According to the National Weather Service, the summer of 2012 was the tenth driest summer on record for Arkansas, with the months of April through July being the driest ever recorded for the state.?The drought was already categorized as "extreme" by mid- June, and the lack of rainfall made many people think about how important […]
If you search "Lauren Ray" on the University of the Ozarks website, you'll find dozens of articles. The senior environmental studies major has certainly made her mark at Ozarks as an activities coordinator for Ozarks Outdoors, driven environmental studies student, and president of the Planet Club, among many other roles. Ray recently learned that, after […]
Next semester, Ozarks students will have the opportunity to spend 13 days traveling around the nation experiencing America's greatest treasure: her national parks. Every year, many Ozarks students take advantage of travel opportunities offered through Ozarks Abroad courses. However, those trips focus on international travel. Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies Dr. Jesse Weiss decided […]
Ask Matt Friant, a junior environmental studies major from Conway, Ark., where he wants his career to go and his answer is simple: "It doesn't matter just as long as I'm outside, and helping preserve our last wild places and educating people of their importance." This past summer, Friant scaled mountains in preparation for his […]
Tuesday, May 8 dawned, cloudy and cool. Throughout the day, Dr. Kim Van Scoy couldn't keep from peering nervously out the window, hoping for the clouds to break, but still they persisted. Even as she drove home that evening, the clouds were still there, painting the sky a dull, sullen gray color. But Wednesday "I […]
When Lauren Ray, a junior environmental studies major from Siloam Springs, heard last spring through Dr. Doug Jeffries that the University of Georgia offered a semester-long study abroad program in tropical ecology through its campus in Costa Rica, she was determined to go. "It was the perfect location for what we did," she says. "Our […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- University of the Ozarks senior Jenny Levin, an environmental studies major from Clarksville, recently attended the Power Shift 2009 conference in Washington, D.C. Levin made her second trip to a Power Shift conference in March, after first attending the 2007 conference. Power Shift is a movement aimed at today’s youth for planet […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Activist and environmentalist Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who spent more than two years in the late 1990s living in the canopy of a giant California Coast redwood tree, will speak at the University of the Ozarks at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26. Hill’s visit is part of the university’s 2006-2007 Walton Arts & […]