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Amelia Earhart: ‘Are there women in your medical college?’
Amelia Earhart visited Omaha 90 years ago and posed an important question to a Creightonian reporter. Read about the encounter between the world's most famous female aviator and a trailblazing Creighton alumna.
That time Creighton's fake football team made national news and Fr. Morrison ran a touchdown on TV
This team was undefeated. This team had some of the best players in the country. This team wasn’t real.
Union Pacific scholarship program shows students what's possible
This December, Heider College of Business seniors Roland Onwona-Agyeman and Ophelie Koffi will become the first two members of the Union Pacific Diversity Scholars Program to graduate from Creighton.
A Whole New Game
In 2023, we’re celebrating 50 years of intercollegiate women’s sports. Here’s how a group of students and an assistant athletic director got the ball rolling, along with a tribute to the student-athletes, coaches, alumni, fans and donors who continue to build on the success of our women’s programs today.
The history of Creighton's Haunted Physics Lab
In the mid-1970s, Professor Tom Zepf created a spooky maze of physics exhibits that turned into a Creighton Halloween tradition of more than 40 years.
Governor, mayor and lead donors help dedicate new health sciences facility
In September, about 100 Creighton alumni, friends, faculty, staff and community leaders — including Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert — celebrated the opening of the CL and Rachel Werner Center.
Creighton opens new 145,000-square-foot health sciences building
The donor-driven CL and Rachel Werner Center for Health Sciences Education — which broke ground in 2021 — is student focused, with nearly every square foot of the facility dedicated to classrooms, collaboration and hands-on learning.
Alum plays (headless) role in Disney's new Haunted Mansion movie
Creighton alum Bryan McClure plays the Headless Knight in the new Disney adaptation of the beloved theme park attraction Haunted Mansion (in theaters July 28), and the role was, well, complicated.
For the first time in 75 years, former Creighton waterboy returns to campus
Doug Ryan — an 86-year-old former banker and current professional Santa Claus — didn’t graduate from Creighton. But for many years, he more or less lived here.
Creighton and the College World Series
What does it mean to be the College World Series host institution? Anything. Everything. Every June, Creighton gets to live its Jesuit values of service in a truly unique way — caring for the whole tournament.