hastings

Eight local and visiting writers will read from their latest work at the Lark in downtown Hastings on Friday, April 21, as part of the Plainsongs Celebration of Poetry and Prose. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30. A variety […]

The Hastings College Tree Campus USA Committee will host an Arbor Day program at noon on Friday, April 28 near the bridge over Heartwell Creek adjacent to the Gray Center for Communication Arts. The celebration is open to the public and includes the student-led planting of a Shumard Oak, the Great Plains Tree of the

Six Hastings College students will examine a broad range of topics while spending a month in Ireland this fall. The students have the opportunity to study in Ireland thanks to the Hastings College Irish Fellowship program, a distinctive, competitive study abroad opportunity offered annually to full-time Hastings College students. In partnership with Davy Spillane, Grammy

Students from Hastings College and 10 other schools were part of the 2017 Nebraska Independent College Foundation (NICF)/O’Keefe Elevator Company Art Show. Of the eight Hastings College students exhibiting at the show, four were honored during the awards reception on Thursday, April 13.   The annual competitive undergraduate art exhibition is housed in the O’Keefe Elevator

Hastings College is hosting two respected and well known glass artists, Dante Marioni and Janusz Pozniak, on Tuesday through Thursday, April 25-27, with a lecture on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Wilson Center on campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. During their visit to campus, the artists will work with

Hastings College seniors Emilie Barnes and Matthew Brown and junior Mallory Gruben represented the Hastings College Nebraska Alpha chapter of the Alpha Chi academic honorary in Louisville, Kentucky, for the Alpha Chi National Conference April 6-8. During the conference, the three students presented research projects before colleagues from across the country. “Only the top 10

The Hastings College Model United Nations (Model UN) team received the Distinguished Delegation Award at the 2017 National Model UN Conference (NMUN) in New York City. This award is the highest distinction that the team has achieved, having previously been recognized as an Honorable Mention Delegation in 2016. The HC Model UN team represented the

Hastings College Media, the College’s student-led media organization, was awarded six first-place, three second-place, seven third-place and three honorable mention Golden Leaf Awards by the Nebraska Collegiate Media Association (NCMA). The NCMA includes colleges and universities from across Nebraska, including Chadron State College, Doane University, Wayne State College, Concordia University and Hastings College. Each institution’s

At the American Forensics Association-National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET) in Peoria, Illinois, the Hastings College Bronco Forensics team saw six students make it into the quarterfinals or better, with one student finishing as a national champion and another finishing as a national runner up and being named an All-American. The strong performance pushed the team

Hastings College students received awards at the North Central 2 District Conference hosted by the College’s Pi Omicron Chapter of Beta Beta Beta (BBB), a honor society for biology students, this past weekend near Omaha, Nebraska. Students from seven colleges or universities presented their research. Five Hastings College students presented, with three students receiving Johnson