April 2023

During its day-long Celebration of Excellence April 26, Hastings College announced three Bronco Award recipients during its annual Honors Convocation — Emma Downing of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Savannah Frasier of Limon, Colorado; and Kianté Stuart of Nassau, The Bahamas. Established in 1924, the Bronco Award is the College’s highest non-academic award granted to students. Recipients […]

During Hastings College’s Honors Convocation April 26, 2023, students and faculty were recognized for their outstanding achievements. Photos from the event are available here and are free to download. A video is here. The Don and Nancy Seaton Faculty Achievement Award was presented to history professor Dr. Rob Babcock, and Dr. Rachael Robinson-Keilig, assistant professor

Hastings College’s Sunday chapel is moving up a half hour to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, with a tree planting ceremony to follow at 5:00 p.m. Chapel will be outside in front of French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Avenue) and will focus on Arbor Day and the Hastings College Arboretum, with support from

The second thesis gallery show, which features the work of five senior art majors, is on view from April 25 to May 13 in the Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center (JDAC). The show is in both JDAC galleries, which are open from 9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. A lecture for the

Hastings College theatre has announced an upcoming senior capstone presentation. Hailey Moore of Juniata, Nebraska, will present, “From ‘Passive Thing’ to ‘Unscrupulous Ambition’: A Historical Analysis of Gender and Marriage in Stephenson’s ‘An Experiment with an Airpump’,” on Friday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Scott Studio Theater (806 N. Turner Avenue). The event is

Two Hastings College students have been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program. Betsy Miller, a sophomore from Arlington, Kansas, will study in Turkey, while Kinser Rafert, a senior from Sutton, Nebraska, will study Arabic in Morocco. Through this program students are offered intensive in-person language training and

The Hastings College annual Celebration of Excellence Day is set for Wednesday, April 26. During the day, students share research and projects, and the College honors the high achievements of students and faculty. All events are free and open to the public, and additional details can be found at hastings.edu/as. Classes are canceled for the

The Hastings College Model United Nations (Model UN) team traveled to New York City in early April to participate in the National Model UN Conference (NMUN). The team represented Estonia and won Outstanding Position Paper for the International Atomic Energy Agency Committee and was named an Honorable Mention Delegation. The team spends most of the

Hastings College physical education instructor Casey Molifua ’15/MAT ’17 and assistant professor of art Dr. Brian Corr ’99 are on embarking their next challenge, running 1.1 miles every hour on the hour April 21-22, 2023 to raise funds for the Mikaelah Molifua Memorial Scholarship. This is the second year the duo has undertaken the grueling

Hastings College students Riley Lanning of Glendale, Arizona and Claire Hubbard of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, presented at the annual Great Plains Students Psychology Conference, which was recently held at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. Lanning is a psychology and history & philosophy double major, and Hubbard is a psychology and health systems double major.