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- Address vaping illnesses and foster diversity communities to get involved with the AHA. (1)
- Adult Learning (1)
- Afghan refugees (1)
- Afghan university students (1)
- An interview with alumnus (1)
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- Asian American community needs assessment (1)
- Audrey Thomas (1)
- Brain inflammation (1)
- Bucktown (1)
- COVID-19 (1)
- Chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA). He hopes to help focus attention on the social determinants of health (1)
- Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative (1)
- Christina Rivers; Inside-Out Program; Jacqueline Lazu; Re-Entering Citizens Civics Education Act of Illinois; Alexandria Boutros (1)
- Citizenship; Civic Engagement; A. Gabriel Esteban (1)
- Climate change science (1)
- Collaboration (1)
- Cosmology (1)
- Creative Lab for Cultural Leaders (1)
- Daniel Schober (1)
- DePaul Alumni and Family Weekend (1)
- DePaul Alumni; Carmen Lomellin; Organization of American States; DePaul Driehaus College of Business; Inland Steel; U.S. Department of State; Hillary Rodham Clinton; John Kerry; Inter-American Commission of Women; Latinos Against Alzheimer's; Latino Cancer Institute (1)
- DePaul Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic (1)
- DePaul College of Communication (1)
- DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media (1)
- DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (1)
- DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Studies (1)
- DePaul College of Science and Health (1)
- DePaul College of Science and Health; Associate Professor Jim Montgomery; Environmental Science and Studies; Karis McFarlane; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Professor Kelly Tzoumis; Public Policy Studies; BUILD Chicago; public health; DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Clinical Assistant Professor Julia Lippert; Gardeneers; Rosa Fitz; soil contamination (1)
- DePaul Department of Geography (1)
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Depaul Digest
DePaul Magazine
Marquee - Peace Team: Daniel Schober and Chicago-area graduate students collaborate with community partners to understand and reduce gun violence; Memoranda: Alumni & Family Weekend 2022; Milestones: DePaul news briefs; In Memoriam: Trustee John L. Brennan (1962-2022); Master Class: How to make a festive eggnog
Answering The Call
DePaul Magazine
With a strong spirit of service, DePaul initiatives aid displaced populations in Chicago and internationally.
Excellence In Motion
DePaul Magazine
DePaul Magazine updates readers on two of its most talked-about stories from previous issues: the establishment of the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (LAS) and the Multi-Faith Veterans Initiative, operating through the Irwin W. Steans Center’s Egan Office for Urban Education and Community Partnerships.
Scholars And Sense
DePaul Magazine
Four DePaul alumni who were the recipients of McNair scholarships have gone on to careers of servies. Pedro Serrano is a public health researcher who most recently has been working on how COVID-19 is affecting people's emotional, physical and mental health. Pascale Ife Williams, a human ecologist, engages is culture and arts initiatives that lift up communities oppressed by institutional inequity. Peter Dziedzic explores interfaith dialogue and religious pluralism as a PhD candidate at Harvard University. Robert Vargas, a tenured sociology professor at the University of Chicago, is using geographic information system mapping software to help governments anticipate and reduce …
A Heart Of Gold
DePaul Magazine
An interview with alumnus, retired insurance executive and DePaul Life Trustee Bertram ("Bert") Scott, chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA). He hopes to help focus attention on the social determinants of health, increase research, address vaping illnesses and foster diversity communities to get involved with the AHA.
From Steel Mill To State Department
From Steel Mill To State Department
DePaul Magazine
Ambassador Carmen Lomellin (MBA '84) is a proud advocate for women, children and immigrants. After getting her MBA while working at Inland Steel in Chicago, she worked in a variety of capacities for the City of Chicago. She stumped for Hillary Clinton in her bid for the U.S. presidency and represented the United States under President Barack Obama as ambassador Organization of American States. She worked with scholars at DePaul to publish "In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas." She now runs a successful consultancy.
From The President: Civic Responsibility
From The President: Civic Responsibility
DePaul Magazine
DePaul President A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, urges readers to education themselves on issues that matter to them across the political landscapre and exercise their right to vote.
Civics Education For A Civil Society
Civics Education For A Civil Society
DePaul Magazine
Millions of incarcerated citizens re-enter society without knowing their civil rights. Thanks in part to Associate Professor of Political Science Christina Rivers, Illinois passed the Re-Entering Citizens Civics Education Act the provides in-person, peer-lead civics and voting rights education to incarcerated community members. This education can be delivered through DePaul's Inside-Out Program of education in prison.
Unearthing The Truth About (Dirt) Soil
Unearthing The Truth About (Dirt) Soil
DePaul Magazine
A multifaceted article that looks at soil and its relationship to agriculture and urban farming, mitigating food deserts, climate change and public health.
The Road To Gentrification
DePaul Magazine
Recent development in Logan Square have certainly bettered the general quality of life. But to others, including residents and housing market experts, such as the Geoff Smith, executive director of the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) at DePaul, and Winifred Curran, gentrification expert and associate professor in the Department of Geography and the sustainable urban development master’s program, the influx of young, mostly white professionals is a warning sign of gentrification. It’s happening around the country—areas of disrepair are renewed and rebuilt, and people of higher socioeconomic status move in, driving up housing prices and rent rates and, perhaps unintentionally, …
Better Together
DePaul Magazine
Faculty have taken full advantage of the university's innovative intercollegiate grant program, and the resulting research is as interesting and diverse as the collaborators themselves. What is resulting is research on "Patient and Primary Care Provider Perspectives on Recreational and Therapeutic Cannabis Use Within a Changing Socioculltural and Political Context;" a new minor in climate change science and policy; a new class, Communication, Coding and Entrepreneurship; brain inflammation research; and the project "Cosmology Meets Continental Philosophy: Natural Laws and Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing"
Alumna Works To Ease The Trauma Of Homelessness
Alumna Works To Ease The Trauma Of Homelessness
DePaul Magazine
Audrey Thomas is CEO of Deborah's Place, founded in 1984 after a survey of social services in Chicago revealed that existing programs did not address the needs of women who are homeless. The nonprofit’s mission has been to open doors of opportunity for women through supportive housing and services. Thomas believes that for social service professionals to be successful, they need to see their work as a vocation.