Abby Lewis, a health science major from Greenbrier, Ark., and Kñeisha McDonald, a biology major from Nassau, The Bahamas, were named the recipients of the 2023 Wiley Lin Hurie Memorial Award during the University’ 66th annual Honors Day ceremony on Wednesday, May 3. The Hurie Award is presented to the outstanding senior in the graduating […]
University of the Ozarks administrators and faculty presented the University’s top academic and division awards for the 2022-23 academic year during the 66th annual Honors Day ceremony, held Wednesday afternoon in the Walton Fine Arts Center. Abby Lewis, a health science major from Greenbrier, Ark., and Kneisha McDonald, a biology major from Nassau, The Bahamas, […]
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 […]
University of the Ozarks senior Abby Lewis’ experience in her kinesiology class during her sophomore year brings a hold new meaning to applying classroom knowledge to real life. The health science major from Greenbrier, Ark., will graduate with Summa Cum Laude honors on Saturday, May 13. Lewis was in Dr. Piroska Boros’ kinesiology class during […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Dr. Janie Diels, interim provost of Alma College in Michigan, has been named the new vice president for academic affairs at University of the Ozarks, University officials announced today. Diels has served as interim provost at Alma since 2022 and was associate provost at the college from 2019 to 2022. She is an associate professor […]
A trio of University of the Ozarks alumni from the Class of 2021 are thriving at some of the top law schools in the country and they credit their undergraduate education at Ozarks for helping them succeed. (Pictured, from left) Haley Grace Clark, Braxton Leding and Riki Haase are completing their second years of law […]
University of the Ozarks senior music major Rosie Wade of Clarksville has been around music as long as she can remember. “It seems like I have been around music my entire life,” she said. “I was a member of my church youth choir and the hand bell choir as soon as I could and even […]