I’ve been reflecting of late on those beautiful Wordsworth lines from The Prelude: “What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how.” Something about the end of the school year evokes that passage for me, this season when graduations, major award wins, defended theses, and so many other celebrations invite us to encounter the fruits of our students’ well-ordered loves. That’s what I appreciate most about working at a university, I think: that students and colleagues continue, all the time, to inspire me to love new things because they show me new things to love—and teach me how.
Our final newsletter of the school year is chock full of such items: student scientists sharing their love of science with local high schoolers; student researchers presenting at URSA Scholars Week; student winners of major awards like the Goldwater, Boren, Pickering, and CLS; and students like Karly Shepherd, Sarah Beno, John Austin DeLozier, and Isabella Zárate, this year’s OEL Award winners, who offer us what Alfred North Whitehead once called a “habitual vision of greatness.”
Enjoy reading about this, and so much more, below. Best wishes as you round out the school year. And happy summer, y’all!
Cheers,
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I’ve been reflecting of late on those beautiful Wordsworth lines from The Prelude: “What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how.” Something about the end of the school year evokes that passage for me, this season when graduations, major award wins, defended theses, and so many other celebrations invite us to encounter the fruits of our students’ well-ordered loves. That’s what I appreciate most about working at a university, I think: that students and colleagues continue, all the time, to inspire me to love new things because they show me new things to love—and teach me how.
Our final newsletter of the school year is chock full of such items: student scientists sharing their love of science with local high schoolers; student researchers presenting at URSA Scholars Week; student winners of major awards like the Goldwater, Boren, Pickering, and CLS; and students like Karly Shepherd, Sarah Beno, John Austin DeLozier, and Isabella Zárate, this year’s OEL Award winners, who offer us what Alfred North Whitehead once called a “habitual vision of greatness.”
Enjoy reading about this, and so much more, below. Best wishes as you round out the school year. And happy summer, y’all!
Cheers,
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Andrew P. Hogue, PhD
Associate Dean
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Shepherd, Beno, DeLozier, and Zárate Honored with 2024-25 OEL Awards |
Four students, Karly Shepherd, Sarah Beno, John Austin DeLozier, and Isabella Zárate, were honored at the 2025 OEL Banquet with the Myles Horton, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madeline Albright Awards, respectively.
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Major Undergraduate Awards Season Begins with Four Goldwater Scholars |
Baylor undergraduate STEM researchers have kicked off the spring major fellowships and awards season by earning a record four Goldwater Scholarships, the preeminent undergraduate award that supports outstanding undergraduates interested in pursuing STEM research careers.
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URSA Scholars Week Showcases Outstanding Student Research
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Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Scholars Week 2025 highlighted the exceptional work of Baylor students, showcasing a diverse array of research projects across various disciplines.
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Six Waco Nonprofits Receive Grants through Baylor’s Philanthropy Lab
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Students in Baylor University’s Philanthropy & the Public Good course awarded grants to six local nonprofit organizations, supporting work to mentor and advocate for young people, accompany migrants and refugees, resource small business entrepreneurs, and assist persons experiencing homelessness.
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View the OEL's 2024 Year-End Report
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We've published our first-ever annual report highlighting the many activities and accomplishments of our team and students in calendar year 2024. We invite you to read it and celebrate with us the good work we've accomplished together.
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| Baylor Students Win Boren, Critical Language, Fulbright UK Summer Institute Awards |
Baylor students have won multiple national awards and fellowships, including Taylor Chung (Critical Language), Shannon Barton (Boren), Mike Ermis (Critical Language), Rebeca Blemur (Boren) and Nik Gillaspie (Fulbright UK Summer Institute).
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Baylor Grad Wins Prestigious Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
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Baylor University graduate Camille Watson, B.A. ’22, has won the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, a merit- and needs-based program that's one of the U.S. State Department’s flagship initiatives for recruiting top-tier talent for Foreign Service careers.
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Zombies & DNA: Baylor’s First-Ever CityLab Brings Lab Experience to Local High Schoolers
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One of the first stops for Baylor campus visitors is the Williams Bear Habitat, home of bear mascots Indy and Belle. The La Vega High School students visiting campus last week for the first-ever Baylor CityLab were no different; the Bear Habitat was tops on their tour agenda — and where their interactive science journey began.
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Announcing the 2025-26 Provost's Scholars |
16 students from a diverse array of academic disciplines were selected to become Provost's Scholars for the 2025-26 academic year.
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View Photos from Our 2025 Year-End Banquet
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We so enjoyed our time celebrating excellence together at our year-end banquet in April. Click the link below to view photos from the evening!
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Shepherd, Beno, DeLozier, and Zárate Honored with 2024-25 OEL Awards |
Four students, Karly Shepherd, Sarah Beno, John Austin DeLozier, and Isabella Zárate, were honored at the 2025 OEL Banquet with the Myles Horton, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madeline Albright Awards, respectively.
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Baylor Students Win Boren, Critical Language, Fulbright UK Summer Institute Awards |
Baylor students have won multiple national awards and fellowships, including Taylor Chung (Critical Language), Shannon Barton (Boren), Mike Ermis (Critical Language), Rebeca Blemur (Boren) and Nik Gillaspie (Fulbright UK Summer Institute).
|
Major Undergraduate Awards Season Begins with Four Goldwater Scholars |
Baylor undergraduate STEM researchers have kicked off the spring major fellowships and awards season by earning a record four Goldwater Scholarships, the preeminent undergraduate award that supports outstanding undergraduates interested in pursuing STEM research careers.
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Baylor Grad Wins Prestigious Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
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Baylor University graduate Camille Watson, B.A. ’22, has won the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, a merit- and needs-based program that's one of the U.S. State Department’s flagship initiatives for recruiting top-tier talent for Foreign Service careers.
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URSA Scholars Week Showcases Outstanding Student Research
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Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Scholars Week 2025 highlighted the exceptional work of Baylor students, showcasing a diverse array of research projects across various disciplines.
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| Zombies & DNA: Baylor’s First-Ever CityLab Brings Lab Experience to Local High Schoolers
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One of the first stops for Baylor campus visitors is the Williams Bear Habitat, home of bear mascots Indy and Belle. The La Vega High School students visiting campus last week for the first-ever Baylor CityLab were no different; the Bear Habitat was tops on their tour agenda — and where their interactive science journey began.
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Six Waco Nonprofits Receive Grants through Baylor’s Philanthropy Lab
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Students in Baylor University’s Philanthropy & the Public Good course awarded grants to six local nonprofit organizations, supporting work to mentor and advocate for young people, accompany migrants and refugees, resource small business entrepreneurs, and assist persons experiencing homelessness.
|
Announcing the 2025-26 Provost's Scholars |
16 students from a diverse array of academic disciplines were selected to become Provost's Scholars for the 2025-26 academic year.
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View the OEL's 2024 Year-End Report
|
We've published our first-ever annual report highlighting the many activities and accomplishments of our team and students in calendar year 2024. We invite you to read it and celebrate with us the good work we've accomplished together.
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View Photos from Our 2025 Year-End Banquet
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We so enjoyed our time celebrating excellence together at our year-end banquet in April. Click the link below to view photos from the evening!
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From all of us in the OEL, thank you for a wonderful year. And seniors—congratulations!
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From all of us in the OEL, thank you for a wonderful year. And seniors—congratulations!
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