Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s achievements, programs and community involvement included:
DePaul associate professor of environmental sciences and biology Kenshu Shimada’s research on sharks and shark fossils drew national coverage on March 14 when he partnered with radiologists at Children’s Memorial Hospital to produce C.T. scans of various shark specimens. The Chicago Sun-Times featured a story with photos and all Chicago television stations also ran stories. Additionally, the story was picked up by network affiliates in a number of markets around the country.
Alberto Coll, College of Law professor, and the International Human Rights Law Institute, of which he is president, were featured in an in-depth profile story that ran in the March issue of the Chicago Lawyer.
A national campaign to discourage binge drinking during the NCAA March Madness season resulted in an awareness ad being placed in The DePaulia and local news stories on the issue that featured DePaul by Channels 2, 5 and 7 on March 8. It was noted that DePaul and The DePaulia accept no ads or money from manufacturers or distributors of alcoholic beverages.
Several news organizations – including the Chicago Sun-Times and Channel 7 – ran stories that looked at DePaul’s new on-campus housing policy, which restricts on-campus housing to freshmen and sophomores.
Cherif Bassiouni commented on what he saw as a disappointing outcome of the International Court of Justice’s mixed decision in the Serbian genocide trials in a Feb. 28 column by syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer.
The Bahrain News Agency reported March 6 on the recent visit of the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., DePaul president, with Bahraini Crown Prince Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad al Khalifa at his Chicago residence.
Joseph Schwieterman, director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute, had an opinion column published in the March 5 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business on the topic of jump starting Midway Airport privatization efforts.
In the same issue of Crain’s, DePaul Marketing Executive-in-Residence Luis Larrea was quoted in a story on differences in how Hispanic customers often interact with commercial call center operators.
Wicklander Ethics Chair Patricia Werhane, executive director of DePaul University's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, was quoted in a March 7 Sun-Times story on Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s investments, noting they could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.
The March issue of Midwest Construction magazine profiled DePaul’s Real Estate Center as one three universities in the region that is helping to address the shortage of executives in the construction management field.
The March issue of National Real Estate Investor magazine included a full-page op-ed from James Shilling, DePaul’s Michael J. Horne Chair of Real Estate Finance, on the topic of whether real estate investment trusts have reached their peak as publicly traded companies.
DePaul English Professor Michelle Morano’s new book “Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain” was cited in the March issue of Chicago magazine.
