Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s people, programs, achievements and community involvement include:
Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni will talk with veteran broadcast journalist John Callaway in an in-depth, half-hour interview on WTTW-Channel 11’s “Chicago Tonight” program scheduled to air on Friday, Nov. 24, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. The program will examine Prof. Bassiouni’s founding of the International Human Rights Law Institute in DePaul’s College of Law and his recent work to help rebuild the legal system in Iraq.
Andrea Lyon, director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases, helped put DePaul in the news around the world when she spoke at a Nov. 17 event that featured talks by former Gov. George Ryan and former death row inmate Madison Hobley. The event, sponsored by the DePaul chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, was widely covered by local, national and international media and DePaul was prominently mentioned in the stories. The Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, all local television stations and many radio stations covered the event. Coverage was also picked up in numerous other media outlets as far away as Taiwan.
Miriam Ben-Yoseph of DePaul’s School for New Learning was named Illinois Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The story was covered in the Nov. 17 Sun-Times and can be found at: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/140232,CST-NWS-TEACHER17.article.
The November issue of Midwest Construction magazine featured a news item and photo about developer George Ruff’s donation earlier this year to DePaul’s Real Estate Center.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Joan Junkus, professor of finance, and one of her students in an Oct. 30 article about what it takes to succeed in a career in international finance.
Business ethics professor Laura Hartman was featured in a story about the public’s growing anger over CEO malfeasance on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” program which aired Nov. 17.
Michael Mezey, professor of political science, was one of three panelists on WGN Radio’s “Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg” on Nov. 8 dissecting the meaning and impact of the November 7 elections. Prof. Mezey was also featured in election stories by Telemundo and the Medill News Service.
DePaul Theatre School alumnus Zach Helm was profiled in a front-page story in the Nov. 5 Sunday Chicago Tribune’s Arts section which detailed his instant Hollywood fame for writing the current Will Ferrell comedy “Stranger than Fiction.”
A Nov. 3 story in the Chicago Defender quoted political science professor Harry Wray on the favorable environment for Democrats in a story on three African American candidates who sought governor’s seats this election season.
Marketing professor Bruce Newman was called on by the northwest suburban Daily Herald for a Nov. 5 story to explain the reasoning for the growing use of automatic phone messages being made by political candidates.
Joe Schwieterman, professor of public policy and director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute, was interviewed on Nov. 16 on the nationally syndicated “First Business” television program about the proposed merger of US Airways and Delta airlines.
Lou Kleinman, an Emmy Award-winning visiting associate professor in DePaul’s Digital Cinema program, was spotlighted along with his dog, Maya, on “The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan” program on the National Geographic Channel. Kleinman’s segment on the program was produced in-house at DePaul and aired nationally on Nov. 20. The program was promoted in Rob Feder’s media column in the Chicago Sun-Times.
A Nov. 20 Associated Press article quoted DePaul junior Nora Vail on her reaction to a proposal by a U.S. Congressman to reinstate the military draft. The article ran in more than 800 newspapers and Internet media outlets worldwide.
