DePaul University’s transformation into a nationally recognized academic institution was profiled in Chicago magazine and on CLTV, the Tribune Co.-owned local cable news station, in September. These are two examples of the 1,500 print and broadcast stories about DePaul placed by the university’s Media Relation department on average each year.

Other recent coverage of DePaul includes:

• Rafaela Weffer, associate vice president for Academic Affairs, was interviewed about Hispanic high school retention on the WBBM-TV public affairs program “Eye on Chicago,” which was aired Sept. 25.

• A decorator make-over of two Belden-Racine Residence Hall rooms where four DePaul students live was featured on the popular room redesign show “While You Were Out” on TLC cable network Aug. 10. The magazine Seventeen also published a two-page spread about the redesign project in its September issue.

• Tribune art critic Alan Artner gave positive reviews to the DePaul Art Museum’s photography exhibits, “Mark Klett: Ideas About Time” and “The Biography of Landscape: Jackson Park” on Sept. 22 and to a previous exhibit, “The Louisiana Project,” on July 21.

• The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published a story about the Clarence Darrow Death Penalty College moving to the Center for Justice in Capital Cases at the College of Law. The Sept. 19 story featured an interview with Law Professor and center director Andrea Lyon.

• A story about popular graduate degrees in the Tribune’s Sept. 18 “Education Today” section discussed degrees in computer graphics and animation and network security offered by the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI), as well as a new degree in computational finance offered jointly by CTI and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.

• College of Law Professor David Franklin discussed Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ Senate confirmation hearings on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” Sept. 13.

• DePaul’s efforts to help college students affected by Hurricane Katrina were featured in stories in the Chicago Tribune Sept. 13, Daily Herald Sept. 2 and on WFLD-TV Sept. 2 and Sept. 12

• Law Professor Patty Gerstenblith, a specialist in cultural property law, was quoted in Business Week, New York Times and Los Angeles Times stories about legal issues involving antiquities in September.

• Joe Schwieterman, director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, was interviewed in September about recent airline mergers, bankruptcies and union issues by a variety of media, including Reuters, the Tribune, the Sun-Times, Crain’s Chicago Business, WLS-TV and WFLD-TV.

• A program by the College of Law’s International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) to track human rights abuses in Iraq was covered by the Chicago Lawyer in its September edition, the Tribune on June 2 and WBBM-AM on June 6. IHRLI Executive Director David Guinn and Deputy Director Daniel Rothenberg were interviewed.

• Tribune classical music critic John von Rhien mentioned the School of Music’s eight-concert Beethoven piano series by the AmerKlavier Studio, directed by faculty member Eteri Andjaparidze, in his preview of the fall concert season Sept. 11.

• School for New Learning Professor Ellen Benjamin was interviewed Sept. 9 by WBBM-AM about how people can tell legitimate charities from scams when giving to hurricane relief efforts.

• On WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” Sept. 8, Laura Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor, discussed race and class issues involving Hurricane Katrina response.

• Crain’s Chicago Business listed the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., DePaul president, and Arthur Kraft, College of Commerce dean, in the education section of its annual “Who’s Who in Chicago Business” Sept. 5.

• A research study, led by Psychology Professor Leonard Jason, about the effectiveness of Oxford House substance abuse recovery programs was covered by the Associated Press, resulting in Sun-Times and Washington Post stories and coverage in numerous other daily newspapers in August. A Washington D.C. press conference where Jason discussed the study’s findings was covered by the local NBC news affiliate.

• DePaul’s School of Music has been named as one of the “Schools that Rock” in a new college guidebook of the best music schools and rock scenes in the nation issued by Rolling Stone magazine in August.

• North Shore Magazine profiled DePaul in August as one of “Ten Schools in Our Own Backyard.” The story about high-quality local universities mentioned DePaul’s commitment to diversity, happiest students’ ranking and the large number of students from the suburbs.

• Barbara Radner, director of the Center for Urban Education in the School for New Learning, was quoted Aug. 4 in Tribune and Sun-Times stories about the jump in reading scores by Chicago public high school juniors.

• The new Liberal Arts & Sciences undergraduate program in Jewish studies was mentioned in a Tribune “Education Today” column July 31.

• In the same July 31 Tribune “Education Today” issue, School of Music Admission Director Ross Beacraft discussed the career outlook for music majors in a story about growing student interest in music education.

• A July 25 story in Crain’s Chicago Business about new college student housing construction discussed University Center and the 580-bed residence hall at 1235 W. Fullerton Ave that will open to DePaul students in the fall of 2006.

• A $2 million gift from Cynthia and Douglas Crocker II to fund the directorship of the Real Estate Center at DePaul, held by Finance Professor Susanne Cannon, was noted in the Tribune’s commercial real estate column, Northern Illinois Real Estate, Midwest Construction, Philanthropy Journal and Philanthropy News Digest in July and August.

• The “Inside Technology” column in the July 9 Tribune ran an item about Sony Pictures Imageworks establishing a special program at CTI to help develop faculty and courses that educate special effects artists and engineers for the film industry.

• The Sun-Times on July 4 printed the commencement speech delivered by Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus and senior policy adviser for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, at the College of Commerce graduation ceremony.

For more information about DePaul Media Relations, call 312/362-8591.