Hastings College Department of Psychology and Sociology

05/09/2026

🎉👏🏼CONGRATULATIONS to our 2026 Graduates!! 👏🏼🎉 We are so proud of you and wish you tremendous future success!!

04/27/2026

Congrats Lilac!

Congratulations to senior Lilac Ramsey, who won a national religion essay contest!

For more information, visit:
https://www.hastings.edu/news/ramsey-receives-first-place-in-national-religion-honor-societys-essay-competition/

04/13/2026

A good review of our High School Fair!

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04/13/2026

Yesterday we welcomed 5 new members into Psi Chi, the psychology academic honorary! Congratulations all!!

04/12/2026

The inaugural High School Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology Fair was a great success! We enjoyed hosting high school students and their parents/teachers for workshops with interactive activities, a campus tour, lunch, and an alumni/current students panel! Much gratitude to folks in Admissions and Marketing & Communication, along with our many HC student volunteers. We owe the biggest thanks to the HC Foundation for supporting this event through an Innovation Grant! 👏🏼 🧠 🌎 👏🏼

01/24/2026

Shout out to Dr. Cardoso!

Hastings College research team publishes study on COVID-19 impact on Parkinson’s patients.

A collaborative research effort involving Hastings College students, faculty and a local medical professional has been published in the Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences (URJHS), a prestigious peer-reviewed publication.

The study, titled "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson’s Disease Patients," investigates how the global pandemic affected the quality of life and functional abilities of individuals living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the rural Midwest.

The research team was led by first author Maria Andrea Garcia Elizondo ’25 and included fellow graduate Jermaine Francis Jr. ’25, alongside faculty advisor Dr. Juliana de Almeida Cardoso, associate professor of psychology, and Dr. Lorraine Edwards, M.D., a neurologist with Central Nebraska Neurology.

01/02/2026

Congrats to our Fall 2025 Psychology - Senior Capstone Students:

Chloe Mesquita - Internship: Hastings Police Department, Paper: Community Policing in Hastings, NE

Rayleigh Guyer - Research Project: How Does Perceived and Received Social Support Influence ReInjury Anxiety?

Keenan Griffin - Internship: Crossroads Mission Avenue, Paper: A Psychological Analysis of PTSD and Trauma Informed Care Within the Unhoused Population

Lilac Ramsey - Research Project: Minority Stress, Future Time Perspective, and Goal Priorization: An Examination of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory Among LGBTQIA+ College-Aged Adults

01/02/2026

Some new additions to our psychology program webpage - check it out: www.hastings.edu/insidepsychology

11/09/2025

HC hosted NPS 2025 today. Students from HC and across the state presented their psychological research. Kudos to all the students and their hard work!

11/02/2025

The keynote speaker for the conference is Dr. Jeffrey Stevens, director of the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.