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

• CBS2-Chicago’s “Eye on Chicago” with Antonio Mora featured an in-depth profile of DePaul’s Hispanic marketing degree on Sept. 16 that featured interviews with marketing faculty members Steve Kelly, Loida Rosario and Luis Larrea, as well as a DePaul student.

• Alan Salzenstein, an assistant professor who leads the performing arts management program in DePaul’s schools of Music and Theatre, had an op-ed published in the Sept. 7 Chicago Tribune that suggests ways Chicago can further capitalize on its vibrant music scene.

• The Sept. 17 Crain's Chicago Business special section on women in business featured an interview and photo of Raman Chadha, executive director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, who discussed the growing interest for entrepreneurship study among women students. Recent alumna Rania El Sorrogy, who has won two business plan competitions and is working to found several businesses, was profiled in the section. April Lane, assistant director of center, and students Natalie Lech and Alex White also were quoted in the stories.

• The College of Commerce’s undergraduate and graduate entrepreneur programs, the School of Music’s performing arts management program, initiatives by the Coleman Entrepreneur Center and Creativity and Innovation Center, and Management Professor Gerhard Plaschka all were cited for their excellence in Fortune Small Business’ rating of entrepreneur education programs, “America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs,” which appears in the September issue of the magazine. The Chicago Sun-Times and Fox News Chicago ran stories about DePaul’s showing in the rankings Aug. 28.

• In a Sept. 17 USA Today story, Mike Dohm, assistant director of public safety, discussed how DePaul prevents textbook theft and buyback abuse by buying used textbooks only from DePaul students.

• The management techniques of Cliff Colnot, music professor and conductor of the DePaul Symphony Orchestra, were profiled in the Sept. 10 issue of Crain’s Chicago Business.

• Raman Chadha, executive director of the Coleman Entreprenuership Center, was quoted in the Aug. 5 Small Business column of the Wall Street Journal on the topic of succession planning for small businesses.

• The Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, DePaul president, and Ray Whittington, Commerce dean, were listed in the education section of Crain’s Chicago Business’ annual “Who’s Who in Chicago Business” Sept. 3.

• DePaul’s service learning programs were again recognized by U.S. News & World Report among the 23 best programs in its annual “America’s Best Colleges” edition. Also, DePaul’s top ranking by the Princeton Review among the most diverse universities in the nation was reported on by the Chicago Tribune on Aug. 23.

• Julie Brosnan, a staff psychologist at the DePaul Mental Health Clinic and an adjunct faculty member, explained differences in the way parents grieved the loss of children at the turn of the century and now in an Aug. 24 Tribune story about a church erecting a gravestone at a recently discovered, previously unmarked south suburban gravesite for child victims of the 1918 flu epidemic.

• Jim Shilling, MJ Horne Chair in Real Estate Studies, and Tom FitzGibbon, adjunct professor of real estate, were quoted in Sun-Times editorials Aug. 26 that gave two views of the sub-prime mortgage loan issue.

• In a Sept. 19 Chicago Tribune story, Associate Economics Professor Tim Opiela analyzed the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point.

• Joe Schwieterman, director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute, was quoted in a Sept. 19 story in The Daily Herald commenting on a new study that showed the Chicago area has the second worst traffic congestion in the nation.