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Ouachita Baptist University’s Elrod Center for Family and Community honored Rachel Wicker with the Cargill Leadership Fund Award at its annual University Community Service Awards banquet April 19. Many Ouachita students, faculty and staff were also commended for their service and community leadership during the…
Ouachita Baptist University’s Ouachitonian yearbook was recognized by the Arkansas College Media Association (ACMA) as the top yearbook in the state with the first place award in General Excellence for yearbooks. The publication was recognized at ACMA’s recent annual convention, hosted this year by the…
“Papers, posters and performances—oh my!” Students and faculty are invited to come share in Ouachita’s academic achievement at Scholars’ Day on April 27. This year, Scholars’ Day will serve the Ouachita community in two different ways. First, students will showcase their hard work to their…
The Ouachita Baptist University School of Fine Arts is opening perforance of their latest production Footloose this weekend. Footloose is a musical based on the classic 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon. The musical follows a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town where…
Dr. Craig Hamilton, Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music at Ouachita Baptist University, recently received the Association of Concert Bands’ (ACB) Herbert L. and Jean Schultz Mentor Ideal Award. “Dr. Craig Hamilton is a well-deserving professor of this award,” said Dr. Gary Gerber, dean of…
Ouachita Baptist University trustee Betty Oliver, a 1958 OBU alumna and lifelong supporter of the university, passed away April 9 at age 79. Mrs. Oliver, who served 58 years in various leadership roles with Arkansas’ Cooperative Extensive Service, was the longest-serving employeeacross the entire University…
On Tuesday, April 5, Ouachita hosted a special guest speaker, David N. Greenlee who is a retired U.S. ambassador. Greenlee has served for a total of 32 years in Foreign Service and is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. After travelling all over the world,…
Dr. Ben R. Sells speaks to faculty, staff, and the Ouachita community during the announcement. |Photo by Andy Henderson By: Dixon Land Dr. Ben R. Sells has been named president of Ouachita Baptist University. The announcement came in a two o’clock meeting with faculty, staff…
Campus Ministries will be hosting Backyard Bible Club’s annual Camp Wamp on Friday, April 22 through Sunday, April 24. The event will be held at Camp Yorktown Bay in Mountain Pine, Ark. this year. At Camp Wamp, more than 35 children from the Arkadelphia community…
Ouachita Baptist University students won four of the 15 “Speak Simply” awards in the Undergraduate Research Poster Contest at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting held in March in San Diego, Calif. Approximately 1,400 students from across the nation were eligible to compete in…
By: Emma Seay Spring at Ouachita is a time that every Ouachitonian celebrates. No more cold weather, no more layers upon layers of clothing, and no more need to not wear every college student’s favorite shoes: aka Chacos. Each year at Ouachita, while students are…
Dr. Margarita Pintado, assistant professor of Spanish at Ouachita Baptist University, recently won first prize in the poetry category of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture’s (ICP) 2015 Literature Awards for her manuscript “A Girl Who Looks Like Me.” “We are proud of Dr. Pintado…
