The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum near Ashland, Nebraska, has displayed mementos and artifacts from the life of Clayton “Astro Clay” Anderson ’81, the state’s first and only astronaut, since the HC alumnus flew to the International Space Station in 2007. In a colorful exhibit called “The Heartland Astronaut,” visitors can see his NASA […]
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Stephanie Mlynarik, a senior studio art major from Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, is gaining an experience she never thought was possible. Mlynarik spent the summer before her senior year working in the archives of the Stuhr Museum. “Not everybody gets this type of experience,” Mlynarik said. Mlynarik found this internship with the help of the alumni
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Kyle Weber, a 2017 Hastings College graduate, was promoted earlier this year to senior ranger at Chatfield State Park in Littleton, Colorado. Weber has been working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife full time since 2018, but got his start with the organization through working seasonal jobs during the summers of his college years. As Weber
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While at Hastings College, RuAnn (Ulmer) Root ‘86 was skeptical about her classes in writing, public speaking and nonprofit accounting — requirements for her Human Service Administration degree. “To be honest, I thought I would never use the information from those classes. However, have they ever come in handy,” said executive director of Court Appointed
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After teaching K-6 vocal music in the Bellevue (Nebraska) Public Schools for 23 years, Cody Talarico ’99 is strengthening arts education across the state as the new fine arts education specialist with the Nebraska Department of Education. “My main focus right now is building relationships and meeting as many people as I can to learn
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On her family farm, near Minden, Nebraska, artist Sally Jurgensmier ’93 uses a wire welder to transform cold scrap metal into wondrous, expressive sculptures that fill her farmyard and showroom: a giant rooster and cat, ornate crosses and dozens of abstract pieces with metal rods spiraling around axles, blades and gears. “It started at Hastings
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Kyle Collins, a sophomore at Hastings College from Eleuthera, The Bahamas, said he believes education is an opportunity to seize his dreams and of him understanding concepts better than he previously did, according to an article in The Nassau Guardian. He also believes education is about connecting with people at a deeper level. Collins said
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The continued connection between Hastings College and the nonprofit organization Prairie Loft helped Sam Johnson ‘22 foster his love for connecting people with the environment and helping people interact with it. The summer before his senior year, Johnson was looking for a job opportunity that could provide him with experience in his field. Covid-19 made
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For the past two summers, Hastings College junior Landry Hinkson has been working with kids and teens at summer camps—and the experience has put her on a new career path. Hinkson, a communications major from Bazaar, Kansas, up until the summer of 2021 believed she’d work at a newspaper as a journalist. Now she’s interested
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Her appreciation of the show “Criminal Minds” allowed Hastings College junior Caitlin Birk to combine her interests in psychology and criminology, which led her to an internship at a sheriff’s office in Nebraska’s most populous county. Before coming to Hastings, Birk, who is from Bennington, Nebraska, knew she wanted to do something in psychology, but
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