<br />
Annual<br />
Report<br />
2020–2021<br />
Letter from the Director<br />
I spend a lot of time watching and thinking about birds and not just<br />
because the Kingfisher Institute is named for one. At the beginning of the<br />
long pandemic winter, I set up my deck to attract birds so I could have<br />
living beings around me every day, no matter the news. A pair of downy<br />
woodpeckers visited often, along with nuthatches and chickadees and<br />
others. On the day after Christmas, in search of more birds and some<br />
open space, I drove south about an hour to a wildlife refuge in northwest<br />
Missouri. There, on a relatively mild winter day, I witnessed something<br />
amazing. I saw over 200 bald eagles. For four hours, there was never<br />
a moment that an eagle was not in view.<br />
I share this story because I took a great lesson from it. With the help of our<br />
advisory council, the Kingfisher Institute has refined its mission statement<br /> <a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=1"> Annual Report 2020–2021</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=2"> Letter from the Director I spend a lot of time w</a>
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<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=4"> Our Vision and Mission VISION Humanities for the </a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=5"> Keynote speaker JONATHAN METZL, PhD The Frederick</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=6"> Community Guided by the Jesuit charism of being w</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=7"> Initiative Spotlight Impact: Evictions Pierce G</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=8"> Curriculum Faculty experience, enthusiasm and inn</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=9"> INAUGURAL HEALTH HUMANITIES INTERPROFESSIONAL EDU</a>
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<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=11"> Initiative Spotlight Sustainable Development The</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=12"> Campus Engagement “My belief in treating peo</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=13"> Initiative Spotlight Undergraduate Health Humanit</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=14"> Transdisciplinary Research and Scholarship Creig</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=15"> Initiative Spotlight Kingfisher Award Universit</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=16"> Initiative Spotlight Impact: Remembering Lynching</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=17"> Advisory Council Lizzy Curran, MS Global Programs</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=18"> 18 Looking Ahead COLSON WHITEHEAD Colson Whitehe</a>
<a title="Creighton University Kingfisher Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7aa199a9?page=19"> Institute Staff TRACY NEAL LEAVELLE, PhD Direct</a>
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