Clarksville, Ark.-Former University of the Ozarks standout pitcher Curt Dixon signed with the Kalamazoo (MI) Kings, it was announced on Tuesday. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound McAlester, Okla., native has spent the last two seasons with the Big Bend Cowboys in Alpine, Texas, where he is currently 4-0 with a 2.10 ERA in 34.1 innings of work. […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But what about duckweed? Taylor Crutchfield conducted her senior biology research on how the common water plant, duckweed, could be used to help purify contaminated water. Botanically assigned to the Lemnaceae family, duckweed is the smallest flowering plant […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- National Public Radio's recent story on a documentary called "The Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog" enlightened its audience to a happy and surprising fact: the ukulele relegated to dim memories of Tiny Tim playing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," or perhaps the odd Beatles song featuring the plucky little […]
Mundo Maya wraps up with a sixteen day trip touring the most prominent archeological and cultural sites of the ancient Mayan civilization, all the way from Merida to Playa del Carmen. Dr. Kim Van Scoy, one of the course instructors, sent this story of one of the stops on the trip. Dr. William Clary and […]
To paraphrase the famed W. Somerset Maugham on the subject of novel-writing, "There are three rules for growing orchids. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." “In the marsh pink orchid’s faces With their coy and dainty graces, Lure us to their hiding places-- Laugh, O murmuring Spring!” -- Sarah Foster Davis, Summer Song Actually […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- All education majors go through some form of teacher training during their college years, typically a semester working in a real school classroom environment ? or, in the case of Ozarks' outstanding education program, double that amount. Pedagogy: The study of being a teacher. Students in the Ozarks teacher education program got […]
Clarksville, Ark.-Laurie Adkins has been named the new Head Softball Coach at the University of the Ozarks, it was announced by Ozarks' Athletic Director Jimmy Clark Thursday. Adkins has softball experience ranging from the NCAA I level to high-level summer travel teams. Adkins, a native of Farmington, spent the 1998 and 1999 seasons at the […]
Clarksville, Ark.-10 University of the Ozarks student-athletes have been named to the 2010 spring American Southwest Conference All-Academic team, it was announced by the league office May 26. To be eligible for ASC All-Academic honors, student-athletes must have lettered in the 2010 season, be in at least their second academic year at their institution, and […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks' Education Division has been granted full, continued accreditation by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the nation's primary accreditor of teacher-education programs. The NCATE accreditation, which extends for seven years, covers the university’s initial teacher preparation program. “I am extremely proud of the NCATE […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- "From ghoulies and ghosties / And long-legged beasties / And things that go bump in the night, / Good Lord, deliver us!" Thus goes the old Scottish children's prayer. On a recent Sunday night, U of O students had the opportunity to put this theory to the test as part of summer […]