A speaker at Chadron State College last week gave his audience a glimpse of two historic expeditions that provided a wealth of information about fascinating animals that once roamed the earth in vast numbers.

• Date: September 27, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

About 30 colorful and eye-catching watercolors by June Palmer of Hot Springs are on display in the Main Gallery of Memorial Hall at Chadron State College. She will discuss her work during a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 in Memorial Hall. Palmer’s work in is corporate and private collections around the world. She said she never ceases to be awed by nature’s handiwork, and attempts to create on paper pieces that are similar so others can share that joy at all times.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Publication Award for small museum exhibition catalog by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association at its annual meeting in mid-September in Omaha. The award was given for the Ray and Faye Graves Photographic Exhibition Catalog, published by Chadron State College, as a companion to the exhibit that was created by and displayed at the center last fall.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

A Rushville teacher, Sherry Retzlaff, is the winner of the Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year Award for Nebraska for 2005. Retzlaff received the honor Friday morning during an all-school convocation in the Rushville Gymnasium. The award includes a $10,000 educational grant from Wal-Mart to be used by the Gordon-Rushville Schools. She also will be one of 50 candidates for Wal-Mart’s National Teacher of the Year Award, which will be presented later this year..

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News

Three guitar players, called Trio Los Pumas, from Greeley, Colo., will be at Chadron State College to help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on Thursday, Sept. 29. They will be playing in the lobby of the Student Center, beginning at 7 p.m.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Three Chadron State College jazz groups will be performing at the Sidney Oktoberfest this weekend. The Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Birds will be playing at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Sept 30 while CSC’s new group, “Mo Jazz,” will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. All three groups are directed by Dr. Sandy Schaefer.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

After serving as president of Chadron State College for seven years, Dr. Tom Krepel is now assistant to the president at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb. Krepel began those duties Aug. 1.

• Date: September 21, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Several of the nation’s leading criminal investigators will be speaking during the Regional Law Enforcement Conference at Chadron State College on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and 2.

• Date: September 21, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

One of the world’s leading mammoth experts, Dick Mol of the Netherlands, will speak at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21 in the Student Center at Chadron State College.

• Date: September 19, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

The Patriot Act provided tools to help law enforcement agencies investigate and prosecute terrorist activities, but most of those tools were already available, the U.S. attorney for Nebraska said last Friday at Chadron State College.

• Date: September 19, 2005
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News