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Dr. Stephen Newby, research lead for the Black Gospel Archive, sits in the digitization studio housed at the Archive. Here, Newby and his team digitize and re-record records that have been donated to the collection.

Black Gospel Archive receives $2.48 million grant to add oral history, increase space

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the largest digital collection of gospel music in the world. Now the Lilly Endowment has awarded the archive a $2.48 million grant to expand the archive.

Sports

NCAA Women’s tournament includes overshadowed Baylor and UT Austin

Sean Saldana

The Lone Star State has representation in the field, but it’s South Carolina, Iowa, and UConn that loom large.

A student at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired holds a 3D-printed model of an electron microscope image of a butterfly, feeling the shape with their fingers, as part of the In Your Element program teaching chemistry and hard sciences to visually impaired students. Students used 3D-printed materials and other tactile aids to understand processes and technology used in electron microscope imagery.

Education

Science ‘on their fingertips’: Texas professor making chemistry available to blind students

Shelly Brisbin | Texas Standard

Baylor University professor Bryan Shaw and a team of blind chemists designed experiments and tactile learning aids so blind and visually impaired students can get a literal feel for chemistry.

UT-Austin is just one Texas university taking special measures to encourage social distancing and prevent the spread of COVID-19 now that the university is open for its fall semester. But students at Texas universities are still getting sick.

Texas A&M, Baylor Lead State Universities In COVID-19 Cases

Jill Ament

From Texas Standard: COVID-19 cases at Texas' public universities are spikin g. University and local health officials anticipated that might happen, as...

A map showing where cases of coronavirus have been confirmed.

Bioscience-Medicine

Texas Officials Say All Four Suspected Coronavirus Cases Tested Negative

The Texas Tribune

After multiple false alarms in recent days, Texas health officials confirmed Monday that there are no confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus in the…

Ken Starr cheers with Baylor University students before a 2012 game against the University of Kansas Jayhawks in Waco, Texas.

After A Fall At Baylor, Ken Starr Became A Fox Regular, And Then, A Trump Defender

Cat Schuknecht

Ken Starr was stripped of his presidency at Baylor University in 2016, accused of overseeing an administration that ignored a campus sexual assault scandal.

A judge in Texas on Monday accepted a plea bargain that allows Jacob Anderson, a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of raping a woman at a fraternity party, to avoid serving jail time, marking at least the third time the judge has approved probation for men accused of sexually assaulting Baylor students.

Texas Judge Allows Former Baylor Frat President To Sidestep Rape Charge

Denise Couture

Jacob Anderson pleaded no contest to unlawful restraint and won't have to register as a sex offender. He worked out a plea deal with prosecutors for counseling but no time behind bars.

Arts & Culture

A Quest To Find The Origin Of The Mum

Michael Marks | The Texas Standard

From Texas Standard: First, to make sure we’re all on the same page, homecoming mums are something that vaguely resemble a chrysanthemum corsage. From...

Texas

Texas Matters: 'Violated: Exposing Rape At Baylor Univeristy'

David Martin Davies

As the world's largest Baptist university, Baylor is unabashedly Christian. There is a strict code of conduct for all students that forbids, with the…

Former Regent's Comments About Female Students Bring More Attention To Baylor Sex Assault Cases

Jill Ament

From Texas Standard: Some eyebrow-raising comments made in 2009 by a then-member of the Baylor University Board of Regents made headlines in Texas this...