The annual University of the Ozarks Alumni Weekend 5K Run/Walk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m., Saturday, April 20. The race will begin near Hurie Field on the U of O campus. Registration will start at 7:30 a.m. in the Walton Fine Arts Center parking lot. The race is sponsored and organized by the […]
Carmen Chinchilla, a 2009 Ozarks graduate, has always felt a calling to work for the good of others. Now, she is fulfilling that calling as director of development for Hillside Health Care International, a non-profit organization that provides medical services to impoverished areas of Belize. Chinchilla, originally from Honduras, graduated from Ozarks with a degree […]
Paul Northcutt, a 2006 Ozarks alumnus and McAlester, Okla. native, recently returned to his hometown as the newest attorney at the Edwards Law Firm.
In her first "real" pageant, Sharla Goates-Fultz '02 walked away with a crown and the perfect platform for inspiring young people. As Mrs. Arkansas 2013, she will represent Arkansas in the 2013 Mrs. America pageant in Tucson, Ariz.
If you ask Ozarks graduate Dr. Amanda Alders what has contributed most to her success, she'll say it was mostly a string of serendipitous opportunities of which she was lucky enough to take advantage. Look closer, and you'll see that Alders has been much more than lucky. She's been determined, persistent, and fearless; and it […]
In August, Ozarks alumnus Cooper Mann completed the grueling 2012 Ironman U.S. Championship in New York City in just less than 11 hours 9 minutes.
John Hawkins '70 and Larry Patterson teamed up to shoot a 14-under-par 58 to win the University of the Ozarks' Alumni Golf Tournament, held Oct. 26 at the Clarksville Country Club. A total of 36 golfers competed in the two-person scramble, which was sponsored by the university’s Alumni Association. Proceeds from the event benefit the […]
Joe Pennington, local broadcast meteorologist and 2005 Ozarks alumnus, returned to campus October 1 to share his knowledge of the science behind weather forecasting and the realities of life at a television station. Pennington, originally from Altus, Ark., earned a degree in marketing from Ozarks in 2005 before deciding to return to college at Mississippi […]
It would be hard to ask for better weather on a late August morning. It was Wednesday, August 29, and here in Arkansas, the sky overhead was a vibrant blue. A soft breeze rustled through the leaves as the students at Ozarks made their way to class.?But 500 miles away near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Ozarks […]
Joe Pennington still finds it difficult to believe how far he has come since enrolling at University of the Ozarks in the fall of 2001 as a shy, quiet freshman from the small town of Altus, Ark.