The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association will honor four alumni whose graduation years range from 1981 to 2021 during the Ozarks Awards Ceremony, held in conjunction with the University’s Homecoming 2023. The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29, in the Rogers Conference Center. Tickets for the event are $25 and can […]
Tom Justice, a 1989 University of the Ozarks graduate, has joined his alma mater as an admission counselor. His first day was May 8, 2023. His recruiting territories will include Northwest Arkansas, Mexico, Central America and South America. Justice, who played baseball while earning a degree in business administration as a student at Ozarks, has […]
In a 33-year career at University of the Ozarks that started as a secretary in the Business Office and culminated as the director of human resources, one thing has always remain consistent for Karen Schluterman: “I honestly have always loved my job and coming to work,” she said. Schluterman will retire at the end of […]
“It is when different cultures meet that different experiences are created, and one learns about the other.” That is one of Giselle Alfaro’s favorite quotes and the 2005 University of the Ozarks’ alumna is doing her part to bring different cultures together through the art of dance. Alfaro, a native of El Salvador who graduated […]
University of the Ozarks alumnus Rick Armstrong ’00 has never forgotten the sage advice he received from an Ozarks faculty member more than 25 years ago. Armstrong returned to campus in December to provide the keynote address at the University’s 2022 Fall Commencement ceremony on Dec. 17. He currently lives in Seattle where he is […]
Nearly eight years after graduating from University of the Ozarks and now working at one of the top global accounting and auditing firms in the world, Adriana Beltran can look back at her Ozarks education with a thankful perspective. Originally from El Salvador, Beltran earned a degree from Ozarks in management and accounting with Summa […]
Chava Roberts remembers as a young child receiving a hand-held microscope from a relative. It was a gift that helped spur a life-long love for science. Roberts, from New Providence in The Bahamas, earned a health science degree with high honors from University of the Ozarks in May 2021. She is spending this summer at […]
Recent University of the Ozarks graduate Crystal Oudomvilay is spending her ideal summer working as a postgraduate associate at Yale University, thanks to some mammalian Ozarks connections. The May biology graduate from Paris, Ark., is working at the Yale School of Medicine where she is assisting with a research collaboration between Dr. Frank Knight, U […]
When University of the Ozarks senior Jakobe’ Durant walks across the stage next week to receive his college diploma, he will proudly establish a new family tradition. The Spanish major from Destrehan, La., will be the first in his immediate family to earn a bachelor’s degree, and he will be doing so with Cum Laude […]
In February, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announced that noted radiologist and art collector Dr. H. Russell Albright ’56 had bequeathed his extensive and important photography collection to the museum, and left a fund to create an endowment in support of the museum’s Department of Photographs. The 1956 Ozarks graduate who died in […]