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Campus News

October 23, 2023 3:13 pm·

Auditions for Hastings College honor choir, band now open

Hastings College Music is now accepting auditions for its honor band and choir festival, which will be held Sunday-Monday, January 21-22, 2024 on campus. Students can submit their audition and find additional…

October 23, 2023 10:38 am·

Four individuals join Hastings College Board of Trustees

Four individuals have joined the Hastings College Board of Trustees over the last year, board chair Ann Martin ‘77 announced last week following the board’s October meeting. New members include Danette Andley…

October 10, 2023 1:39 pm·

Together Tuesday giving day is set for October 17

October 17 is Hastings College Together Tuesday, a day when the College’s entire community from all over the world comes together to support the 1882 Fund, the College’s annual fund. And with…

October 10, 2023 9:10 am·

Hastings College receives $1.1 million grant to establish religious initiative

Hastings College has received a grant of $1,120,748 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish ASPIRE, the Academy of Student Preachers Inspiring Religious Engagement. The program is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s…

October 5, 2023 3:40 pm·

Game day gets an astronomical twist with solar eclipse viewing

Hastings College physics professor Dr. Brad Peterson and physics students are giving Broncos football fans, stargazers and eclipse enthusiasts — and anyone who would like to come — an opportunity to view…

October 4, 2023 11:34 am·

Corr to give Invited Faculty Lecture on ‘Continually Becoming’

Dr. Brian Corr, Hastings College associate professor of art–glass, will give an Invited Faculty Lecture titled “Continually Becoming” on Wednesday, October 11, at 1:30 p.m. in French Memorial Chapel. The lecture is…

October 2, 2023 9:59 am·

Eighth annual mural competition to welcome more than 200 students from 36 high schools

More than 200 high school students from 36 schools across Nebraska will be at Hastings College for the eighth annual Jackson Dinsdale Art Center Mural Day Competition on Wednesday, October 4. Working…

September 27, 2023 11:36 am·

Five students in Ireland as part of Irish Fellows Program

Five Hastings College students arrived in Ireland last week as part of this year’s Irish Fellowship Program, a competitive study abroad program that allows students to conduct their own research in Ireland.…

September 25, 2023 12:36 pm·

Hastings College announces Homecoming events, court

Homecoming week is underway at Hastings College with multiple student activities happening on campus, from a movie on the lawn to a bonfire to the traditional Homecoming dinner and dance. Events for…

Garet Reynek '10 in the gallery at the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center.

September 25, 2023 11:07 am·

‘Intersecting Layouts’ now open in JDAC east gallery

“Intersecting Layouts” by Garet Reynek, a 2010 Hastings College graduate, is on exhibition now through October 17 in the east gallery of the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center (700 E. 12th Street). Reynek’s…