News - Alumni

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.

Amy Patton continues to shine. Patton, who graduated from Ozarks last year with a B.S. in biology on the pre-med track, is currently an Environmental Public Health Fellow at the Arkansas Department of Health Public Health Laboratory. Academically, she is thriving as well. She attends University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock […]

Andrea Muffuletto, who graduated from U of O in May with a degree in biology, took some of her award-winning work last month to the 2012 National Beta Beta Beta (BBB) Biology Honor Society convention, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the end of March, Muffuletto won the John C. Johnson Award for her […]