Author: Gary Kopycinski

Roosevelt University Accounting Student Receives National Scholarship

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Guadalupe Cotto, a Master of Science in Accounting student in Roosevelt University’s Heller College of Business, has been awarded a national merit-based scholarship by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in Washington, D.C. A 2014 graduate of Roosevelt’s Bachelor of Science in Accounting program and a[Read More…]

Roosevelt University Student Shares Music and Culture on CTA

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Roosevelt University student Jonathan Pacheco and his band Buya decided on the spur of the moment recently to share music and culture with Chicago commuters. Now a video of the 19-year-old sophomore and Buya’s music, an African-Puerto Rican blend of sounds known as Bomba – as performed[Read More…]

Black Male Leadership Academy Receives Game Changer Award

Pictured above, Michael Ford, vice provost for academic support and retention at Roosevelt and one of the program organizers, speaks about the success of the new Black Male Leadership Academy at the city of Chicago’s recent One Summer Chicago awards ceremony CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Roosevelt University has received a Game Changer[Read More…]

See It Before It’s Gone: ‘In the Heights’ at DePaul’s Fullerton Stage Theatre Through October 12

Presented by the Theatre School at DePaul University, In the Heights runs through Oct. 12 in the Fullerton Stage Theatre. (Image courtesy of The Theatre School at DePaul University) CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. Now showing in the Fullerton Stage Theatre, The Theatre School at DePaul University presents “In the Heights” with[Read More…]

Children’s Show Opens October 7: The Phantom Tollbooth at the Theatre School at DePaul University

Presented by the Theatre School at DePaul University, The Phantom Tollbooth opens Oct. 7 in the Merle Reskin Theatre. It is the the first production of the 2014-2015 Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences season. (Image courtesy of The Theatre School at DePaul University) CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. The Theatre[Read More…]

Department of Defense Press Briefing by General Rodriguez Re: Update on U.S. Contributions to the Effort Against Ebola, Oct. 7, 2014

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014.  REAR ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY: Afternoon, everybody. I’m proud to welcome into the briefing room General David Rodriguez, commander of Africa Command. He’s here to give you an update on U.S. contributions to the effort against Ebola — U.S. military contributions to the effort against Ebola in[Read More…]

Washington’s Stevens County Urges Citizens to Kill Endangered Wolves

Conservation Groups Call on State to Stop Disclosing Wolf Locations to County OLYMPIA, Wash.–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Conservation groups today called on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to stop providing wolf location information to Stevens County, which recently adopted resolutions claiming a constitutional right to kill wolves and exhorting[Read More…]

Clean Air, National Park Advocates Challenge EPA Failure to Protect Grand Canyon from Navajo Generating Station Pollution

Advocates Appeal Decision that Allows Controversial Coal Plant to Keep Polluting for Decades GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Clean air and national park advocates today challenged a decision in federal court, issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that allows one of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired[Read More…]

9th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms the Freedom to Marry

New York –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  Today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed same-sex couples’ freedom to marry in cases out of Idaho and Nevada. The ruling paves also the way for the freedom to marry in Alaska, Montana, and Arizona. Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, released the[Read More…]

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