Creighton Magazine

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Human Rights

Defending human rights

From Bolivia to Ukraine, two Creighton professors have built a reputation and expertise in international human rights and bring that knowledge and experience to the classroom.

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Space battery

Powering through space

A chemistry professor is working with students on the use of a solid-state electrolyte for an energy-dense battery that could enable space missions to go farther and stay longer.

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Creighton Phoenix Campus Success Center

New floor on Phoenix campus is set for success

Thanks to a gift from the Norton Foundation and an investment from the state of Arizona, the sixth floor of the Virginia G. Piper Health Sciences Building is now home to the Norton Foundation Success Center.

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Creighton dental school after hours clinic

Creighton’s After-hours Clinic fills a critical need in Omaha

Two nights a week at the School of Dentistry’s After-hours Clinic, fourth-year dental students extract (and sometimes save) the teeth of patients in pain.

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Megan Carroll directing

From the heartland to Hollywood

Creighton alumna and aspiring writer/director Megan Carroll, BA’11, is finding success behind the camera, including working on the award-winning television show Abbott Elementary.

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Tom Utech

Leading an industry change

Tom Utech, PharmD’97, is the chief executive officer of iA, a company that is leading the transformation in the way pharmacies operate and prescriptions are filled.

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Creighton mini medical school participants

Inspiring underserved children to study medicine, health sciences

Creighton hosted seven mini medical schools last fall to help members of underrepresented communities understand that medical or health sciences education for their children is possible.