Professional Writing

‘Woodstock at 50’ headlines DePaul Humanities Center’s fall season

A tribute to the spirit and ethos of the iconic 1969 Woodstock concert, an exploration of space, and a discussion about the Apollo 11 program, and paranormal experiences were the main events of the DePaul Humanities Center's fall 2019 season, focused on the idea of scale. A Campus & Community article about the Horror of the Humanities event can be found below or at this link.

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‘Breaking Bad’ producer Stewart A. Lyons, ‘First Cow’ director Kelly Reichardt to appear at DePaul University

DePaul's Visiting Artists Series, a forum featuring in-depth conversations with renowned filmmakers, and film screenings, featured Stewart A. Lyons, Kelly Reichardt, and others in the winter and spring of 2020.

Also appears in Newsline's Campus & Community section here. 

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Expert: Art museums ‘have work to do to represent complete human experience’

Julie Rodrigues Widholm, director and chief curator at the DePaul Art Museum, believes museums must address their historically lacking diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, abilities, and sexual orientation, in their collections and exhibitions, to represent the wide range of human experience. Spearheading a new Latinx initiative at the museum to explore the complexity and diversity of Latinx communities and bring the issues to the front of cultural conversations, and position the museum as a fearless leader. 

Also appears in Newsline's Ask an Expert section here. 

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Privacy policies influence consumer behavior online, new study finds

Should companies or consumers be in charge of keeping private, online information safe? New research ​finds privacy policy changes, and the level of consumer control and management of this information, influence online behaviors. Consumers empowered to be in charge of their personal information online are less willing to share private information. However, when companies communicate active management of user information and privacy, consumers are more willing to share their personal, private information online.

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Fandoms and virtual engagement in a time of social distancing

A discussion with Paul Booth, a professor of media and cinema studies in DePaul University's College of Communication, about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how people engaged in virtual settings with each other to practice social distancing, the important role fandoms played in this engagement and the reasons why many rewatched classic movies and TV shows.

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Women’s suffrage: DePaul University experts available to discuss 100th anniversary

DePaul University faculty experts discuss the significance of the women's suffrage movement, its relevance today, and the work needed to still be done to realize the movement's full potential. The full Q&A can be found in Newsline's Ask an Expert section here. 

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Law grad focuses on homelessness, social justice

A 2020 graduate of DePaul University's College of Law spearheaded an initiative, the Preferred Name Project, at DePaul to ensure the university uses the correct names and pronouns when communicating to, or about, transgender students. This personal passion for social justice issue inspired this graduate to continue their work at a civil aid organization to assist with public benefits, eviction defense, civil rights, immigration, and tenants' rights.

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Community psychologists: Agents of change

At the forefront of community psychology, Leonard Jason is a professor of clinical and community psychology and director of the Center for Community Research at DePaul University. Unlike the traditional approach, community psychology focuses on preventing, rather than treating problems, by focusing on the larger social ecosystem and the levels of intervention needed, and striving to provide equal access to treatment and resources.

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Graduating health sciences major learns from working with patients

A 2020 graduate of DePaul University, and commencement speaker for the year's ceremonies, saw firsthand the importance of representation in medicine, and the importance of patients feeling connected to their health care providers.

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100 poets write about Chicago gun violence in new book

Poetry is a powerful medium, especially when responding to social issues. On a mission to humanize the gun violence statistics in Chicago, Chris Green reached out to 100 poets to collectively write a single poem. Ranging from famous and aspiring poets to Chicago teens directly impacted by gun violence, the final pantoum poem (in which the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza are repeated in the first and third lines of the following stanza), makes the piece sing like a chorus.