For the third consecutive year, a group of University of the Ozarks students spent their summer serving an internship in El Salvador with that government’s National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA). The students included, Naila Pierre, Melissa Coronado Escalante, Jesus Munguia Reyes, Jonathan Santamaria, Raquel Andrea Castellanos Queme, Victoria Lopez, Valerie Marie Mejia Tabora, […]
Coming from the small town of Scranton, Arkansas, and never having had the opportunity to travel abroad, University of the Ozarks senior Alexia Olmos took a giant leap of faith this past summer. Olmos spent the months of June and July studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she took a class through the University […]
A summer academic course on entrepreneurial development at one of Mexico’s most prestigious universities, Universidad Iberoamericana, has University of the Ozarks students Eduardo Murillo and Nataly Vindas fired up for the upcoming academic year. Murillo and Vindas, both Walton International Scholars from Costa Rica, complete the six-week course in Mexico City in late June. The […]
Cody Williamson, a rising senior political science major from Fayetteville, Ark., was elected earlier this month by the student body as University of the Ozarks’ Student Government Association president for the 2024-25 academic year. As a 24-year-old with a one-year-old child, Rowan, and a fiancé, Ashton Nickell, Williamson believes he can bring a new perspective […]
When Carter Little walks across the stage on May 11 to receive his diploma during the University of the Ozarks’ 2024 Spring Commencement, it will mark a milestone in his immediate family’s history. The business administration major from Oklahoma City will be the first in his family to earn a college degree. “It makes me […]
When Odalis Garcia first arrived as a freshman at University of the Ozarks, she had plans on majoring in biology with an eye on becoming a dentist. A few business classes led to an abrupt change of course for the senior from Clarksville. Garcia is a business administration major who will graduate in May with […]
When Cassidy Rolle walks across the stage to receive her diploma Saturday at the University of the Ozarks’ 2022 Fall Commencement, she will be setting a shining example for her three younger siblings. Rolle, from South Andros, The Bahamas, will graduate from Ozarks with a business administration degree and with the highest of academic honors, […]
When Cody Sparks graduated from Lamar (Ark.) High School in 2019 as third in her class academically and with superior honors, she had numerous options on where to attend college. Three and a half years later, she knows that her “hometown” University was the right choice for her. Sparks will graduate from University of the […]
University of the Ozarks senior elementary education majors Kaylee Willis and Samantha Burke can’t wait to start their teaching careers and to begin making the same type of impact that their teachers made on them. Willis (pictured left), from Oark, Ark., and Burke (right), from Berryville, Ark., will both graduate from U of O in […]
When University of the Ozarks senior Mario Varela of Lamar, Ark., walks across the stage next month to receive his college diploma, he will be the first in his family to graduate college, an accomplishment that he takes great pride in. “I feel extremely proud because I will be setting an example for my niece, […]