Long green grass grows in open fields, creating a lush atmosphere where wild animals roam free. Elephants, monkeys, buffalo, rhinos and lions are just a handful of the animals seen here. This is South Africa. It’s fields, mountains, forests and rivers—where a diverse environment exists that is ideal for both studying animals and exploring the […]
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Living on three different continents and in three U.S. states by the time she was five, Kallan Picha, was exposed to traveling at an early age. This included five years in Germany during her childhood. She never anticipated she would return to Germany three different times during her undergraduate and graduate careers. Hastings college alumna
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Many people spend their summers picking tomatoes and green beans from vegetable gardens. Christina Zarek, a junior from Grand Island, Nebraska, spent the summer of 2014 studying them in a laboratory as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs). “I worked in a microbiology lab that studies Pseudomonas syringae, a plant pathogen that infects
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Senior Cale Buhr spent summer 2014 as a special events and entertainment intern for the Nebraska State Fair. The Trumbull, Nebraska native who is majoring in communication studies and minoring in advertising/public relations assisted the Special Events and Entertainment Director with various tasks throughout the summer. Buhr spoke highly of the relationships that he created
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Hiking opportunities near Laramie, Wyoming, provide three outdoorsy Hastings College alumni with much-needed breaks from their graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Wyoming. “It’s unusual to have three students from a small department at a small school in the same graduate program,” said Dr. Neil Heckman, Chair of the Hastings College’s Chemistry Department. “I
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After receiving a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Dr. Glenn Avent, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department at Hastings College, spent a month in Mexico to study pre-Columbian material. Twenty-four participants in the fellowship program came from across the United States and included archeologists, artists, art historians, political
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The Rev. Katie Anderson ’04 spends her days among many who are sick and dying, among those receiving chemotherapy and radiation, among those fighting for their lives. It’s a place, she said, where she most deeply encounters God. Katie is Chaplain of Oncology Services for Norton Hospital and Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Ky. “It’s
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In dry, mountainous terrain in the middle of New Mexico, a single helicopter descends from the blue and hovers just above ground, sending a cloud of dust skyward. A handful of black-clad federal agents clutching rifles leap from the chopper and stealthily make their way toward their target. Their mission: serve a federal search warrant
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Dr. Deanna (Schmidt) Hutchins ’74 is an adventurous spirit wrapped in a barrier-blind attitude and a quest-seeking point of view. An anomaly in her early career, Deanna is an obstacle-buster, way-paver, and example-setter for legions taking her lead. Deanna was a biology major at Hastings College during a time when a shortage of doctors made
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James Jefferson ’99 traveled from his home in Los Angeles, Calif., to visit campus for HC’s Homecoming celebration this year, remembering his days as a psychology and education major and center fielder for the HC baseball team. Fourteen years ago, James took his HC experiences back to LA and put them to work serving his
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