• The School for New Learning’s Chronic Illness Initiative was the subject of an in-depth Inside Higher Education feature story on Nov. 8. The piece featured testimonials from a student with a chronic illness who has been able to continue her studies because of the initiative.

• DePaul’s graduate entrepreneurship program was ranked No. 5 in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine/Princeton Review’s annual survey that also revealed that more college students are engaging in hands-on learning in college entrepreneur programs. A Nov. 5 Associated Press report on the ranking appeared the Chicago Tribune Web site.

• DePaul’s Egan Urban Center was profiled in a full-page story in the Chicago Tribune Magazine in the Nov. 4 Sunday edition. The story highlights the unsung urban heroes who are memorialized in sculptures in the center’s windows and how they often lead the public to think the center is a museum.

• In the Nov. 12 RedEye, Alice Stuhlmacher, professor of psychology at DePaul, discussed the pros and cons of multitasking in the workplace and in one’s personal life. The story discusses how multitasking may be unhealthy, unproductive and may affect personal relationships.

• CLTV interviewed Barbara Radner, director of the Center for Urban Education, on Nov. 5 on how to screen childcare providers in light of the accusations of student abuse at Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy in South Africa. Radner noted the need to look beyond obvious screening issues. Radner was also quoted in a Nov. 4 Chicago Tribune story on the impact of teacher turnover and other issues on student test scores.

• Rumors of a possible merger between United and Delta airlines on Nov. 15 made Joe Schwieterman, professor of public policy, much in demand with the media, and he conducted interviews with news programs at Channels 5, 7 and Fox, WLS radio and the Reuters news service.

• College of Law professor Len Cavise was a guest on WBEZ radio’s “848” program, which aired Nov. 7. Cavise discussed the George Ryan trial and the realities of being incarcerated.

• Law Professor Jeff Shaman was interviewed on WBBM-AM Newsradio Nov.14 regarding the impact of recent court ruling on gun ban issues and its possible impact on Chicago’s handgun ordinance.

• In an Oct. 31 Daily Herald story, Sue Fogel, chair of the marketing department, evaluated Abbott Laboratories’ marketing tactic of encouraging employees and others to give pediatric nutrition bars as Halloween candy. Fogel said the healthy snack might not meet the expectations of trick-or-treaters.

• Marketing Professor Joel Whalen discussed the resilience of the McDonald’s brand through company’s slumps and the health food trend in an Associated Press story published in the Daily Herald Oct. 14.

• The Sun-Times appointments column on Nov. 12 noted the Real Estate Center appointments of Stephen G. Bell as associate director, Marc Smith as director of the data clearinghouse project and Stacie Young as director of the interagency coordinating council.

• Gillian Steele, director of DePaul’s Career Center, provided advice for finding temporary work over the holidays for a news story posted on the bankrate.com Web site.