A trio of 2012 University of the Ozarks graduates — Tristan and Andrea (Muffuletto) Cooper of Clarksville, Ark., (pictured left) and Ethan Harbour of Booneville, Ark. — have each been chosen to receive the 2024 Emerging Philanthropist Award by the University’s Office of Advancement and Alumni Engagement. The awards will be presented during the Ozarks […]
University of the Ozarks alumna Brenda Gabriela Sandoval ’19 is another notable example of a Walton International Scholar who is using her Ozarks education to make a difference in her home country. Sandoval, from Guatemala City, earned a B.A. degree in international business and history with Summa Cum Laude honors from Ozarks in 2019. Returning […]
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association will honor four of its own during the 2024 Ozarks Awards Ceremony, held in conjunction with this year’s Homecoming celebration. The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18, in the Rogers Conference Center. Tickets for the event are $25 and can be purchased by visiting: https://ozarks.edu/alumni/homecoming/ […]
In 2023, University of the Ozarks alumna Tyra Nicole Omeir ’13 earned the prestigious honor of representing her home country of Nicaragua as a “One Young World – European Commission Peace Ambassador” in the United Kingdom, capping a decade of work as a champion for the underserved and for victims of human trafficking. The former […]
As director of global logistics-delivery for Walmart, there’s no better feeling for Morgan (Goates) Jackson ’12 than watching her team succeed. Jackson, who graduated from University of the Ozarks in 2012 with a degree in business, leads a team at Walmart that supports and manages the movement of containerized goods — merchandise, food, and perishables […]
The Business Ethics class that Lilian Cruz de Santizo ’90 took at University of the Ozarks in the late 1980s made such an impact on her that she made it her career. The former Walton Scholar earned a business administration degree at Ozarks in 1990 before returning to her home country of Guatemala where she […]
It didn’t take Jae Lynn Huckaba ’18 long to discover that her undergraduate education at University of the Ozarks gave her an advantage over her classmates at the University of Miami School of Law. The first-generation college graduate from Forrest City, Ark., earned majors in English and Spanish with high honors from Ozarks in 2018 […]
In the decade since graduating from University of the Ozarks, Lauren Ray ’13 can appreciate even more the customized undergraduate education she received at the University. Ray has worked for the National Park Service in a number of locations since leaving Ozarks, including Arches National Park in Utah, Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico, […]
(The following article was written by Janice Penix and appeared in the Feb. 28 edition of The Graphic newspaper in Clarksville. It is reprinted with the permission of The Graphic.) Students at Clarksville Junior High heard an inspirational message on Thursday from local native Kaye Bagsby Person, who was crowned the first Black Miss College […]
Former Walton International Scholarship recipient Laura Calderon returned to the University of the Ozarks campus earlier this month for the first time since she graduated in 2015 and she had an important message to current Walton Scholars at Ozarks. Calderon lives in her hometown of Guatemala City where she is a junior buyer for Cemaco, […]