The Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook, by Ouachita Baptist University professors Dr. Danny Hays and Dr. Scott Duvall, has been selected as a finalist in the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s 2012 Christian Book Awards and as a finalist in the Retailers Choice Awards sponsored by Christian…
Ouachita Baptist University’s Visual Arts Department will host an exhibit April 17-20 of artwork donated by the Allen Tillery family. The exhibit will be displayed in the Hammons Gallery of OBU’s Mabee Fine Arts Center. The Tillery family will be recognized at an opening reception…
Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Division of Music will present The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical within a comedy that pays homage to the golden age of musical theatre. Performances will be held in Jones Performing Arts Center on Ouachita’s campus at 7:30…
Meeting the needs of more than 120 individuals, families and organizations in the Arkadelphia area, Ouachita’s semi-annual Tiger Serve Day attracted more than 970 volunteers during the March 31 community service blitz. Pictures by Nicole McPhate, Heather Ellis and Jason Pullano. Slideshow by Lindsey Upshaw.…
Meeting the needs of more than 120 individuals, families and organizations in the Arkadelphia area, Ouachita Baptist University’s semi-annual Tiger Serve Day attracted more than 970 volunteers during the March 31 community service blitz. Tiger Serve Day, which began in 1997 in the wake of…
Ouachita’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) presented board members of the Pregnancy Resource Center for Southwest Arkansas (PRCSA) a new laptop, customized software and a more than $750 donation on March 16 in Hickingbotham Hall. The SIFE team was awarded a $1,500 Walmart Women’s Economic…
Ouachita student Grace Johnson will compete as a finalist in the Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase sponsored by the Trinity United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark., on Sunday, April 1 at 6 p.m. Three other Ouachita students received honorable mentions in the competition. The…
Seven Ouachita Baptist University English majors recently presented their original work at Sigma Tau Delta international English honor society’s 2012 national convention in New Orleans. At the convention, the students read their writing submission in front of a group of other Sigma Tau Delta members,…
Alumna Allison Cornell released her second Christian album Feb. 28 on iTunes. The five track extended play album, “Backwards Now — EP,” includes two songs written during her time at Ouachita. “[The song] ‘Family’ was birthed out of my experience of community at Ouachita,” she…
Evans Student Center will look very different in the fall, thanks to extensive renovations planned for this summer. The upgrade — which is paid for through gifts to the university — includes a new restaurant, a relocated Starbucks, expanded seating areas, a concert stage and…
After 22 years of calling the dungeon-like basement of Mabee Fine Arts Center home, the mass communications department is moving to Lile Hall. “We have over 100 mass communications majors, and a number of speech majors as well. We just need more space,” said Dr.…
Scope literary magazine is giving poets, artists and writers of all kinds the opportunity to submit their ideas to the fourth annual issue to be released on Monday, April 16. Writers or artists looking to have their work published can send it as an attachment…