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From Creighton baseball to Texas bull riding (and a new Amazon Prime series)
After more than 30 years in the world of baseball — first as a college player, then as a minor league general manager and executive — Creighton alum JJ Gottsch has pivoted to a whole new arena: professional bull riding.
The alumna who fact-checked ‘Mission: Impossible’ and helped the dream of Disney World come true
Eileen Brady, BA'65, had an extraordinarily eclectic career. She fact-checked golden age TV shows like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. She helped designers, engineers and architects make Disney World. Later, she assisted the investigation of the greatest book thief in American history.
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's hearing center named after pioneering alumnus
The newly named Dr. Richard J. Bellucci Translational Hearing Center continues the legacy of its legendary namesake by building on his work and training a new generation of researchers.
$300, some wood and an apology
School of Law Dean Joshua Fershée recently received a peculiar piece of mail. A package with no return address, containing an apology letter, a $300 money order and a piece of wood.
Creighton University. Kid tested. Mother approved.
With Mother’s Day this month, we asked a group of moms to tell us what they love most about their children going to Creighton.
Thanks to a well-rounded college experience, this alumna gets to pursue her dream of producing joy at the happiest place on Earth
Victoria Vitola, BFA'15, chose Creighton because she believed it gave her the most well-rounded college experience where she not only learned the skills of her performance trade, but subjects such a English and Philosophy as well. Getting her degree at Creighton helped her fulfill her dream of working in children's theater, after countless summer trips to Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL.
Cura personalis has always been the cornerstone of Brittany, BSHS’06, OTD’06, and Adam Stryker's, BSBA’03, approach to pediatric orthopedics
Brittany, BSHS’06, OTD’06, and Adam Stryker, BSBA’03, took the jesuit values learned at Creighton to heart when opening their practice, Orthopedic Motion. They have partnered with Creighton students and graduates to help carry on their mission here at their Omaha office as they run their location in Las Vegas, NV.
Creighton's jesuit values motivated this alumnus to seek a greater purpose in providing accessible and affordable housing to the Omaha community
Rob Woodling, BSBA'99, wanted to create an organization that focused on serving others, impacting communities around him and involved aspects of Jesuit values he was so inspired by thanks to Creighton. In 2006, Woodling did just that by opening Foundations Development, which seeks to consulting and turnkey development for affordable housing projects.