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Hastings College announced two Bronco Award recipients during its annual Honors Convocation event on April 28. Maggie Rogers of Hoover, Alabama, and Socorro Topete of South Sioux City, Nebraska, were recognized as 2021 Bronco Award recipients. Established in 1924, the Bronco Award is the College’s highest non-academic award granted to students. Recipients of the Bronco […]

The second 2021 senior art exhibition, “Life Machine,” is opening at the Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center. The exhibition features work by five seniors and is open through May 16.

Hastings College was honored recently with a 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education designation by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. Hastings College has been designated a Tree Campus for many years by consistently exceeding the standards set by the Arbor Day Foundation, including maintaining a tree advisory committee, a

Hastings College Theatre is hosting a live outdoor production for its last show of the 2020-21 academic year. “The Terrible Infants” by Oliver Lansley and Samuel Wyer directed by Sarah Nottage-Tacey will be held at the Chautauqua Park Pavillion (West 5th Street) on April 29, 30 and May 1 at 7:30 p.m. and on May

Three members of the Hastings College chapter of Alpha Chi were selected to participate and present their work in the Alpha Chi national convention, which was held virtually April 8-10. Alpha Chi is an academic honor society designed to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college students and honor those who achieve such distinction.

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