• The School for New Learning’s specialized program for students with chronic illness was chosen as one of the “30 Smart Business Ideas” in higher education by a University Business magazine in its December issue.

• Accounting Professor Ron Marcuson, who has made bequests of artwork from his collection to the DePaul Art Museum and $1 million to the School of Accountancy, was profiled and pictured in Pioneer Press’ Skyline newspaper Dec. 14.

• James Shilling, the M.J. Horne Chair in Real Estate Studies, was interviewed about the Bush administrations subprime mortgage relief plan by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, New Jersey Star Ledger, WGN-TV and WBBM-AM between Dec. 5 and 7.

• The Dec. 18 edition of ABC’s Nightline featured a profile on Theatre School alumnus John C. Reilly, which included a mention of his time at DePaul and a shot of the marquee of DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre. Nightline averages more than 3.4 million viewers nationwide each evening.

• On Nov. 26 Financial Times ran a story about 16 MBA students from DePaul University in Chicago who traveled to New Orleans to help four business-orientated community projects in the city, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The projects, which are part of a long-term plan to promote economic growth in New Orleans, included helping a local entrepreneurs’ centre and projects in the retail and catering sectors.

• Associate Professor Veronica Buckley’s study on women aging vibrantly was discussed in Leslie Goldman’s blog on iVillage on Nov. 29. Buckley is an adjunct professor in the School for New Learning.

• Patricia Werhane, the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, was interviewed Dec. 5 by WMAQ-TV on how people make decisions about what is right and wrong. The interview was part of a story about whether shoppers will pay mall-owned parking meters once they learn that there is no penalty for not feeding them.

• Marketing Professor Bruce Newman was among image experts who provided tongue-in-cheek advice to the CTA about how to patch up its relationship with riders in a Chicago magazine January 2008 article that asked, “Can this relationship be saved?”

• The Chicago Tribune’s Charles Storch noted that Sister Frances Ryan of the School of Education received the Alexian Award of Excellence in his Dec.13 “Grants and Giving” column in the Tempo section for her help in securing funding for permanent housing site for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS. Also, the Times of Northwest Indiana reported Dec. 13 reported on the honor.

• Joe Schwieterman, professor of public service and director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, was interviewed for newscasts on WGN-TV and ABC7 regarding the controversial Internet posting of footage of a Dec. 3 commuter train crash in Chicago. Schwieterman was also a guest on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program on Dec. 19 discussing recent developments at O’Hare International Airport. Schwieterman was also quoted in a Dec. 18 Associated Press story about the startup airline Skybus, which ran in the Akron Beacon Journal.

• DePaul Career Center assistant director and career specialist Melanie Murray was interviewed in a Dec. 2 Chicago Tribune CareerBuilder section article on finding how students can find their first job in sales and marketing. The CareerBuilder section also runs in the Tribune’s nine affiliate newspapers around the country.

• College of Law professor Leonard Cavise was interviewed in a Dec. 18 Chicago Sun-Times article about calls for a special prosecutor in the Drew Peterson case.