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. […]

On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a 600-pound recluse hides away in his apartment and slowly eats himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen. Big-hearted and fiercely funny, “The Whale,” presented by Hastings College Theatre, tells […]

The Hastings College Forensics team finished 14th in the nation at the American Forensics Association’s National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), which was held recently in Santa Ana, California. The five-member team’s achievements include an AFA All-American recipient, two national finalists and nine quarterfinal finishes. Nikki deSeriere, a senior from Westminster, Colorado. was named an AFA-NST All-American […]

The Hastings College chapter of Psi Chi, the psychology academic honor society, inducted 14 students during its recent spring ceremony on April 2. This year’s Psi Chi inductees include: Mackenzie Berns, a junior from Fairbury, Nebraska Tiena Chu, a sophomore from Cheyenne, Wyoming Andrea Hornung, a junior from Stratton, Colorado Daelene Hinrichs, a junior from […]