Feeling unsure about what to expect in college? You’re not alone. We get it – many students feel exactly the same way when they’re starting out. That’s why at Hastings College we’ve created a flexible four-year plan, designed to help you navigate every step of the journey. In year one, we’ll help you find your […]
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After earning a bachelor’s degree in English at Hastings College, Duane Harriott ‘96 moved to New York City and made its music scene home. Currently, he’s a music consultant for Gray V, a music curation company serving Target, Michael Kors and Marriott Hotels among other clients. Harriott lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Marisa Mendez,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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