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75 years at Creighton
With 63 years as a Creighton professor and 12 years before that as a high school, undergrad or dental student, Bill Carlisle, DDS’58, has been at the University for more than half its history. This month, he retired.
Creighton dentist landed role in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
How a Creighton dentist rode into the Danger Zone, became an extra in 'Top Gun: Maverick' and met Tom Cruise.
36 years after graduation, alum takes life-changing ILAC trip
In most cases, ILAC participants are current Creighton students. But for Jim Seifert, JD’82, the transformative experience took place more than 30 years after he graduated.
A new history of Omaha (and Creighton) women
Eileen Wirth’s new history of notable Omaha women frequently reads as a history of notable Creighton women, as the stories of the city and the University are inextricably connected.
Creighton celebrates 24th Street transformation
On May 5, lead donors, community leaders and Creighton University representatives formally dedicated one of the most pivotal campus transformations in decades — Keough Plaza, Haddix Circle and Physicians Mutual Crossing at 24th Street.
A new endowed chair in nursing
On May 4, associate professor Meghan Potthoff, BSN'01, PhD, APRN-NP, was installed as the Keough Family Endowed Chair in Nursing.
Memories — the good, the bad, the Gallagher
On the eve of Gallagher's demise, alumni offered accounts of such formative events as the fire of 1999, the early-bird dumpster wakeup call and that time the pillow-wielding, couch-forted men of G5 seceded from the building.
Taking the journey with patients and their families
Being a nurse — especially a Creighton nurse — is all about walking with patients and their families, says Meghan Potthoff. Sometimes in the most literal sense.
The Poopas of Gallagher Hall
In the fall semester of 1969, a group of women (mostly nursing and education majors) moved into Gallagher Hall, sparking a friendship that's still going strong more than half a century since freshman year. They call themselves the Poopas.
A Gallagher Hall love story
Elizabeth Padomek, BS’06, and Kent Padomek, PHARMD’08, were freshmen living in the dorm. That first semester, Kent was constantly teasing Elizabeth, and she found him obnoxious. And yet ...