When developing a list of people to reach out to for a class literary journal, Eboni Nash ’19 instantly thought of a former classmate, Alli Kennon ’20. Nash approached Kennon to contribute to the literary magazine and the two Hastings College graduates published works of literature in the Freedom School: A Seminar on Theory and […]
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After a semester-long internship with the Greater Grand Island Community Foundation (GGICF), Hastings College senior Megan Vaughn was offered a summer job with them as an AmeriCorp summer associate vista. GGICF is a non-profit organization that unites donors, large and small, who want to make the Grand Island, Nebraska community a better place for all.
When internship goes virtual, Vaughn learns to trust her own skills Read More »
While preparing for law school during her senior year at Hastings College, Anastasia Schroeder ‘15 participated in an eye-opening internship with the Sexual Assualt Sexual Abuse Center (SASA) in Hastings, Nebraska. The internship completely changed her career trajectory in her last semester of college — and she now works for Boystown advocating for foster children
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With artistic talent running in her family, Autumn Teff ’20 has always been interested in creating and drawing characters. She said she started drawing at the age of four, and mostly drew cats through middle school, but eventually evolved into drawing and designing human characters that go with a story. For many years, Teff’s dream
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Thompson retiring as Professor of Psychology. Among the first things all Hastings College psychology majors of the last decade and a half learned was that taking a course with Dr. Jeri Thompson was certain to challenge them. Every “A” in a Thompson class was earned, usually by perfect APA Style citations, succinct summaries of
Thompson: Preparing students with high standards, sage advice Read More »
Bever retiring after 17 years of teaching physics. Dr. Steven Bever won a handful of prestigious awards during his time as professor of physics at Hastings College. But one award that’s still due him as he prepares to retire is the unwritten “Most Hours Spent in the Science Building Award.” “I tend to live
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Dr. Hillary Watter retiring as Professor of Music. Dr. Hillary Watter’s reputation as a challenging professor precedes her — just ask any current or past Hastings College music student. Her deadlines are tough and her expectations are tougher. But those bold enough to accept the challenge learn a secret about the professor of music
Watter: Three decades of taking singers to new heights Read More »
What tips do you have to have for a long-lasting marriage? If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why? What’s your favorite childhood toy? These questions — and more – were all asked by a first-year Hastings College student Christian Kehn in a letter to a resident of College View, a senior
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After turning in his last test for the exercise science program at Hastings College, Shae McMaster ‘15 said he remembers being so excited. He had put himself through college and could now call himself an exercise scientist. Yet while his learning time in college was over, he knew that’s not how life works — because
McMaster aims to uphold mental, physical health with Enlightened Athlete Read More »
Jarrett Wise, a Hastings College 2014 graduate, and six co-authors recently studied how cement in abandoned oil wells reacts in different conditions to predict potential leakage pathways in offshore oil and gas wells. Their research was published in the August 2020 edition of the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. Wise’s research article, “Wellbore Characteristics
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