University of the Ozarks will award bachelor degrees to 19 graduating seniors during its 2017 Fall Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16. The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Munger-Wilson Chapel. There will be a reception for the graduates and their families and friends following the ceremony in the Rogers Conference Center. Matt David, […]
University of the Ozarks is introducing a new full-need tuition scholarship for students from Johnson County. Under the new program, the University covers the direct cost of tuition after all federal and state aid, including the U.S. Department of Education’s Direct Subsidized Loans, have been applied. The full-need tuition scholarship does not cover room and […]
University of the Ozarks senior Ivan Bustillo’s final semester has been quite memorable. The radio-television-video (RTV) major from El Salvador will cap a notable last semester when he receives his diploma on Dec. 16, during the Fall 2017 Commencement ceremony. Earlier in the semester, Bustillo won the prestigious Student Pillar of Excellence Award from the […]
University of the Ozarks’ time-honored Christmas tradition, A Service of Lessons and Carols, will feature an added bonus this year as members of the Conway (Ark.) Symphony Orchestra will take part in the concert. The event, which is a part of the 2017-18 Walton Arts & Ideas Series, is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, […]
Teaching runs deep in Sarah Scroggins’ family and she’s excited about being the latest in a long line of educators. The University of the Ozarks senior from Oark, Ark., is completing her Internship II at Lamar High School this semester. She will graduate in December 2017 with majors in business administration and business education, following […]
Historic Outcome For the first time in the 11-year history of the University’s Project Poet, there are co-champions. Sophomores Bekah Moore of Mountainburg, Ark., and Jake Sawyer of Mena, Ark., took top honors and the title of Poet Laureates of the Spadra Valley recently by winning the annual fall semester competition. A total of 20 […]
Four University of the Ozarks political science students had an opportunity to hone their legal research, analysis, debate and oral advocacy skills in a competitive environment this past weekend. The students competed in the American Moot Court Association’s South Texas Regional tournament, held Nov. 4 at the Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort […]
University of the Ozarks junior Julio Molina-Pineda’s interest in scientific research just got ratcheted up a notch. The biology and chemistry major from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, took home first place in oral presentation in biology at the 2017 Arkansas IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) conference, held Oct. 27-28 at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. […]
Arkansas Tech University Art Professor Jessica Mongeon will present a collection of her acrylic paintings in the exhibit, “Cascade of Scales,” from Nov. 1-21 in the University of the Ozarks’ Stephens Gallery. The exhibit is part of the University’s Artist of the Month series and is free and open to the public. There will be […]
The University of the Ozarks Theatre captured 11 honors, including the prestigious Respondent’s Choice award, at the 2017 Arkansas Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, held Oct. 26-28 in Arkadelphia, Ark. The University Theatre presented its production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Annie Baker at the annual state festival. By winning the Respondent’s Choice award, […]