Twenty-eight Chadron State College health professions students are advancing to professional schools.

Each spring, Chadron State College Blue Key and Cardinal Key national honor societies host an event called Ivy Day that include academic awards for seniors graduating in May and the previous December. This year, due to safety precautions to avoid spread of COVID-19, Ivy Day was one of many postponed campus activities. Ivy Day honors senior students who have excelled academically and each academic program recognizes its outstanding scholars. Students who graduate with honors also receive their medallions. Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Jim Powell congratulated the graduates on their academic accomplishments. "These awards recognize years of outstanding performance. We are proud of you and look forward to hearing about your continued success in the next phase of your life. Go Eagles," Powell said. Ivy Day and the Platinum Eagle awards will resume in 2021.

Chadron State College has announced the names of 265 students who qualified for the institution's Spring 2020 Dean's List. These students met requirements for the Dean's List by earning at least a 3.5 grade point average. To qualify, students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours of coursework, be seeking their first bachelor's degree, and have no incomplete grades during the semester. Cities and states listed reflect students' given permanent address.

Chadron State College has announced scholarships awarded to students during the Fall 2020 semester.

Chadron State College honored 315 candidates for graduation in a virtual commencement exercise on the college's YouTube site Saturday.

The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Chadron State College student Hannah Conner of Orient, Ohio, is the December Project Strive/TRiO Student of the Month. Conner, a junior, is an art education major. Each month, Project Strive/TRiO recognizes a participating student based on his or her work in the program and other activities on campus or in the community. Chadron State College's Project Strive/TRiO program, located in the lower level of the King Library, is an academic enrichment program committed to help students succeed. Project Strive also focuses on career exploration, cultural and social enrichment and self-awareness. To be eligible for the program, a student must be one of the following: A first generation student where neither parent has a four-year degree, meet low income status based on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services criteria, or have a documented disability. For more information, visit https://www.csc.edu/projectstrive/.

CSC students helps Kindergarten students from Wolf Creek Elementary School near Pine Ridge, S.D., during Dr. Seuss Day Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, at CSC as part of Read Across America.

Omaha area potter Wes Galusha compliments Chadron State College students during his residency.

At the fourth annual Upper Niobrara White Natural Resources District's Range Day, Jan. 19, two CSC Range Management students presented their research. The two students will give their presentations at the Society for Rangeland Management annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this month.

Eight Chadron State College Army ROTC cadets and First Lt. Scot Mullis, assistant professor of Military Science, traveled to Washington D.C., Oct. 5-8 for the Army's 10 Miler race, and to tour Arlington National Cemetery, the National Mall, and attend the Army USA conference. Mullis said he is proud CSC's team ranked 41st in a field of 96 teams comprised of about 35,000 runners. "It's an impressive finish for a small program competing against larger programs," Mullis said.

A summer internship in North Dakota and hours of peering into a microscope in the Rangeland Complex's lab have given Chadron State College junior Vanessa Yeoman an experience in primary research and may net her publication of an article in a scientific journal. But there is a more important aim to the tedious work of microscopically examining hundreds of axillary buds of smooth brome grass and that is finding out how controlled grazing might help control the spread of an invasive plant that takes over rangeland and drives out native species, Yeoman said.

Three Chadron State College students have recently been accepted to veterinary schools. They are Megan McLean of Brewster, Nebraska, Shelbey Nagle of Circle, Montana, and Wayne Robison of Chadron.

Project Strive/TRiO honors members for outstanding work

Four CSC students earn PBL top 10 national placings in Atlanta in June.

Chadron State College will confer 90 graduate degrees during spring commencement in Memorial Hall

Nine members of CSC's PBL will be attending Nationals in Atlanta

Chadron State College Eagles were named to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic First Team