Ouachita vocal studies students earn 12 finalist honors in Southern Region NATS auditions
November 19, 2019Ouachita Baptist University music students earned 12 finalist honors at the 2019 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Southern Region Conference and Student Auditions. More than 300 students from colleges in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi attended the competition, which was held at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark., Nov. 6-9. Of all of those competing, 26 Ouachita students earned finalist or semifinalist honors.
Ouachita's Bethany Hicks authors "Germany" chapter essay in published Cold War handbook
November 12, 2019Ouachita Baptist University’s Dr. Bethany Hicks, associate professor of history, authored a chapter essay titled “Germany” in the book East Central European Migrations During the Cold War: A Handbook, published in May 2019. The volume is a compilation of essays written by historians, sociologists and political scientists from eight countries.
Jon Merryman, Ouachita Baptist University’s director of alumni relations and the Ouachita Student Foundation, recently was appointed as a commissioner to the Alumni Affairs Directors Group with the national Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). Merryman is one of seven directors from the U.S. and Canada appointed to the group by the president of CCCU, Shirley Hoogstra.
Ouachita's Carvajal-Villamar presents paper at Society for Amazonian & Andean Studies meeting
October 28, 2019Ouachita Baptist University’s Dr. Jerusa Carvajal-Villamar, assistant professor of Spanish, recently presented a paper at the biennial meeting of the Society for Amazonian & Andean Studies (SAAS). The conference was held Oct. 5-6 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was hosted by the University of Alabama.
Ouachita names 2019 Alumni Milestone Award recipients
October 08, 2019Ouachita Baptist University recognized five outstanding alumni in the 10th class of Ouachita Alumni Milestone Award recipients at its Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 5: Mauricio Vargas, Dr. Jim Spann, Brad Sullivan, Dr. Sarah Beth Harrington and Laura Cox. This year’s honorees represent the graduating classes of 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 and 2009, respectively.
Ouachita crowns Betsy Patterson as 2019 Homecoming Queen
October 08, 2019Betsy Patterson, a senior secondary mathematics education major from Garland, Texas, was crowned Ouachita Baptist University’s 2019 Homecoming Queen before the Tiger football game on Saturday, Oct. 5.
Ouachita's Blake Johnson receives $75,000 grant from UAMS' Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program
September 18, 2019Dr. Blake Johnson, assistant professor of biology at Ouachita Baptist University, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program (ABCRP).
Ouachita continues to grow residential enrollment, with largest campus community since 2012
September 09, 2019The 2019 fall semester marks the third consecutive year of growth in residential undergraduate enrollment at Ouachita Baptist University increasing from 1,492 to 1,506 since last fall.
Eleven Ouachita students published in Assayers 28
September 03, 2019Eleven Ouachita student essays were chosen by Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Language and Literature for publication in Assayers, the department’s annual publication.
Thirty-three Ouachita students named to Who's Who
July 18, 2019Thirty-three students from Ouachita Baptist University will be included in the latest edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.