University of the Ozarks students in professor Rebecca Bailey’s voice and diction class are putting their skills and training to use while also entertaining area children. The students are reading children’s books to their young audience members via Zoom each Thursday for three consecutive weeks in April. The reading project is in partnership with the […]
University of the Ozarks will host a limited in-person Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 15, 2021. The ceremony will take place outdoors on the Hurie Soccer Field beginning at 10 a.m. and will be held in accordance with Arkansas Department of Health guidelines as well as the University’s COVID pandemic protocols and guidelines. Each graduate […]
Twenty University of the Ozarks business students are putting their classroom knowledge and experience to work this semester on a cross-cultural project to help the food industry navigate the Covid pandemic. The Ozarks students, who are in an upper level special studies elective in the Business Administration program, are collaborating with college students from the […]
Officials from Lyon College and University of the Ozarks have begun discussions of possible opportunities for strategic partnerships between Arkansas’ two Presbyterian-affiliated universities. Leadership from both U of O and Lyon, located in Batesville, have begun to discuss what a strategic partnership between the two institutions might look like and have appointed steering committees made […]
Valentine’s Day may never be the same, thanks to the University of the Ozarks Theatre’s dark comedy, Murder’s Disposal, written and directed by Dr. Rhonda Shook, associate professor of communication. John Dunn has been swindled. Twenty thousand dollars has disappeared, along with his new girlfriend. When he turns to Murder’s Disposal to recover the money […]
Classes for the Spring 2021 Semester will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at University of the Ozarks. Residential housing will open on Sunday, Jan 24, for students to move in for the spring semester. Students, faculty and staff must submit a negative Covid test prior to moving on campus or prior to the start of […]
Dr. Amy Oatis, associate professor of English at University of the Ozarks, will participate in the 25th annual Moby Dick Marathon Reading, presented by the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts. The annual event that celebrates Herman Melville’s iconic 1851 novel will be conducted in a virtual format Jan. 8-10, 2021. The event is presented […]
Dr. Christine Scott has been named the dean of the Division of Social Sciences, University of the Ozarks officials announced this week Scott, an associate professor of business, began her new duties on Jan. 4, 2021. She succeeds Joel Rossmaier, who resigned in December in order to return to the classroom on a full-time basis. […]
University of the Ozarks senior Ashante Pratt has had her video artwork, Peaceful Disturbance, accepted into the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum annual exhibition. The RAM Annual Invitational, “Exploring Mindscapes: An Artist’s Reflection,” will be on display from Jan. 8, 2021, to May 16, 2021, at the museum, located at 1601 Rogers Ave., in Fort Smith. Pratt, an art […]
University of the Ozarks will hold its 2020 Fall Commencement in an all-virtual format at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19. The ceremony will be livestreamed via the University’s Facebook page as well as through Zoom. The Zoom link for the ceremony is: https://ozarks-edu.zoom.us/j/3452301838 The ceremony will include live speakers as well as visual and […]