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DePaul, Pakistani organizations collaborate on ‘Green Urban Development’ program

DePaul, Pakistani organizations collaborate on ‘Green Urban Development’ program

A multi-year memorandum of understanding between DePaul and the School of Leadership Foundation of Islamabad aims to raise awareness about the effect climate change has on Pakistan. Funded by the U.S. Embassy, the “Green Urban Development" program will also support young Pakistani students working on green initiatives so they can exchange insights with American... read more

Sullivan Shares Chicago’s Creativity

Sullivan Shares Chicago’s Creativity

Marin R. Sullivan, Adjunct Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, is curating two exhibits this fall at the DePaul Art Museum, “Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967” and “The Spaces We Call Home.”  The exhibitions are made possible through major support from the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of their 2024 Art Design Chicago initiative.​... read more

Mikels Collaborates with Northwestern on Longevity

Mikels Collaborates with Northwestern on Longevity

The Chicago Consortium on Longevity, launched earlier this year, is a collaboration among faculty at DePaul University and Northwestern University that aims to help individuals thrive as they grow older. Joe Mikels, a professor of psychology in DePaul’s College of Science and Health, is collaborating with Claudia Haase, an associate professor at Northwestern, on the... read more

NSF awards DePaul, Sinai Chicago researchers $1.5 million

NSF awards DePaul, Sinai Chicago researchers $1.5 million

DePaul faculty Daniela Stan-Raicu, Roselyne Tchoua, Jacob Furst, and Alexandru Orhean from CDM, along with John Mazzeo from CSH received a $1.5 million grant from NSF for a project in collaboration with Sinai Chicago to partner with community health workers to combine the predictive capabilities of AI with human insights. The SCHOLAR framework pairs community health... read more

Historian Bucking Bridges Cultures through Archaeology

Historian Bucking Bridges Cultures through Archaeology

Scott Bucking, professor of ancient Mediterranean studies, is seeking comprehensive understanding of the multi-period archaeology landscape near the modern village of Beni Hassan al-Shuruq, just south of Middle Egypt’s provincial capital of Minya. The American Research Center in Egypt funds Bucking’s project, and the project’s seasonal fieldwork relies on strong... read more

Hong Provides Insight on Burnout

Hong Provides Insight on Burnout

Bright Yue Hong, an assistant professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS, clarified five misconceptions about burnout in her work featured in California Management Review Insights. Hong and her coauthors find that a “misfit” between what employees need and what employers provide drives rapid burnout in early career auditors at large firms, in addition to... read more

Psychology Professor Susan McMahon Researches Violence Against Educators

Psychology Professor Susan McMahon Researches Violence Against Educators

​Rates of violence and aggression against educators are high — and in many cases have risen from pre-COVID-19 levels — leading many to suffer mental health consequences and consider quitting the profession. A new study led by DePaul’s Susan McMahon, chair of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Violence Against Educators and School Personnel, reveals... read more

Math Professor Ahmed Zayed Teaches New Book in China

Math Professor Ahmed Zayed Teaches New Book in China

​Two Chinese universities invited Ahmed Zayed to lecture on fractional transformation theory using his new book, "Fractional Integral Transforms: Theory and Applications." During his month-long stay in Linyi and Beijing, Zayed delivered three lectures a week to Chinese graduate students, post doctorates and faculty conducting research adjacent to his... read more

Okunola Jeyifous Researches Memory and Addiction in Neuroscience Lab

Okunola Jeyifous Researches Memory and Addiction in Neuroscience Lab

Memory in the human brain is all about connections. According to Okunola Jeyifous, an assistant professor of neuroscience, the cellular process of creating new pathways for long-term memory looks similar to the changes that occur in the brain during nicotine addiction. Long-term memory and alterations due to drug addiction are currently the two main areas of... read more

Advertising Professors Tony Deng and Nur Uysal Pioneer Artificial Intelligence Research

Advertising Professors Tony Deng and Nur Uysal Pioneer Artificial Intelligence Research

​From classrooms to boardrooms, people are buzzing about how artificial intelligence will upend the field of communications. At DePaul, faculty, students and industry leaders are coming together to shape that future. Tao “Tony" Deng, assistant professor of public relations and advertising, and Nur Uysal, associate professor of public relations and... read more

Carter Teams up with Little League to Support Girls in Sports

Carter Teams up with Little League to Support Girls in Sports

​​Many girls who enjoyed trying to hit a home run or jumping into a soccer game might leave sports behind by the time they’re 12 years old. A collaborative research project from Little League, the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport (CHJS) and DePaul University psychologist Jocelyn Carter aims to find ways coaches can keep girls playing sports for... read more

AGIF Grant Supports Cybersecurity Clinic and Educational Gaming Development

AGIF Grant Supports Cybersecurity Clinic and Educational Gaming Development

Two projects based in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media recently received Academic Growth and Innovation Fund (AGIF) grants, which support innovative and revenue generating academic projects at DePaul.  Associate Professor Janine Spears is leading a new cybersecurity clinic at DePaul that builds on her cybersecurity 390 class, which allows... read more

Ecologist de la Sancha Contributes to Natural History Digitization Project

Ecologist de la Sancha Contributes to Natural History Digitization Project

​​​Environmental Science and Studies Assistant Professor  Noé de la Sancha is participating in openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaboration among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens, now freely available online. As part of his contribution to the project, de la Sancha and Cody Thompson at the University of Michigan earned a... read more

New Report on Loss of Multi-Unit Housing in Chicago from Institute for Housing Studies

New Report on Loss of Multi-Unit Housing in Chicago from Institute for Housing Studies

Researchers from DePaul's Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) , Sarah Duda, Geoff Smith, and Yiwen Jiao, recently published a comprehensive study in Cityscape, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's policy and research journal. Their work dissects the multifaceted influences of gentrification and disinvestment driving the notable decrease of... read more

Driehaus Faculty Publish Research on Microfinance

Driehaus Faculty Publish Research on Microfinance

​​​Assistant Professor James Bort and Coleman Chair of Entrepreneurship Maija Renko published “Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans" in the International Small Business Journal. Their research focused on assessing whether factors such as country stability and the financial performance of Microfinance Institutions influence the... read more

Hong Describes an Approach to Tackling Burnout

Hong Describes an Approach to Tackling Burnout

​Driehaus College of Business Assistant Professor Bright Hong's research on burnout in the field of financial auditing was featured in the California Management Review. Hong's work discusses the importance of considering employees' needs in addition to their abilities and proposes a “Person-Environment Fit" approach.

Tchoua Explores the Human Element of AI to Address Health Equity

Tchoua Explores the Human Element of AI to Address Health Equity

Heath informatics — the intersection of health care data and machine learning — is a rapidly growing force throughout many hospitals. Researchers at DePaul University and Sinai Urban Health Institute argue the technology has been underutilized to examine issues of inequality. In a new study using predictive AI models, DePaul computer scientist Roselyne... read more

Rieckhoff's Work Connects New Principals with Mentors

Rieckhoff's Work Connects New Principals with Mentors

DePaul’s College of Education was tapped in 2021 by the Illinois State Board of Education to participate in the New Principal Mentoring Program, which pairs new principals with experienced ones. The program aims to build leadership capacity and reduce principal turnover, particularly for diverse leaders and in schools serving diverse student bodies. New... read more

​​Kisiel asks “Did Black Lives Matter in Early Illinois?"

​​Kisiel asks “Did Black Lives Matter in Early Illinois?"

​​​​Illinois Humanities' “Notes from the Road" shared the reflections of SCPS Associate Professor Caroline Kisiel on her 2023 visit to the Ohio River Visitor Center in Equality, IL, to deliver her Illinois Humanities Road Scholar presentation, “Did Black Lives Matter in Early Illinois? Voices from the Brink of Slavery and Freedom."

Shimada's Megalodon Research Makes Waves

Shimada's Megalodon Research Makes Waves

Professor Kenshu Shimada of the Department of Environmental Science and Studies and Department of Biological Sciences recently published new research showing O. megalodon was a more slender shark than previous studies suggested. The megatooth shark is often depicted as being a monstrous version of the modern great white shark, but no full skeleton... read more

Rosing Receives Award to Study Food Equity and Sustainability in Chicago Area

Rosing Receives Award to Study Food Equity and Sustainability in Chicago Area

Equitably and sustainably sourced foods are vital to the wellbeing of all people, yet the inaccessibility of such food makes healthy living difficult for many. Multiple bus rides to grocery stores filled with processed foods and costly organic produce isolate many people from these building blocks of wellness. Furthermore, those who produce food locally and... read more

Tenner Studies Combinatorial Patterns

Tenner Studies Combinatorial Patterns

​Bridget Tenner, Professor of Mathematics in the College of Science and Health, is at the forefront of studying how permutations and patterns work and fuel knowledge. Her research in combinatorics, a branch of mathematics focused on the numbering and patterning of mathematical elements and their relationships, is supported by a grant from the National Science... read more

The Cities Project Fights Urban Poverty and Stress

The Cities Project Fights Urban Poverty and Stress

Principal investigator Kathryn Grant and co-principal investigator Jocelyn Carter of the College of Science and Health received a $175,000 award from The Wallace Foundation to support their work on The Cities Project. The project aims to create sustainable infrastructures to support students in the Chicago Public School district fighting urban poverty and associated... read more

Quinn and Stuhlmacher Receive NSF Grant to Study Equity of Public Spaces

Quinn and Stuhlmacher Receive NSF Grant to Study Equity of Public Spaces

The National Science Foundation has awarded $750,000 to Kimberly Quinn, professor of psychology, and Michelle Stuhlmacher, assistant professor of geography and geographic information systems (GIS), to fund the research, which has been featured in the Chicago Tribune. Quinn and Stuhlmacher are also collaborating with environmental neuroscientist Kimberly Meidenbauer... read more

Study Abroad Office Receives Grant to Support Student Passports

Study Abroad Office Receives Grant to Support Student Passports

Many DePaul students who want to participate in one of these experiences face cost and process barriers. This is why the DePaul Study Abroad program funded 50 passports for fall 2023 first-year students who met certain criteria and wish to study abroad during their DePaul career. The scholarships were made possible by a one-time grant from the IIE American... read more

Solís Green, Harvey, and Storey Highlight Some of the Nation's Best High School Writing

Solís Green, Harvey, and Storey Highlight Some of the Nation's Best High School Writing

In an effort to compile America’s best high school writing into one publication, DePaul English faculty member Chris Solís Green and student editors from English, journalism, and writing, rhetoric & discourse have spent the past year connecting with thousands of schools across the U.S., seeking outstanding submissions in both English and Spanish from emerging... read more

Social Transformation Research Collaborative Fellows Announced

Social Transformation Research Collaborative Fellows Announced

DePaul University's Mellon Foundation-funded Social Transformation Research Collaborative, housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences has announced it second cohort of fellows. Faculty members Rocío Ferreira, Juan Mora-Torres, Maria Ferrera, and Jacqueline Lazú will spend their fellowships studying topics involving Peruvian culture,... read more

Miller Film Score to the 1927 classic film Metropolis premieres

Miller Film Score to the 1927 classic film Metropolis premieres

Dr. Tom Miller's film score to the 1927 classic film Metropolis was premiered with picture in surround sound on March 4, 2023, to a packed house by the DePaul Wind Ensemble under the direction of Professor Michael Lewanski. The premiere was recorded and videotaped in the Holtschneider Performance Center Gannon Hall, it featured 30 student musicians and the... read more

Rieckhoff's Chicago Teacher Residency Program Funded

Rieckhoff's Chicago Teacher Residency Program Funded

A five-year, $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education aims to prepare more than 800 DePaul University graduates to serve as teachers in high-need Chicago Public Schools. The effort builds on an eight-year partnership between the Academy for Urban School Leadership’s Chicago Teacher Residency program and DePaul’s College of Education.  Read More.

Brosnan Services Community Using Mindfulness With CMHB Funding

Brosnan Services Community Using Mindfulness With CMHB Funding

Julie Brosnan of the College of Science and Health was awarded $270,000 from the Community Mental Health Board to support the program “Mindfulness Matters: Strengthening Resiliency Skills for Anxiety, Depression, and Executive Function.” The program addresses the mental health needs of elementary- and middle school−aged students and their families.

Spalding Book Examines Mining Policy

Spalding Book Examines Mining Policy

Professor Rose Spalding has released a new book entitled Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America (Oxford University Press 2023).  The book examines metallic mining policy practices in four Central American countries—Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, specifically exploring the interconnection of mining policies,... read more

Jason Studies Long COVID

Jason Studies Long COVID

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Researcher Leonard A. Jason $842,000 to further his research on ME/CFS with Lurie Children’s Hospital, bringing a focus on long COVID into the longitudinal study. Jason is also editor of a book on long COVID set to be released this spring. With both projects, Jason seeks to catalyze global knowledge about virally induced... read more

College of Business opens BETA hub

College of Business opens BETA hub

The Driehaus College of Business opened the BETA Hub – short for Business Education in Technology and Analytics Hub —  to infuse emerging technologies into student classwork and faculty research.  The BETA Hub offers a collection of teaching and research resources that includes virtual reality headsets; a blog creators’ studio; a Neurobusiness Lab for... read more