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College of Arts & Sciences
11/18/2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times sports reporter and Roosevelt University alumnus Ira Berkow will be the speaker and receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree honoris causa at Roosevelt’s Commencement ceremonies on Friday, Dec. ...[full text]
11/12/2009
Mallory Umar, a psychology and sociology major at Roosevelt University, has been named as the University’s student laureate for the 2009-10 academic year by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Umar, who will graduate in May 2010, is president of ...[full text]
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10/27/2009
Roosevelt University announced today that McCormick Foundation is funding a $210,000 Youth Media Technology Fund that will help Chicago educators and nonprofit youth groups gain access to technology to further their journalistic work. The fund ...[full text]
10/5/2009
Charles M. Madigan, the presidential writer in residence at Roosevelt University and the author of a new book on the election of Barack Obama will discuss the work at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27 in Roosevelt University’s Sullivan Room, 430 S. Michigan ...[full text]
10/5/2009
Steve Bogira, an award-winning reporter and the author of Courtroom 302, will discuss his book and experiences inside the Cook County criminal court system at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. ...[full text]
9/24/2009
The experience of children who face separation from parents spending time behind bars will be explored at a forum on “Incarceration, Race and the Effect on Family” at 6 p.m. Oct. 1 in Roosevelt University’s 10th floor Murray-Green Library, ...[full text]
9/15/2009
Mary Ellen Schiller, associate professor of communication and a resident of Inverness, Ill., has been awarded a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program to teach mass communications from an American perspective at the ...[full text]
9/3/2009
A first-run exhibit on gun violence featuring the provocative work of award-winning photographers Jon Lowenstein and Carlos Javier Ortiz will be on display beginning Thursday, Sept. 17 through Jan. 15, 2010 in Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 ...[full text]
9/3/2009
Roosevelt University will present a lecture by the Rev. C.T. Vivian and panel discussion about Chicago’s little-known 1969 civil rights movement at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 in Roosevelt University’s seventh-floor Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave., ...[full text]
7/23/2009
Roosevelt University artist and faculty member Maggie Leininger will display for the first time a giant hand-crocheted textile called Daisy Chain, containing more than 1,000 inter-linked daisies, during a community-building art event being ...[full text]
5/21/2009
Top labor activists and scholars from all over the nation and world will gather May 28-31 at Roosevelt University in Chicago for a national conference exploring how labor, civil rights and working-class movements have affected history and culture in ...[full text]
5/13/2009
When biology major Joel Brooks walks across the Auditorium Theatre stage, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Roosevelt University on Friday, the situation will be déjà vu for his family members. That’s because ...[full text]
4/30/2009
Roosevelt University’s Institute for Metropolitan Affairs (IMA) has been awarded $40,000 by The Chicago Community Trust to look at handling of sealed and expunged records in Cook County, and to do a second study mapping how drug cases move through ...[full text]
Posted: 4/16/2009
The dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint in America’s jails and prisons will be the topic of the annual Matthew Freeman Lecture being given by Roosevelt University professor and author Anne-Marie Cusac at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 23 in ...[full text]
Posted: 3/16/2009
Kimbriell Kelly, senior editor at the Chicago Reporter magazine, will be the keynote speaker at the third annual McCormick Foundation High School Media Awards on March 19. The event, sponsored by the Scholastic Press Association of Chicago and ...[full text]
Posted: 3/2/2009
Despite extensive publicity about scandals at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, torture techniques continue to be accepted and used on those being held in America’s jails and prisons, according to a new book by Roosevelt University ...[full text]
Posted: 2/6/2009
Scott Blackwood, award-winning author and new director of Roosevelt University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing Program, will read from his new novel, "We Agreed to Meet Just Here," at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13 in Roosevelt ...[full text]
Posted: 1/22/2009
Students at Roosevelt University will launch an Internet radio station, WRBC: The Blaze, at noon on Thursday, Jan. 29. Streaming live with music, information and news daily, WRBC: The Blaze will be available for listening 24 hours daily at ...[full text]
Posted: 1/21/2009
A critically acclaimed photo exhibit that looks at the fantasies of war in America since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will open Thursday, Feb. 12 in Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Homeland by ...[full text]
11/10/2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Nelson will discuss her new book, The War Behind Me - Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes, at 5:30 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 20 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan ...[full text]
10/31/2008
An analysis of the Cook County and state of Illinois budgets will be presented at Roosevelt University on Nov. 12 as part of the University’s second annual Herb and Eileen Franks Seminar on Elections and Politics. “Do the Numbers Add Up? – State ...[full text]
10/30/2008
William E. Leuchtenburg, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a leading scholar on the life of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, will explain how lessons learned from the ...[full text]
10/27/2008
Roosevelt University and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History announced the creation of the Montesquieu Forum for the Study of Civic Life at Roosevelt University. The Montesquieu Forum’s mission is to ...[full text]
10/15/2008
Katha Pollitt, a poet, essayist and columnist for "The Nation," will deliver the ninth annual Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation lecture from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30, at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan...[full text]
10/1/2008
Roosevelt University’s Department of Economics and two of the department’s economics professors will showcase books on the financial markets and the misuse of statistics during a book-signing event being held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15...[full text]
9/29/2008
Roosevelt University in partnership with two regional community colleges has received federal grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health that are designed to prepare college students for careers in science and...[full text]
9/5/2008
Scott Blackwood, award-winning author and the new director of Roosevelt University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, will read from his work at Roosevelt’s Chicago Campus on Monday, Sept 22. The reading begins at 5:00...[full text]
9/5/2008
A public forum presenting views on the state of labor and politics in the United States, Canada and South America will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Prominent U.S. labor...[full text]
9/5/2008
Renowned poet and translator Marilyn Nelson will lecture and read from her work in two events at Roosevelt University on Monday, Sept. 29. Both events, open to the public, will be held at the Chicago Campus of Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue...[full text]
8/29/2008
A first-run exhibit featuring the work of award-winning photographers who have captured untold stories about what’s at stake in the aftermath of war and political strife will open Thursday, Sept. 11 in Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Avenue...[full text]
6/30/2008
When nearly 50 Chicago high school students attend the Taste of Science and Math, a summer program sponsored by the Chase Foundation at Roosevelt University this summer, their visit to Taste of Chicago in Grant Park won’t be just for fun...[full text]
6/27/2008
Middle-school girls from the Chicago region will learn about math and science as they study skin and its proper care during the Roosevelt University Girls Learning About Math, Outstanding Research and Organizing Unique Solutions Using Computers ...[full text]
6/26/2008
A unique six-week program introducing Chicago high school students to biotechnology and career opportunities in the field will be held at Roosevelt University beginning July 8. Approximately 20 juniors and seniors from Chicago will learn about ...[full text]
6/26/2008
A new groundbreaking book that challenges the way scientists in many fields are using statistics to arrive at faulty and even fraudulent conclusions has been published by Stephen Ziliak, professor of economics at Roosevelt University, and Deirdre ...[full text]
6/18/2008
A summer college orientation program for freshmen and sophomore girls from public and private schools in Chicago will be held at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., beginning July 7. The three-week program, which is organized and led by ...[full text]
6/13/2008
A summer urban journalism workshop for Chicago junior high and high school students interested in writing, editing, interviewing, photography and other areas of journalism will be held at Roosevelt University’s Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave., ...[full text]
6/5/2008
Heather Dalmage, professor of sociology at Roosevelt University and an expert on multiracial issues in the United States, has been awarded a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program to study multiracial issues in South ...[full text]
6/5/2008
Students from the first graduating class of Chicago’s Social Justice High School (SJHS) will participate in a college preparation program at Roosevelt University June 15-20. The program, titled Social Justice in Action: Roosevelt University, ...[full text]
6/2/2008
Roosevelt University in May released the 35th issue of its literary magazine, Oyez Review. The volume includes original poetry, fiction and art submitted by students from various universities, as well as published authors, artists and ...[full text]
5/7/2008
At a time when local governments across the state are bracing for recession and a cash crunch, a Roosevelt University professor is suggesting one way to tighten belts may be to eliminate township government. In a new study entitled “Township ...[full text]
5/2/2008
Roosevelt University's Institute for Metropolitan Affairs will host the Illinois General Assembly's public hearing on Employment of Persons with Past Criminal Convictions on Saturday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the second-floor Congress Lounge ...[full text]
4/18/2008
A panel discussion with top officials from Illinois’ Democratic and Republican parties on economics and the upcoming 2008 Presidential election will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 24 in Roosevelt University’s second-floor Congress Lounge, 430 S. ...[full text]
4/11/2008
RU Prime and the Black Student Union organizations of Roosevelt University will host a lecture discussion titled Women in Politics: An Evening with Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17. The speech will be ...[full text]
4/7/2008
The Roosevelt University Computer Association (RUCA) will host a program featuring Microsoft Silverlight from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9 in the fifth-floor commons of the Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. The program ...[full text]
3/28/2008
Roosevelt University and the Harold Washington Commemorative Year will host an exhibit of 50 photographs from the Harold Washington years opening April 3 through June 27 in the University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. The exhibit, ...[full text]
3/26/2008
Ellen O’Brien, associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Roosevelt University, has been awarded a grant through the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program to study women and culture in Morocco beginning in June. O’Brien, ...[full text]
3/18/2008
Roosevelt University hosted more than 300 high school journalists from 17 public and private high schools in Chicago at the 16th annual Scholastic Press Association of Chicago journalism workshop on March 11. This is the largest workshop in the ...[full text]
3/18/2008
Chicago author and publisher Jonathan Messinger will read his work and discuss small press publishing at Roosevelt University on Wednesday, April 9. The reading begins at 5 p.m. in the University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. ...[full text]
3/14/2008
While it’s commonly believed that nations give foreign aid to help improve the lives of the less fortunate, a new book by a Roosevelt University professor suggests foreign aid policy doesn’t always hinge on ethical considerations. “There’s a ...[full text]
3/13/2008
Acclaimed author Rosellen Brown reads from her work at Roosevelt University’s Chicago Campus on Monday, April 14. The reading begins at 5 p.m. in the University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Brown is the author of five novels: ...[full text]
3/5/2008
Memoirist, poet and disability advocate Stephen Kuusisto will read from his work at Roosevelt University’s Chicago Campus on Wednesday, April 2, 2008. The reading begins at 5 p.m. in AUD 244, 430 S. Michigan Avenue. Kuusisto’s first memoir ...[full text]
3/5/2008
The video game and the history of its development will be discussed at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 in Roosevelt’s second-floor Congress Lounge, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, during a lecture sponsored by the Roosevelt University Computer ...[full text]
3/4/2008
Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation has received a $300,000 grant from the Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation that will enable it to integrate social justice into the University’s curriculum. Since ...[full text]
3/3/2008
Roosevelt University is recognizing several faculty members for preparing or receiving outstanding research and education grant proposals that are paving the way for significant future research projects and partnerships at the University in both the ...[full text]
2/28/2008
Roosevelt University and its Women’s and Gender Studies program will celebrate Women’s History Month from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 with a panel discussion on Women, Activism and Urban Environment. This event will be held in Room 320 ...[full text]
2/22/2008
The Black Student Union at Roosevelt University will host its Black History Month lecture titled Black Culture, White Culture and Barack Obama from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in room 320 of the Auditorium Building at the ...[full text]
2/22/2008
Roosevelt University and its Center for New Deal Studies will mark the 75th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal with an exhibit of banners about the FDR presidency, opening Monday, March 3, in the University’s Michigan Avenue lobby, ...[full text]
2/19/2008
Peggy Shinner, interim coordinator of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University, will join writers, scholars and activists from throughout the region at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 to pay tribute to the late renowned ...[full text]
2/15/2008
The Roosevelt University Computer Users Association (RUCA) will host "Technically Diverse" from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 20 in Ganz Hall at the University’s Chicago Campus, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. The program is designed to address ...[full text]
2/12/2008
Roosevelt University’s Institute for Politics will host panel discussions on national, state and local elections during the first annual Herb and Eileen Franks Seminar on Elections and Politics being held from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Monday, March 10 ...[full text]
2/11/2008
An art exhibit dealing with current debates on stem cell research, reproductive rights, fertility treatments and designer babies by visual artist and activist Jeanette May will be on display at Roosevelt University’s Schaumburg Campus ...[full text]
2/8/2008
Roosevelt University students, faculty and staff are reading the national bestseller, "There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America," and will welcome the book’s author, Alex Kotlowitz, to speak March 13 ...[full text]
2/5/2008
Lynn Weiner, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Roosevelt University, has been elected to a two-year term as a board member of the Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences (CCAS), a 600-member national organization. Weiner is the only dean ...[full text]
1/8/2008
A remarkable exhibit featuring photos taken by undocumented migrants trying to cross through the desert from Mexico into the United States and by Minutemen trying to stop the illegal crossings will open Jan. 28 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery...[full text]
12/19/2007
The Roosevelt University chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) has won the outstanding chapter award for 2007 from the national office of SSDP in Washington, D.C. Selected from more than 120 student chapters across the nation...[full text]
12/3/2007
Al Golin, chairman and founder of Chicago-based GolinHarris, a Roosevelt University alumnus and a member of Roosevelt’s Board of Trustees, will speak about his vision for public relations over the next 50 years at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4 in ...[full text]
11/30/2007
Roosevelt University has received a $12,500 grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation to run a unique, two-course project in early 2008 in which selected students will track the Illinois presidential primary and views of voters for a book to be ...[full text]
11/15/2007
Roosevelt University Professor Steven A. Meyers has been selected as the 2007 Illinois Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The announcement was made today (Nov. 15) by Lee S. Schulman, president of ...[full text]
11/15/2007
Roosevelt University announced today that NBC 5 investigative reporter Renee Ferguson will be the inaugural speaker on Nov. 29 as part of a year-long lecture series exploring the issues at stake for African Americans in the 2008 Presidential ...[full text]
11/7/2007
Illinois State Representative Mary E. Flowers (D-31st District) and Dr. Quentin Young will present a lecture describing the advantages, shortcomings and feasibility of a having a single payer health care system in Illinois, and in the nation as a ...[full text]
11/5/2007
Roosevelt University and Corporate Accountability International will present a lecture and hands-on exercise about water scarcity in different parts of the world at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7 in the second-floor Congress Lounge of Roosevelt ...[full text]
11/5/07
Charles Madigan, presidential writer in residence at Roosevelt University and formerly senior editor, correspondent and columnist for the Chicago Tribune, will discuss and sign his new book -30-, The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper, at 3:30...[full text]
10/31/2007
Roosevelt University has accepted a record number of new students into its Roosevelt Scholars Program for the 2007-08 academic year. The new group of 56 students, which began classes in September, is the largest ever to be accepted into the ...[full text]
10/16/2007
A remarkable collection of memorabilia pertaining to the life and times of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is located at Roosevelt University in Chicago, will be available for public perusal next year thanks to a federal grant awarded through the ...[full text]
10/9/2007
Nestor Avila, a Roosevelt University senior from Des Plaines majoring in professional communications, has been selected as a Student Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Avila, who was nominated by Roosevelt University President Chuck ...[full text]
9/25/2007
With thousands of historical artifacts on everything from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, Roosevelt University has begun the process of creating comprehensive archives that one day could be opened to the ...[full text]
9/21/2007
Roosevelt University’s Center for New Deal Studies and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, N.Y., will present a lecture on current issues facing public school reform during the University’s 15th annual Franklin and Eleanor ...[full text]
9/17/2007
Distinguished journalist, professor and author John Fountain, who spent 15 years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and New York Times, has joined Roosevelt University’s Department of Communication as a professor of ...[full text]
9/13/2007
Roosevelt University and the Chicago Art Deco Society are partnering to present a series of informative lectures in September and October on topics ranging from the importance of 1933 Chicago World’s Fair architecture to the streamlining of 20th ...[full text]
8/3/2007
Emily Gray Tedrowe, director of composition at Roosevelt University, has received a literary award from the Illinois Arts Council for a short story entitled “Claudia Leaving.” The story, which is set in New York City and covers one day in the ...[full text]
7/25/2007
Roosevelt University’s newly created student chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international honors society in economics, has received a grant to host a conference on economic issues raised by candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential ...[full text]
6/25/2007
Peter K. Fallon, associate professor of Journalism at Roosevelt University, has received the Marshall McLuhan Award for the Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology for 2007. Fallon received the award June 8 in Mexico City for his book...[full text]
5/25/2007
Roosevelt University President Chuck Middleton today announced that Charles M. Madigan, Chicago Tribune senior correspondent, editor and columnist, will join Roosevelt University on August 15 as Presidential Writer in Residence. “Charlie ...[full text]
2/26/2007
Roosevelt University and its International Executive Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) program will introduce municipal government employees from Beijing, China, to American-style public administration beginning March 5. The 21 mid-level ...[full text]
2/2/2007
Roosevelt University’s popular and highly regarded psychology program has received a $1 million gift from office products businessman and philanthropist Irwin Helford and his family. Helford, a Roosevelt University alumnus, helped build Viking ...[full text]
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