The Kiewit Fitness Center is getting a major upgrade, transforming the old pool into the nicest and largest fitness space Creighton has ever seen. As 2024 is also the 50th anniversary of the KFC's announcement, we thought it was time to pay it proper tribute. Here's a marathon history of Creighton's most active spot for half a century. Featuring ... a 100-pound cake ... the Goo Goo Dolls ... and 22 students stuffed into a Volkswagen Bug! Read more.

The Championship Center will be renamed in honor of Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott and his family. The basketball practice facility, which opened in 2014, will be dedicated on June 20.
 

What’s the most popular spot on campus? There’s going to be a new contender this fall. The renovation work on St. John’s Plaza and Fountain has officially been completed. It looks incredible. Dip your toe into our fountain photo gallery.

Join the many generous donors who help Creighton provide a stethoscope to every first-year medical and physician assistant student. Shaped by compassion and empathy, these aspiring clinicians will make a difference in their patients’ lives. Make a gift.

One student once locked up Creighton’s entire system and another, a few years later, launched a popular webcam from his dorm room. We dialed up some old chapters of the University’s long and complicated relationship with the Internet. Read more.

Building off a $10 million investment in 2021, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has established the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair in Pediatric Medicine to provide better care to Phoenix-area children and their families. Read more.

Before changing people’s lives in cities and towns across the world, spiritual directors (more than 1,500 and counting) have spent summers on Creighton’s campus in the Christian Spirituality Program. Read more about the program’s 50 years of impact.

Creighton alumnus Anthony Houston is now overseeing Arizona’s CommonSpirit Health, the largest Catholic hospital market in the U.S. But he’ll be working with many others in his new role. “One of the big principles I learned at Creighton: That it takes all of us.” Read more. 

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