University of the Ozarks has received a $1.25 million gift from the estate of Virginia Rose Hicks to create a mathematics professorship endowment and to support university operations. Ozarks has received a $1.25 million gift from the estate of Virginia Rose Hicks Hicks, a long-time engineer with Sun Oil Company in Oklahoma, died on Dec. […]
Acclaimed Southern author and journalist Rick Bragg will speak at University of the Ozarks on Thursday, March 3, as part of the university's 2015-16 Walton Arts & Ideas Series. Bragg’s talk will begin at 7 p.m. in the Walton Fine Arts Center’s Rowntree Auditorium on campus. There is no cost for admission and the public […]
The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the former executive editor of global spirituality and religion at "The Huffington Post," will present a lecture at University of the Ozarks on Wednesday, March 9. The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush will speak at Ozarks on Wednesday, March 9, in Munger-Wilson Chapel. The event, which will begin at 7 p.m. […]
Though just a few weeks old, 2016 has already proven to be a banner year for University of the Ozarks senior Grady Finley toward his goal of becoming an athletic trainer. Since January, Finley has served a nine-day athletic training internship in Panama and has also learned he had been accepted into the master’s degree […]
University of the Ozarks has added four new members to its Board of Trustees. The Rev. Tasha Blackburn and Allyn Donaubauer, both of Fort Smith; Catherine Lowry of Little Rock; and Sherilyn Poole of Forest Park, Ill., began their three-year terms on Jan. 1, 2016. They are members of the board’s Class of 2018. Blackburn […]
The University of the Ozarks International Office is presenting a series of events to spread global awareness and opportunities throughout the campus as part of Global Week 2016, scheduled for Feb. 15-20, on campus. The week-long event will include talks and workshops by international entrepreneur Dennis Schwieger as well as information sessions for students about […]
As the University of the Ozarks Theatre prepares for the prestigious regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Professor Bruce B. Brown and the students are finding that their production of BUG continues to evolve. The University Theatre was one of five university theatres from the five-state Region VI selected to participate in the festival, […]
University of the Ozarks junior Amanda Paz spent her summer scaling the jungle canopies of a rain forest, scuba diving at one of the most ecological-rich reefs in the world and working with some of the most diverse animals on the planet. And, it was all done in the name of science. Paz, a chemistry […]
North Carolina musician Mike "Lightnin'" Wells will perform an acoustic blues concert at University of the Ozarks on Wednesday, Feb. 17.
The entire Jones Learning Center staff as well as six JLC students were trained recently in new text-to-speech software programs. The group was trained on how to use Claroread 7 and Read & Write Gold 11, two text-to-speech software programs that will now be available for all staff and students in the JLC to download […]