Because everyone deserves a chance to win, be awesome, and feel awesome.” That’s the motto of the For the Win Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that helps transform seriously ill and disabled children into super heroes. Two of the co-founders of the project will speak at University of the Ozarks on Monday, Nov. 29, as […]
The University of the Ozarks’ Walton Arts & Ideas Series event scheduled for October featuring author Kim Ruehl has been postponed to April. The event will now take place on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Ruehl is a writer, editor and folk music advocate from Asheville, N.C. Her 2021 book, “A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and […]
Journalist and professor Nigel Poor, co-creator and co-host of the popular Ear Hustle Podcast about life in prison, will speak at University of the Ozarks on Thursday, Sept. 9 to kick off the 2021-22 Walton Arts & Ideas Series. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Walton Fine Art Center’s Seay Theatre. There is […]
The co-creator of a popular podcast about prison life, a two-time Pulitzer winning screenwriter and a woman whose Vietnam War-era picture as a little girl is one of the most iconic photographs in U.S. history highlight the University of the Ozarks’ 2021-22 Walton Arts & Ideas Series (WAIS). WAIS is made possible by an endowment […]
University of the Ozarks will host a virtual presentation by renowned video game designer and developer Brenda Louise Romero on Thursday, March 11, as part of the University’s Walton Arts & Ideas Series. The event begins at 7 p.m. and will held on the Zoom platform. There is no cost to view the event and […]
University of the Ozarks will present an evening of storytelling with performing artist Ebrin R. Stanley at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, as part of the University’s 2020-21 Walton Arts & Ideas Series. The event will be held via Zoom and the public is invited to tune in. The link for the event is […]
Award-winning Arkansas filmmaker Larry Foley is partnering with University of the Ozarks to present a live virtual screening of Foley’s new documentary “Indians, Outlaws, Marshals & the Hangin’ Judge,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The event, which is part of the University’s 2020-21 Walton Arts & Ideas Series, will be presented via Zoom. […]
University of the Ozarks will kick off its 2020-21 Walton Arts & Ideas Series in a virtual format on Sept. 15 with a presentation by former professional baseball player and inspirational speaker Chris Singleton. The event will be held via Zoom at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15. There is no cost to access the event and […]
University of the Ozarks has cancelled all public, student and academic events on campus for the remainder of the Spring 2020 Semester and is limiting off-campus visitors in an attempt to control the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). There are currently no reported or suspected cases of COVID-19 on the U of O campus […]
3.13.2020The last few days and weeks have been unlike anything any of us have ever seen. The fluidity of the situation and the pace at which the environment is changing is creating an ever growing sense of angst and worry. I have asked myself and others countless times in the last few days what not […]