A Dawes County native and graduate of Chadron State College, Sharla Dowding, is one of six educators nationally to be awarded the Robert E. Yager Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award for 2015-16.

• Date: October 26, 2016
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News|Education

CHADRON – Chadron State College social work majors in their senior years are hosting a major conference, “High in the West, The Tragic Trail Left by Drugs,” Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Student Center. The all-day event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. Schools and individuals may register online.

• Date: October 26, 2016
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News|Social Work

CHADRON – The Executive Council of Chadron State College hosted an assessment work session that involved more than 100 employees from various departments during the all-campus meeting Thursday, Oct. 13.

• Date: October 25, 2016
• Author: Alex Helmbrecht
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News

CHADRON – Students at Chadron State College who have an interest in paleontology don’t have far to go to experience the excitement of finding traces of the creatures that lived on Earth some 40 million years ago because there are fossils right outside the classroom doors.

• Date: October 24, 2016
• Author: George Ledbetter
• Category: Campus News|Physical and Life Sciences

CHADRON – The Fall 2016 schedule for the Chadron State College Graves Lecture Series continues this week. The free, public lectures take place in the King Library’s Room 111 at 6 p.m. and will be archived on the CSC YouTube Channel.

• Date: October 21, 2016
• Author: CSC College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Graves Lecture Series|Sandoz Society

CHADRON – As part of the Distinguished Visiting Writer Series, author Karen Gettert Shoemaker will give a public reading at the Chicoine Atrium located in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center Thursday at 7 p.m.

• Date: October 21, 2016
• Author: CSC College Relations
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News|English|Sandoz Society

CHADRON – Habits are hard to break, even when you know it’s necessary.

• Date: October 19, 2016
• Author: George Ledbetter
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News|Psychological Sciences

CHADRON – Sophomore Dakota Rice set the pace for the Chadron State College rodeo team at the Laramie County Community College rodeo in Cheyenne last weekend.

• Date: October 18, 2016
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News|Student Awards & Achievements|Student Clubs & Organizations

CHADRON – In his Pilster Lecture Thursday night, Dr. Paul Hutton, a distinguished professor at University of New Mexico and five-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, reiterated Mari Sandoz’s low opinion of Gen. George Armstrong Custer with colorful excerpts from her letters.

• Date: October 15, 2016
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News|Sandoz Society

CHADRON – The trumpet has been used for communication for centuries and still is, according to Dr. Sid Shuler. In his Graves Lecture Series Tuesday night, Shuler, a Chadron State College music faculty member and band director, presented the historical development of the instrument.

• Date: October 14, 2016
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Graves Lecture Series|Music|Sandoz Society