Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s achievements, programs, experts and community involvement include:
DePaul’s groundbreaking and plans for the new McGowan science building on the Lincoln Park Campus were profiled in a Chicago Tribune story on June 6. The story highlighted DePaul’s “Campaign for Science.” The Associated Press also ran a story, and the groundbreaking also was mentioned on numerous television and radio newscasts.
Environmental science Professor Jim Montgomery’s forensic science class was detailed in a feature story in the CBS 2 10 o’clock newscast on June 11. The class, which is for seventh and eighth graders from Chicago, is patterned after the hit television show “CSI” and involves life science, earth science, chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, constitutional law and psychology. DePaul was mentioned numerous times throughout the segment.
The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ-FM and WBBM-AM ran stories May 31 about the Preservation Compact, a new, comprehensive affordable rental housing preservation project launched by a coalition of organizations including the MacArthur Foundation and DePaul. The stories about the initiative cited a DePaul study by Real Estate Center Director Susanne Cannon and finance Professors Rebel Cole and Jonathan Dombrow, which forecasts the loss of two units of affordable rental housing for every one built in Cook County by 2020 if no action is taken.
During his weekly commentary on June 3, WFMT-FM arts critic-at-large Andrew Patner lavished praise on the DePaul Symphony Orchestra for its oncert performance on May 30, crediting Dean Don Casey and conductor Cliff Colnot. He also noted the orchestra’s incredible diversity.
The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times and numerous ethnic and community publications and Web sites ran stories on political science Pofessor Norman Finkelstein’s failure to gain tenure.
College of Communication Dean Jacqueline Taylor was featured in WBEZ-FM’s “Eight Forty-Eight” program on June 12 discussing her new book “Waiting for the Call.”
The recovery efforts of history department Chair Daniel Goffman, who suffered a major stroke last year, were detailed in a NBC 5 news report that aired May 31 and again on June 3.
DePaul’s Sales Leadership Program in the College of Commerce and its partnership with 3M was prominently featured in a story about sales education in Sales and Marketing Management magazine’s June issue. Program director David Hoffmeister and marketing Executive-in-Residence Daniel Strunk were quoted.
Time Out Chicago magazine noted DePaul’s Digital Cinema Premiere Film Festival in its June 7 edition. The event also was listed on the Tribune’s Metromix June 4.
The appointment of Jeffrey Kroll of Clifford Law Offices to DePaul’s board of trustees was noted in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin June 6.
Marketing Professor Al Muniz was quoted in a June 6 Crain’s Chicago Business story about the strong growth of the Potbelly sandwich shop franchise.
The Indianapolis Star featured a story on June 13 about emerging trends in student housing that prominently featured Loft-Right, the private residence hall in Lincoln Park that houses DePaul students.
