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March 15, 2024 /
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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
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March 15, 2024 /
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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
March 15, 2024 /
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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
March 15, 2024 /
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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
March 15, 2024 /
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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.
February 14, 2024 /
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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
February 7, 2024 /
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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
January 31, 2024 /
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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."
January 29, 2024 /
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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
January 11, 2024 /
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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
December 21, 2023 /
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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
December 18, 2023 /
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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
November 28, 2023 /
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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
November 20, 2023 /
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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
September 18, 2023 /
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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
July 11, 2023 /
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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
June 21, 2023 /
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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
May 22, 2023 /
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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.
April 19, 2023 /
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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.
April 3, 2023 /
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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
February 20, 2023 /
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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
January 30, 2023 /
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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