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Hastings College has announced the Dean’s List for its Spring 2025 semester. For the semester, 339 students from 19 states and eight countries were named to the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to 4.0 scale and be registered for full-time coursework. […]

Each March, thousands of people flock to the Central Platte River Valley to see the annual migration of the Sandhill Cranes, long-legged, crimson-capped creatures that fill the sky with their trumpeting calls, forage in the fields and roost in the shallow river before flying north to their nesting grounds. This natural wonder has been called […]

Hastings College held its 139th Commencement on Saturday, May 17, 2025. During the ceremony, the College awarded degrees to 192 undergraduates and 10 Master of Arts in Teaching graduates. Graduates represented 19 states and 14 countries. Baccalaureate photos are available here and are free to download; the video is here. Commencement photos are available here […]

Many students who walk the campus at Hastings College carry special talents, are creative, academically excel or are high achievers on and off the court. Grace Branson is all of those things and more. Branson came to Hastings College from Lawrence, Kansas, where she excelled at school and on the volleyball court — and is […]

Hastings College music education major and saxophonist Erick Rodriguez of Grand Island, Nebraska, won the 2025 John Shildneck Young Artist Competition held by the Lincoln (Nebraska) Municipal Band. Rodriguez will be the featured soloist in the band’s season opening concert at 7:00 p.m. on July 6 in the Antelope Park bandshell in Lincoln. At Hastings […]

Six Hastings College students and their ceramics instructor Jerome Dubas joined 6,000 other students and artists at the 59th annual National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, with the theme “Formation,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, earlier this semester. Students attending the conference included Anna Bultman of Waverly, Nebraska; Brooke Gaughan of […]

Two Hastings College students showcased their original research at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, which was held in late April in Lincoln, Nebraska. Science faculty members Dr. Jason Carbaugh, Dr. Brad Dinardo and Dr. Brad Peterson attended the event, supporting student presenters and participating in conference activities. Milly McClure, a math and physics […]

Jenna Sterling, a biology major on a pre-dental track, took knowledge she learned from a rural health disparities class at Hastings College to create Dental Day, a day to help individuals in the community with dental care needs that weren’t being met. She approached a local dentist with the idea, and it resulted in a […]

Hastings College Athletics celebrated the accomplishments of student-athletes at its Bronco Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (BESPY) Awards on Monday, May 5, at the Hastings City Auditorium. The event was organized by the Association of Student Athletes (ASA) and the Hastings College Athletic Department, with members of ASA voting on and presenting a number of […]

Eboni Nash ‘19 and Gary Freeman ‘93 have been named Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year and Outstanding Alumni of the Year, respectively, by the Hastings College Foundation. Nash graduated with majors in psychology, religion and sociology. After graduating, she went on to attend Harvard Divinity School where she received her master’s in Theological Studies. […]