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WACO, Texas (Oct. 30, 2015) – Keri Stephens, Ph.D., associate professor in communication studies and the associate director for partnerships with the Center for Health Communication at the University of Texas, will offer a new perspective about communication to Baylor students by drawing from her diverse background in both the hard and social sciences.

WACO, Texas (March 2, 2015) - Baylor University’s Department of Communication in the College of Arts & Sciences will welcome Claire Sisco King, Ph.D., to present a lecture titled “Mapping the Stars: Celebrity and the Politics of Metonymy” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Castellaw Communications Center Room 101.

WACO, Texas (May 3, 2013) - Baylor University alumnus Randall Fowler of Abilene, Texas, is one of four Baylor students and recent graduates who have been selected to receive the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Fowler received the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) and will spend the 2013-2014 academic year teaching English in Jordan.

WACO, Texas (Dec. 14, 2012) -- With a single social-media misstep, student-athletes could lose athletic eligibility or a scholarship. But that's not stopping them from using Twitter - sometimes even during games, when they may see harsh criticism of their performances from fans, according to a study conducted by Baylor University and Clemson University researchers.

WACO, Texas (April 20, 2012) - Every spring since 1994, Baylor University's graduating class has selected one outstanding Baylor professor, and this year's star is Blair Browning, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies.

The Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum, Baylor's nationally-ranked debating team, begins this season poised for a run at the national championship. Baylor's top debate team of seniors John Cook and Ashley Morgan will complete this week at the prestigious Kentucky Round Robin, which is reserved for the top eight individual debate teams in the country.

Baylor's nationally-ranked debate team - The Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum - capped off a tremendous season, finishing in the Elite Eight of the National Debate Tournament (NDT), held March 25-28 in Dallas. This is Baylor's strongest finish at the national championships since 1996, when Baylor made it to the Final Four.

Baylor University's department of communication studies will host Communication Week from Monday, March 21, to Thursday, March 24, in Castellaw Communications Center on the Baylor campus. The events are free and open to the public.

Despite fielding one of its youngest teams in several years, Baylor University's nationally ranked debate team, the Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum, posted a 6-2 record at the District 3 tournament - widely considered the toughest debate district in the country - and qualified for the national championships in Dallas March 25-28.

Baylor University's debate team - the Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum - has achieved a No. 3 national ranking based on its performance at several recent competitions.

Members of Baylor University's nationally ranked debate team recently made a strong showing at the National Debate Tournament, held at the University of California, Berkeley, at the end of March. Baylor's top two individual debate teams each advanced to the elimination rounds at the prestigious, invitation-only tournament.

Members of the Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum, Baylor University's nationally ranked debate team, captured the District 3 championship over the weekend, with senior debater Alex McVey earning recognition as tournament's top individual speaker.The team will now head to the National Debate Tournament March 18-23 at the University of California at Berkeley.

The Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum, Baylor University's renowned intercollegiate debating team, has achieved a No. 5 national ranking following season-opening tournaments at Gonzaga and Georgia State University.

Baylor University's Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum finished 10th in the final national debate rankings following the 2009 National Debate Tournament. Finishing ahead of many traditional debate powers, such as Harvard, Dartmouth, USC, Georgia and Texas, Baylor was again the top-ranked college debate program in the state.

Historic debate program has trained students at Baylor to think critically and speak clearly about serious issues for more than 100 years.

Two Baylor University debate teams have qualified for the prestigious National Debate Tournament, to be held March 28 -April 2 in Dallas. Baylor is one of only 18 other debate programs that will be represented by multiple teams at the tournament. Currently, Baylor is ranked No. 19 in the nation heading into the national tournament and is the top-ranked debate team in Texas. This year, 78 teams will compete in the national tournament.

Dr. Rich Edwards, professor of communication studies at Baylor University, will be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame at an awards ceremony June 29 in Orlando, Fla. Edwards, the fine arts selection, is one of 12 people who will be inducted into the prestigious organization.

Baylor University's department of communications studies will hold Communications Week Monday through Thursday, Feb. 13-16. The week-long event, which is free and open to the public, will feature lectures, a film screening, a panel discussion and a debate.

On Thursday afternoon, more than 75 middle and high school debaters from nine Waco ISD schools will take part in a new initiative between WISD, Baylor's nationally ranked debate team and Baylor Law School.

Two Baylor University students will take on the British National Debate Team at the annual Rufus and Alline Huff Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy. The debate, which will focus on stem cell research, will begin at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, in room 101 at the Castellaw Communication Building. The event is free and open to the public.

A Baylor University debate team has compiled the highest winning percentage in the country, according to the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA). The team of Josh Oie, a sophomore from White Bear Lake, Minn., and Obie Lansford, a sophomore from Sherman, finished fifth at their first tournament and first at their second. They have a win/loss record of 12-2.

The Baylor University debate team completed a highly successful run at the Wichita State University debate tournament held last weekend in Wichita, Kan. Approximately 50 teams from universities in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri participated in the tournament.

One of the largest and oldest intercollegiate debate tournaments in the nation will be held Saturday through Monday, Jan. 24-26, on the Baylor University campus.

Two Baylor University graduate students and a British debate team will debate the United States' involvement in the World Trade Organization as part of the Rufus and Alline Huff Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Roxy Grove Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

For more than 60 years, Baylor University has invited high school students to participate in its formidable debate program - one of the oldest and most successful in the nation - so it wasn't surprising to find some of the nation's top young debaters spending part of their summer researching and discussing the day's hottest issues during the Baylor Debaters' Workshop.

Students from Waco's G.W. Carver Academy have been invited to showcase their debate skills and share their experiences in Project Democracy at the GEAR UP National Conference to be held in October in Washington, D.C.
The half dozen students, accompanied by Baylor debate professor and Project Democracy director Karla Leeper, Baylor graduate student Skye Perryman and Carver debate teacher Mary Duty, plan to leave Waco for Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 4.

The city of Minneapolis witnessed the crowning of the NCAA basketball champion Monday, but Baylor was the site for a different national championship last week. Monday night, April 2, the University of Iowa debate team won the prestigious National Debate Tournament, which was held at Baylor March 29 to April 2. Emory University took second place.

The National Debate Tournament will be held at Baylor University Thursday through Monday, March 29 to April 2. Over the four-day period, 78 two-member teams from such universities as Harvard, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, will debate the topic "RESOLVED: That the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its development assistance, including increasing government to government assistance, within the Greater Horn of Africa." The tournament is sponsored by the American Forensic Association.

Two Baylor University students will debate members of the British National Debate Team at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in Jones Theater in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on the Baylor campus as part of the annual Rufus and Alline Huff Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy.