The Rev. Rachel Sutphin will visit University of the Ozarks during the week of April 6 as part of the University’s Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. She will speak at the University’s weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7. Sutphin has served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hammonton (N.J.) […]
Shana H. Chaplin has joined the Town Square Collaborative (TSC) at University of the Ozarks as assistant director of community engagement. Her first day was Tuesday, Dec. 2. TSC is a regional ecumenical initiative to serve and support rural communities, congregations, and their leaders. “I’m so excited to welcome Shana Chaplin as assistant director for […]
The Rev. Sara Anne Berger has joined University of the Ozarks as the assistant director of the Thriving Congregations Program. Her first day at Ozarks was April 23. Berger will work with director Rev. Phillip Blackburn to assist the University in directing the Lilly Foundation’s recent $1 million Thriving in Ministry grant to support congregations […]
The Rev. Doodle Harris, the chaplain at Hastings College in Nebraska, will be on the University of the Ozarks campus throughout the week of Oct. 17 as part of the Struthers Pastoral Study Leave Program. Harris grew up in Moultrie, Ga., where her family joined the Presbyterian Church, which made it possible for her to […]
The Rev. Dr. Parrish L. Bridges, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, W.V., will visit campus on the week of Oct. 25-29 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. As part of his visit, Bridges will speak at the University’s weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. […]
The Rev. Jesus Juan “Jesse” Gonzalez, pastor of Gethsemane Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, will visit University of the Ozarks on the week of Sept. 13-17 as part of the University’s Pastoral Study Leave Program. Gonzalez (pictured above with his son, Obed, a 2017 U of O graduate) will lead the University’s weekly Chapel […]
Recent graduate Vivien Wambugu has been named the University of the Ozarks’ 2021 Tutor of the Year by the University’s academic services program. The outstanding tutor awards were announced in May and given by academic services based on several factors, including evaluations from students receiving tutoring, GPAs, and staff members’ interactions and observations. Academic services […]
When it came time earlier this spring for University of the Ozarks senior Vivien Wambugu to choose a graduate school in which to continue her education in the fall, she had an enviable problem. The health science major from Tulsa, Okla., was accepted into four of the top global health graduate programs in the country […]
University of the Ozarks senior Jakob Case recently completed a challenging year of study in a completely foreign country during a world pandemic. It’s an experience that he wouldn’t change for anything. Case, a health science major and education and religion minor from Keller, Texas, returned from an 11-month study abroad experience in Japan in […]
Harvard or Yale? That was the win-win decision facing University of the Ozarks senior religion and philosophy major Emilie “Weave” Williams earlier this month on where to pursue a graduate degree after she was accepted into both of the prestigious Ivy league universities. The Keller, Texas, native who will graduate with Magna Cum Laude honors […]