Jim Fritzler ’76 is a minimalist. His office at Scott Studio Theatre belies the fact that he’s been teaching in the Hastings College Theatre Department for 17 years, with the last four as department chair. There are no massive piles of papers, no haphazard stacks of books, no totes stuffed with costumes and props. What […]
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Hastings College junior Suzette Escamilla Morales of Hastings, Nebraska, was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study in India this academic year. Her career goals, desire to study languages and willingness to spend an extended period out of the country made her eligible for the David L. Boren Scholarship, which is sponsored by the National Security
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Matt Seeley’s sculptures might last only a few days, but for him, that’s part of the beauty of ephemeral art. Seeley ’88, a systems engineer, sculpts large-scale creations with snow, creating jumbo characters like a 16-foot praying mantis, oversized gnomes and a sprawling, crawling octopus. He also does sand sculpture and giant 3-D sidewalk chalk
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Hastings College alumna Maggie Vaughan ’16 has already landed herself the director of talent solutions at the Hastings Economic Development Corporation in Hastings, Nebraska. She still keeps in touch with the Hastings College community, not only for her job, but because the faculty and staff are always there to help personally and professionally.
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Every October, students from Hastings College conduct research in Ireland throughout the month as part of a program called Irish Fellows. This program began in 2007 with then Hastings College Dean and Irish literature specialist, Dr. Richard Lloyd. Lloyd had formed a relationship with Grammy-winning musician Davy Spillane, who had performed at Hastings College, and
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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 their major choice, Bydalek, instead, keeps his focus on what he enjoys doing. “My master’s degree will be more of a stepping stone
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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 experiments and research with professors. A biochemistry and molecular biology major at Hastings, Tidwell was able to work in a graduate level laboratory
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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 disease. “If the protein is mutated, then it won’t work anymore because you need it to process sugars, to regulate whether those sugars
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Summer usually offers college students the promise of no homework, catching up with friends and some serious relaxation, but McKenna Reed spent the majority of her summer months in the classroom. Nearly 4,000 miles from home, the senior Spanish, elementary education and special education triple major used six weeks of her summer working as a
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Almost her entire life, Hastings College senior Stephanie Liebsack has known she wants to be a policeofficer. “My parents were both police officers,” she said. “Just hearing all the stories over the years, it’s just kind of always been my focus, to be a police officer, and there’s just some kind of excitement that it
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