Hastings College Biology

05/08/2026

Congratulations to the seniors graduating tomorrow! All science seniors and their families are welcomed to grab some breakfast and interact with science professors before the ceremony

05/05/2026

Come and join us tomorrow afternoon for an exciting presentation by a former student that will bring live animals 🦅

04/30/2026

Come and join us today for the last TriBeta meeting of the academic year, and grab some pizza 🍕

04/28/2026

The biology department has been busy during the past few weeks with different things happening, including some of the students in the Evolution course enjoying their time at the zoo in Omaha last Friday

04/16/2026

Earlier this week, students in the Intro to Ecology and Evolution course were learning a new sampling technique as they surveyed Virginia bluebells for a field work lab activity in a woods near the campus. The flowers only bloom in early spring and then the plants become dormant in late May or early June

03/24/2026

Join us tomorrow morning to gain information from alumni and to find out more about the TriBeta meeting happening next month. More information found below ⤵️

03/23/2026

Congratulations to one of our wildlife biology majors, Sophia Lee, for receiving the national presentation award for her research that she performed last summer in Japan!

The Hastings College chapter of Alpha Chi, the all-discipline academic honorary, participated in the national Alpha Chi convention on March 11-13, 2026, in

03/20/2026

Yesterday, in the Biology and Society course, students had fun learning how to make lotion with different scents 🧴

03/13/2026

From the last block, these were the best parasitology infographics voted by students ⤵️

#1 The Common Vampire Bat
#2 Trichinella and Bears
#3 Toxoplasma gondii
#4 Associations Between Oral Protozoa and Periodontal Disease

03/05/2026

Last Friday on the last day of classes for the block, some students in the Fire Ecology course helped out with prescribed burning at Prairie Loft