Media stories about DePaul University for the month of July included:
Law Professor Patty Gerstenblith was quoted in several publications about ancient artifacts including: The Washington Post July 30, The Boston Globe July 28, The New York Times July 20 and The Los Angeles Times July 13.
School For New Learning Professor Patricia Monaghan’s poetry collection, Homefront, was mentioned in a July 28 Madison (Wis.) Capital Times story about Wisconsin poets.
Law Professor Michelle Goodwin was featured on WTTW-TV July 27 for her book Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. An Op-Ed by Goodwin on the human body parts trade industry also was featured in the New Zealand Herald July 5.
Joe Schwieterman, director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, talked about competition between airlines on PBS-TV’s “Nightly Business Report” July 31. July 26, he was quoted in the Chicago Tribune about All Nippon Airways’ request to use one of United Airlines gates at O’Hare. July 13 and 14, he was quoted on WLS-TV about United Airlines’ headquarters moving to downtown Chicago. He also was quoted in several national stories about airline industry capacity issues and a no frills bus line. His expertise on that issue appeared in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and he was interviewed by CNN Radio and CBS Radio in New York July 6 and 7.
The Chicago Lawyer profiled DePaul Law Professor Leonard Cavise and four other attorneys who were honored by the Chicago Bar Foundation for their pro bono work. The profile noted that he puts his theoretical knowledge to good use by regularly taking pro bono cases and that he “helped create and currently directs DePaul's Public Interest Law Program, which entices first-year law students to work in public-interest programs.” The story appears in the August edition of the magazine available in July.
In a July 21 Times of London story about marketing American universities, David Kalsbeek, vice president of Enrollment Management, discussed the importance of market analyses for new academic programs at DePaul.
CBS and Fox news Web sites mentioned Assistant Management Professor William Martin’s study on alternative medicine July 20.
Kiljoong Kim, research director for DePaul’s Egan Urban Center, was quoted in a July 19 Chicago Tribune article about Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.
Law Professors John Decker and Bruce Ottley, along with a second-year DePaul law student, were quoted in a July 18 Tribune story about the popularity of Internet surfing in the classroom.
Visual Arts Professor Jim Duignan was featured in a July 18 Inside Higher Ed story about his Stockyard Institute program, a community arts education program for Chicago elementary and middle school kids.
DePaul University’s Archaeological Field Project, a summer research project headed by Archeology Professor Anna Agbe-Davies that focuses on unearthing historic artifacts from Chicago’s past, was mentioned in a Washington Post article July 16 and a Tribune article July 11. Other media coverage of the project included: the Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Citizen Newspapers, WBBM-TV, WGN-TV, WFLD-TV, WTTW-TV, WLS-TV, WMAQ-TV, WBBM radio and WBEZ radio.
Theatre Professor Rachel Shteir, author of “Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show,” was quoted in a July 16 Denver Post story about the acceptance of the stripper by the American female mainstream.
English Professor Jonathan Gross was featured in a July 16 Tribune story for his book, “The Jefferson Scrapbooks.” The book, written after Gross’ discovery of a set of scrapbooks said to have been authored by Thomas Jefferson, provides readers with a different look into the life of America’s third president.
Business student Joe Ashur Jr. was the subject of a July 14 WMAQ-TV piece and stories on CLTV and in the Daily Herald July 18. Ashur, 24, was stranded in Beirut, Lebanon where he’d been staying with family and relating his experiences via a blog.
Kenshu Shimada, associate professor of environmental and biological sciences, was among three North American paleontologists profiled July 13 in the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the world’s largest financial daily with a circulation exceeding 3 million.
Psychology Professor Midge Wilson was quoted in a Tribune article about Vita Excolatur, a literary X-rated publication produced by students at the University of Chicago.
A mid-year update and forecast co-hosted by DePaul’s Real Estate Center, which featured Douglas Crocker, a center founding sponsor and retired president and chief executive officer of Equity Residential Properties in Chicago, was mentioned in a July 11 Dow Jones MarketWatch story.
Business Ethics Professor Laura Hartman was quoted in a July 10 BusinessWeek online story about the response of the investment community to firms that restate earnings. She also provided her expertise in a July 2 Tribune article about the departure of Star Jones Reynolds from ABC’s “The View.”
DePaul was mentioned in a July 6 Tribune story for its participation in rare book sharing with the Newberry Library, an independent research library.
Marketing Professor Bruce Newman was quoted in a July 3 Associated Press story about the possibility of Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice running as the Republican candidate for President in 2008. The story appeared in media nationwide, including on MSNBC’s Web site and in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
A commentary on AmeriCorps programs by Melissa Frazin, a Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning staff member and site manger of the Jumpstart program at DePaul, was featured in the Tribune on July 3.
Psychology Professor Joseph Ferrari discussed why some people are procrastinators in a story about bad habits published in the July issue of Fitness Magazine.
Brian Marchal, a DePaul real estate student, was mentioned in a July Shopping Centers Today story about how real estate developers are cultivating students into executives. Shopping Centers Today is a retail real estate industry magazine.
