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.

• Free Dental Cleaning
  

  • Creighton University School of Dentistry is seeking volunteers to help complete a clinical research study. Volunteers are needed if they have sensitive teeth. This study involves placing a prophy paste for the reduction of tooth hypersensitivity after cleaning. Volunteers must be at least 19 years of age to participate and have not had a dental cleaning within 30 days prior to being in the study. You may wait until after 30 days. Please contact Gina McCallum at 280.4317 or ginamac@creighton.edu for a screening appointment. Cleaning will be done by Mark Latta, D.M.D., or another dental school faculty member.

• Chartrand Memorial Grand Rounds Sept. 10
  

  • The 10th Annual Stephen Chartrand Memorial Grand Rounds is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 10, at 8 a.m. in the Children’s Hospital Glow Education Center. Janet Englund, M.D. (professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Wash.), will present “Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Influenza.” If you have any questions regarding the Grand Rounds, please contact Bonnie Niemeier at 280.1238.