DePaul University Librarian Andrew Rea cares for the 400-year-old handwritten letters from St. Vincent de Paul that are now part of an online digital collection. Scholars, teachers and anyone who’s interested can now view the manuscripts online, opening up new research possibilities for Vincentian historians worldwide. (Photo by Jamie Moncrief)[Read More…]

Amherst, MA–(ENEWSPF)–September 19, 2014.  The W.E.B. Du Bois Center, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, officially receives NORML’s archives dating from 1970, along with the personal archives of pioneering physician and author Lester Grinspoon, MD (formerly with Harvard Medical School), this weekend during a two-day event focusing on the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 19, 2014.  At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U.S. district court in Florida has temporarily halted a diploma mill that allegedly grossed more than $11 million from marketing and selling fake high school diplomas online to consumers nationwide. The court imposed a temporary restraining order to halt[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  Abby Kahaleh, a founding faculty member in Roosevelt University’s College of Pharmacy (COP) has received the 2014 Shining Star Award from the Illinois Council of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ICHP). An associate professor of administrative sciences, Kahaleh started a local ICHP chapter at COP with the help of Roosevelt[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  Paul Wertico, associate professor of jazz studies at Roosevelt University, will celebrate the release of a new CD with the Bob Mamet Trio in performances during the midday news on Friday, Sept. 19 on WGN-TV, Channel 9 and on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at the Jazz Showcase, 806[Read More…]

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. Prairie State College (PSC) is celebrating Manufacturing Day with an exhibitor fair from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Prairie Center, located in the Tech Wing on the college’s main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. Company demonstrations will[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  McHenry resident Tina Bruenning is working on a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management, as is her 20-year-old son, Nick.  Both are students at Roosevelt University’s Manfred Steinfeld School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and both do more than just take classes together. The two, who previously earned[Read More…]

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. South Suburban College’s Division of Adult Education has a new location in Calumet City for Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult Secondary Education (ASE) classes.  Registration and assessment will begin next week for ABE/ASE classes at the Sandridge Community Center, located at 600 Oglesby Avenue. [Read More…]

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. South Suburban College’s Business & Career Institute (BCI) will host their sixth annual Manufacturing Conference: Making the Model Work, on Friday, October 3, 2014, from 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the college’s Oak Forest Center.  This unique event is a one-day conference featuring breakout[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2014.  Sean Anderson, a 22-year-old business management major at Roosevelt University, has been appointed as a student board member on the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). After his first board meeting last month, Anderson, a native of Naperville, Ill., said his aim as a board member is[Read More…]