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Hastings mentors guide Henning to academic success

When Tanner Henning was tasked with creating a compound capable of detecting the presence of heavy metals in water for his summer Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU), he went above and beyond.…

Internship gives Smith insight to life as a physician’s assistant

Senior biochemistry major Maddy Smith spent the 2017 January Term learning what it takes to be a physician’s assistant (PA) by spending every day job shadowing at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte,…

Erickson ’97 helping build instruments to detect biological threats

What happens when you take math and chemistry degrees from Hastings College and combine them with advanced studies in chemical and biomolecular engineering? If you’re Dr. Jeff Erickson ’97, you help the…

Passion for health care leads Bydalek down nontraditional path

Hastings College alumnus Shawn Bydalek ’13 doesn’t think of his college endeavors in terms of a career. While most students may to consider which career choices are available to them according to…

Protein crystallography leads to structural insight and skills for graduate school

With a small group of other students during a summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates), Julia Thibault worked with a protein called phosphoglucomutase 1 (pgm1), which is involved in the human metabolism and…

Biology major experiences lipids and laser tag in REU program

Hastings College student Liz Tidwell spent eight weeks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, over the summer with 15 other Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) students and 65 Undergraduate Research Program (URP) students, conducting lab…

Two choose path of pharmacy

Jessica Schneider ’16 and Torey Kranau ’16, students who began at Hastings College at the same time, took an exciting step after their third year of undergraduate education when they were accepted…

Dogbevia studies computer simulations for sabbatical

By Dr. Moses Dogbevia, associate professor of chemistry Dr. Dogbevia was on sabbatical during the spring 2016 semester. Here’s an update on what he did during sabbatical. I was born and raised…

Hastings College graduate enters competitive field of medicine

As someone who didn’t complete high school, breaking away from bad habits as a student was a challenge for Maxwell Nyce. Yet Nyce made it to Hastings College, graduated in 2014 and…

Video: Science Alumni Successes

Are you interested in biology, chemistry, math, computer science, engineering, or physics? Then you’ve come to the right place! Hastings College can provide a hands-on, small class learning experience! Check out what…

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