Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s achievements, programs and community involvement include:
The DePaul Real Estate Center’s $16 million campaign announcement was highlighted in the Chicago Tribune Jan. 24, along with a $3 million anonymous donation given to DePaul to boost the campaign. The campaign has already raised $10.5 million, which includes a $2 million donation from Douglas Crocker II, former chief executive of Equity Residential Properties Trust, and his wife Cynthia, and a $1.5 million donation from George Ruff, a principal at New York-based Trinity Hotel Investors LLC. A luncheon celebrating the $3 million anonymous gift, featuring an address by James Shillings, DePaul real estate studies professor, also was mentioned in the Chicago Sun-Times Business section.
DePaul’s new Hispanic Marketing degree program, Multicultural Marketing-Hispanic Marketplace, was prominently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune Jan. 11. The program also was mentioned on WBBM radio and NBC-5.
Psychology Professor Joe Ferrari was quoted in Jan. 7 New York Times story and a Jan. 22 Los Angeles Times story – both about procrastination. An article on his work on procrastination and "slackers" was also featured in the Jan/Feb issue of "Psychology Today" magazine. Prof. Ferrari was also interviewed on the topic of overcoming guilt for the January issue of VIVmag.com and had an opinion piece on the need for community college faculty to engage in scholarship/research in the "Community College Times," a sister publication of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Tribune columnist Mary Schmich interviewed a group of DePaul students for her Jan. 27 column reflecting on a recent survey that showed most college students are now obsessed with wealth and fame. The DePaul students she spoke with repudiated such ideas.
Finance Professor Werner DeBondt was quoted at length in the Dec. 26 Wall Street Journal on how to find contrarian stock picks in an up-ticking stock market.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and two DePaul students spoke on campus on Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Day, about the impact of recent cuts to federal student loan programs. Sen. Durbin had recently introduced legislation to restore funding for the program. Four local television stations and three radio stations covered the event, with most of the coverage prominently featuring DePaul. The story was also used in the national newscasts of National Public Radio.
A Jan. 24 event sponsored by the DePaul Conservative Alliance that featured former DePaul instructor Tom Klocek and conservative activist David Horowitz was covered by various media outlets including Fox News Chicago, the Associated Press, and WBEZ radio.
CTI Professor Jacob Furst was quoted in a Jan. 22 Chicago Sun-Times article about the Chicago Board of Elections losing several CDs containing voter information and Social Security numbers. This story ran on the UPI wire along with eight other news outlets nationwide. He also was interviewed Jan. 17 by Illinois Radio Network for a piece on the database security of a new statewide hiring database introduced in Springfield. The piece aired locally on WBBM-AM and as part of a news segment on the network’s 56 affiliate stations across the state and in St. Louis.
A symposium sponsored by DePaul and the Lyric Opera on issues surrounding Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” was featured in the Chicago Tribune Jan. 19.
Marketing Professor Joel Whalen was quoted in a Jan. 19 Chicago Tribune online story about CareerBuilder.com and its decision to take their advertising campaign in a different direction. The article also appeared in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
DePaul professors Curtis Verschoor (accountancy) and Woods Bowman (public service) were quoted in a Jan. 18 Daily Herald story about Cook County Board President Todd Stroger and the “target adjustment” budget.
Gillian Steele, director of the Career Center, was quoted in a Jan. 17 Orlando Sentinel article about DePaul’s mandatory experiential learning requirement which students can fulfill through internships, community outreach or studying abroad.
Marketing Professor Bruce Newman was interviewed in a Jan. 17 Daily Herald article about the role the media plays in politics.
DePaul’s new MBA Primer program, a 15-week MBA sampler, was featured in the Daily Herald Jan. 15.
The Theatre School’s presentation of Roald Dahl’s the BFG, or Big Friendly Giant, was noted in the Chicago Sun-Times Jan. 12.
DePaul student Allie Brinkerhoff was featured in the Pioneer Press Jan. 10 for her participation in Oprah Winfrey’s “Pay it Forward” Challenge. Brinkerhoff was among 314 “Oprah Winfrey Show” audience members invited to take part in the challenge which gave each participant a $1,000 gift card to spend in a charitable way. With the money, Brinkerhoff revamped a reading program at an Uptown outpatient children’s clinic of Children’s Memorial Hospital.
CTI Professor Xiaoping Jia was quoted in a Jan. 9 Chicago Tribune story on the issues surrounding the vote-tabulation delays following the November election.
DePaul’s Department of Nursing program was mentioned in a Health Business Week story Jan. 5 for being one of fourteen programs chosen to participate in Transforming Care at the Bedside, an initiative sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in conjunction with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. DePaul will partner with Children’s Memorial Hospital as part of this initiative to improve quality of patient care.
The January edition of Screen Magazine featured DePaul’s Digital Cinema Program, calling it “the film school of the new millennium,” for incorporating classes in 3-D animation and machinima (film making using video game technology), as well as directing, screenwriting and cinematography.
