, and each other.”
June 1, 2021 // Posted In Alumni, Service
Throughout COVID-19, those on the frontlines of healthcare have received well-deserved accolades. Doctors, nurses, first responders, researchers all have stepped up to address COVID-19-related challenges. But that’s not the only group on the frontlines; environmental and public health professionals are also out there working to protect the health of their neighbors and much like the more commonly discussed medical fields, Baylor is well-represented in this group.
Part of the reason Baylor sends so many graduates into environmental health leadership is the strength of its environmental health science program one of the oldest such programs in the nation, and one of only 30 programs nationally to have its bachelor of science program accredited by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).