Stacy Key, chair of the Division of Sciences and Mathematics, was recently selected to participate in the National Conference of Governor Schools in New Orleans. Key, who has been a math instructor at Ozarks since 1999, has been involved in the Arkansas Governor’s School for the past 12 years. He teaches math courses and serves […]
Daniel Garcia, a junior mathematics major from Clarksville, will leave at the end of this month to study biostatistics at Columbia University in New York for six weeks. Garcia will participate in the prestigious Columbia Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (CSIBS) at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. The program only […]
On Saturday, Feb. 23, the University of the Ozarks mathematics department will host undergraduate students from across the state, challenging them to test their mathematics skills during the 10th annual Arkansas Undergraduate Mathematics Competition. This competition, held each year on the last Saturday in February, provides an opportunity for students from all small 4-year colleges […]
"The sciences and math division is already a wonderful program. I just have to keep the machinery oiled and moving forward," said Stacy Key, instructor of mathematics, of his new position as chair of the University of the Ozarks' Division of Sciences and Mathematics. Key brings a wealth of experience to the division chair position, […]
Glendon Jenkins, a mathematics major from Wickes, Ark., has always been fascinated by math and its principles. Now, in his senior year at University of the Ozarks, Jenkins is right in the middle of a senior project that delves into the discipline of quantum computing. Jenkins, the sixth of eight children, remembers watching his older […]
When Callie J. (Harmon) Daniels, a math professor at St. Charles Community College in Missouri, had an opportunity to dedicate the latest college math book she co-authored, she had only to think back on her undergraduate days at University of the Ozarks for inspiration. Callie J. (Harmon) Daniels ’89, a math professor at St. Charles […]
Dr. Salomón Itzá, associate professor of physics at University of the Ozarks, has been named the Western Arkansas Outstanding Professor for 2012 by the Western Arkansas Education Service Cooperative (WAESC). WAESC is composed of 24 school districts, 50 schools, and more than 5,000 teachers in six counties in west central Arkansas. Its mission is to […]
Santa Claus is coming to town. And may be here already. If you or your children have encountered the familiar jolly man with the red suit and white whiskers in Clarksville recently, it is possible it wasn’t the real Santa, but rather U of O’s Dr. Buddy Smith. Smith, who has been a professor of […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Seven students in the university's Ozarks Mathematical Society (OMS) will attend the MAKO Undergraduate Math Research Conference at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri on November 12. The annual conference gives undergraduate students and faculty from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma an opportunity to present their original research or expositions of interesting […]
"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees." -- Abraham Lincoln If anyone on campus can preach the ways of the bees, that man is Dr. Buddy Smith. Professor of Mathematics at the U of O since 1980, Dr. Smith has been a bee keeper […]