• Numerous national and local newspapers and broadcasts noted that DePaul served as the setting for Sen. Barack Obama’s Oct. 2 campaign speech on foreign policy to the DePaul College Democrats, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and National Public Radio. C-SPAN broadcast the speech in its entirety. Over 40 media representatives came to DePaul’s campus for the event.

• Joe Schwieterman, public policy professor and director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute, had an op-ed published in the Sept. 28 Chicago Tribune calling on the Chicago Transit Authority to reform its fare structure to a distance-based system.

• A Sept. 21 Tribune philanthropy column noted that the National Science Foundation gave a $1.1 million grant over three years to a partnership of DePaul, Harold Washington and Harry S. Truman College to boost the number of science and math majors, especially minorities and women.

• Geography professor Clara Orban’s course, “The World of Wine,” was featured in Chicago Tribune writer Bill Daley’s column on Sept. 23 which detailed how to pick the right glass for serving wine.

• Loft-Right and its DePaul residents were featured in a CBS “Morning Show” story Sept. 21 about student housing with high-end amenities.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Web site reported on DePaul’s innovative approach to introduce students in our overseas programs to their professors via podcasts accessible through the Internet.

• The lead item in a Sept. 21 marketing column by Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Sun-Times discussed DePaul’s “Become” advertising campaign and its role in differentiating the university from others in a competitive market.

• Felix Masud-Piloto, director of the DePaul University's Center for Latino Research, was quoted in the Oct. 2 Miami Herald on reforms that are being made to the Cuban government by Raul Castro.

• Kenneth Saltman, associate professor of educational policy, was quoted in an Oct. 3 Chicago Tribune story about the separation of church and state issues involved in a conflict in Oak Lawn public schools about Muslim parents requesting acknowledgement of Ramadan.

• Marketing Chair Sue Fogel was quoted in a Sept. 3 Tribune story about how makers of upscale goods price their products.

• Management professor Kathy Dhanda was interviewed at length Sept. 24 by the New Zealand television news program NZone about sustainable approaches to cutting carbon emissions and carbon emission trading programs.

• Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell in her Oct. 3 column quoted psychology professor Midge Wilson, an expert on sexual harassment issues, on the challenges African-American women often face when bringing charges of sexual harassment against African-American men.

• Law professor and judicial ethics expert Jeffrey Shaman was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer on whether and how judges can appropriately address topics of current political debate.

• Marketing professor Joel Whalen was quoted in a Sept. 22 story by the Associated Press, which was subsequently picked up by the New York Times and other newspapers, about the durability of the McDonald’s brand.

• DePaul legal writing instructor Ben Alba, who authored a 2006 book on entertainment legend Steve Allen, was featured on the morning news programs of Channels 7 and 9 the week of Sept. 24 discussing the 53rd anniversary of the launch of “The Tonight Show.”

• Michelle Goodwin, former director of DePaul’s Health Law Institute, was quoted the March issue of Reason magazine in an in-depth examination of the issue of the trafficking of body parts retrieved from cadavers.