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 […]
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 […]
University of the Ozarks alumnus Ruben Aleman ’94, who is serving as the president of the Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) in El Salvador, will discuss his work and career in a special online alumni event on Monday, April 26. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on the Zoom platform and is presented […]
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 […]
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association elected eight alumni to join its board of directors during the organization’s annual winter meeting, held in an online format on Feb. 27. The new directors will begin their terms on July 1, 2021. Those selected included, Rev. DeeDee (Corbin) Autry ’87 of Fort Smith, Ark.; Sam Ballard […]
Retired U.S. Navy Commander and Chaplain Bruce Williams, a 1943 University of the Ozarks graduate and one of the University’s oldest-living alumni, will speak about his life during a special virtual alumni event on Thursday, March 18. Williams, who turned 100 last August, will be speaking about his journey to Ozarks, his time there and […]
Numerous University of the Ozarks alumni as well as family and friends of Joe Hoing have created an endowed scholarship in memory of the long-time dean of students. Hoing, who died in 2019, served Ozarks as an administrator and instructor from 1984 until his retirement in 2014. He was dean of students at the University […]
University of the Ozarks alumni Emily Autry ’19 and Andrew Cummings ’15 will be special guest speakers in two upcoming Chapel Services. Autry and Cummings will take part in a month-long Chapel series titled, “Ministry Outside the Walls.” Autry will speak at the Tuesday, March 9, service and Cummings will speak at the Tuesday, March […]
University of the Ozarks’ Board of Trustees has voted to freeze tuition for the upcoming academic year, the seventh time in the last nine years that Ozarks has not raised tuition from the previous year. Since 2013, tuition at Ozarks has risen just 5 percent, compared to a nearly 30 percent national average increase in […]
The University of the Ozarks Office of Alumni Engagement will present one of the top professional female shooters in the country, Heather Miller, as well as Eagles shooting coaches Lance Brown and Grace Brown in the latest installment of Chatting With Coaches at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23. The event will be hosted by Brian […]