On this edition of Ozarks at Large: we mark the first day of classes at the University of Arkansas by inviting Chancellor David Gearhart to our studio, a report on the latest step in bringing water to rural Carroll County and a student's garden in the middle of the city.
Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks at Large: we mark the first day of classes at the University of Arkansas by inviting Chancellor David Gearhart to our studio, a report on the latest step in bringing water to rural Carroll County and a student's garden in the middle of the city.
Becca Bacon Martin, editor of What's Up, says the week is only just starting, but there are plenty of things to do right now.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we begin a new series with the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas. Over the course of the next several months,and beyond, we'll hear some of the most iconic Arkansas voices talking about their lives. Plus the University of Arkansas Fort Smith plans for the future, the art of judging coffee and more.Thursday night the chancellor of UA-Fort Smith revealed the school's five-year plan.
Ozarks at Large and the staff at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas have struck a partnership. The center has agreed to provide us recordings of certain iconic Arkansans sharing their life stories---stories we will share with you once a month. In turn, listeners will be guided to the center's collection of 750 audio interviews and a hundred video interviews.
To learn more visit pryorcenter.uark.edu
On this edition of Ozarks at Large: Arkansas' economy, Kathy Deck, director, Center for Business and Economic Research in Walton College at the University of Arkansas talks to us about the present and future of the state's economic status. Plus Arkansas banks buying other banks, keeping alive the name of an old bank in Eureka Springs, and one story in eight languages in Bentonville.PJ returns to our studio to give us a preview of tomorrow's Film Score Friday. Today: Doctor Zhivago.
Kathy Deck, director, Center for Business and Economic Research in Walton College at the University of Arkansas talks to us after the latest Arkansas Economic Issues Breakfast event.
For more information about the series of economic discussions and to see materials from this week's event, visit www.arkeconbreakfast.com.
For more information about the series of economic discussions and to see materials from this week's event, visit www.arkeconbreakfast.com.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the CEO of Arkansas Children's Hospital. And we experiment with a new app that selects a color palette based on a song.
Jacob Kaufman from KUAR provides a recap of the state legislature's recently concluded special session.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is stepping up enforcement this weekend on the state's lakes and rivers in an effort to decrease incidents of boating while intoxicated. Plus, the Rogers Fire Department embraces new technology with a smartphone app that informs people in public of nearby incidents of cardiac arrest.
Earthquakes in Oklahoma have dramatically increased since last autumn, likely linked to gas and oil development the U.S. Geological Survey says. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, larger quakes there could shake western Arkansas. We hear from both the director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey in Norman and an Arkansas seismologist.
The Legislature began discussing the items on the special session agenda yesterday in Little Rock.
The Beaver Watershed Alliance has been working on assessing ways to improve water quality of the West Fork of the White River. As part of the project, the group is holding public meetings to engage residents and landowners alike.
