About 30 Chadron State College students gathered in the CSC Student Center Tuesday evening to remember their friend, Sterling Atkins, who died Feb. 9. Russ Seger, a Chadron pastor and adjunct faculty member who has expertise and a doctorate in the disciplines of death and dying, spoke to the group encouraging them to share stories. "It's healthy to gather and remember Sterling. The grief may not go away but it won't hurt as much if you tell stories and begin to manage the loss," he said.

• Date: February 21, 2013
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Obituaries

From advice about choosing good friends and setting goals to a demo of proper bull riding techniques, Charlie Sampson, 1982 World Bull Riding Champion, entertained a large audience at Memorial Hall Thursday night.

• Date: February 22, 2013
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News

A new tradition is starting at Chadron State College this spring. April 20 hundreds of CSC students, faculty, and staff will team up for “The Big Event.” This student-led community service project will focus on giving back to the community of Chadron for their continual support of CSC throughout the years, according to Shaunda French, assistant professor of communication at Chadron State.

• Date: February 23, 2013
• Author: CSC Information Services
• Category: Campus Events|Campus News|Student Clubs & Organizations

Chadron State College graduate, Dr. Marty Ramirez, will be among those honored at the Lincoln Celebration of Community Leadership dinner. The program was originally scheduled for Feb. 21, but because of the weather in Lincoln, was postponed until March 8.

• Date: February 26, 2013
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News|Chadron State Alumni & Foundation

“How many of you have been called a genius, as a sincere compliment, lately?” This question by keynote speaker, Holly Elissa Bruno of Sterling, Mass., kicked off the discussion about Intelligence Quotient vs. Emotional Quotient Saturday morning at the 24thannual Early Childhood Conference hosted at Chadron State College. “We have a profession that we know is important but the rest of the world doesn't really get it,” she told childcare providers from the region.

• Date: February 26, 2013
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Education|Social Work

LINCOLN, Neb. Wayne State College was the host site for the Nebraska State College System open education summit Feb. 10-12.

• Date: February 26, 2013
• Author: CSC Information Services
• Category: Campus News|Nebraska State College System

Chadron State College faculty members are seeking five grants totaling over $250,000. The largest application, for $150,000, is intended to enhance students’ experience using GPS and Geographic Information Systems. Employers expect job applicants to demonstrate a proficiency level with GPS/GIS that could be reached with a technologically strengthened rangeland and agricultural curriculum, according to Dr. Chuck Butterfield, professor and department chair of Applied Sciences.

• Date: February 27, 2013
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News

The CSC Graves Lecture Series speaker tonight is Dr. Tom Smith, an historian and assistant professor in the Social and Communication Arts department at CSC. The title of his talk is “Empire, Manliness and Post-Emancipated Identity: Progressive Pan-Africanism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.”

• Date: February 27, 2013
• Author: CSC Information Services
• Category: Campus News|Graves Lecture Series

Bev Russell, interim library director, sees herself and other CSC library staff members as “information navigators”. Russell has three goals she wants to accomplish before her contract at the Reta E. King library ends June 30. First, she wants to make the learning commons a reality both in the building and online.

• Date: February 27, 2013
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|King Library

In honor of those who fought to defend the Philippines, Franklin Annis of the Chadron State College Army ROTC Program and Sarah Polak of the CSC Museum Studies Program are teaching a Military Science Leadership course this semester centered on the Bataan Death March.

• Date: March 1, 2013
• Author: CSC Information Services
• Category: Campus News|Military Science Leadership