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Ouachita starts dance team

OBU’s New Dance Team: By Meg Gosser [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] Tweet

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Tracey Knight named OBU’s 2010 Support Staff Member of the Year

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Tracey Knight, administrative assistant to the dean of the Pruet School of Christian Studies, was honored March 31 as Ouachita Baptist University’s 2010 Support Staff Member of the Year. “The award was created in 2001 to encourage outstanding service by university support staff members and to recognize their work in all divisions of the [...]

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Kyle Huey wins Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University student Kyle Huey, a senior musical theatre major from Grapevine, Texas, was declared the winner of the third annual Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase held recently at Trinity United Methodist Church in Little Rock. Of the four Trinity finalists, two were Ouachita voice principles. The other two finalists were instrumentalists from [...]

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Seven Ouachita students compete in Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship auditions

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Seven Ouachita Baptist University students competed in the recent Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship auditions at the Region VI Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in Amarillo, Texas. Two of those students, Heather Baker and Michael Krikorian, advanced to the competition’s the semi-final round. Tweet

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Eleven Ouachita students named NATS finalists

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Eleven Ouachita Baptist University students were recently named finalists in the annual Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) auditions held at Henderson State University. “As much of an honor as it is to progress to the finals, NATS is really so much more for the growth in the performer [...]

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Pruet School to host Dr. John Walton in guest lecture March 8

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University’s Pruet School of Christian Studies will host Dr. John Walton in a guest lecture Monday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Hickingbotham Hall’s Young Auditorium. He also will be on campus the following day to speak in chapel and Christian studies classes. Additionally, Walton will meet with student members of Theta [...]

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Ouachita students named finalists in Collegiate Performance Showcase

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Two Ouachita Baptist University students, Elisabeth Hipp and Kyle Huey, were named finalists in the 2010 Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase, sponsored by Trinity United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark. They will perform as part of the Performance Showcase Recital on Sunday, March 14, at 6 p.m. Students from 10 colleges and universities [...]

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OBU Film Society to host screening of “Vertigo” Feb. 28

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University’s Film Society will host a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Vertigo” on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. in room 330 of Lile Hall on Ouachita’s campus. Free refreshments will be served, and following the movie, there will be a drawing for a free T-shirt. “The OBU Film Society began in [...]

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Inside The Battle of the Ravine

Everyone knows the importance of the “Battle of the Ravine“. It’s the Good Guys vs. The Bad, the Tigers vs. [...]

Skeet shooting with Steve

Ever heard of shooting skeet? It is a sport you may have seen while flipping through the channels on TV, [...]

Jody Persson earns Children’s Literature Association award

Jody Persson earns Children’s Literature Association award

  Ouachita student Jody Persson has been awarded the 2012 Carol Gay Award for her essay “Take It to the [...]

Kinesiology students teach local children at river

An honors seminar focused on developing a place-based education course around the Ouachita River was presented many years ago, sponsored [...]

A first for everything: Covering an NBA game press-side

Tension, anxiety, and raw excitement could all be words used to describe the initial feelings I had when covering my [...]

Feel the chemistry: students present at national meeting

Students from Ouachita’s American Chemical Society (ACS) student chapter went to the 243rd ACS National Meeting at the San Diego [...]