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2023 faculty and staff award winners
May 3, 2023 • Posted in ,

Trustees Announce 2023 Faculty, Staff Awards

The University of the Ozarks’ Board of Trustees presented its annual faculty and staff awards during the 2023 Trustees Awards Banquet, held April 28 in the Rogers Conference Center. Among the recipients for 2023 were (pictured, from left) Dr. Javier Taylor, Dr. Edward Ardeneaux, Monica Frizzell, Adrianna Giraldo and Dr. Brian Hardman Hardman, professor of […]

Kneiisha McDonald
April 27, 2023 • Posted in , ,

McDonald Thrives in Biomedical Sciences Field

University of the Ozarks senior Kñeisha McDonald will begin pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in the fall, the next step in a science journey that began when she was a small child growing up in The Bahamas McDonald, a biology major from New Providence, The Bahamas, will graduate on May 13 with Summa Cum […]

Solange Alvaro
April 25, 2023 • Posted in , , ,

Avalo Honors Nicaraguan Hometown With Book

When University of the Ozarks junior Solange V. Avalo M. was thinking about a way to honor her beloved hometown of Masaya, Nicaragua, she turned to her passion for documentary photography, ethnographic studies, and research. The result was “Yo Plural: Laberintos Múltiples de Nuestros Pasos” (I Plural: Multiple Labyrinths of our Footsteps), a black and […]

Jon Langlois

Langlois to Join Ozarks as Business Instructor, Housing Coordinator

Jon Langlois will join University of the Ozarks this summer as an instructor of business and coordinator of auxiliary housing. He will begin on July 1, 2023. Langlois is currently a business faculty member at Dawson Community College in Glendive, Montana. He also served as associate dean of student success at Dawson. “My family and […]

Tri-Beta group
April 7, 2023 • Posted in , ,

Lopez, Glover Shine at Tri-Beta Convention

Six biology students from University of the Ozarks recently attended the South Central Regional Tri-Beta Convention in Cedar Hill, Texas. The students who attended included (pictured, from left) Faith Duran, Emily Spillers, Josue Maldonado Paredes, Joseph Chrisman, Victoria Lopez and Jayden Glover. Five of the U of O students presented research projects at the convention, […]

Katherine Bojorquez
April 4, 2023 • Posted in , ,

Bojorquez Presents Paper at Philosophy Conference

University of the Ozarks senior Katherine Martinez Bojorquez had the unique experience of presenting her senior seminar research paper in philosophy at the prestigious Mid-South Philosophy Conference at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., this past weekend. Bojorquez is a philosophy, sociology and business administration major from Honduras who will graduate in May. She presented her […]