• The trip of DePaul President, Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., to Washington for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit generated numerous media appearances including interviews with Chicago's ABC, NBC and CBS television stations, Washington's CBS station, local radio stations WBEZ and WBBM-AM. He was also quoted in coverage by the Chicago Sun-Times and in the blog of the Chicago Tribune's religion writer, Manya Brachear.

• DePaul’s honoring of Earth Month through its enrollment in the eco-friendly I-GO car sharing program was featured on newscasts of Channel 2 and Fox32 on April 5. Father Holtschneider and Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn were among those on hand to unveil the new agreement. Skyline also ran an article in the April 10 edition.

• The online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on DePaul’s newly restructured College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) in an April 14 story that noted that enrollment in the booming digital cinema program was up 30 percent over the past year. The online edition of TimeOut Chicago also covered the CDM announcement, with a focus on digital cinema, on April 16.

• Also Fox 32 ran a segment April 13 on DePaul’s Game Jam 2008, a 30-hour game creation competition featuring CDM computer game development majors and the industry experts who judged the event.

• The Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye featured a front-page story on April 14 exploring the roots and reasons of chronic procrastination in which Psychology Professor Joe Ferrari was the principal expert source. Ferrari also had an op-ed in the April 13 Chicago Sun-Times editorial pages opining on tax filing deadlines and procrastination.

• The DePaul Art Museum’s new exhibition “Ellis Island Portraits” has received numerous media mentions, including an announcement in the April 11 Chicago Sun-Times’ Weekend section, a pick-of-the-week highlight in the April 13 Chicago Tribune Arts Section and an interview with Louise Lincoln in the Terra Foundation’s April newsletter, “American Art, American City.”

• Marketing Professor Bruce Newman discussed the brand messages communicated by the presidential candidates in a National Public Radio “All Things Considered” story that aired April 10.

• On the nationally syndicated business show “First Business” aired locally on WCIU-TV April 8, Economics Professor Mike Miller discussed the message tone and leadership of a Federal Reserve in anticipation of its interest rate meeting.

• Antonio Morales-Pita, adjunct professor of economics, had several recent television appearances including a 20 minute interview on April 1 on Telemundo’s “En Contexto” program about challenges for Hispanic immigrants to learn English. On April 11, he was interviewed by Noticias, a program which airs both in the U.S. and Mexico, about the impact the U.S. recession is having on remittances from the U.S. to Mexico. That same day he was interviewed on “First Business” program about the decoupling of the world economy from the American economy.

• College of Law Professor Rodney Blackman was quoted in the April 12 Chicago Tribune regarding the R. Kelly trial, explaining that the emotional sensitivity of the case most likely prompted the judge to keep information from it under seal.

• Barbara Radner, director of the Center for Urban Education, was quoted in a story on Chicago eighth-graders scores on national writing tests in the April 4 Chicago Sun-Times.

• Joe Schwieterman, professor of public service and director of DePaul’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, was quoted in the April 16 Columbus Dispatch on the ramifications of recent airline mergers. He was also interviewed on April 10 on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” and in the April 11 Chicago Sun-Times about American Airlines’ emergency grounding of much of its fleet for safety inspections.

• John Koval, a senior research fellow with the Egan Urban Center and retired professor of sociology, appeared on “Chicago Tonight” April 11 as a panelist discussing the eroding American middle class.

• Dan Bolous, a DePaul University student who started a Facebook group called “Fix the Potholes” to help lobby public support for resurfacing pothole-plagued North Lake Shore Drive, was quoted in the April 17 Chicago Tribune.