MOREthan a few - The Theatre School at DePaul University

TSNews: Theatre School News Volume 11 17 #11 616 August April 2008 2013 1717ELSEWHEREat depaul universityDoug Bruno, DePaul’s women’s basketball coach, was an assistant coach of the 2012 gold-medal-winning US women’sOlympic basketball team.Patricia O’Donoghue, vice president for Alumni Outreach and Engagement, is serving a one-year term as interim provostthrough July 1, 2013.An alum and his wife have pledged $10 million from their estate to the university, the largest single gift in the institution’shistory. It will support student scholarships and a professorship at DePaul’s College of Commerce. The donors, a retiredgraduate of the college and his wife, wish to remain anonymous. The gift helps the university move closer to raising $250million by 2014.DePaul’s 14 E. Jackson building in downtown Chicago has been officially named the Richard M. and Maggie C. Daley buildingin honor of the longest serving mayor of the city of Chicago (a “Double Demon” himself having received both hisundergraduate and law degrees at DePaul) and his late wife. The former Mayor Daley is currently serving as the honorarychair of DePaul’s $250 million capital campaign.The new 115,000 sq ft Arts & Letters Hall at Kenmore and Belden was officially opened in January 2012. The building provides41 new classrooms of various sizes and configurations, as well as departmental office space for English and History of Art &Architecture. Numerous student lounge areas and amenity spaces are provided as well.The Lincoln Park campus Facility Operations Dept has been exclusively purchasing and using environmentally friendlyinterior paint since 4/1/2010. The product is the Harmony line by Sherwin-Williams, and is rated zero-VOCs, low-odor, and isGreenGuard Indoor Air Quality Certified and GreenGuard Certified for Children and Schools. The containers are made from100% recycled post-consumer resin and the labels are produced with only soy inks on recycled paper stock. All landscapetreatment materials used at DePaul are fully organic products. DePaul Dining Services has made great strides withenvironmental initiatives including switching to corn-based plastic cups, going “trayless” in their dining halls, and purchasinglocally grown produce.DePaul has been named in numerous categories in the annual Top 100 Producers of Minority Degrees by Diverse Issues InHigher Education magazine, including the top spot in two categories.The worldwide Vincentian Family has launched a microfinance initiative called Zafen.org to enable contributors anywhere inthe world to lend or donate to Haitian entrepreneurs as a way of supporting sustainable economic development in the WesternHemisphere’s poorest nation. Zafen.org is unique in that contributions are linked in real time to projects that await fundingand they go directly to the project(s) you identify; it offers peer-to-project vs. person-to-person relationships encouraginggreater sustainability; you can track your loans, watch them return, then re-lend or withdraw online; it uses PayPal for secure,easy and reliable loans/donations; you can donate $50 to send a child to school with supplies for a year and the Vincentianswill match donations.Interested in volunteering and donating your time and expertise to students and other alumni? Join the ASK (Alumni SharingKnowledge) Volunteer Network of Alumni Relations and Network, a unique career-focused mentor program devoted to helpingstudents and alumni in their professional growth. To learn more go to: http://careercenter.depaul.edu/alumni/volunteer/index.aspx All you need is: a willingness to contribute time and expertise to students and other alumni; a DePaul degree (orGoodman School of Drama for alumni prior to 1978); and access to email. The program runs primarily online, so yourcommitment is completely flexible. NOTE: This program is also open to friends of DePaul, not just alumni. For moreinformation, contact ask@depaul.edu or 312/362-8282.The three-story DePaul Art Museum, awarded LEED Silver certification, has more than double the space it previously occupiedat DePaul’s Richardson Library. It includes space for class use, programs, and events. The museum reflects DePaul’s broadcommitment to the arts and parallels the university’s Performing Arts Campaign to improve the space for performance on theLincoln Park Campus.DePaul’s Master of Science in Taxation program was ranked the No. 1 tax program in the nation in a survey conducted byJobsinTax, the largest online network of tax professional. Corporate tax departments and alumni of MST programs weresurveyed.DePaul University is one of the country’s 29 best academic institutions for entrepreneurship education, according to theannual rankings issued by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review. Of the more than 2000 schools surveyed by ThePrinceton Review for Entrepreneur magazine, DePaul's graduate entrepreneurship program was ranked 17th and itsundergraduate program was ranked 20th.DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business has the highest ranked program in Chicago, according to BloombergBusinessweek’s national rankings of undergraduate business programs. Driehaus, which rose seven places to No. 60, was thesecond-highest ranked Illinois business college after University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (No. 26). The rankedprograms were among the 124 colleges across the country that made the final round of the rankings.DePaul was ranked first in the nation in master’s degrees earned by all minority groups in the area of computer andinformation sciences. Depaul also topped the list of computer and information sciences master’s degrees issued to AsianAmerican students. It was second nationally in computer and information sciences master’s degrees to African Americansand computer and information sciences and support services master’s degrees earned by Hispanic students.