Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s achievements, programs, experts and community involvement include:
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Management Professor Laura Hartman was interviewed May 1 by CNBC about ethics education research nationally in the wake of cheating allegations against students at Duke University’s business school.
Brian Spittle, assistant vice president for enrollment management, was quoted in an April 25 Chicago Sun-Times story about the increase of Chicago public school graduates entering DePaul. DePaul has moved up, from the No. 11 to the No. 10 destination.
Bill Obenshain, executive director of DePaul’s Center for Financial Services was profiled by Crain’s Chicago Business April 30.
Marketing Professor Bruce Newman was quoted in a front-page April 25 New York Times story about automated phone calls – or “robocalls” – an increasingly popular form of political communication used in campaigning.
Islamic Studies Professor Aminah McCloud was quoted about gender equality in an April 29 Chicago Tribune story about the Saudi Embassy’s decision to allow American Muslim girls to make pilgrimages.
Barbara Radner, director of the Center for Urban Education and Assessment at DePaul University, was quoted at length in an April 25 Chicago Tribune story debating the merits of cram sessions for high school students preparing to take standardized college entrance exams.
David Miller’s appointment to dean of DePaul’s School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems was mentioned in the online edition of the Chicago Tribune April 22 and on MidwestBusiness.com April 20.
Pat Werhane, executive director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, was quoted in an April 29 Norwich Bulletin article about Utopia Studios.
A $64,788 grant given to DePaul from the National Endowment for the Humanities was mentioned in an April 26 Chicago Tribune article. The grant is for a program to improve poetry instruction in middle schools. A $7,000 grant given to DePaul from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Foundation also was mentioned in the April 25 edition of the Hollywood Reporter.
Marketing Professor Joe Marconi was quoted in an April 24 Daily Southtown article about the return of Peter Pan peanut butter to the shelves after a salmonella outbreak and total recall of the brand.
Stories about Bank of America’s purchase of LaSalle Bank featured two finance faculty members this month. Finance Chair Ali Fatemi was quoted in a Crain’s Chicago Business online story April 23 and Finance Professor Elijah Brewer was interviewed by the Daily Herald April 24.
The Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times reported respectively on April 20 and 23 on Damon Kiely leaving his position as artistic director of the American Theatre Company to join DePaul’s Theatre School faculty.
An April 20 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin story reported on a trip to Africa taken by ten students from Chicago-area law schools, including four students from DePaul’s College of Law. The trip was part of an effort to study laws and conditions in other countries and to do some good.
Marketing Professor Sue Fogel was quoted in an April 19 Daily Herald story about a study announced by TrendSight Group, a Winnetka consultant, which shows that the population of people over 50 is growing at a much faster rate than the population under 50, and that women between the ages of 50 and 70 are happier, more confident and more socially active than in previous generations.
Political Science Professor Wayne Steger was quoted in two Gannett News Service articles, April 16 and 5, about the 2008 presidential campaign.
In his bi-monthly column for La Raza newspaper April 11, Adjunct Economics Professor Antonio E. Morales-Pita discussed why communism is not a solution for poverty.
Courtney Green of DePaul’s University Library reviewed the book “The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of Modern Delicacy,” by journalist Sasha Issenberg, in Library Journal Reviews May 1.
DePaul graduate student Kinga Tompos was quoted about the reality television show “American Idol” in an April 26 New York Times story about television programming.
