Hastings College sophomore Sam Acosta Castellanos stepped into his position as a quality and lab intern at Nova-Tech Inc. to help ensure the quality and safety of animal medicine the company makes. This real-world experience over the summer pushed him to grow as both a scientist and a person. “I go into the lab and […]
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“Fifty years goes by, bringing joys and heartaches. Life is that way. My 50 years has been full of what happens to everyone, but there have been moments very precious to me. The fact that I could be proud of my alumni, my alma mater, and the fine people on its faculty and the students
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Kylie (Luth) Christenson ’19 leads a visitor up the elegant curving staircase of the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. On the second level, she gestures toward a few artifacts lining the stark white walls — a printing press once used at the Hastings Tribune, a dog-powered treadmill that operated a
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Surrounded by playful black bears and a roaming grizzly, Hastings College wildlife biology major Chyenne Tidyman spent her summer learning the ropes of zookeeping as an intern at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. Tidyman, who is from Holdrege, Nebraska, had many duties at the zoo, including feeding, watering and cleaning up after the
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Alice (Coates) Harris was a respected librarian, educator and volunteer in the city of South Pasadena, California. To those closest to her, she was much more than that. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. When Harris passed away in 2016, her family decided that Hastings College – nearly 1,500 miles from her
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Hastings College student Lucy Reid highlights the power of numbers in order to gain a deeper understanding during their summer internship at the Scott Data Center in Omaha, Nebraska. “I’ve always been interested in understanding how people are attached to numbers. I want to be able to take and analyze data in a way that
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Standing in a patchwork of Nebraska farmland, Hastings College senior Brock Karr is spending his summer digging deeper into the roots of agriculture — this time, not just as a farm kid from Bladen, Nebraska, but as an agronomy intern helping farmers maximize their yields. Karr has always wanted to dive deeper into the business
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Four Hastings College student-athletes are participating on a collegiate summer baseball team, the Hastings Sodbusters, where their working to gain skills on and off the field. Seniors Markus Miller, Gunnar Pike and Zander Hardy, and recent graduate Tyler Welsh ‘25, are all contributing to the Sodbusters, and all have collegiate experience through the Hastings College
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Hastings College student Sophia Lee never expected a chance email to lead her to Japan, but now she’s immersed in high-tech medical research — and Japanese culture — thanks to a life-changing internship that’s broadening her horizons far beyond the classroom. The internship, which is based in Toyohashi, Japan, is funded by the National Science
After high school, Cale Uhrmacher got his start at Central Community College, but a call from chair the Hastings College Teacher Education Department steered him on a different path. Uhrmacher found a home at Hastings College, somewhere where the professors recognized him just by his laugh. “It felt nice being known that well by professors
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