One year ago, sophomore Carly Spotts-Falzone of Wayzata, Minnesota, was all set to attend college in her home state, when she was informed that changes were being made to the college’s speech (forensics) team. She was already scheduled for classes, assigned to a dorm and even a roommate, but with the help of Hastings College […]
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Kelly Prange ’13 is attending the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA/Phd Program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. The professors at Hastings College helped her get into graduate school and guided her down the right path to receive her Bachelor of Science in human resources management and psychology.
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Brian Boye, a 1996 alumnus, still uses the same techniques he learned his freshman year at Hastings College in his professional work as a promotions manager at KSMO-TV, and in his freelance work as a director and producer of Best Boye Productions. As a broadcasting major, he learned how to build the final product from the ground
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Joe Brown, a junior web communication design major from Omaha, Nebraska, is spending his summer interning for Omaha’s top staffing company, C&A Industries. So far, Brown has done everything from helping to produce a video that caught the eye of Justin Timberlake to supporting efforts to construct the company’s new website. “I am interning in
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Molly Sutter, a 2016 Hastings College graduate and Papillion, Nebraska, native, spent the last semester of her senior year in Canberra, Australia, returning to Hastings just three days before graduation. “I spent my time at Radford College in Canberra, where I was able to teach a few mathematics classes using Australian curriculum,” Sutter, the Outstanding
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As the managing director of the Ethiopian Community Development Council’s African Community Center (ACC) in Denver, Colorado, Melissa Theesen works every day to make sure refugees are welcomed in their new country. To accomplish this, she must work with her large staff, as well as local and state officials, but as a 2008 Hastings College
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Jessica Schneider ’16 and Torey Kranau ’16, students who began at Hastings College at the same time, took an exciting step after their third year of undergraduate education when they were accepted into pharmacy schools. Both enrolled and began working toward their pharmacy degree last fall – in what would have been their senior year
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By Dr. Moses Dogbevia, associate professor of chemistry Dr. Dogbevia was on sabbatical during the spring 2016 semester. Here’s an update on what he did during sabbatical. I was born and raised in Ghana and attended school there from elementary school through college, where I earned my undergraduate degree in physics with a diploma in
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As someone who didn’t complete high school, breaking away from bad habits as a student was a challenge for Maxwell Nyce. Yet Nyce made it to Hastings College, graduated in 2014 and has now entered into the competitive field of medicine. He said because Hastings College is a place where professors get to know and
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Dr. Jamie (Volz) Wagner ’10 majored in mathematics and economics and Hastings College, where the professors actually helped her get into grad school. She is now the assistant professor and director for the Center of Economic Education at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Dr. Wagner works as a liaison for local teachers and students to get economics
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