Sissoko launches coffee business while finishing college career

The coffee business started in a dorm room in Wyoming for Hastings College senior Sidy Sissoko. Sissoko, attending a community college at the time, and his roommate experimented with roasting coffee beans…

COVID-19 can’t stop Wiegert from helping non-profit raise $10,000 during summer internship

Hastings College senior Kara Wiegert interned for the Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions (CNCAA) through AmeriCorps this past summer. This was the third summer Wiegert worked for CNCAA, and she…

Teff uses experiences abroad to help establish comic series

With artistic talent running in her family, Autumn Teff ’20 has always been interested in creating and drawing characters. She said she started drawing at the age of four, and mostly drew…

Alumni help combat hand sanitizer shortage

Giving back has always been at the heart of Pacha Soap, a Hastings-based bath products manufacturing company founded by Andrew ’12 and Abi ’13 Vrbas in 2013. Each bar of artfully-crafted soap…

A BOLDER kind of success for 1990 grad

Cliff Bosley was only 12 in 1979 when he and 2,700 other runners hit the pavement in the first BOLDERBoulder, the iconic Memorial Day 10K founded by his father, Steve, with the…

Lambie breaks own cycling world record twice in one day

Ashton Lambie’s teammates on the USA Cycling National Team call him Lambo. Or Corn-fed. Or the Flying Mustache. Bicycling magazine calls him “The Most Interesting Bike Racer in America.” The rest of…

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Hastings College senior interns for Caesars in Las Vegas

It has been said that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but don’t tell that to Hastings College senior Thomas Schnase. The marketing and hospitality major from Hastings, Nebraska, can hardly…

Using his strengths, Agagah strives to become the best coach possible

Travis Agagah, a 2018 Hastings College graduate and a current Hastings College MAT student and grad assistant, had the opportunity to get hands-on coaching experience through his summer internship with Creighton University…

Hastings College grad invites tourists back to the Old West

With its 30-foot-tall, two-dimensional Buffalo Bill Cody figure looming over a replica frontier stockade, Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, Nebraska, is a wonderland of Wild West history and classic roadside…

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Waltemath gives back to community with United Way internship

Improving the community through a Day of Action, learning more about what it means to work in an office and gaining more confidence in herself, Mackenzie Waltemath is working alongside several organizations…

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