As the managing director of the Ethiopian Community Development Council’s African Community Center (ACC) in Denver, Colorado, Melissa Theesen works every day to make sure refugees are welcomed in their new country. To accomplish this, she must work with her large staff, as well as local and state officials, but as a 2008 Hastings College […]
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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 into pharmacy schools. Both enrolled and began working toward their pharmacy degree last fall – in what would have been their senior year
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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 in Ghana and attended school there from elementary school through college, where I earned my undergraduate degree in physics with a diploma in
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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 has now entered into the competitive field of medicine. He said because Hastings College is a place where professors get to know and
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Dr. Jamie (Volz) Wagner ’10 majored in mathematics and economics and Hastings College, where the professors actually helped her get into grad school. She is now the assistant professor and director for the Center of Economic Education at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Dr. Wagner works as a liaison for local teachers and students to get economics
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“My aunt wrote to me last autumn and said she wanted to give my novel to her friends for Christmas,” said Paige Erickson, a 2000 Hastings College graduate. “When I admitted that it wouldn’t be ready in time, she said I had better come up with something else.” For someone who has always been interested
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When Dr. David B. McCarthy, professor of religion, recommended to his student, Logan Ellis, that he apply for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Samuel Robinson Award—one requirement of which is to memorize and recite the Westminster Shorter Catechism in the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions—the college senior was game. “It was J-Term,” said Ellis, referring to the opportunity that Hastings
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“We can start in one direction and then it breaks off into a million different ones,” said Rebecca Holcomb, describing what it’s like to work on a research project as a sophomore at Hastings College. She, just like other history majors, is working towards becoming a better historian. A history education and theater education major,
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Brooke Ballou ’15 is finding post-graduate success with the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska. The 2015 Hastings College graduate from Wilsonville, Nebraska, landed a job as an account representative, managing accounts with chemical shippers. Ballou initially was introduced to Union Pacific at a career fair, and was attracted to the company’s encouragement of employees
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HC Media students and faculty members have witnessed many changes during their 13 years of travelling to Sioux City, Iowa to broadcast the NAIA DII Women’s National Basketball Championship, but there seems to be one constant each year: the presence of someone many students consider to be their mentor. Chad Power (center below), chair of the
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