Campus & Community News

• 2010 Health Sciences Diversity Day
  

  • Creighton University Health Sciences schools are celebrating diversity on Friday, Sept. 24, with “Partners in Diversity Advocacy: Creighton Students in Action.” Students, staff and faculty will engage in important discussions about race, gender, sexuality, politics, religion, and economic and cultural differences. The student panel will reflect on how their organizations are advancing the causes of diversity, justice, equity and compassion. A dialogue with the University leaders panel will address the students’ diversity advocacy initiatives and how Creighton’s leaders can support an inclusive environment where each can learn with and from one another. Keynote speaker Magda Peck, dean for Community Engagement and Public Health Practice at UNMC, will present “The Collaborative Advocate.” Panel discussions and speaker presentations will be held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. in Criss 452. The schedule of events is: 1 to 1:30 p.m. – opening remarks by Sade Kosoko-Lasaki (associate VP, HS-MACA) and John Pierce (associate VP, Affirmative Action and Diversity Outreach); 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. – panel discussions; 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. – keynote by Magda Peck; 4:15 to 4:30 p.m. – closing remarks by Gail Jensen (associate VP for Faculty Development and dean of the Graduate School). A cake and punch reception and poster viewing will follow the presentations from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Hixson-Lied Science Building Atrium.

• Request for Change: Faculty Handbook or the University Statutes
  

  • Anyone wishing to make a change to the Faculty Handbook or the University Statutes should send the request to the chair of the Committee on Faculty Handbook and University Statutes, Michael LaCroix (lacroix@creighton.edu). The form can be requested from LaCroix or found online (click here). Request for change should be made during the fall semester to give the Committee on Faculty Handbook and University Statutes, the Academic Council and the president of the University time for consideration before the next issues of the publications are sent to press. However, the Committee on Faculty Handbook and University Statutes typically meets monthly during the academic year and will review requests as they are received. If you have questions, the members of the Committee on Faculty Handbook and University Statues will be pleased to assist you. They are the following: elected faculty – Bruce Aronson, School of Law; Karen Boardman, School of Nursing; Keith Christensen, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions; Ronald Flinn, College of Business; Gina Merys, College of Arts and Sciences; and Thomas Beeson, School of Dentistry; and appointed administrators – Amy Bones, Jessica Graner and Michael LaCroix, chair.

• Office of Academic Excellence and Assessment Relocation
  

  • Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7, the Office of Academic Excellence and Assessment will be moving to a new location in the Brandeis Building, Suite 111. Phone access will be unavailable Tuesday and Wednesday and e-mail access will be limited. Phone calls for Mary Ann Danielson, Michele King, Stephanie Wernig and Laurel McClure can be temporarily redirected to Pam Hopkins at x4076.    

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Professional Development

• BlueQ Learning Opportunity
  

  • An introductory class on how to create a basic survey in BlueQ, Creighton's survey tool utilizing Vovici, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Old Gym, LearnIT Lab, room 401a. Creating surveys and analyzing results can be done with ease in this completely web-based application. It can also be used as a teaching tool for students learning survey methodology. To register, go to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/806750011.

• Breakfast Bytes: What's New in Security and Phishing
  

  • Welcome back to another semester of Breakfast Bytes. Please join us for the first Breakfast Bytes of this semester as Bryan McLaughlin, DoIT security officer, covers the latest phishing scams that have hit the campus. Learn how to protect yourself and the Creighton community. A new AMI is coming! McLaughlin also will explain the new and improved AMI (Creighton's address book and more!). There is improved functionality in AMI including the new forgotten password functionality. Refreshments will be served! Breakfast Bytes will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 15, from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. in the Skutt Student Center, room 105.

• Sampling Considerations Workshop - 09/22/10
  

  • Registrations are being accepted for the following workshop, which is part of the Research Methodology/Research Case Presentation Series offered by the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Office of Research. “Sampling Considerations in Research Workshop” will be held Wednesday, Sept. 22, in the Harper Center, room 3027. Xiang Fang, Ph.D., will present the workshop from noon to 2 p.m. From 2 to 4 p.m., Fang and Kimberly Galt, Pharm.D., Ph.D., will provide individual consultations and feedback during 20 minute, appointment only sessions. This workshop will cover: common sampling methods used in research, such as random sampling, cluster sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling; choosing the appropriate sampling method for the research; and how to determine and calculate the sample size. This workshop is open to all Creighton University faculty and staff. Please bring a brown bag lunch, drinks will be provided. To register for the workshop, complete and return the registration form found on the Office of Research website to Jamie Steemken in Boyne 143 or electronically to jamiesteemken@creighton.edu. Please contact Steemken directly to pre-register for an individual consultation time.

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Research & Scholarship

• Dairy Study for Girls Ages 12-14
  

  • The Osteoporosis Research Center has an exciting opportunity for your daughter or granddaughter. She may qualify for a new study. This dairy study will involve five visits to Creighton University for painless evaluations. A monetary stipend will be offered for each completed visit. If you know a young girl, ages 12 to 14, ask her parent to contact a pediatric nurse at 402.280.4070 to see if she may be eligible. More information: Calcium is a very important nutrient for promoting bone health. Calcium intake is particularly critical during adolescence because it is a time when young people are developing a large portion of their adult bone mass. Dairy foods are an excellent source of calcium. We also believe that dairy foods may help to control weight gain. We know that obesity has become prevalent in our society and that it has led to many other health concerns. Thus, we believe that increasing calcium intake to the levels recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics will provide benefits to their bones as well as a potential benefit to their weight control.

• Healthy Kids Can Help
  

  • The 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: one time visit and a monetary stipend. Contact a pediatric nurse at 402.280.4070 for more information.

• Faculty Notes
  

  • Baghdad Rules, a screenplay written by English professor Brent Spencer and UNL professor Jonis Agee, has won the award for Best Action Screenplay from the Chicago Screenwriters Network in a competition for screenwriters from across the Midwest. It was chosen from over 2,000 entries. It’s a dark comedy-action story about a pair of small-town Nebraska troublemakers sentenced to work for a Blackwater-like military contractor in Iraq. The screenplay is also a preliminary finalist for the Creative World Award and placed among the top 25 percent of entries for the 2010 Page International Screenwriting Awards. Last year Spencer and Agee were awarded third place in this competition, for Everlasting, a supernatural thriller. Spencer recently earned a certificate from the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, an outgrowth of work he started as a senior fellow in Wayne Young’s ADATC program.

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Faith & Spirituality

• Jesuit/Ignatian Response to Flooding in Pakistan
  

  • The Creighton Center for Service and Justice has been receiving questions about how to help those affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan. CCSJ recommends the following action from the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus Social and International Ministries. Pakistan Flooding Recommendation: On Aug. 20, the U.S. Jesuit Conference suggested that donations to assist relief efforts for Pakistan flooding be made through Catholic Relief Services (CRS) www.crs.org. CRS has a long-standing presence in Pakistan and is mobilized to assist those displaced by the flooding. JRS is not working in Pakistan and the Jesuit presence in Pakistan is limited to one small community. Nevertheless, Jesuit Imran Ghouri wrote from Lahore, “At the moment the situation in Pakistan is beyond our thinking in terms of flood created disaster. People are suffering terribly. Millions have lost their belongings and loved ones. People are just living on roads without any shelter and food. I have visited some camps…My heart weeps when I see the little children who have lost their loved ones and had nothing to eat for many days.” CCSJ will post any updated recommendations on its website (click here). For more information, contact Ken Reed-Bouley at krb@creighton.edu or 280.1754.

• Cardoner Call To Service Lunch Discussion
  

  • The Cardoner “Call To Service Lunch Discussion” will be held Wednesday, Sept. 22, in the Skutt Student Center, room 105. A soup lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. with discussion from noon to 1 p.m. Brian Kokensparger and Tom Castellano will describe how they use technology to answer their call to serve youth. Kokensparger is an advisor in the College of Arts and Sciences and develops community-based service-learning courses. Castellano is a Creighton adjunct professor researching the possibilities of virtual world application in education, v-learning and non-profit organizations. RSVP to Janine ter Kuile at janine@creighton.edu.

• Catholic Comments Podcast: the Nativity of Mary
  

  • On Sept. 8 the Catholic church celebrates the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Catholic Comments co-hosts John O'Keefe and Wendy Wright together explore the meaning of this traditional feast. A new podcast is posted weekly.

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