Pam Smith has been named the new director of the University of the Ozarks’ Pat Walker Teacher Education Program, University officials announced this week. Smith, a 1990 Ozarks graduate who has taught at the University since 2015, will become the program’s new director effective April 1, 2022. “I am looking forward to working with the […]
University of the Ozarks students Andrew Duncan and Maria F. “Mafer” Maltez each gained invaluable experience recently by presenting research data at a sports medicine academic conference. Duncan, a sophomore health science major from Alma, Ark., and Maltez, a sophomore biology major from Nicaragua, presented data with their professor, Dr. Steven Machek, assistant professor of […]
University of the Ozarks announced today that it has earned the 2022-2023 Military Friendly® School designation. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2022-2023 survey with 665 earning special awards for going above the standard. […]
While clay target shooting is largely considered an individual sport, University of the Ozarks senior Mason Malin has come to love the team aspect of the discipline. The environmental studies major from Paris, Ky., will wrap up a stellar collegiate career at Ozarks later this month when he and his teammates compete in the Association […]
Little Rock artist Rex DeLoney will be the featured Artist of the Month for March at University of the Ozarks. “Conversations in Color: Recent Works by Rex R. DeLoney,” will be on display through March 31, 2022, in the University’s Stephens Gallery, located in the Walton Fine Arts Center. There will be an artist talk […]
For six University of the Ozarks students, a recent phone call or email brought momentous news. The six students are part of the University’s Greystone Preparatory School and the news they received in recent weeks were long-awaited appointments to one or more of the country’s military service academies. Those students are (pictured, from left) Lee […]
A pair of 2007 University of the Ozarks graduates, Nathan Williams ’07 (pictured left) of Little Rock, Ark., and David Pridgin Jr., ’07 of Scranton, Ark., have been chosen to receive this year’s Emerging Philanthropist Award by the University’s Office of Advancement and Alumni Engagement. The awards will be presented during the Ozarks Awards Ceremony, […]
Robert VanHook, Ozarks senior biology major wasn’t sure what to look for in a University when he first began his search during his junior and senior years of high school in Conway, Ar. His family had been all over the country while he was growing up because of military service. He did know one thing, […]
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association elected five alumni to join its board of directors during the organization’s annual winter meeting in February. The new directors will begin their terms on July 1, 2022. The new members are (pictured from left) Torie Parsons ’09 of Dallas, Texas; Jeremy Provence ’12 of Florence, Ala.; Thomas […]
Douglas Denne will become the new director of the L.S. and Hazel C. Robson Library at University of the Ozarks, effective June 1, 2022. Denne has served as the resource librarian at Ozarks since he joined the University in September of 2013. He replaces Stuart Stelzer, who announced his retirement recently after serving as the […]