• DePaul Law Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni appeared in a Newsweek article on Oct. 8; the article discussed the views of international law experts and human-rights activists about bringing former dictators to justice for corruption and “gross human rights violations.”

• DePaul’s economic impact on the South Loop was detailed in a story in the September issue of University Business Magazine, which also noted DePaul’s role in studying the economic impact it and other local schools have had on the economy of downtown Chicago.

• Rania El-Sorrogy, a 2007 DePaul alumnus who developed two businesses last year as an entrepreneur student, was featured in a WMAQ-TV story Oct. 18 about young women entrepreneurs.

• In an Oct. 8 Crain’s Chicago Business story about entrepreneurs growing their businesses, Raman Chadha, executive director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, discussed acquiring another business as a tactic for quick growth.

• DePaul’s entrepreneurship program was cited among the top 10 in the nation in Entrepreneur magazine and Princeton Review’s fifth annual “Best Schools for Entrepreneurs,” which was released in mid-October and will appear in the November issue of the magazine. DePaul was rated fifth in the graduate entrepreneur program category and seventh in the undergraduate category of the rankings. WLS-AM reported the rankings in an Oct. 17 newscast.

• Political science professor Mike Mezey appeared on a Wisconsin public radio show on Oct. 11 to discuss the movement to nominate Al Gore as a Democratic presidential candidate.

• Law Professor John Decker was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times Oct. 14 on the possible defense strategies that Jeanette Sliwinski, a local woman who killed three men with her car during a failed suicide attempt, might be able to invoke during her upcoming trial.

• Joe Schwieterman, professor of public policy and director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute, was featured on WBBM-AM’s “Noon Business Hour” program Oct. 10 discussing Boeing’s latest announcement on the delay in its new jetliner.

• Political Science Professor Larry Bennett was featured Oct. 14 on the British Broadcasting Company radio program “Mind Maps” providing a guided tour of Chicago’s riverfront and how it ties to the city’s history.

• Bruce Newman, DePaul marketing professor and author of several political marketing books was quoted in an Oct. 12 Associated Press article that illuminated how the presidential candidates are working to define themselves “in the minds of the voters” instead of letting their competitors define them. The story was carried by the Washington Post. This story also led to Newman being interviewed by 1800, a new XM satellite political talk show.

• Crain’s Chicago Business ranked DePaul’s MBA program third in its annual ranking of the competitive local business school market, which appeared Oct. 15. Recruiters polled by Crain’s rated the human resources MBA concentration No. 1 and DePaul’s marketing, management, accounting and real estate programs No. 2 among the seven schools included in the ranking.

• A study by DePaul Management Professors Bin Jiang and Patrick Murphy which concludes that business professors who take executive jobs do better than their peers, was the subject of a story in the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail Oct. 19.