Nick Hernandez is a familiar figure on campus, wheeling around from class to class with his aide Kayla Balander. Nick was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at age eight, and his diagnosis has inspired him to take action to both raise money for research and educate people about the disease. Muscular Dystrophy is a group […]
University of the Ozarks is host to many student clubs and organizations of every sort, ranging in subject matter from fishing and shooting to politics and environmental awareness. There are clubs for most student interests. One of its most out of the ordinary is known simply as Ozarks Nerds. "Ozarks Nerds began in 2008 as […]
Each summer, members of the university's Alpha & Omega organization travel to an impoverished community in another country, to spend a week volunteering in a place where help is badly needed.?But as the group's recent mini-mission trip demonstrated, one doesn't have to travel far, or even stay very long, to make a big impact in […]
As the crowd of more than 200 people slowly makes its way out of the Baldor Business Building, a neatly-dressed young woman stands near the podium talking with the guest, Ms. Becky Jones, State Farm vice president of agency for the Arkansas and Oklahoma market areas. The young woman smiles and waves to the people […]
What difference can one single signature make??Perhaps not much, when that signature stands alone.?But combine it with a thousand more - with ten thousand more - and suddenly all those individual signatures can have a profound and far-reaching impact. That’s the premise behind the annual Amnesty International write-a-thon. During the first full week of December, […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The Ozarks Alchemists and the Ozarks chemistry department will host a presentation by Dr. Colin Heyes, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, on Thursday, December 1. The presentation, entitled "Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials and Biomolecules: To the Average and Beyond…" will cover various aspects of the […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- University of the Ozarks? chapters of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) and Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) recently took part in American Enterprise Week. As part of the event, Johnson County Judge Mike Jacobs (seated) signed a proclamation declaring the week Nov. 14-18 as American Enterprise Week in Clarksville with members of the […]
Members of Ozarks' new pre-law club, Bench and Bar Society, made the 11-hour drive to Houston recently for the regional Law School Admission Council (LSAC) recruitment forum. Cory Bridges, Samuel Emerson, Morgan O'Neil, Mark Pearson, Kirk Ross, Emily Towe, and Sean Atkins went on the trip, accompanied by Humanities and Fine Arts Chair Dr. David […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Eight students from University of the Ozarks have been inducted into the Arkansas Delta Chapter of Alpha Chi, the prestigious national honor scholarship society. During an induction ceremony on Nov. 22 in Munger Chapel, Ozarks professors and Alpha Chi sponsors Dr. Bill Doria and Dr. Jesse Weiss welcomed the eight new members […]
Do you enjoy wetting a fishing hook every now and then, but never seem to find the time? If so, some U of O students are working to form a fishing club and are looking for people who are interesting in recreational and sports fishing. An initial meeting was held Oct. 18 to discuss the […]