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 University Law Professor Jeremy Counseller will deliver the keynote address at Baylor Law School's commencement exercises at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Miller Chapel. Additionally, Philip Haines, the highest ranking student in the commencement class, will deliver remarks. Baylor Interim President David Garland also will participate in the program and will award juris doctor degrees to 12 graduates.
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Baylor University students will build awareness of poverty issues around the Waco community with the Poverty Summit held Nov. 6 - 8 in the Bill Daniel Student Center on Baylor's campus.
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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's Institute for Family Business will host the 20th annual Texas Family Business of the Year Awards Banquet, which will honor 20 Texas businesses that display values that honor the business itself, the community and the family.
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Baylor University's Spiritual Life department hosts Chapel speakers every Monday and Wednesday at 9:05 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. in Waco Hall on the Baylor campus. This November, students will be treated to faith-based editor, a "Born Again Don," and authors.
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Stephen Watters, international advisor to the Linguistic Survey in Nepal, will present "Language Diversity: A Tool for Unification or Division? Observations from Nepal" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, in room 116 at Draper Academic Building on the Baylor University campus.
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Dr. David R. Sorensen, professor of English and associate director of the honors program at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, will present his lecture, "Listening to the Past" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Hankamer Treasure Room in Armstrong Browning Library.
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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 will welcome several distinguished speakers and performers to campus this fall. Below is a list of the lectures, conferences, symposia, and performances that will be held during November at Baylor.
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