Recent media stories featuring DePaul University’s achievements, programs, experts and community involvement include:

• An initiative by DePaul’s School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) to recruit more women to study information technology through a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant was the subject of an in-depth Chicago Sun-Times Tech Scene column July 4. CTI Professor Lucia Dettori, senior Takyrica Styles and recent graduate Alia Bashir were featured. Today’s Chicago Woman also covered the topic in its current issue.

• The July 13 Chicago Reader profiled a program conducted by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development that teaches high school students in the Chicago Public Schools how to think about revitalizing economically depressed inner city neighborhoods.

• DePaul College of Law Senior Research Fellow Jody Raphael was a guest on WBEZ’s “848” program on July 13 discussing the root causes of prostitution and the growing numbers of women who are being coerced into prostitution and efforts that are being made to stem the tide.

• The lighting design work of Theatre School Dean John Culbert was profiled in the July 19 Pioneer Press. Culbert is re-uniting with famed director Mary Zimmerman for a new show at the Goodman Theater.

• History Prof. Tom Mockaitis, who also serves as a terrorism analyst for WGN-TV News, has made a number of on-air appearances in recent weeks to discuss the recent thwarted terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and the renewed threats to the U.S. by Al Qaeda.

• A July 8 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed penned by Law Professor Barry Kellman discussed how modern bioscience has the potential to raise a security paradox, including the development of ethnic-specific biological weapons. Kellman is the director of the College of Law’s International Weapons Control Center.

• Law Prof. Len Cavise was featured in a National Public Radio story on July 11 regarding the still pending statutory rape trial of R&B signer R. Kelly five years after his being charged.

• In Belgium for an investment seminar, Werner DeBondt, Driehaus Behavioral Finance Chair at DePaul, discussed psychological factors affecting investors and was profiled by two Belgium newspapers, DeStandaard and DeTijd, June 21.

• Philosophy Prof. Jason Hill had an opinion column published in The Frankfurter Landshau, one of the top daily newspapers in Germany, regarding the meaning of global citizenship and responsibility in the 21st Century. The article is also slated to soon appear in a Dutch newspaper.

• In a page 1 Washington Post story July 5, Marketing Professor Bruce Newman, editor of the Journal of Political Marketing, discussed when the concept of micro-targeting voters by political campaigns first emerged in marketing textbooks.

• Psychology Prof. Joe Ferrari was quoted in a June 29 Washington Post story about the decline of altruism apparently stemming from the decline of smaller communities.

• Psychology Professor Lenny Jason was quoted in a July 17 New York Times story about the emerging official recognition by the medical community about chronic fatigue syndrome.

• DePaul Law Professor Stephan Landsman was quoted in a July 17 Sun-Times story about an investigation by defense attorneys into whether a conversation about a news story among jurors in the Conrad Black fraud trial may present an opportunity for challenging the trial’s verdict. Landsman was also quoted in the July 19 Sun-Times on whether Black was a flight risk.

• Items about the School of Accountancy’s partnership with RSM McGladrey to offer an onsite master of science degree program to the firm’s employees appeared in Accounting Today July 7, as well as in ENewsline, the newsletter of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and Accounting SmartPros.com in June.

• The Chicago Defender’s “Teesee’s Town” column June 15 noted that the College of Commerce presented Lester McKeever, managing principal and head of Washington, Pittman & McKeever, an honorary degrees at this year’s commencement.

• College of Law professor M. Cherif Bassiouni was quoted in a June, 2007 ABA Journal story that discussed the ABA’s newest international initiatives in the Middle East. Bassiouni discussed how the ABA is perceived as having government ties which may hinder its impact on international law. Also, Prof. Bassiouni’s recent Hague Prize award was noted in Chicago Tribune writer Charles Storch’s July 19 philanthropy column.

• In a July 16 Daily Herald story, Marketing Professor Joel Whalen was quoted about YouTube’s affect on advertising strategies.

• In a Crain’s Chicago Business commentary July 16, Julia Stasch, co-chair of Preservation Compact and vice-president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, used statistics provided by a Real Estate Center of DePaul study to discuss the dearth of affordable rental housing for Chicago-area workers. The center is part of the MacArthur-funded Preservation Compact initiative to save affordable rental housing in Cook County.

• In a May Chronicle of Philanthropy story about how universities are teaching charitable giving, Management Professor Laura Hartman described how she teaches her ethics students about philanthropy through a class exercise in which students are asked to research and make the case for a charity to receive a donation.