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 […]
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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
Giving back has always been at the heart of Pacha Soap, a Hastings-based bath products manufacturing company founded by Andrew ’12 and Abi ’13 Vrbas in 2013. Each bar of artfully-crafted soap they sell, with funky names like Dirty Hippie and Feel the Beet, supports clean water initiatives, small businesses and hygiene education in developing
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Trina Knight, a 2015 Hastings College alumna, spent a few years after graduation supporting non-profit organizations but is now working on her doctoral degree in criminology at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Knight’s research focuses on providing a criminological perspective on the issue of phishing scams that seek to extract money, passwords and other
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The denizens of Nature’s Educators, a nonprofit animal sanctuary and education center founded by Hastings College alumna Devin (Paszek) Jaffe ‘09 in Sedalia, Colorado, are a wild bunch with poignant personal stories. Calypso, a bald eagle, was found in the North Carolina wilderness with vision problems and a droopy wing. Brizo, an osprey, was discovered
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Hastings College 2016 graduate Leon Brudy had his first-author paper, which compares the daily physical activity of children congenital heart disease (CHD) with healthy peers, published in February in The Journal of Pediatrics. While he graduated with political science and economics majors, Brudy, who played soccer at Hastings, also had an interest in using science
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Two Hastings College 2019 graduates are completing a year of service with CityYear, an organization through Americorp. Both Austin Heinlein and Andie Paschal have found community in the schools they work in, and through their experiences, have thought about changing their career trajectory. CityYear is an education-based non-profit organization that helps inner-city schools boost student
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As Gabriela (Gabby) Ayala ’06 sips an India Pale Ale at Zipline Brewing Co. in Lincoln, Nebraska, other customers wander into the taproom: a bearded dude in a gray hoodie, a sharp-dressed businessman talking on his cell phone and a young couple who scan the menu board and order pints of Oatmeal Porter and Midnight
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Dr. Andrew Jewell, a 1997 Hastings College graduate, is a professor of digital projects at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries and is editor of the Willa Cather archive and coordinates the library’s archives and special collections. The North Platte, Nebraska, native was unsure about what he wanted to do after graduation, but realized an
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Pete Ferguson ‘96, coordinator of the Youth Development Team at Lincoln (Nebraska) Public Schools, has built a career lifting up and giving voice to underrepresented youth. He and his team counsel dropouts and youth affected by the juvenile justice system, locate resources for homeless students, ensure equity for scholars of color and make sure all
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