Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks campus escaped injuries and damages from a pair of tornadoes that roared through Johnson County during the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 25. The tornadoes, both rated as EF3’s, struck Johnson County just after midnight Tuesday, killing two people in rural areas and causing significant damage […]
Clarksville, Ark.-University of the Ozarks sophomore shortstop Mitchell Powers will play with the Toms River Hurricanes (Toms River, New Jersey) of the Atlantic Baseball Confederation Collegiate League this summer, it was announced this week by Ozarks' Head Coach Jimmy Clark. Powers, a 6-foot, 195-pound native of North Little Rock, was named Second Team All-Conference in […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks has announced its honor lists for the Spring 2011 semester. To be included on the President’s List, a student must carry at least 12 hours and maintain a 4.00 grade point average. To be included on the Dean’s List, a student must carry at least 12 hours […]
For Rebecca Arnold, her internship last summer at the Crown Uptown Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, was a little like going home. “Both of my parents acted at the Crown during the Eighties,” Rebecca said. “I had actually been there before, when I was younger, and my dad did a show there the summer before I […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Two University of the Ozarks alumni, Lauren Christy, of Kittanning, Penn., and Brittney Flinn, of Hagarville, Ark., received their Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law during commencement ceremonies held May 21 in Fayetteville. Christy and Flinn both graduated from Ozarks in 2008 with a B.S. degree in […]
Clarksville, Ark.-University of the Ozarks junior Matt Arant was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Men's Tennis All-District VI Team, it was announced by the College of Sports Information Directors of America Thursday. Arant, a native of Georgetown, Texas, was one of only two American Southwest Conference players to make the men’s team. […]
Clarksville, Ark. -- Six Ozarks students will spend this summer in Washington D.C. participating in various internship programs and taking classes at Georgetown University. Cory Bridges, a junior English major from Clarksville, Ark.; Chuong Do, a junior Political Science major from Vietnam; and Mark Pearson, a junior Political Science major from Clarksville, Ark. will attend […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- University of the Ozarks conferred bachelor degrees to 107 graduates during its 177th Commencement ceremony, held May 14 on the campus mall. University of the Ozarks Spring 2011 graduates. Those receiving degrees were: Karla Aguilar, El Salvador Diana Aguirre, Guatemala Janine Armstrong, Pine Bluff, AR Rebecca Arnold, LaCygne, KS Tewodros Asfaw, Ethiopia […]
If you Google "Dzerzhynsk, Ukraine," you don't get much: "Dzerzhynsk is a city in Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population is 43,371 as of 2001." Lydia Brown, however, can tell you a lot more about it. Lydia, who graduated from Ozarks in 2008 with a degree in Management, has spent the months since last September […]
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down." -- Maria Callas Clayton Becker will spend this summer putting that quote to the test. The sophomore theater major from Arlington, Tex., has been awarded an internship with the highly regarded Santa Fe Opera (SFO), and he is […]