University of the Ozarks senior Vicente Vasquez Velasquez, an environmental studies major from Chitre, Panama, is the recipient of the 2022 Hurie Award, given to the outstanding member of the senior class. The award was presented during the University’s annual Honors Day ceremony, held Wednesday, May 4, in the Walton Fine Arts Center. University President […]
The winners of the University of the Ozarks’ 2022 A.R.C.H Symposium were announced during Honors Day on Wednesday, May 4. More than 30 students took part in the annual A.R.C.H. competition, which stands for Advanced Research and Creative Highlights and features student research and visual art projects from throughout the year. The four categories were, […]
University of the Ozarks administrators and faculty presented the University’s top academic and division awards during the 65th annual Honors Day ceremony, held Wednesday afternoon in the Walton Fine Arts Center. Vicente Vasquez Velasquez, an environmental studies major with minors in sustainable agriculture, sociology and art from Chitre, Panama, was the recipient of the 2022 […]
The University of the Ozarks’ Board of Trustees presented its annual faculty and staff awards during the 2022 Trustees Awards Banquet, held April 29 in the Rogers Conference Center. Among the recipients for 2022 were (pictured, from left) Albert Leding, Mary Jane Spillers, Sara Warren, Lisa Gruben-Inness, Alicia Nowotny-Stewart, Dr. Derek Warren and Dr. Nathan […]
Dr. Steve Oatis has been named as the new associate vice president for academic affairs (AVPAA) beginning June 1, University of the Ozarks officials announced this week. Oatis, who has taught at Ozarks since 1999, will remain a professor of history at the University and will continue to teach a couple of classes each semester. […]
Part of the Ozarks mission statement is to prepare students to live life fully and our students are given the space to discover what that phrase means to them. For Jones Learning Center alumni Torie Parsons, living life fully is a life of giving back to Ozarks. In a testament to that goal, Parsons was […]
University of the Ozarks students Andrew Duncan and Maria F. “Mafer” Maltez each gained invaluable experience recently by presenting research data at a sports medicine academic conference. Duncan, a sophomore health science major from Alma, Ark., and Maltez, a sophomore biology major from Nicaragua, presented data with their professor, Dr. Steven Machek, assistant professor of […]
Stuart Stelzer, who has led the University of the Ozarks’ library services for the past 39 years, has announced that he will retire on June 30, 2022. Shortly after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, Stelzer joined Ozarks in May of 1983, at the time of President Dr. […]
During the 2021-2022 year, the Jones Learning Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As one of the first learning centers for students with learning differences in the country, this anniversary is exciting for our University community. Fifty years ago the (then) College of the Ozarks embarked on a bold new experiment. In the fall of […]
Several University of the Ozarks science programs will benefit from the addition of two new pieces of equipment this semester, thanks to a pair of shared instrumentation grants. The grants, which totaled more than $52,000, are from the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute […]