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REU success story: Mentorship makes a difference for McClure

December 20, 2024

Landing one research experience for undergraduates (REU) is an accomplishment for a student in the sciences. Milly McClure, a senior from Liberal, Kansas, landed four. The physics and mathematics major spent summer 2024 in Texas A&M’s Cyclotron Institute. She helped faculty learn to use a new thermal evaporator—a machine integral to the institute’s research into […]

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Goad inspires at the Robert Henri Museum

December 20, 2024

As Ally Goad guided a visitor through the Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery, she pointed out one of her favorite paintings, “In Amsterdam,” a moody urban landscape illuminated by a dramatic sliver of light breaking through dark clouds. “The composition of this particular painting is almost perfect. It draws your eyes from the corner

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From wildlife to pets: Manglitz pursues advanced vet degree

December 20, 2024

Adam Manglitz’s wildlife biology degree has been a ticket to exotic experiences. As a student at Hastings College, Manglitz ‘18 traveled to Honduras to scuba dive with sharks and hold a white-faced capuchin. After graduating, he moved to the Florida Keys, where he wrangled pelicans and rehabilitated raptors. Recently, though, his degree brought him back

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Hergott ’05 lands role on ‘Law & Order’

November 20, 2024

Don’t be surprised if Keithen Hergott ’05 looks familiar. Even if you didn’t attend class, play football or run track with him at Hastings College, you still might recognize his face. Maybe you’ve seen him in a Rug Doctor television commercial, sporting a lab coat and bow tie as the company’s “director of clean.” Or

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Curiosity, passion for learning lead Lanning to Belgium

October 21, 2024

This past summer, Riley Lanning embraced the challenge to expand her laboratory research skills and knowledge in biology and psychology in a lab in Leuven, Belgium, after a course at Hastings College piqued her interest in the gut brain axis relationship. The psychology and history and philosophy major found the internship of her dreams after

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Tyler Call at a desk with drafting paper and a computer.

Interest in architecture turns into opportunities for Call

October 21, 2024

Hastings College junior business administration major Tyler Call of Greeley, Colorado channeled his admiration for architecture into an internship at Russell Remodeling over the summer. His journey as a drafting intern really started when he was in middle school when he modeled homes out of foam and wood. He soon realized there was more to

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Photo of Megan Arrington-Williams outside.

Arrington-Williams brings nature, community together at Prairie Loft

October 15, 2024

Megan Arrington-Williams ’09, executive director of Prairie Loft Center for Outdoor and Agricultural Learning, spends her days connecting people of all ages to the wonders of the natural world. On field trips to the farm-based center west of Hastings, preschoolers scamper down tree-lined trails, collect seeds and make pies in the outdoor mud kitchen. First-through-sixth

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Fichter helps players find their perfect throw in biometrics lab

September 9, 2024

Interested in biomechanics, Hastings College senior Alec Fichter spent the summer interning at the Pitching Lab, a biomechanics lab at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he worked directly with players, calibrating cameras and setting up body markers to track their motion during workouts. His goal was — and is as he looks to graduation

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Lucas gains insight, marketing experience at Chief Industries

September 9, 2024

Initially unfamiliar with Chief Industries, Hastings College marketing major Gianna Lucas discovered the company during a job fair on campus last spring — and landed a summer internship where she gained hands-on experience in social media. At the job fair, Lucas, a junior from Grand Island, Nebraska, spoke with a representative from Chief about her interest in marketing

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Teeple explores community development, growth while working for City of Hastings

August 8, 2024

Hastings College junior business administration major Lily Teeple is fostering a sense of belonging within the community through her work with the City of Hastings Development Services Department, which provides planning and zoning, plan reviews, permitting and other services to community members, builders and contractors in Hastings. For her internship, Teeple has focused primarily on

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