Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Baylor University will not hold classes Nov. 25-29, and other university facilities will modify their hours.
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Texas has plenty of food to go around. Yet it is the third hungriest state in the nation, with an estimated 1.3 million Texas residents going hungry daily. A Nov. 19 summit at Baylor University will look at ways to end hunger.
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Baylor Law School's Public Interest Legal Society is postponing its golf tournament, originally scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15, but will hold its National Adoption Day event as planned on Nov. 20. The tournament will be re-scheduled in the spring.
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Baylor University researchers have identified a key component that increases the toxicity of golden algae (Prymnesium parvum), which kills millions of fish in the southern U.S. every year.
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Baylor University honored Fort Hood soldiers and their families, as well as Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, the civilian police officer credited as a hero during last week's tragedy at Fort Hood, during the Baylor-Texas football game Saturday at Waco's Floyd Casey Stadium.
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The Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) has selected Baylor University to receive an Active Earth kiosk, which is an interactive computer-based museum-type display that provides a way to engage audiences with Earth science information without spending resources on a large exhibit.
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Dr. Joe Fulton, professor of English at Baylor University, has been named winner of the 2010 Jules and Frances Landry Award for Best Book on Southern studies for The Reconstruction of Mark Twain. The book is a radical reappraisal of Twain and his evolving political allegiances and writings during and after the Civil War.
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Baylor University announced today the naming of the Hurd Tennis Building within the Baylor Tennis Center. The Hurd Tennis Building honors the generosity of Mark V. and Paula R. Hurd's support of Baylor's national championship tennis program and facilities.
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A symbolic shift from 20th century manufacturing to 21st century technology took place Oct. 23 with the announcement of plans to turn a long-shuttered manufacturing plant into a modern research collaborative. A group of state, county and city governments and organizations and higher educational institutions in Central Texas announced the creation of the Central Texas Technology and Research Park, and the park's first project, the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) to be housed in the former General Tire facility on South Loop Drive in Waco.
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Marijuana may be the most popular illegal drug of choice, and heroin may be the most damaging drug an individual can use, but it is crack cocaine that has changed the world as Americans know it. That's the finding of Baylor law professor Mark Osler who has spent more than a decade studying, testifying on and arguing cases about sentencing crack cocaine offenders. Osler has been invited to share his expertise at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Nov. 16, at 6 p.m.
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