April 2015

Zarek named Creigh Weyer Scholar

Christina Zarek has been named a Creigh Weyer Scholar by the Creigh Foundation. These highly-selective, post-graduate scholarships are offered to Hastings College students with outstanding leadership potential. Zarek, a junior from Grand Island, Nebraska, is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology.  She completed a biological research fellowship last summer that was funded by the National

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A pastor, a rabbi, and an imam all walk into a…college?

All jokes aside, on Wednesday, April 22, Hastings College will welcome the Interfaith Amigos. Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman—known as the Interfaith Amigos—started working together after 9/11. The trio is best known for their unique blend of spiritual wisdom and humor used to openly address the usual taboos of interfaith

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Bronco Forensics takes 25th at nationals

At the 2015 American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET), the Hastings College Bronco Forensics team finished 25th in the country. This year’s national tournament was the largest in history with more than 1500 events, showcased by more than 700 competitors from the across the nation. Eunice Adounkpe, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska, beat

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Retired U.S. Ambassador Jackson ’71 to provide commencement address

To view a transcript of Ambassador Jackson’s speech, click here (.pdf). To view all of the 2015 Commencement exercises, click here for the video. Entering the Foreign Service seems an odd career path for an art education major but not for 1971 Hastings College alumna Jeanine Jackson. As U.S. Ambassador to Malawi and Burkina Faso

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