Campus Life

Robert P. Heaney has been named to the new position of vice president of research at Creighton University. He will oversee research for the entire university, including the School of Medicine. Heaney has been a member of Creighton’s faculty for 52 years and most recently served as interim vice president of health sciences.

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Beginning Sept. 2, Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, will offer two new management certificate programs: one in business administration and one in human resource management. These online programs are designed for working adults who are in supervisory and managerial positions.

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Creighton University has named Maureen Crouchley as director of summer sessions at CU and the Center for Professional Development. Crouchley came to Creighton in 1997 as the administrator for University College and summer sessions.

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The annual University of Nebraska at Kearney Blue and Gold Welcome Week is scheduled Thursday through Aug. 29. Events will begin with the New Student Welcome Convocation at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Health and Sports Center. The campus and the community will gather the afternoon of Aug. 21 for the traditional Blue and Gold Community Showcase and the Chancellor’s Picnic. The picnic, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Cope Memorial Fountain.

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Fall classes will begin Aug. 24 at all Mid-Plains Community College locations: North Platte, McCook, Broken Bow, Imperial, Ogallala and Valentine. Students may register through the first week of a class.

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Briar Cliff University recently conducted a Summer Reading Camp for 25 students who will enter grades three through five at Crescent Park Elementary School in Sioux City, Iowa. The day camp is a component of Briar Cliff’s partnership with the school. Facilitating the lessons were education majors Morgan Sullivan of Jackson, Neb.; Sara Heck of Sioux City; Catherine Olenek of Algonquin, Ill.; and Lisa Maxey Froehlich of Sioux City.

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One of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s top researchers, Surinder Batra, has been named chairman of the College of Medicine’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology. Batra, who also serves as senior associate dean for research and development for the College of Medicine, succeeds Judith Christman, who has been department chairwoman for 15 years. Batra’s appointment is effective Sept. 1. Christman will continue in her research and student-mentoring roles.

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Claude Louishomme, an associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Rostock University in Germany. Louishomme has taught at UNK since 2001. As a Fulbright scholar, he will teach three courses — American politics, introduction to American politics and government, and race and politics in the United States — at the Institute for English and American Studies. He also will give two presentations, “The Political Economy of Casino Gambling in the United States” and “Politics of Native American Casinos.” This will be Louishomme’s second time teaching at the University of Rostock; he was a visiting professor in the summer of 2007.

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Seven members of North Platte (Neb.) Community College’s chapter of Phi Beta Lambda attended the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda annual conference this summer in Anaheim, Calif. The members who attended are all Nebraskans. They are Levi Nicholson of Curtis; Maggie Burbach and Terri McDowell, both of Gothenburg; and Logan Anderson, Randy Hunter, David Kackmeister and Andrew Smith, all of North Platte. Each of the students competed in two events. Kackmeister, Burbach and McDowell placed in the Top 10 nationally. Kackmeister earned third place in database design and applications. Burbach and McDowell each earned ninth place in the community service project category. The chapter also earned fourth place in the local chapter annual business report category and was recognized as a Gold Seal Chapter.

Compiled by Sue Story Truax

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