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Michelle Ojo has not been at DePaul for long, but she is already making an impact on and off the court. On Oct. 27, Ojo,...
11/17/2025

Michelle Ojo has not been at DePaul for long, but she is already making an impact on and off the court.

On Oct. 27, Ojo, a forward who transferred this offseason from the University of Delaware, was named a Kay Yow Servant Leader, a prestigious award in women’s college basketball.

The award is named after Kay Yow, former North Carolina State head coach who led the team for 35 years, battling breast cancer for 22 of those years.

In the award’s second year, Ojo becomes the first Blue Demon to earn a nomination.

The award recognizes “people of great character who put the needs of others before their own, who uplift others, and who do it with grace and humility,” according to the foundation’s website.

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11/15/2025

DePaul Students waited in line for hours to pick up a limited edition ugly sweater at the annual Ugly Sweater Party on Nov. 14, on the Quad. The event is one of several events that ring in the holiday spirit.

Some students arrived as early as 6:20 a.m., while others brought their own furniture to sit on while waiting. The event offered snacks, rides, attractions and stuffed animals.

The annual tree lighting will take place in St. Vincent’s Circle on Monday, Nov. 17, at 4:30 p.m.

While there is only a limited number of ugly sweaters, people can purchase one as part of a fundraiser for the Basic Needs Hub, which helps students dealing with financial hardship.

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As the Obama Presidential Center nears completion on Chicago’s South Side, some neighbors worry that their subsidized ho...
11/14/2025

As the Obama Presidential Center nears completion on Chicago’s South Side, some neighbors worry that their subsidized housing complexes will be purchased to make room for housing for wealthier residents.

The center, which was originally expected to open last month, is now slated for a spring 2026 opening. It cost about $830 million in private funding and an additional $174 million for transit improvements around the site.

“The Obama library is the latest development that turbocharges the gentrification discussion,” said Joseph Schwieterman, a professor of public policy and planning at DePaul. “It’s unfair to attribute most of the rental increases to the library itself, but it’s certainly a factor.”

Featuring a Chicago Public Library branch, vegetable garden, archives, an auditorium and an open field for outdoor movies in its sprawling complex, the center will offer a plethora of amenities for local residents.

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The Big East named DePaul women’s basketball redshirt freshman Ally Timm Big East Freshman of the Week on Monday. This i...
11/12/2025

The Big East named DePaul women’s basketball redshirt freshman Ally Timm Big East Freshman of the Week on Monday. This is the first week of the season where the Big East names outstanding women’s basketball players.

Timm scored a season-high 28 points in DePaul’s season opener against Valparaiso — 24 of those points were from eight 3-pointers. She also got four steals and two rebounds.

She sits in second place — alongside senior Kate Clarke — with most 3-pointers made in a single game by a DePaul women’s basketball player.

While DePaul got their first loss of the season yesterday against University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Timm scored 13 points and had one block.

Timm’s scoring average of 20.5 points per game ranked third in the Big East after the first week of the season. She currently averages 55.6% made 3-pointers.

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In a world of “buy now, pay later” plans and a barrage of financial influencers dishing out advice online, college stude...
11/09/2025

In a world of “buy now, pay later” plans and a barrage of financial influencers dishing out advice online, college students navigate lots of information about how to best manage their money. DePaul economics professor Thomas Mondschean hopes his new financial literacy course, ECO 198: Principles of Money Management, will provide clarity and equip students with the tools to prepare for their future.

Open to all majors, the asynchronous, two-credit course covers topics in budgeting, managing assets, investing and more. The extra credit hours are included in a full-time student’s tuition package at no additional cost.

“I view this as a beginning step for people to get them into it, thinking about it,” Mondschean said. “And there’s a lot of information that is coming off the internet — not all of it is good.”

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DePaul is expanding its research in healthcare education with help from a $3 million donation. This will support the gra...
11/08/2025

DePaul is expanding its research in healthcare education with help from a $3 million donation. This will support the graduate rehabilitative sciences department, merging the occupational therapy and speech language pathology programs, and will support the creation of an endowed faculty chair position. The donation will also support the construction of a state-of-the-art basketball practice facility to aid in training student athletes.

Michael and Barbara Scudder donated the funds, and are active DePaul community members. He is alumnus of the Driehaus College of Business, and he graduated with his MBA in 1993. He currently serves as the University Board of Trustees chair. The couple has donated in the past, creating the Micheal L. and Barbara H. Scudder Endowed Scholarship.

The new basketball facility will have practice courts for men and Women’s basketball, as facilitated by the donation and supported by DePaul’s Dream Big campaign.

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Little Village’s “Xempasuchil,” or marigold, Day of the Dead event ran Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 and took place throughout 26th ...
11/07/2025

Little Village’s “Xempasuchil,” or marigold, Day of the Dead event ran Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 and took place throughout 26th Street.

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11/07/2025

A group of around 20 DePaul students delivered a petition of over 1,000 signatures from students and the public to Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Rick Moreci’s office on Tuesday, Nov. 4 to urge the university to cancel its contract with the new dining service provider, Aramark Collegiate Hospitality.

The group left the petition with operations manager for Student Affairs Adriana Berent. Berent said she would deliver it to Moreci, who she said was in a meeting at the time of the delivery.

The petition comes in response to DePaul’s switch from long-time dining service provider Chartwells Higher Ed to Aramark, set to begin December 2025, which leaves many food service workers uncertain about their future employment.

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Last week, two activists and scholars visited DePaul to discuss the dangers and anxieties of nuclear fallout. Both of th...
11/06/2025

Last week, two activists and scholars visited DePaul to discuss the dangers and anxieties of nuclear fallout. Both of them have experienced the effects, first and second hand.

On Wednesday, Oct. 29, journalist Satoshi Tanaka, and author of “Nuclear Nuevo México” Myrriah Gómez, spoke to an audience at the DePaul Student Center about how their lives were scarred by nuclear radiation and the surrounding trauma from Hiroshima, Japan — Aug. 6, 1945 — and New Mexico — July 16, 1945 — respectively.

In her speech, Gómez discussed the content of her book released in 2022, which details the direct and indirect effects of both the controversial WWII Manhattan Project and the corresponding Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in history.

“There were actually communities nearby,” Gómez said. but because of who those communities were, we don’t hear about that very often, and so the approximately 70% of the private property that was purchased for Project wire site wide was essentially stolen by the federal government.”

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Guest speakers and fellows presented research that explored the histories and cultures of marginalized communities at th...
11/06/2025

Guest speakers and fellows presented research that explored the histories and cultures of marginalized communities at the Social Transformative Research Collaborative’s annual Fall Symposium at DePaul.

Formed by several departments — African and Black Diaspora studies, Latin America and Latino studies, Global Asian studies, Critical Ethnic Studies and the Center for Latino Research — the Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC) invites scholars to study topics of their interests.

Since 2022, the collaborative has been able to provide funding for about 52 scholars and have welcomed about 90 freshmen and transfer students to DePaul through their Summer Institute program.

“STRC enabled me to explore my different research interests and develop research projects that I am truly proud of,” said Bridget Salada, a current graduate fellow. “I am tremendously grateful for this experience and opportunity.”

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Many DePaul coaches were once Blue Demon athletes themselves, with sports ranging from basketball and soccer to golf, tr...
11/05/2025

Many DePaul coaches were once Blue Demon athletes themselves, with sports ranging from basketball and soccer to golf, track and beyond. The DePaulia spoke with some of the alumni coaches to see what brings them back to campus.

Many said it’s a shared passion for their sport and a desire to return to the community that helped shape them. For these alumni, returning to DePaul is more than a job opportunity. They are returning “home.”

Liz Bouck-Jagielski, a member of the DePaul Athletics Hall of Fame, graduated in 2004 and went on to play professional softball for the Texas Thunder and Chicago Bandits. She became head coach of the DePaul softball team in 2024 after taking a 10-year break from the sport to pursue motherhood. Bouck-Jagielski said the head coach position remained in the back of her mind, and that the timing was perfect when the job opened up.

“I was a first-year head coach and they gave me an opportunity to jump in,” Bouck-Jagielski said. “I want to make that count.”

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