INSIDE > CREIGHTON EXPANDS IN THE SOUTHWEST: WHY PHOENIX? WHY NOW? P34 FALL 2018 • • 2018 FALL Volume 34 Issue 3 34 Issue Volume A STATELY EVENING Powell, Albright Deliver Creighton 140 Presidential Lecture Message from the President Reflecting with Gratitude n a wonderful holiday tradition, an excited Colin Powell in October. These esteemed national crowd of students, faculty, and staff once speakers offered insightful and thoughtful discussion. again gathered around the steps of St. John’s In September, we joined our health care partners in Church recently to celebrate Christmas at Arizona to announce construction of a new Creighton Creighton and delight in the annual lighting health sciences campus in midtown Phoenix, with a of the campus mall. new approximately 200,000-square-foot facility sched- Follow me: This time of year is often filled with much activity, uled to open in 2021. Iparticularly here on campus as our students busily pre- While we remain committed to enhancing our excel- @CreightonPres pare for final exams, finish projects and papers, and lent health sciences programs here in Omaha, with our CreightonPresident make plans for the upcoming break. partner CHI Health, I am excited about growing our pro- At the same time, this season invites us to deeper grams in Phoenix and working to meet the increasing reflection, and offers an opportunity to pause and give demand for health care professionals in that region. thanks for our many gifts. Indeed, at Creighton, we have Jacque Chadwick, MD, a family physician with a much for which to be grateful. distinguished career in medical education, adminis- This fall, we set a record for total enrollment (8,910), tration and advocacy, has been named the inaugural while welcoming the largest freshman class (1,155) in vice provost of our Arizona health sciences campus, our University’s history. The Class of 2022 included our and also serves as executive director of the Creighton first cohort of Creighton Global Scholars, with 23 stu- University Arizona Health Education Alliance. dents beginning their first semester of studies at the We were pleased to once again be ranked No. 1 in University of Sydney. the Midwest by U.S. News & World Report, in its 2019 We also welcomed the AJCU International Education “America’s Best Colleges” edition. This marks the 16th Conference to campus this fall — recognizing Gabriel consecutive year we have been so honored. Pérez Alcalá, PhD, a visionary educational leader and And, finally, in September, we celebrated the the current and inaugural rector (chief academic offi- ribbon-cutting for our new School of Dentistry building cer) of Universidad Loyola Andalucía, a Jesuit university — a state-of-the-art, high-tech facility that will allow founded in 2010 in Spain, with an Honorary Alumnus us to educate more students and serve more patients. Award. (See photo below) Thank you for your continued support of Creighton Our Creighton 140 Presidential Lecture Series cel- University. Best wishes for a blessed Christmas, happy ebrated our 140th anniversary. Following a spring holidays, and wonderful new year. address by Chuck Hagel, former U.S. senator and sec- retary of defense, we hosted Dominican-American writer and author Julia Alvarez in September and Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, PhD former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and President From left are René Padilla, PhD, vice provost for Global Engagement, Fr. Hendrickson, Honorary Alumnus Gabriel Pérez Alcalá, PhD, and the Rev. Michael Garanzini, SJ, secretary for higher education for the Society of Jesus. The birth of Christ is depicted in the beautiful stained-glass windows at St. John’s Church. 1 CREIGHTON FALL 2018 Volume 34 Issue 3 Voices PUBLISHER “Looking back, everything “I think we were all taken with Creighton magazine is published in the spring, summer and was so overwhelming. I think this land and this people and fall by Creighton University, most of us are of the mindset this history.” 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. that we just did our jobs and REBECCA MURRAY, PHD, associate professor of we didn’t seek any glory. But cultural and social studies and associate dean in PRESIDENT the College of Arts and Sciences, on a two-week Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ everywhere we went, everyone immersion trip to the Balkans region taken by faculty, alumni and students this summer. CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS we encountered, they were so AND MARKETING OFFICER Jim Berscheidt appreciative. It was touching. I Contents SR. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS came to appreciate what a high “Being aware of what we do, Glenn Antonucci honor this was to be selected.” what we consume, what we SOMETHING DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS TRACY MONAHAN, a senior administrator in TO SMILE ABOUT Rick Davis buy, what energy we use, what Creighton’s School of Pharmacy and Health we waste, those things we The new dental school and ASSOC. DIRECTORS OF COMMUNICATIONS Professions and military veteran, who took part in clinic building has opened to Cindy Murphy McMahon the first Nebraska Female Veterans Honor Flight do here have a connection to to Washington, D.C., in September. students and patients, and is Sheila Swanson what happens in the rest of the receiving rave reviews for its WRITERS world. The whole idea of the innovative technology and Amanda Brandt Adam Klinker “Frankenstein is such an conference was to take what eye-popping aesthetics. Emily Rust important text that has been we learned and connect it back ILLUSTRATION subject to so many different to our campuses.” 24 Michelle Thompson John Tomac iterations in two centuries. EMILY REESON, a sophomore neuroscience From literature to pop major, who was one of four Creighton students CONTACT to participate in Catholic Relief Services’ third Address all mail to University culture to movies, scholars of biennial Student Ambassador Leaders Together Communications and Marketing, (SALT) Summit. Attn: Creighton Magazine, 780480 almost every discipline have California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0480. Postmaster: Send change of address something to say about it.” to Creighton Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, MATTHEW REZNICEK, PHD, assistant professor Omaha, NE 68103-0078. of English, on the Kingfisher Institute celebrating Send alumni news (births, weddings, the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s promotions, etc.) to alumninews@ Frankenstein with a series of events. creighton.edu. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA 30 34 Twitter — @Creighton Facebook — Creighton University A GUIDE TO CREIGHTON EXPANDS 20on the cover Instagram — @Creighton1878 THE GOOD LIFE? IN THE SOUTHWEST A STATELY EVENING CREIGHTON MAGAZINE’S PURPOSE Let’s Get Social The wisdom of ancient In response to a looming Creighton magazine, like the University itself, is committed to excellence and philosophers is being shortage of health care America’s one-time top diplomats, former dedicated to the pursuit of truth in explored and embraced professionals in Arizona, U.S. Secretaries of State Dr. Madeleine all its forms. The magazine will be @KyleKorver: Thank you comprehensive in nature. It will support @Creighton @BluejayMBB for anew by those interested Creighton announces its first Albright and retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, the University’s mission of education in understanding the world major campus expansion delighted a campus audience and visited through thoughtful and compelling all you’ve done for me. Thank around them — and their outside of the Omaha area. feature articles on a variety of topics. with students in classrooms in celebration of It will feature the brightest, the most you, Coach Altman. Thank you place in it. stimulating, the most inspirational Creighton’s 140th anniversary. thinking that Creighton offers. The to all of my teammates, I love magazine also will promote Creighton, and its Jesuit, Catholic identity, to being a Bluejay. #GoJays a broad public and serve as a vital (After Korver was inducted into the link between the University and its constituents. The magazine will be Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame) 4 Creighton 16 Dialogue 42 Impact 52 Creighton guided by the core values of Creighton: the inalienable worth of each individual, A Creighton business professor A Creighton alumnus funds Connections Conversations respect for all of God’s creation, a special @parr_roz: Thank you suggests that a decline in a scholarship to help medical The leader of Creighton’s concern for the poor and the promotion @maddyvig: Happy 140th entrepreneurship is something students who come from blue- of justice. @Creighton for the opportunity 11 By the Numbers educational programs and birthday to my favorite place. everyone should be concerned collar families, like he did. health care partnership Copyright © 2018 by to see Dr. @madeleine and Creighton University about. in Phoenix discusses the Gen. Colin Powell. So cool to 13 Jesuit Gardens 43 Alumni Notes @keelsherman15: God didn’t The Rev. Kevin Embach, SJ, MD, University’s role in Arizona. creighton.edu see two patriots who embody 18 Lesson Plan have to bless us with this has found a way to combine two Creighton’s archivist, David bipartisanship and diplomacy healing vocations — Catholic Crawford, may have the most (and they both have great senses beautiful place, but He did. priest and physician. unique — and priceless — work of humor)! He did that for us. space at the University. 2 Creighton FALL 2018 COVER PHOTO BY DAVE WEAVER 3 Creighton Connections UNIVERSITY NEWS They didn’t have a surgery option there begins in Omaha with about a year at initially, but then a surgery center was Creighton’s medical facilities. Following built, and we organized a hernia surgical the time at Creighton, the fellow is then team and started performing surgery sent abroad. there. For a physician, as much as the Filipi’s own global encounters led patient, it’s a life-giving, heart-opening him to the Foundation for African experience.” Medical Education (FAME) in Tanzania.