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DeBoer Fund to provide scholarships for underrepresented students in STEM fields

A new scholarship program at Hastings College supported by the Jennifer and Scott DeBoer Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide financial support for underrepresented students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. An initial gift of $15,000 will fund three scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year and be split between three students — two

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Hastings College forensics team finishes fall semester strong

Through the fall semester, the Hastings College forensics team competed in 18 tournaments through both asynchronous and synchronous formats. During the semester, the team qualified 22 events to the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), which will be held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in April 2022. Highlights for the fall included competing in-person

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Open Space for visual, performing arts expands with writing, speech; application is open

Open Space for the Visual and Performing Arts immersion experience for high school students is expanding for it’s summer 2022 program to include creative writing and speech. The application for Open Space and additional details can be found at hastings.edu/openspace. The immersion programs — one for visual arts and one for performing arts — will

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Hastings College Esports to join National Esports Collegiate Conference

After spending the fall semester building teams and outfitting an esports arena, Hastings College Esports announced it is joining the National eSports Collegiate Conference (NECC). Hastings College Esports and the NECC agreed to partner for the Spring 2022 Split, with the regular season starting in early February. Hastings is the 163rd member throughout North America

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O’Neill participates in masterclass with Broadway actress 

Hastings College junior Morgan O’Neill of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was selected to perform in a digital masterclass December 3 with Broadway actress Leslie Kritzer. Teachers of the West Central Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) nominated students from their studios, with only seven being selected to participate in the masterclass. The region

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‘A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’ plus preludes and ‘Gloria’ set for Sunday

The Hastings College Department of Music and Theatre invites the community to “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” on Sunday, December 5 at the First Presbyterian Church (621 N. Lincoln Ave.). The service is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all in attendance. Download the 2021 program (.pdf). Preludes played

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Theatre honorary to perform ‘Bedtime Stories (As Told By Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)’

When dad tells his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories and gets a little fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative — a prince with a snoring problem spices up “The Princess and The Pea;” in “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the boy cries “dinosaur” instead; and “Rumplestiltskin” actually helps turn all that pesky

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