Jacqueline Froelich
KUAF Reporter and NPR CorrespondentJacqueline Froelich is an investigative journalist and has been a news producer for KUAF National Public Radio since 1998. She covers politics, the environment, energy, business, education, history, race and culture. Her radio segments have been nationally syndicated. She is also a station-based national correspondent for NPR in Washington D.C., and recipient of eight national and state broadcast awards.
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Boulder, Colorado-based Scout Clean Energy plans to install a 180 MW commercial wind energy facility in the populated mountains of eastern Carroll County. The facility will be the first like it in Arkansas. Scout officials recently traveled to the region to update Carroll County officials, afterward meeting with Ozarks at Large's Jacqueline Froelich —who's been tracking the project since it first came to light early last year. -
On today's show, the state's first industrial wind facility could soon break ground in Carroll County. Plus, exploring animal minds. Also, the legacy of Arkansas educator Bessie Moore. -
More than 20 children, teens and young adults with developmental disabilities attend The Grace School in north Fayetteville. The state-funded, year-round, faith-based private school uses Applied Behavior Analysis and a strategic academic curriculum taught by special education teachers and therapists to help students achieve their educational and life goals. -
On today's show, a school in Fayetteville offers a unique experience for students with disabilities. Also, taking a trip to Saturn's moon, Titan. Plus, investigating a close relationship between community and philanthropy.
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The nonprofit Eureka Springs Farmers Market celebrated a 20th anniversary last Thursday on the grounds of the Eureka Springs Community Center. -
On today's show, celebrating 20 years of the Eureka Springs Farmers Market. Plus, a cannabis company moves its headquarters from Little Rock to Rogers. And, nearly 45 years later… a big bowl game victory remembered. -
Census data show women farmers now comprise around 40% of agricultural sales and farmland operations across the U.S. Ozarks at Large's Jacqueline Froelich visited with ten women farmers in northwest Arkansas about this trend, including two scholars at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Research Station's Center for Arkansas Farms and Food in Fayetteville. -
On today's show, women-owned farms are on the rise, both nationally and in northwest Arkansas. Also, a major investment in oncology technology at Mercy in Rogers. Plus, it's been 25 years since once of the biggest football wins ever in Fayetteville.
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The new nonprofit Museum of Eureka Springs Art exhibits and conserves art and fine crafts tracing back to the town's late 19th century origins, later becoming a popular 1940s artists colony, followed by the establishment of dozens of 1970s counter-cultural studios, to today's current creatives calling Eureka home. -
On today's show, we meet the new dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, an NIH grant will help inspire enthusiasm for STEM education in northwest Arkansas, and a consulting firm wants to help connect community and economy.
