Campus News

• Feeling Under the Weather?
  

  • Feeling under the weather, but can’t get away from the office? Visit the General Internal Medicine Clinic inside Creighton University Medical Center. Bruce Houghton, M.D., internist and associate professor of medicine, has reserved time to see Creighton University, Creighton Medical Associates and Creighton University Medical Center employees each Tuesday between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. For more information or to make an appointment, call 280.4180.

• Center for Health Policy & Ethics Roundtable
  

  • “The Use of Nitrous Oxide in Dental Care of Children” will be presented Monday, Feb. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the CHPE Conference Room. Dicussants will be Nick Levering, D.D.S. (faculty affiliate, Center for Health Policy & Ethics, and associate professor, School of Dentistry) and Jos Welie, Ph.D. (professor, Center for Health Policy & Ethics, and Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry).

• Political Science and International Relations Brown Bag Luncheon Series
  

  • Terry Clark will provide information on the Research Design and Analysis Program at Creighton on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Creighton Hall, room 430 (Spillane Reading Room). Creighton University has been designated an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (IC CAE) by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Creighton’s IC CAE will make academic programs and experiences available to Creighton students that will give them an inside track for analyst positions with the 16 agencies comprising the U.S. Intelligence Community. The heart of the program will be an undergraduate minor in Research Design and Analysis (RDA) and a graduate degree in RDA, both of which are intended to provide students with the tools to conduct “hard” data analysis. Students in both the minor in RDA and the graduate degree in RDA will be able to compete for paid research assistantships working with Creighton faculty on research.

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Human Resources News

• AAA Passport Event Feb. 24
  

  • AAA Passport Event will be held Wednesday, Feb. 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Skutt Student Center, drawing room (first floor, to the right of the fireplace near the ballroom). All guests attending this “Passport Event” will receive two free passport photos. Click here for more information.

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Development & Training

• MyCreighton Portal Community Learning Opportunity
  

  • MyCreighton is Creighton's one stop for academic and social information. The portal includes the ability for communities or groups to collaborate and share information. In this introductory class, you will learn all the ins and outs of managing your own community, including: how to request a community of your own, how to add pages, how to add a variety of content to those pages and membership management. The class will be held Friday, Feb. 12, 9-11 a.m., in the Old Gym, LearnIT Lab, room 401a. To register, go to the Creighton Calendar.

• BlueLine Basics Class on Feb. 18
  

  • Get to know BlueLine at this session, which is meant to be a general overview of how BlueLine works and how to use some of its basic tools. At the end of the class, you will be ready to use many features in BlueLine and see how this application can work for your class or classes. The class will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, 11 a.m.-noon, in the LearnIT Lab, room 401a of the Old Gym. To sign up for this class, please go to: www.eventbrite.com/event/528367361. If you have any questions, please contact Alesha Alvis at x3910 or aalvis@creighton.edu.

• BlueCafe Basics Class Feb. 10
  

  • You are invited to attend this first class on BlueCafe on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1:30-4 p.m. The basics class offers users a first look into this web conferencing and online classroom tool whether you are using it in BlueLine or separately. This hands on approach will help give you a look into the program and ideas for how you can use it for your business needs, meetings, classes, study sessions and much more. BlueCafe has many great features and benefits. Come take a look for yourself. To register, go to www.eventbrite.com/event/528315205. All sessions are held in the LearnIT Lab, room 401a of the Old Gym.

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Research & Scholarship

• Healthy Kids Can Help
  

  • The Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center is conducting an important study of bone health in growing children and adolescents. Your child may qualify if he/she is between the ages of 5 through 18 years. This study would include a one time visit and a monetary stipend. For more information contact a pediatric nurse at
    402.280.4070 or 800.368.5097.

• Women Smokers Needed
  

  • The Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University is looking for women who smoke at least a pack of cigarettes a day to participate in a genetic study. The study is looking at the effect smoking has on bone health. This study involves no medication and is not a stop smoking study. If you qualify you will receive a bone density test at no cost to you. This bone density test will provide you with information related to your own bone health. This study involves one visit to our center and a stipend is available to those who qualify. To qualify you must: be Caucasian, be age 30-40 and pre-menopausal, not have taken hormones in the last year (including birth control medications), not have taken osteoporosis medication in the last year, not currently on any cholesterol medication, not have taken steroid medication in the last six months, not have taken seizure medications in the last six months and currently in good health. For more information, please contact the research staff at 402.280.BONE (2663) or 800.368.5097 or http://osteoporosis.creighton.edu.

• Osteoporosis Study for Women 65+
  

  • The Osteoporosis Research Center is conducting an osteoporosis clinical research study to test whether an investigational drug, given by injection, safely increases the bone mass of the hip when given in addition to the usual care for osteoporosis. The study will enroll women who are at high risk for hip fractures. You may be able to participate if you: are at least 65 years old and post-menopausal; and have either never received osteoporosis treatment or have taken a bisphosphonate (such as Actonel, Fosamax or Boniva) for the past one to five years. Study staff will review additional study criteria with you at the clinic to determine if you are eligible. Study participation lasts three years, and volunteers can expect 10 visits to the study doctor for medical evaluations, which include regular bone density tests. For more information about this study, please call 402.280.2663 or 800.368.5097.

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Faith & Spirituality

• Catholic Comments Podcast: Creighton Medical Mission to the Haitians
  

  • Surgeon Brian Loggie and nurse anesthetist Theresa Keefe speak with Catholic Comments co-hosts John O'Keefe and Wendy Wright about the Creighton University Medical Center's recent medical mission to aid earthquake devastated Haiti. A new podcast is posted weekly.

• Cardoner "Calling All Readers" – James Martin, S.J., Book Discussion
  

  • "Calling All Readers" invites you to discuss two books with James Martin, S.J., via SKYPE (you will see and hear Fr. Martin present).

    “A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center Stage With Jesus, Judas and Life’s Biggest Questions”, will be discussed Tuesday, Feb. 16, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Skutt Student Center, room 104. What happens when theater and theology share the stage? Take a front-row seat to Fr. Martin’s experience as a theological consultant for the New York Theater Production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Oscar-winning actor Phillip Hoffman. While Martin thoughtfully responds to the deeply spiritual and soul-searching questions posed to him by the creative team and actors – questions that many of us ponder at one time or another in our lives – he learns about the world of professional theater and all that is required to put on a professional play.

    “This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa,” will be discussed Tuesday, March 16, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Skutt Student Center, room 105. Seamlessly combining spiritual writing, reportage, travel narrative, humor and even some recent history, a young American Jesuit tells of his time working with the refugees of East Africa. His mission was straightforward: to help the refugees who had settled in the sprawling slums of Nairobi, Kenya to start small businesses and earn a living. He imagined he would be teaching them much, and he did. But the refugees would end up teaching him much more about life, survival and faith, love and friendship.

    Contact Janine ter Kuile at janine@creighton.edu to register. Each session is open to the first 40 participants. RSVP to receive the book. Participation in the discussions is encouraged.

• Spiritual Direction and Ignatian Retreats
  

  • Cardoner will fund a four to eight day spiritual retreat or spiritual direction through June 30, 2010. Your retreat will include a spiritual director (find sites here). E-mail Janine ter Kuile for more information on how to be reimbursed. Only one retreat reimbursed by Cardoner is considered within a five-year period.

    Ignatian spirituality, the vision of the relationship between God and the human person grounded in the mystical experiences of St. Ignatius, has its primary expression in his book of The Spiritual Exercises. More than 20 retreat houses and spirituality centers in the United States provide a variety of services based on The Spiritual Exercises for clergy, men and women religious and lay people. The Creighton Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa, can set up a retreat for you. Contact Fr. David Smith for more information.
    
    What is Spiritual Direction? Spiritual direction is the process of accompanying people on a spiritual journey. Spiritual direction exists in a context that emphasizes growing closer to God (or the holy or a higher power). For more information on spiritual direction and how to find a person to direct you, visit www.sdiworld.org/. Cardoner will pay for four visits for spiritual direction (for a total of $100 at $25 per hour). For further assistance in choosing a director, contact Janine ter Kuile.

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