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Hastings College has announced the Dean’s List for its spring 2017 semester. For the semester, 424 students from 18 states and 4 countries were named to the Dean’s List, with 262 students achieving a 4.0 grade point average. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to […]
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The Hastings College Department of Theatre’s SummerStage stock company is set to produce its fifth annual production with Dion Boucicault’s comedy melodrama, “The Vampire.” This classic from the 18th century tells the frightening tale of a vampire who wouldn’t die. Performances are scheduled for June 16–17 and June 23–24 at 7 p.m., and June 18 […]
...Hastings College held its 131th Commencement on Saturday, May 20, 2017. During the ceremony, the College awarded degrees to 273 undergraduates and 18 Master of Arts in Teaching graduates. Graduates represented 19 states and 6 countries. Photos of the Baccalaureate service are available here, and a video is available here. Photos of Commencement are available […]
...The Hastings College Music and Theatre departments recognized outstanding student work during their end-of-the-year celebrations. Both departments awarded several traditional honors and scholarships specific to their disciplines. The Music Department’s honors convocation took place on Monday, May 8 in Perkins Auditorium. The event featured musical performances by the Sigma Alpha Iota national women’s music fraternity […]
...Jordan Colony, a graduating senior from Hastings College, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to teach English in Moldova from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Moldova, with a population of 3.6 million, is an Eastern European country situated between the Ukraine and Romania. Colony, who […]
...More than 10 Hastings College students and faculty have been accepted to attend or present at academic and professional conferences, and two have had papers accepted for publication in academic journals. Department of HistoryKatherine Amyot, a history major from Hastings, Nebraska, presented “Sexual Psychopath Laws: A Case Study from 1948,” at the 91st Annual Conference […]
...Hastings College students Anthony Cloyd and Brian Whetstone have been named Creigh Weyer Scholars by the Creigh Foundation. These highly-selective, post-graduate scholarships are offered to Hastings College students with outstanding leadership potential. Cloyd, from Omaha, Nebraska, is a biology major and plans to attend medical school. He is currently a member of the football team and […]
...New York–based comedian Todd Barry is coming to The Lark in downtown Hastings for a one-night stand-up comedy performance on Saturday, May 13. The show will begin at 8:00 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. A variety of tickets, including seats in the new mezzanine area, are available at The Lark’s website, thelarkdowntown.com. Barry […]
...The Hastings College Band will welcome a new director in the fall, as Dr. Louie Eckhardt returns to Hastings College and central Nebraska after earning his doctor of musical arts degree from Louisiana State University and working in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas. At Hastings College, Eckhardt will be director of bands, which, […]
...Suzette Escamilla Morales, a political science and economics double-major at Hastings College who is spending the 2016-17 academic year studying in India, is one of approximately 1,200 American undergraduate students selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the summer 2017 term. Escamilla Morales will work […]
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