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Hastings College has announced that Ron Priebe, a standout men’s basketball player from the class of 1964, will be enshrined in its Athletic Hall of Fame as a Legacy inductee during Homecoming festivities later this month. Priebe, a resident of Gibbon, Nebraska, was a four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter for the Broncos. Playing his […]

What if a college education could help students answer two questions at the same time: What career should I pursue, and what kind of life do I want to lead? A new grant will help Hastings College students explore both. The College has received a $150,000 grant commitment from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate […]

A new piece of academic scholarship co-authored by Dr. Beatrice Waterhouse, visiting assistant professor of sociology at Hastings College, has been published in Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. The article, titled “Restoring the Canon with New Translations of Yiddish Women Writers,” was co-authored alongside Na’amit Sturm Nagel, a doctoral candidate at UC Irvine. […]

As fall approaches, Tom Huxtable ’73 has five enormous pumpkins growing in a patch three blocks from his home. The largest already weighs 470 pounds. During this peak growing season, its weight increases by as much as 30 pounds a day, making it a bit of a public spectacle in Lake City, Michigan, population 830. […]

Two concurrent exhibitions by Rondall Reynoso, assistant professor of painting and chair of the Hastings College Department of Visual Arts, open today in the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center. Both exhibitions run through September 18, with a free public reception scheduled for Thursday, September 3, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the JDAC. Located in the […]

Hastings College and X-Stream Sports have agreed to a one-year contract extension, continuing a partnership that has grown significantly since it began three years ago. The 2026-27 season marks the third consecutive year X-Stream Sports, at x-streamsports.com, has provided exclusive live play-by-play coverage of Hastings College athletics, and this year’s agreement features even more extensive […]

Wildfires are dangerous, unpredictable and capable of changing in seconds. While most people picture engines rolling toward a fire, Hastings College wildlife biology major Jaedyn Adler drops directly into the blaze by helicopter. Armed with only what he can carry, the senior and his crew are tasked with containing the fire until backup arrives. This […]

Destini Johnson has always been interested in working with people. She began as a barista, and over the summer moved into a new role thanks to an internship with Enterprise Mobility in Grand Island, Nebraska. Johnson, a business administration major from Frederick, Colorado, attended a career fair hosted by Hastings College’s Career Services team in […]

Molly Kammerer of Sutherland, Nebraska, felt like she could do anything at Hastings College. “The people who saw me, loved me and helped me, and pushed me to be the self that I am today,” she said. Kammerer, who graduated in May as a teacher with a biology endorsement, said, “My place mattered because I […]

With more than 200 victories, back-to-back state championships and national recognition, Thomas Nettleton ‘07/MAT ‘09 has been named the recipient of the Hastings College Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumni Coach award for 2026. Nettleton, a social studies teacher and head girls soccer coach at Lincoln Southwest High School, will be honored during the Athletic Hall of […]