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The sounds of Ireland

Ever wondered what Ireland sounds like? Gregory Puckett, a senior from Lincoln, Nebraska, is finding out this month as part of the Hastings College Irish Fellows Program. He’s one of several students taking part in the program, which includes spending a month in Ireland conducting research or exploring issues. The group is based in County […]

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Shadows of the Past: Exploring the Essence of the American Southwest

By Emily Case Emily Case of Gibbon, Neb., was a senior English/visual media major when she wrote this piece in the spring of 2014. In April I gave an Academic Showcase Day lecture titled “Shadows of the Past: Exploring the Essence of the American Southwest through Documentary Photography.” The presentation grew from a January-term (J-Term)

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Dogbevia teaches more than chemistry

Growing up in Ghana, Dr. Moses Dogbevia, Associate Professor of Chemistry, learned to live and work with people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, ideologies and cultural values. “My cultural history taught me to value human relationships and to understand that we are all the same many ways,” said the professor, now in his eighth

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Collaborative piano major prepares Peterson for top program

Hastings College senior Zachary Peterson, a collaborative piano and vocal performance major from Omaha, Neb., received auditions at all four of his top choices for graduate school —Eastman School of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Arizona State University. Zachary auditioned at three and was accepted to the Eastman

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Gilchrist is [anything but ordinary]

“I woke up one day late January, and I thought, ‘I want to direct a show,’” said Jacob Gilchrist, senior vocal performance major from Colorado Springs, Colo. And thus was born a musical revue that is anything but ordinary. The program, which Jacob describes as “a little mix of everything: from comedy and classic Broadway,

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