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Four Ouachita Students Earn “Speak Simply” Awards At National Acs Meeting, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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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 the contest, which requires participants to clearly present their research in around two minutes, using language free of technical jargon.

Students who won the award included Jessica Compton, Emily Harris, Nathan Hall and Rachel Tucker. A total of 12 Ouachita students representing the Patterson School of Natural Sciences and the Ouachita ACS student chapter had …

More Than 700 Ouachita Volunteers Served Arkadelphia For Tiger Serve Day, Ali Robinson, Ouachita News Bureau

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A total of 718 Ouachita Baptist University volunteers gathered Saturday morning to serve the Arkadelphia community as a part of the university’s 38^th Tiger Serve Day.

Hosted each year by OBU’s Ben M. Elrod Center for Family and Community, the semi-annual community service event was first launched in 1997 and has completed more than 75,000 hours in service projects. This year’s theme encouraged volunteers to “Served Your Socks Off.”

Obu Professor Margarita Pintado Wins International Poetry Award, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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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.”

Melanie Herring And Devin Jones To Present Senior Art Exhibits At Ouachita April 4-15, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s School of Fine Arts will host Melanie Herring and Devin Jones’ senior art exhibits April 4-15 in Moses-Provine Hall’s Rosemary Gossett Adams Gallery. Jones’ exhibit will be held on the first floor, and Herring’s exhibit will be on the second floor. Both exhibits are free and open to the public. A reception for both seniors also will be held in the gallery on April 4 at 7 p.m.

Ouachita To Host Poet George Drew For Reading April 4, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Language and Literature will host poet George Drew on Monday, April 4, for a reading beginning at 6 p.m. in Hickingbotham Hall’s Young Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Drew is an author and poet originally from Mississippi whose work has been published in journals across the country. His poetry has recently been anthologized in “The Southern Poetry Anthology, II: Mississippi,” and his collection “American Cool” won the Adirondack Literary Award for the best poetry book of 2009.

Ouachita Trustees Hear Updates On Presidential Search And New Degrees, Name Two Emeriti Faculty Members, Trennis Henderson

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Sharing an update on Ouachita Baptist University’s presidential search process, search committee chairman Gene Whisenhunt told members of Ouachita’s Board of Trustees that the committee “is diligently seeking the right leader for this university at this time.”

In other board business, trustees heard a report about four new degree programs being introduced this fall and approved several personnel-related actions, including naming two emeriti faculty.

Ouachita’S 38th Tiger Serve Day Set For April 2, Ali Robinson, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Special Collections Opening Honors Hickey, Holley And Knight, Trennis Henderson, Rachel Gaddis

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Elrod Family Foundation Board Meeting Examines Community Impact In Arkadelphia, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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393 Ouachita Students Named To Dean’S List, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita’S Counseling Conference To Tackle “Depression” Feb. 26, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Faculty Member Becky Morrison Presents At Hawaii International Conference For Arts And Humanities, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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Nine Ouachita Students Selected For Arkansas Intercollegiate Band, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita To Host 18th Annual Mary Shambarger Competition For Singers Feb. 23, Meaghan Pollizi, Ouachita News Bureau

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296 Ouachita Students Named To President’S List, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita’S Annual International Food Festival To Highlight “East Meets West” Feb. 16, Ali Robinson, Ouachita News Bureau

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Arkansas Master’Singers To Present Concert Of Worship At Ouachita Feb. 4, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita To Host “Boys To Black Men” Exhibit By Chrystal Seawood Jan. 25-Feb. 26, Brooke Zimny, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Visual Arts will host Chrystal Seawood in a guest exhibit, “Boys to Black Men,” Jan. 25-Feb. 26. The exhibit will be held in the university’s Rosemary Gossett Adams Gallery in Moses-Provine Hall and is free and open to the public. A closing reception and artist lecture will be held Feb. 26.

“Boys to Black Men” responds to the highly publicized shooting deaths among unarmed, black males at the hands of police. Seawood surveyed a group of black teen boys from her hometown of Forrest City, Ark., to understand how these national incidents influence the boys’ …

Lei Cai And Hee-Kyung Juhn To Present Faculty Piano Recital Jan. 25 At Ouachita, Anna Hurst, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Dr. Lei Cai and Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn in a faculty piano recital Monday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The recital will be held in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall on Ouachita’s campus and is free and open to the public.

Cai, associate professor of music at Ouachita, and his wife, Juhn, director of keyboard studies at Henderson State University, will showcase works for four hands on one piano, works for two pianos and solo pieces.

World-Renowned Pianist Andrew Cooperstock To Perform Feb. 1 At Ouachita, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University will host guest musician Dr. Andrew Cooperstock for a piano recital Monday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall. Cooperstock will also offer a master class prior to the recital at 3 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

A solo pianist and chamber musician, Cooperstock has appeared on six continents and in most of the 50 states. He has performed at the United Nations, New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin and Carnegie halls, Broadway’s 54 Below, Greenwich Village’s Le Poisson Rouge and Brooklyn’s BargeMusic.

Ouachita To Host Student Juried Art Exhibit Feb. 1-29, Brooke Zimny, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s Art Club will host its annual Juried Student Art Exhibit Feb. 1-29 in Ouachita’s Hammons Art Gallery, located in Mabee Fine Arts Center. This year’s juror was John Deering, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Winners will be announced at a reception Feb. 12, 6-7 p.m., in Hammons Gallery. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.