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My name is Courtney Hanson and I am currently a senior at Creighton University, pursuing a BSBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Management. This past summer I had an opportunity to intern at the NIKE inc. world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, as a Brand and Consumer marketing intern for the Emerging Markets. The 10-week internship was made available through an alum, Mr. Jayme Martin, the Vice President and General Manager of the Emerging Markets. The internship provided me real-world marketing experiences and a chance for me to utilize all the knowledge Creighton University has taught me.

I would like to share with you all a commercial NIKE football just recently launched for the new gear called Nike Pro Combat. One of the projects I worked on with a group ... Read More »

For the seventh year in a row, Creighton was No. 1 in the rankings of Midwest Master’s universities. The 2010 issue put Creighton No. 1 in the Midwest for "Great Schools, Great Prices" and identified it amongs its "Schools to Watch" for making "the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus, or facilities."

Creighton also made the list of "Best Colleges: Undergraduate research/Creative projects."

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I am Dr. John Mordeson, Director of the Center for Mathematics of Uncertainty.

In order to support Creighton’s goal to provide research opportunities for undergraduate students, I offer a wide variety of research projects. The research projects are designed to provide students the opportunity to model problems of current and global interest. No prerequisite is needed to begin a research project The mathematics involved in the modeling process is very accessible to the student. Although the problems we will tackle can be quite complicated, the mathematics involved in the initial modeling process is fairly simple.

Although the topics available are diverse, many share a common theme. There is an overarching goal. Each such goal is made up ... Read More »

Only 60 students across the country are chosen for USA Today's academic teams. This year, two of them are from Creighton.

Dathe Benissan-Messan and Margaret McGlynn were chosen for USA Today’s 2009 All-USA College Academic Third Team.

Margaret is a junior from Belleville, Ill., majoring in biology. Dathe is a senior biology major from Omaha who also works as a cardiac technician at Creighton University Medical Center.

Easch year, USA Today honors students for outstanding intellectual achievement ... Read More »

Two more Fulbrights illuminate how well Creighton prepares students for the day after graduation.

Claire Climer, of Omaha, a 2008 Arts and Science grad, and Sarah E. Daley, O.T.D., of St. Louis, Mo., a 2008 Occupational Therapy grad, have both been named Fulbright scholars for the coming year. Climer has received a 2009-10 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Ecuador, while Daley received a traditional Fulbright grant to Ukraine.

Said Dr. Bridget Keegan, Associate Dean, "What is especially exciting . . . is that these are ... Read More »

We take undergraduate research pretty seriously here at Creighton. Just how serious? One of our students, Sumit Kar, has received the American Physiological Society (APS) David Bruce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Kar was featured previously as a finalist for this award, anticipating his presentation in April.

Sumit is a sophomore majoring in biochemistry and biology.

Kar’s research investigates the interactions between the nervous system and the cardiovascular system in diseases such as heart failure, a condition that affects nearly 5 million Americans. He also is studying changes in proteins that may have ... Read More »

I am Dr. Julie Soukup, a biochemistry professor in Creighton's chemistry department.

There are many opportunities to be involved in research here at Creighton and that is a unique feature to our smaller school. What I enjoy most (and I think the students do too) is that I get to work side-by-side with them in my research lab, teaching them about experimental procedures, the reasons for doing certain types of experiments and how our results will fit into the entire field of research.

There are many undergraduate science faculty with active research groups and many of them have freshman through seniors working with them in their labs. Currently I have 3 freshmen, 1 sophomore, 5 juniors and 2 seniors in my ... Read More »

Creighton showed very well at the Phi Beta Lambda (the college-level Future Business Leaders of America) statewide competition in Kearney last weekend. 

Winning first place in Financial Analysis and Decision Making was our own Joel Gieswein, and in International Business our own Guillermo Guzman placed first, and Joel Gieswein placed second.  They may go on to national competition now if they so choose. 

With Omaha's having four Fortune 500 companies, Nebraska is known as having a very s ... Read More »

Creighton University Arts and Sciences junior Lauren Fukuda and senior Kara Stockdale presented at the Ignatian Solidarity Network’s Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice focused on immigration, March 13-15 in Washington, D. C.

Fukuda spoke about her student experiences in lobbying and advocating for immigration reform. Stockdale focused on her internship last summer working at an immigrant worker center in Wisconsin.

Two additional students from Creighton also attended the event.

Apparently, they made a very good impression. Paul Homer, who teaches religion at Fordham Preparatory School in New York, encountered the Creighton group and found our students “filled with passion for justice and love for their school. ... Read More »

Many students come to Creighton for pre-med. Fewer realize that before med school, they may be doing significant research even as an undergrad. At least that's what happens at Creighton.

Sophomore Honors Student Sumit Kar has been selected as a finalist for the American Physiological Society David Bruce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. 

Sumit is one of 15 chosen and will be presenting at the Experimental Biology Conference in New Orleans in April where he will be interviewed for the award.  

“We are hoping he is successful but that he would be a finalist at this national level – as a sophomore – is pretty exciting,” said Dr. Bridget Keegan, Associate Dean, College of Arts & ... Read More »