Hastings College student Sophia Lee never expected a chance email to lead her to Japan, but now she’s immersed in high-tech medical research — and Japanese culture — thanks to a life-changing internship that’s broadening her horizons far beyond the classroom. The internship, which is based in Toyohashi, Japan, is funded by the National Science […]
After high school, Cale Uhrmacher got his start at Central Community College, but a call from chair the Hastings College Teacher Education Department steered him on a different path. Uhrmacher found a home at Hastings College, somewhere where the professors recognized him just by his laugh. “It felt nice being known that well by professors
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Medical providers in small towns and communities are not always available everyday — with some providers and specialists traveling from and working in several areas. For patients, this means week-long waits for appointments or hour-long drives to bigger cities. It’s an issue that earlier this year caught the attention of Hastings College students Catie Reed,
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During his 37 years as an esteemed chemistry professor at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, the late Dr. Marshall Robert “Bob” Stoner ’60 never forgot his roots as a fledgling chemistry and mathematics major at Hastings College. A farm boy and Eagle Scout from Kenesaw, Nebraska, Stoner studied at Hastings College under chemistry
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Each March, thousands of people flock to the Central Platte River Valley to see the annual migration of the Sandhill Cranes, long-legged, crimson-capped creatures that fill the sky with their trumpeting calls, forage in the fields and roost in the shallow river before flying north to their nesting grounds. This natural wonder has been called
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Abby Harveson is a makeup lover. But what happens when she brings that passion into the workplace? That’s the question that sparked her research into the impact makeup has in professional settings. Harveson, a psychology major at Hastings College, began a study in the fall of 2024 examining gender disparities in the workplace. She shared
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Many students who walk the campus at Hastings College carry special talents, are creative, academically excel or are high achievers on and off the court. Grace Branson is all of those things and more. Branson came to Hastings College from Lawrence, Kansas, where she excelled at school and on the volleyball court — and is
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Kaitlin Bierman-Macke went into Hastings College knowing she wanted to go to medical school — and found individualized mentorship and built a community of friends along the way. Now, the biology grad is about to graduate medical school and start her residency.
Jenna Sterling, a biology major on a pre-dental track, took knowledge she learned from a rural health disparities class at Hastings College to create Dental Day, a day to help individuals in the community with dental care needs that weren’t being met. She approached a local dentist with the idea, and it resulted in a
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What happens when theories of religion, geography, modern life and nature are combined? Hastings College students Emma Morelli and Claire Fuqua went to a five-week Summer Youth Internship (SYI) at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS) this past summer to find out. Fuqua, a sophomore wildlife biology and philosophy & religion major from Woodland Park, Colorado;
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