Members of the Creighton community have joined millions worldwide in mourning after Monday’s news of the death of Pope Francis. Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, reflected on Pope Francis’ legacy in a message to faculty, staff, students and alumni. Fr. Hendrickson also shared the University’s plans to pay tribute to the first Jesuit pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church. Read more.

What’s been going on with the Jays this offseason? A LOT! We’ve gathered all the men’s basketball headlines in one place, including the return of alumnus Alan Huss, the transfers remaking Creighton’s roster and the major awards earned by Ryan Kalkbrenner. Check out our offseason hoops report.

Every summer for more than a decade, about 25 to 30 Creighton students travel to Germany, the Netherlands and Poland to learn firsthand about the Holocaust. Thanks to a generous gift, that groundbreaking program is now endowed and renamed the Howard A. Kaiman, JD'67, Nuremberg to the Hague (N2H) Program. And, it’s now part of Creighton’s new Samuel & Ida Kaiman Center for International Criminal Justice & Holocaust Studies. Read more.

It’s one of the largest gifts in Creighton history for unrestricted scholarships, supporting students in every school and college. From physicians, to accountants, to campus ministers, the Elno T. and Mathilda M. Zikmund Endowed Scholarship continues a Creighton legacy started nearly 90 years ago. Read more.

No current Creighton coach has been in their job longer than Debbie Conry. And no one else has likely had to apologize for breaking a window inside the baseball practice facility (hey, Midwest golfers sometimes need to get creative in the winter!). We checked in with Conry, who just coached the Bluejay women's golf team to a third-place finish at the BIG EAST Championships. Here’s why she still loves this place.

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