THE CAMPAIGN FOR CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY will help ensure that the University will make substantial gains in its ability to educate new scientists.
Creighton’s significant achievements are fundamental to our outstanding reputation in the undergraduate sciences and health care:
- Nearly half our undergraduates major in science – five times the national average.
- Over the past four years, enrollment has increased more than 68 percent in introductory biology, chemistry, atmospheric sciences and physics.
- The undergraduate chemistry program ranks in the top 1.5 percent of the nation’s universities that produce American Chemical Society-certified bachelor’s chemists.
- Our biology department ranks in the top 3.5 percent among 1,110 undergraduate institutions.
- The departments of physics and of environmental and atmospheric sciences are in the top 12 percent.
Willing to Innovate
... by supporting science education & technology
- Integrated Science Center: Hixson-Lied, Rigge, Criss II and III
Already a national leader in aligning undergraduate and graduate science education for the benefit of healing and research, Creighton took a visible step forward with its science programs in 2003. Taking advantage of favorable short-term funding rates, the University launched a major project to renovate 200,000 square feet of science facilities and construct an additional 110,000 square feet for the Integrated Science Center, which was recently dedicated as the Hixson-Lied Science Building.
Completing the funding and the construction for this new state-of-the-art facility is a major initiative in THE CAMPAIGN FOR CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY. It will help ensure that Creighton University will make substantial gains in its ability to educate new scientists.
The new Hixson-Lied Science Building links three facilities built between 1964 and 1973 (Criss II, Rigge and Criss III). The center increases research capacity by one-third and provides the high-tech equipment and modern laboratories necessary for science education today. Undergraduate science majors who work side-by-side with faculty as research partners enter graduate schools with a greater level of preparedness, thus moving more quickly into higher-level laboratory teams. Having undergraduate and graduate sciences in the same building also encourages the interdisciplinary learning fundamental to modern science education.
Our combination of innovation and compassion, in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition, will allow Creighton University to make an essential difference in the 21st century.
Through private gifts to THE CAMPAIGN FOR CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY for science education and technology, we will continue to explore the frontiers of healing, science and biomedicine.