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

• The Tribune’s philanthropy column on Aug. 16 noted that DePaul raised a record high of nearly $34.9 million during the fiscal year that ended June 30, more than double the $15.3 million raised in the prior year. The column mentioned that the campaigns for DePaul’s new science building and Real Estate Center took in $14.5 million and $14 million, respectively.

• Psychology professor Gary Harper joined WBEZ’s “Worldview” program on August 8 to discuss his recent AIDS education and prevention work in Kenya.

• History professor and terrorism expert Tom Mockaitis was featured in a one-on-one interview with Phil Ponce of “Chicago Tonight” on July 23 discussing the possibility that the nation may be facing a heightened risk of terrorist attacks.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education, BusinessWeek and The Financial Times posted online stories in early August about a study by DePaul assistant professors of management Robert S. Rubin and Erich C. Dierdorff, which found a gap in what recruiters want business schools to teach – people-oriented skills like leadership and communication – and the technical skills that students want to study. The study was also reported in the Kankakee Daily Journal.

• Jon Boeckenstedt of DePaul’s Enrollment Management division was quoted in the Aug. 12 Chicago Tribune Magazine about the use of new technology in the college application process.

• DePaul’s ranking by the Princeton Review as the fifth best “college town” and its 20th place “most diverse student body” ranking were noted by the Chicago Tribune in a feature on Aug. 21.

• National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” featured an interview with law professor Patty Gerstenblith about the Getty Museum returning stolen exhibit items to Italy. She observed that the move was an important step to prevent the looting of antiquities.

• Marketing professor Joel Whalen was interviewed by NBC News for a “Today Show” segment July 30 about questionable marketing practices by bottled water companies.

• In a New York Times story Aug. 1, Wayne Steger, assistant professor of political science, described how a recent foreign policy speech by presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barrack Obama would be an asset to his campaign.

• In a July 23 Wall Street Journal “MarketWatch” online news story about adult students, Rob Ryan, assistant dean and director of DePaul’s part-time MBA, advised professionals who want to return to college to use good work habits acquired in their professional lives to succeed in graduate school.

• Professor of philosophy Jason Hill had an in-depth commentary published in the Frankfurter Rundshau, a leading German newspaper, on how the ancient Greek concept of a “cosmopolitan” could help pave the way for smoother relations among the world’s varied cultures.

• Raman Chadha, executive director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, was interviewed about small business owner succession planning in an Aug. 5 Wall Street Journal online column, Small Talk.

• The August issue of Chicago Lawyer profiled law professor Andrea Lyon, director of the DePaul Center for Justice in Capital Cases.

• Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, founder and president emeritus of the International Human Rights Institute at DePaul, was the subject of an in-depth profile by The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in July which was occasioned by his recent receipt of prestigious Hague Prize for his advocacy of international criminal justice. The award also was noted by the August issue of Chicago Lawyer magazine.

• Psychology professor Lenny Jason was quoted in the Aug. 7 edition of The Oregonian discussing recent issues in substance abuse recovery.

• Susanne Cannon, director of the Real Estate Center at DePaul, was profiled in an Illinois Real Estate magazine listing of prominent local women in real estate in June.

• Today’s Chicago Woman profiled assistant marketing professor Nina Diamond and discussed the business school’s new morning MBA program in an August feature story.

• J.D. Bindenagel, vice president for community, government and international affairs, reflected on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and future prospects for peace in an essay about a DePaul delegation visit to Jordan that he penned for the Globalist daily online magazine July 23.

• In the wake of the deadly Aug. 1 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Joe Schweiterman, director of DePaul University's Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Development, discussed aging urban infrastructure and the possibility of a similar catastrophe happening with local bridges in interviews with the National Public Radio, Fox News, Daily Herald, WBBM-AM and WLS-AM.

• Ann Russo, director of women's and gender studies, was interviewed by the Tribune Aug. 17 about the greater sense of economic independence among women, leading to an increase in home sales among single women.

• English professor Hugh Ingrasci was quoted in the July 20 Daily Herald on the topic of whether the Harry Potter series will eventually pass into the realm of classic children’s literature.

• Professor of economics Thomas Mondschean discussed the role of, and challenges facing, new Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans in a Daily Herald story July 31.

• Law professor Len Cavise was interviewed on “Chicago Tonight” on Aug. 13 on the decline of the Chicago mob and on WBBM-AM NewsRadio 78 on Aug. 23 about potential political pressure federal appellate judges may feel to overturn Gov. Ryan’s conviction.

• Associate professor of marketing Al Muniz commented in an Aug. 8 story in the Daily Herald about the Internet marketing trend of people posting Web sites and seeking online advertising to pay for tuition.

• A July 21 story in The Business Times Singapore discussed a study co-authored by DePaul assistant professor of finance Sonya Seongyeon Lim, which found that stock price reaction to a company’s earnings announcement was lessened if a number of other companies released their results on the same day.

• Two DePaul Theatre School alumni - Charlette Speigner and Kevin Douglas - were among four young Chicago actors profiled by Sun-Times theatre critic Hedy Weiss Aug. 3 because they “demonstrated exceptional versatility and polish in recent productions.”

• Antonio Morales Pita, adjunct professor of economics, was interviewed on several occasions in mid-August on Telemundo and Univision on various issues on the status of Cuba and the Castro regime.

• Alan Salzenstein, professor of music management, was quoted in an Aug. 15 Chicago Tribune story on a new study that shows that Chicago is not fully capitalizing in its significant resources in the music industry.

• DePaul CTI’s new bachelor’s degree in interactive media was featured in the Aug. 22 technology column in MidwestBusiness.com.