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Student achievements the past year include six students placing in the top 10 at Phi Beta Lambda’sÌýNational Leadership Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The students are Leyna Brummels of ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ, Neb., Kelsey Brummels of Ewing, Neb., Jennifer Campos of Alliance, Neb., Cody Cooper of Gothenburg, Neb., Tierra Snyder of Beatrice, Neb., and Dawson Brunswick of McCook, Neb., who also served as CSC’s Student Trustee for the Nebraska State College System’s Board of Trustees in 2018.

Three students, Will Krause, of Spring Branch, Texas, Missy Jech, of Rushville, Nebraska, and Jessica Hurd, of Gordon, Nebraska, were award winners during the annual International Society of Range Management Convention in Sparks, Nevada.

Two Social Work majors, Jeff Mugongo of Aurora, Colorado, and Renee Spotted Thunder of Hay Springs, Nebraska, and Associate Professor of Social Work Rich Kenney published poetry in a variety of journals.

Six music students attended the National Association of Music Merchants show in Anaheim, California. Patrick Cassidy of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Alex Rawlings of ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ, each earned scholarships to support their travel expenses.

Farther afield, 27 students traveled to London, England, and Dublin, Ireland, as part of the  program. This was the 39th year for Justice Studies students to travel overseas.

Six science students and two from the education department  at the 128th Annual Nebraska Academy of Sciences Conference in Lincoln.

The student-produced  literary and art journal was published online with photos, poetry, art work, fiction and non-fiction stories.

Students studying wildlife research began a collaborative  project in the fall with the Pine Ridge Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. 

The CSC campus carried on with a culture of providing service to the community.

, a day of service in April, included more than 410 volunteers painting, raking, cleaning and other work at 36 job sites in its sixth year. In October, members of the campus community donated dozens of food items at the annual  organized and hosted by students.

Art students brightened the hallways at Crest View Care Center by installing their large  and the Social Work 435 Class provided experts and research intended to help prevent suicide at its .

Accolades for academic departments included The Rural Law Opportunities Program’s 2018 American Bar Association .  of Alliance, Nebraska, who was a CSC student when he was accepted to the initial RLOP group in 2017, enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law this fall.

The  pilot project was launched to help freshmen acclimate to academic life, examine important social issues, set academic expectations and foster critical thinking. It also included a Common Reading Experience, the book, “March: Book One.”

An original piece of choral music, commissioned especially for CSC, was performed in Memorial Hall by the CSC Concert Choir and ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Community Choir in April, thanks to a gift from an anonymous donor.  was composed by David von Kampen with original lyrics by Becky Boesen. In other arts news, “You Feel Like Waving,” a  by Krista Birnbaum, was dedicated in the Rangeland Complex.

The  collection will eventually be accessible online thanks to an imaging station worth approximately $8,000 funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

After two years of work, education faculty members Dr. Lori Entzminger and Dr. John Buttiglieri successfully established  of Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development on campus.

Faculty and staff continued to distinguish themselves with professional accomplishments.

1. , mathematics professor, received the Milton W. Beckman Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in Kearney.

, professor of Applied Science, received the college’s Teaching Excellence Award during the annual Faculty and Staff luncheon. Thirteen  were honored and 23 employees received  awards.

English Assistant Professor Markus Egeler Jones’ novel, "How the Butcher Bird Finds Her Voice,” earned two 2018 , one in the multicultural category and one in the literary category. Jones was also nominated for a 2018  for “Creature of the Dark,” and a 2019 Pushcart small press award for “Old Man Gloom.”

Jones and Director of Transitional Studies Tamara Toomey, received scholarships for a  at the National Center for Developmental Education.

English Assistant Professor Steve Coughlin’s second book of poetry,  was published. Coughlin plans to chronicle a 2017 trip of 2,000-plus miles he took along the  from Canada to Mexico for an online literary magazine and possibly a book.

Art Professor  described her experience on the set of an Ethan and Joel Coen film set during a Graves Lecture. Donahue appeared as an extra in the Netflix movie, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” She recorded her experience in a .

Alumni accomplishments were also in the spotlight.

During Homecoming,  and  were honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award for achievements in their professions and demonstrating service to the college.  of Litchfield, Nebraska, and  of Centennial, Colorado, received Distinguished Young Alumni Awards while the Bunch-Lingelbach, Epp and Neubauer families were each honored with a  for three generations of graduates.

 was selected as a recipient of the Nebraska State Association of Secondary School Principals Distinguished Service Award.  of North Platte, Nebraska, was named the 2018 Nebraska Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year, and , a family physician in St. Paul, Nebraska, received the Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Award from University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Coach and Athletic Director  celebrated his softball team’s fifth consecutive National Junior College Athletic Association national championship in May. Monroe earned his master’s degree from CSC in December 2017.