Discovering connections
To some students, doing lab work is a chore, an obligatory task they must do to scrape by in their respective science classes. Arts & Sciences sophomore Sumit Kar likes lab work. He’s pretty good at it, too. In fact, the lab work he has been working on by himself over the past two summers […]
Former library specialist remembered for kindness
The Creighton community lost a member who was known for her kindness and generosity. Sr. Karlanne Hanna, RSM, passed away March 21 at the age of 69. She retired from her position in the Health Sciences Library in January and was living at Mercy Villa. Hanna was born Jan. 30, 1940. After graduating from Omaha […]
The buzzer sounds for the women’s basketball season
Many college basketball fans know the saying: it’s hard to beat a team three times in a year. Unfortunately for the Creighton women’s basketball team, they only got two chances to beat the Kansas Jayhawks, who ended the Bluejays’ season in the historic Allen Fieldhouse in the second round of the WNIT on Monday. After […]
Jewelry sales help fight malaria in Uganda
It takes 10 minutes to make a bracelet. It takes $10 to save a life. And that’s what NETwork Against Malaria means to do. NETwork Against Malaria is a national nonprofit organization that makes and sells beaded jewelry to raise money and buy mosquito nets for children in Uganda, said Margaret McGlynn, Arts & Sciences […]
Impressive season ends on ‘sour note’
Allow me to put on my blue-tinted glasses. OK, now all the positives of the 2008-2009 Creighton men’s basketball team: 27-8 record, the second-highest win total ever. Thirty-five games played, the most ever in school history. Nineteen of those were at home. Booker Woodfox named Larry Bird Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year. Wins […]
Where are we now?
Did you watch a religious program on television last week? Are we spending too much money on highways and bridges? Should a gay man be allowed to teach? The General Social Survey, a social scientist’s candy land, asks some of these questions and more to 2,000 respondents, and the vast majority of these interviews are […]