• Numerous news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and NBC5, covered the dramatic Feb. 26 story about Layne Morsch, a DePaul chemistry professor, whose wife, TC, delivered their baby girl on a roadside in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. The dispatcher who talked Morsch through the delivery is also a DePaul student. Mom and the baby are doing fine. Congrats to all for such a newsworthy start to a new life.

• Today’s Chicago Woman’s March issue book column featured “Women In Business” co-written by DePaul management faculty members Patricia Werhane, Lisa Gundry, Margaret Posig and Laurel Ofstein and Darden business school management professor Elizabeth Powell.

• Univision's evening newscast on Feb. 22 featured an advance story on a Latino health care forum, organized by Rafaela Weffer, associate vice president for faculty development and research at DePaul. The Spanish-language station also covered the event and ran a follow-up story on the day of the event, Feb. 23.

• A letter to the editor titled “Kenya’s tragedy,” written by the Rev. John T. Richardson, C.M., DePaul chancellor, ran in the Chicago Tribune’s Voice of the People on March 1.

• A March 6-7 conference on risk management co-sponsored by DePaul’s Center for Financial Services and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was detailed in the March 3 Chicago Tribune.

• Mark Laboe, associate vice president for university ministry, was quoted in the Feb. 24 Daily Herald providing perspective on how Catholics should try to make sense of the tragic shootings at Northern Illinois University. His was one of several religious perspectives included.

• Political Science Professor Michael Mezey had a one-on-one discussion with Carol Marin on “Chicago Tonight” on March 5 providing analysis of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s victories in Texas and Ohio. Mezey also was interviewed about how Gov. Rod Blagojevich will nominate a new senator to replace Barack Obama if he’s elected president in a story that aired March 2 on NBC5.

• Ronald Chennault, associate professor of education policy studies, was quoted in a Feb. 20 Education Week article on the impact of providing cash awards to motivate students to perform better on state exams in Ohio.

• Political Science Professor Valerie Johnson was interviewed about what to expect in the future in the presidential primaries on NBC-5’s Morning News March 3.

• Political Science Professor Wayne Steger was interviewed Feb. 25 by the Daily Herald about the characteristics of early voters in the presidential primary.

• In a Feb. 27 interview on the nationally syndicated business news show “First Business,” Economics Professor Michael Miller discussed the growing probability of the American economy experiencing stagflation.

• Antonio Morales-Pita, adjunct professor of economics, was the sole guest on UnaME, a half hour Spanish-language public affairs program on WCIU where he spoke of recent political changes in his native Cuba and his recent book on his work as an economist there. He was also recently interviewed by a Brazilian television station on related topics.

• Economic Professor Gabriella Bucci talked to Fox News Chicago on March 1 about how the Cook County Board’s one percentage point increase in the sales tax would likely hurt those least able to pay it.

• Barbara Radner, director of the Center for Urban Education in the School for New Learning, was quoted about evaluating your child’s school in a story on education.com on March 3.

• Skyline newspaper featured a news brief Feb. 1 about an Accelerated Transfer Admission session for transfer students at Wilbur Wright College on Feb. 7.