One Nebraska student was recognized at the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Logan Sylliaasen of Wahoo, Nebraska, received a National Gold Medal and an American Voices Medal for her story entitled “The Vault.” The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship program for students in grades 7-12 interested […]

Last spring, Hastings College Career Services and the Alumni Association worked together to create a seven-week mentorship program that pairs third-year students with alumni in the students’ career fields of interest. The program provides a flexible structure for the pair to develop a relationship through which the students gain professional and networking skills. In the […]

The Hastings College Model United Nations team recently competed at its annual conference, the National Model UN Conference (NMUN), where it was recognized as one of the conference’s Distinguished Delegations. This award is presented to the top 10% of all teams that participate. NMUN is usually held in New York City, but due to COVID-19 […]

For the third year in a row, the Hastings College Forensics team finished in the top 10 in the nation at the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), held virtually in early April. The team placed 9th this year as well as in 2019, and finished 8th in 2018; there was no national tournament […]

The first 2021 senior art exhibition, “Blueprint,” is open now through April 23 in the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center and features work by four Hastings College seniors. The artists will give a lecture on their work Sunday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m. in the Wilson Center (714 E. 9th Street), with a gallery reception to […]

Dr. Nicole Muszynski, Hastings College professor of psychology and sociology, was recently awarded the Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award for her research and writing on honeybees. The award is given annually to the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Muszynski’s paper, “Category difference facilitates oddity learning in honeybee (Apis mellifera),” was […]

Hastings College Theatre is hosting a live virtual production of two capstones in April. “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde will be shown online April 16 and 17, and “You Do Love Me,… Don’t You?” by Claire Demmer will be shown online April 23 and 24. Both capstones, directed and designed by senior […]

As a tribute to the 80th anniversary of the premier of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” Dr. Jonathan Sokasits, Hastings College professor of piano, is releasing a performance originally recorded in the summer of 2017. The recital premiers April 4, Easter Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. on the Hastings College YouTube channel — […]

Hastings College is relaunching the Bronco Gridiron Club to connect current and past Bronco Football players, fans and team supporters. The club is a way to keep members informed on Bronco Football happenings while raising additional funds to support the program. The club is led by ambassadors who are former Bronco Football players tasked to […]

Hastings College will celebrate the 34th Gladys Frisch Harris Piano Festival through a live-streamed event beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 27. This year’s festival includes pianist-composer Jeremy Siskind as the guest artist. For those wishing to enjoy the festival, Siskind’s performance and guest lecture will be livestreamed on the Hastings College Music Facebook […]