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.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience.
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
Here are the ten clips used in our salute to jumping:
“Jump Around” House of Pain
White Men Can’t Jump
“Jumpin Jive” Joe Jackson
Dirty Harry
“Jumpin Jack Flash” Rolling Stones
21 Jump Street
“Jump in Line” from Beetlejuice
Divergent
“Jump” Van Halen
Tony Danza on Sesame Street
As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
"As You Like It' by Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, and "THe Swallow" by The Urban Folk Quartet
Roby Brock and Scott Inmann, from Talk Business and Politics, host a roundtable discussion about what recent polls may mean for upcoming elections in Arkansas.
