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Featured Research

​The research culture at DePaul is typified by the pervasiveness of new ideas, the stimulation of dialogue, and a commitment to engaged scholarship. The below featured research provides a brief a vignette of select projects that typify faculty members contributions to our campus community and their disciplines.



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Insert Coin Documentary Makes Chicago Debut

January 2023

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

Josh Tsui, director of innovation at Jarvis CDM, created and directed the film "Insert Coin" to chronicle Chicago's historic role as an  epicenter of video game development. After a successful film festival run, including at South by Southwest, "Insert Coin"  made its Chicago debut at the Music Box Theatre  in January 2023.
(Image courtesy of Josh Tsui)
 
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Berardi Secures U.S. Department of Education Support

November 2022

Student Affairs

Dr. Luciano Berardi of DePaul’s Access, Attainment and TRIO department has secured a $261K grant, per year for the next five years, from the U.S. Department of Education in support of DePaul 's McNair Scholar's Program.  DePaul's award, one of 189 new awards to institutions of higher education across the United States,  is designed to assist historically underrepresented college students (i.e., ethnic minority, low-income and first-generation college students) effectively prepare for and access a doctoral-level education. The McNair Program is one of seven federal TRIO programs, targeted to serve and assist historically underrepresented students in higher education, and individuals with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to post-baccalaureate programs. This initiative aims to increase the number of TRIO eligible students in both post-graduate programs and the professoriate career. 

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Royster Releases New Book

October 2022

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, the first book on Black country music by a Black writer, Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster's book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner's first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On, Lil Nas X''s "Old Town Road" and Rhiannon Giddens and Our Native Daughter's Black banjo reclamation, Songs of Our Native Daughters.

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CDM’s Malik  secures a $1.3 Million NASA Grant

October 2022

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media Associate Professor Tanu Malik  has a secured $1.38M multi-year grant from NASA entitled “Reproducible Containers for Advancing Process-oriented Collaborative Analytics”  .   This project aims to establish reproducible scientific containers that will transparently encapsulate complex, data-intensive, process-oriented model analytics to share easily and efficiently between collaborators, and will enable reproducibility in heterogeneous environments.     On a related note, Dr. Malik and her students recent  paper  "Reproducible Notebook Containers with Application Virtualization" was recognized as the Best Paper at IEEE eScience 2022.  Read More.


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Chu explores Diversity and Multicultural Issues in Advertising

August 2022

College of Communication

Diversity and Multicultural Issues in Advertising is a topic of Professor Kelly Chu in the College of Communication's research. Her other research areas include social media, electronic word-of-mouth, corporate social responsibility, and cross-cultural consumer behavior.

Chu's recent research has identified that of research articles published in advertising journals from 2011 to 2020 suggests only 8.03% used diversity and multicultural variables in their conceptualization. Chu believes that examining diversity in advertising through the lens of new technology and digital media is timely and necessary. She hopes that this article will help brands, marketers, and agencies identify issues in diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and provide useful strategies to implement the needed change.  Read More.


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Flores Secures funding for Summer Programming

June 2022

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

Michael Flores, Assistant Professor in DePaul’s Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, has secured funding from CHA's Springboard to Success to conduct 2022 summer programming for select CHA high school students on filmmaking, screenwriting, and photography.  At the core, the programs are designed to provide new economic pathways for minority youth and to arm them with the tools to become effective visual storytellers. This year’s programs will be taught in-person on DePaul’s Loop Campus from June 27th through August 4th, 2022.  Read More.

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LAS Releases Creating Knowledge

June 2022

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences  has released a new edition of Creating Knowledge, a  journal of undergraduate scholarship and creative activity. Essays and artwork are a product of advanced coursework during the 2021-2022 Academic Year.  First published in 2008, Creating Knowledge showcases the best student work produced across LAS  programs of study.   (Photo courtesy of Kevin Barry).    Read More.
 


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Huang Secures NSF CRII Award

March 2022

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

Dr. Zhen Huang, Assistant Professor in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media has secured a National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII award for his project SaTC: Towards Detecting and Mitigating Vulnerabilities.  The project promotes a novel research agenda that seeks to improve software vulnerability detection and mitigation.  A diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students are participating in the project and developing their interests and expertise in software security.  The NSF CRII Award is a prestigious, highly-competitive grant that is awarded to young Assistant Professors at the beginning of their academic careers. An estimated 60 CRII proposals are funded by NSF annually.    Read More.


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Tchoua Named Sinai Fellow

March 2022

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

Dr. Roselyne Tchoua, Assistant Professor in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media has secured a fellowship from Sinai Urban Health Institute to pursue  health equity research.  The Fellowship award will allow Tchoua  the opportunity to apply machine learning techniques to health data, including quantifying the impact of social determinants of health in the prediction of patient readmission to the Emergency Department.  Read More.


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Takashi’s Book Explores Teaching Math through Problem solving

January 2022

College of Education

Renowned mathematics education scholar, Akihiko Takahashi, Associate Professor in the College of Education,  engaging book Teaching Mathematics Through Problem-Solving: A Pedagogical Approach from Japan offers an in-depth introduction to teaching mathematics through problem-solving, providing lessons and techniques that can be used in classrooms for both primary and lower secondary grades. Based on the innovative and successful Japanese approaches of Teaching Through Problem-Solving (TTP) and Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR), Takahashi demonstrates how these teaching methods can be successfully adapted in schools outside of Japan.

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LaMontagne and Team explore North American Tree Migration in National Academy of Sciences article

January 2022

College of Science and Health

Jalene LaMontagne, Associate Professor in the College of Science and Health, together with an international team of researchers has released an article, North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Read MoreAdditional Information.

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Davis’ Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics

January 2022

College of Communication

Blair Davis, Associate Professor in the College of Communication’s book, Comic Book Women, coauthored with Peyton Brunet, offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers.  Read More


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Papadopoulos book on Hellenic Statecraft nominated for Distinguished Book Award 

January 2022

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Alex G Papadopoulos, Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ book, Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference, co-authored with Triantafyllos G. Petridis, has been nominated for the Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for the best book published in 2021 in the field of political geography. Read More

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Settimi Receives U.S. State Department funding for Data Science and AI Partnership

January 2022

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
Partnering with Hanyang University (South  Korea) and Indiana University, Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media professor,  Raffaella Settimi has received U.S. State Department funding for the Data Science South Korea/US (DSKUS) Global Lab, a student exchange program focused on forging strategic data science & AI partnerships between the US and South Korea.  Read More


Additional Featured Research

For a greater view of our funded research, please consult the lists of projects from 2020 below. These lists are representative of the scope of the internally and externally funded research currently ongoing at DePaul.  Also detailed below is a link to initiatives previously featured on this page.















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