2016-17

Nine individuals and two teams will join a prestigious group of athletes with their induction into the Hastings College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017.  A dinner celebration on Saturday, September 30, 2017, will formally induct the new members, honoring their contributions to various Hastings College athletic programs. The celebration begins at 5:00 p.m. with […]

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

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,