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Nell Mondy Lecture to feature Chick-fil-A food scientist at Ouachita

March 24, 2026

Ouachita Baptist University will welcome Cole Reesman, culinary lead at Chick-fil-A’s corporate office, as the featured speaker for the 2026 Nell Mondy Lecture Series on Monday, March 30. The lecture will be held in Walker Conference Center and is free and open to the public.

Emilee Webb (left) and Kathryn Totty (right)

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Ouachita alumni serve as back-to-back editors-in-chief for Arkansas Law Review

March 18, 2026

Six years after meeting in Contemporary World, alumni Kathryn Totty and Emilee Webb are back-to-back editors-in-chief of the Arkansas Law Review at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

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High school track & field returns to Ouachita with Win Whipple Invitational

March 17, 2026

Ouachita Baptist University welcomed six high school track & field teams to Hickingbotham Family Track & Field for the inaugural Win Whipple Invitational on Thursday, March 12.

Three Ouachita nursing faculty named to 40 Nurse Leaders Under 40

March 16, 2026

Shell EVP Christopher Rice encourages business students to build lives of impact

March 11, 2026

Upcoming Events

Mar 20

Residence Halls Close for Spring Break

Residence halls will be closed for Spring Break from 4pm on March 20 until noon on March 29.

Mar 23

Spring Break: No Classes

Mar 30

Student Senate Elections

Mar 30

Meaningful Work Monday

Faculty & Staff Encouragement Gathering – Lunch is on us!

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OUACHITA CIRCLE: FALL // WINTER 2025

The alumni magazine of Ouachita Baptist University

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Ouachita has faced high times and low times. Years of strength and years of struggle. Through all these seasons — institutional and individual — one certainty remains: God's faithfulness.

The Why Behind Our Traditions

While we often want to hold on to the comfort of traditions, I think it’s important to ask why they were important to us. What about the behavior do we long to preserve? I often remind students to think beyond the behavior of a tradition and consider the belief behind it. What is it about the tradition that is important? Often, the importance is found in the why.

Staff Profile: Sonny Jackson

One member of the Ouachita family was Sonny Jackson. Once a professional middleweight boxer in the Pacific Northwest, Sonny wasn't a Ouachita graduate. But he was very much part of the family as a member and later the head of Ouachita's grounds crew.

Staff Profile: Rosemary Chu

When I give the newly arrived freshmen a taste of Ouachita history before classes start each fall, I tell the inspirational story of Rosemary Chu. What Chu had was the investment she had made in Ouachita. And Ouachita invested in her.

Faculty Profile: Phil Rice

What an honor it is to share a few words about a man who impacted my life so profoundly. As a good Baptist, I thought I would arrange my thoughts around three alliterative points: paper, people and purpose.

Ken Sandifer (left) with two students conducting field research on poisened fish. Photo from the 1965 Ouachitonian yearbook.

Faculty Profile: Kenneth Sandifer

Tim Knight shares about his professor and colleague, Kenneth Sandifer, professor emeritus of biology at Ouachita.

Faculty Profile: Bill Downs

Melinda Mayo reflects on her professor, Bill Downs, professor emeritus of mass communications, who served Ouachita for 41 years.

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