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As a new academic year finds its stride, there is much to celebrate and anticipate at Baylor. In this Baylor Connections, President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D. shares insights on a variety of topics: national trust in Baylor, enrollment, spiritual formation, leadership in higher education and college athletics, future growth and more.

The 2022-23 Baylor sports season is underway, and as fans return to campus for their favorite fall sports and traditions, they’ll have the opportunity to impact the game visually as well as vocally. Erin Bean serves as Assistant Athletic Director for Strategic Marketing and Fan Engagement and Courtney Scrivano serves as Director of Licensing in Baylor Athletics. In this Baylor Connections, they take listeners inside the Go Gold campaign and share new ways fans can support the program and go gold for the Bears at upcoming games.

Chet Garner, a 2006 Baylor Law alum, hosts the Emmy Award-winning Texas travel show, The Daytripper. As the face of Baylor’s Bears in the Wild alumni campaign, he encourages alumni around the country to connect with their fellow Bears. In this Baylor Connections, Garner takes listeners inside his Baylor experience, his love for Baylor University and the Lone Star State, and the joys of traveling Texas highways to share hidden gems with viewers.

Proximity, policy and research play significant roles in the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty’s fight to end food insecurity. In this Baylor Connections, Jeremy Everett, BCHP executive director, conveys the heart behind the call to feed the hungry, both close to home and around the world, and examines how relationships, high-level research and multi-sector partnerships boost the work they do.

As technology becomes a more prevalent part of health care communication, the role of compassionate communication remains important as mediums change. Ashley Barrett, associate professor in communication, recently earned a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study how patients and providers adopt and adapt together. In this Baylor Connections, she takes listeners inside that study and examines communication’s role in health outcomes.

After 22 years teaching at LSU and UT-Dallas, Julia Chan returned to her alma mater last winter to serve as the inaugural holder of The Tim and Sharalynn Fenn Family Endowed Chair in Materials Science at Baylor. In this Baylor Connections, she takes listeners inside her renowned work in quantum materials, explains the goal to build materials with exotic properties and shares the motivation to grow materials science studies at Baylor.

This episode of Conversations with Creative Waco features Ryan Kirby, of Silent House Theatre Company. We learn more about Ryan and he introduces the troupe’s newest play “This Is Our Youth”. In the second half of the episode, Dr. Tyrha Lindsay-Warren will be sharing what’s in store for this year’s Waco Family and Faith International Film Festival.

Host Kennedy talks with representatives from the Mayborn Museum about their Cardboard Craze exhibit, and with Silent House Theatre about this weekend's production of Heathers: The Musical.

Host Kennedy Sam learns more about the Waco Insider from publisher Mark Long, and we get an update on the upcoming Waco Family and Faith Film Festival from Dr. Tyrha Lindsey-Warren.

Listen in for an update from Creative Waco Executive Director Fiona Bond on the "State of the Arts" in the Greater Waco area. Fiona and host Kennedy Sam also wrap up with their arts resolutions for 2023.