CHADRON – Three Chadron State College faculty members are assisting with the Chadron State Park Bioblitz Sept. 9 and 10. The public is invited. Chadron State College Professor Dr. Teresa Frink will co-lead a session about small animal survey set-up Sept. 9 at 4:30 p.m. On Sept. 10 at 9 a.m., Assistant Professor Jonathan Spiess will teach a class on plants, and Professor Dr. Mathew Brust will lead a session about insects at 10 a.m.

• Date: August 23, 2022
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News|Physical and Life Sciences|Range Management

CHADRON – Chadron State College’s High Plains Herbarium digital collection is the largest of any Nebraska herbarium, according to Herbarium Director Steve Rolfsmeier. Data for more than 52,000 specimens are searchable online and more than half of the entries have images associated with them, according to Rolfsmeier. This is about 80 percent of the college’s flowering plants, ferns and conifer specimens.

• Date: August 18, 2022
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Employee Awards & Achievements|Physical and Life Sciences

CHADRON – Dr. Alaric Williams, Dean of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences, recently attended the Becoming Academic Provost Academy in Portland hosted by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

• Date: August 17, 2022
• Author: Williams attends Becoming a Provost Academy
• Category: Campus News|Employee Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – Dr. Shaunda French-Collins has been named Chadron State College’s Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and the School of Business, Math, and Science, Vice President Jim Powell announced Tuesday. French-Collins replaces Dr. Wendy Waugh, who will be the Dean of Graduate Studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

• Date: August 17, 2022
• Author: By Alex Helmbrecht
• Category: Campus News|Employee Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – Five Chadron State College students attended the Story Catcher Writing Workshop and Festival July 19-22 in Gunnison, Colorado. The workshop is funded primarily through the Pilster Endowment Fund of the Mari Sandoz Society. CSC Dean’s Council and Dean Jim Margetts assisted with funding the students’ travel according to Dr. Matt Evertson, Professor of English.

• Date: August 15, 2022
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|English|Student Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – Chadron State College will host On the Road Again, an art exhibition related to the open road, in Memorial Hall’s Main Gallery Aug. 31-Sept. 28. The pieces were selected from the collection of Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Hours for the gallery are weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 308-432-6317 for more information or to schedule a weekend or evening gallery visit.

• Date: August 15, 2022
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Art|Campus News

CHADRON -- Chadron State College students competed in June in the National Leadership Conference of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA-Collegiate), formerly Phi Beta Lambda, in Chicago.

• Date: July 29, 2022
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Business|Campus News|Student Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – Pioneer photographer Fred W. Farrar chronicled the Black Hills from the turn of the 20th century through the 1930s. An exhibit that opened in July at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center consists of 30 of 39 pieces displayed in the 1980s in a collection organized by Dr. Allen Shepherd, a former CSC History Professor, and the late Mary Farrar, daughter of Farrar.

• Date: July 25, 2022
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Art|Campus News

CHADRON – A first for Chadron State College occurred July 19 as Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, Social Sciences Professor, and Jace Demeranville, a senior majoring in History from Gering, Nebraska, concluded a cross-country bike ride that started 70 days earlier.

• Date: July 25, 2022
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News|Employee Awards & Achievements|Student Awards & Achievements

CHADRON – Several Chadron State College departments collaborated to provide bookmarks to young students involved in western Nebraska libraries’ summer reading program, Oceans of Possibilities.

• Date: July 21, 2022
• Author: Tena L. Cook
• Category: Campus News