CHADRON – Point of Origin: Bridging Realities through Collage, Technology, and Identity, an exhibition by Natalie Tyree, is on display in Memorial Hall’s Main Gallery now through Friday, Feb. 13. The gallery is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

• Date: February 2, 2026
• Author: Shelby Westinghouse
• Category: Art|Campus News

CHADRON – One-hundred sixty-one students from Nebraska high schools participated in the Ninth Annual Best of the West competition last Wednesday at Chadron State College. According to Dr. Gary Dusk, Business Academy Professor, Department Chair and event organizer, students from Alliance, Hemingford, Chadron, Hay Springs, Scottsbluff, Sidney, Valentine, and Mitchell high schools registered for the contest.

• Date: February 2, 2026
• Author: Taylor Neugebauer
• Category: Campus News

CHADRON — A Chadron State College biologist’s work on grasshoppers in both Wisconsin and Nebraska is reshaping what scientists know about insect biodiversity in the Midwest and revealing how much remains undocumented.

• Date: February 3, 2026
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Physical and Life Sciences

Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska, and Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences in West Des Moines, Iowa, have announced a new partnership designed to create streamlined pathways for students pursuing advanced degrees in health care and biomedical sciences.

• Date: February 9, 2026
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Physical and Life Sciences

CHADRON – Chadron State College student Gabriel Broussard has been chosen as the Project Strive/TRiO Student of the Month for January 2026.

• Date: February 10, 2026
• Author: Shelby Westinghouse
• Category: Project Strive

CHADRON — The Graves Lecture Series will resume later this month at Chadron State College. The series, which is free and open to the public, is a forum for speakers of many interests and disciplines. Since 2006, the series has included presentations about a wide variety of historical, cultural, artistic, and scientific areas. Each presentation this semester will be at 6 p.m. in the Sandoz Center’s Chicoine Atrium.

• Date: February 11, 2026
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Graves Lecture Series

CHADRON – Maya Goss of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a senior art student at Chadron State College, has completed a four-year project illustrating the children’s book, Figgy the Snowbird. The story about a little cat, Figgy, who goes on a driving adventure with his family, was written by a Chadron author whose pen name is Mika.

• Date: February 12, 2026
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Art

CHADRON – One hundred forty high school students from 25 schools in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming gathered for Chadron State College’s 54th annual High Plains Band and Choir Festival in early February.

• Date: February 12, 2026
• Author: Taylor Neugebauer
• Category: Music

CHADRON – Chadron State College student Gracie Ackles of Farwell, Nebraska, received the $1,000 Tina Lorentzen Carlson Memorial Scholarship recently from the Nebraska Chapter of the Soil & Water Conservation Society, the Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Foundation, and the Nebraska Chapter SWCS-UNL Foundation

• Date: February 16, 2026
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Range Management

LINCOLN – Dr. Anthony Perlinski, Chadron State College Professor and Rangeland Management department chair, received the Nebraska Range and Conservation Endowment during the Nebraska Cattlemen annual awards banquet in December in Kearney, Nebraska. Perlinski was awarded a $6,000 grant on behalf of the Nebraska Cattlemen Research and Education Foundation.

• Date: February 16, 2026
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Range Management