DePaul Magazine Volume 1 Issue 412016 Spring 2016 Article 1 4-1-2016 Around Campus Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/depaul-magazine Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Other Public Health Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation (2016) "Around Campus," DePaul Magazine: Vol. 1 : Iss. 412016 , Article 1. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/depaul-magazine/vol1/iss412016/1 This DePaul News is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Magazine by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Around Campus Center for Community Health Equity Launches to discuss health equity in Chicago. Magdalena Nava, acting director of the Greater Humboldt Park Community Diabetes Empowerment Center and a student in DePaul’s Master of Public Health program, said that about 20 percent of those who use her organization’s services have undiagnosed diabetes. She hopes to have the resources to keep the free services available to the entire community to help prevent chronic illnesses. Wrenetha Julion, professor of nursing at Rush University, hopes that the intersectional approach to data will attack health inequality on multiple levels si- multaneously and push outcomes in a positive direction. Jaime Dircksen, managing deputy commissioner at the Chicago Department of Public Health, said public health policy Jaime Dircksen, managing deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, examines where disparities exist, but aims to responds to questions during a panel discussion. Photo credit: DePaul University/Jeff Carrion give some services to all constituents. Social justice, she said, is at the heart of the effort. Following the presentation, attendees were On Oct. 29, after a year of planning and attendees from Mount Sinai Hospital, John invited to network, read informational posters data gathering, DePaul and Rush University H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and and ask questions about the center’s structure—a officially launched the Center for Community the University of Illinois Hospital and Health discovery core for research; a direction core Health Equity. Co-directors Fernando De Sciences System will eventually join in the made up of faculty, staff and students; a design Maio, associate professor of sociology, and center’s work. Ansell said the center is designed core to evaluate and implement what is learned Dr. Raj Shah, associate professor of family to make collaboration open and effective. in the discovery core; and a dissemination core, medicine with the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease part of which includes a new course at DePaul, Center at Rush University Medical Center, Intuitively, health Health Disparities in Chicago. welcomed a large gathering of faculty and staff from their respective organizations, as well as care seems like a Photo credit: DePaul University/Jeff Carrion members of the community, to the opening event at Rush. They discussed the impetus human right. behind the partnership—research showing that -Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M. one’s life expectancy can often be determined by zip code. Feeling that unequal access to health care across Chicago could be mitigated The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., with research, education and community en- president of DePaul University, said the project gagement, De Maio, Shah and their colleagues is at the heart of DePaul’s mission. He quoted laid the groundwork for what they hope will a letter St. Vincent de Paul wrote to a colleague become a broad coalition of organizations to in Tunisia, where a plague outbreak had strick- tackle the problem. en the population: “A doctor who keeps a Dr. Thomas Deutsch, dean of Rush Medical patient from becoming ill earns more merit College and provost of Rush University, and Dr. than one who cures him.” Fr. Holtschneider David Ansell, senior vice president of system said that “intuitively, health care seems like integration, associate provost of Rush University a human right, and I hope the work of the and a professor of internal medicine at Rush center will make that idea so clear that people Dr. David Ansell, senior vice president of University Medical Center, echoed those hopes. will understand it and feel it in their hearts.” system integration and a professor of internal Deutsch said there needs to be consortial work A short panel discussion brought together medicine at Rush University Medical Center, to handle a diverse population, and he hopes community, government and medical leaders offers opening remarks. 2 DEPAUL MAGAZINE SPRING 2016 Around_campus.indd 2 3/16/16 2:47 PM Sustainability the Focus of the 2015 Vincent de Paul Lecture With the June 2015 publication of the papal encyclical “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis made our common home—the earth—a top priority for world Catholicism. To help lay individuals understand the meaning of the encyclical and further the pope’s mission to place climate change and sustainability at the forefront of Catholic teaching and secular action, DePaul’s Office of Mission & Values chose sustainability as the focus of the annual Vincent de Paul Lecture. Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, delivered the lecture this past October. The event also included presentations by professionals working for sustainability-related businesses. Misleh emphasized that the pope’s name choice was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, whose concern for the poor has been a hall- mark of Pope Francis’s ministry. Climate change’s disproportionate effect on the poor was a driving force behind the pope’s decision to issue the encyclical. Pope Francis calls Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’.” Photo credit: Getty Images/Vatican Pool for an “ecological conversion,” observing that “the external deserts in the world are growing because the internal deserts have retail facility in the nation with “net zone” States; green roofs can be found on City Hall, become so vast.” energy; that is, the store produces more energy the Chicago Bulls’ practice facility, the Gary Misleh emphasized that the pope has than it consumes. Fornes mentioned that Comer Youth Center and Millennium Park/ invited all nations and peoples to dialogue SoCore’s installations at IKEA stores grew Maggie Daley Park, the latter being one of and then discussed his own organization’s out of the Swedish company’s commitment to the most extensive green roofs in the world. work, exemplified by its motto, “Care for sustainable energy practices but that the lack Finally, Jessica Rivas, social compliance Creation. Care for the Poor.” The Catholic of incentives to help solar technology compete and impact consultant with Chicago-based Climate Covenant, he said, is organizing with traditional forms of energy generation Piece & Co., discussed her company’s work “creation care teams” to enable committed has hampered its more widespread adoption. to connect artisans in developing countries Catholics to address climate change in their She said the next paradigm for solar energy with global brands and retailers. She drew communities. Misleh then said the sheer consumers is to move completely off the grid on her decade-long experience developing number of Catholics in the world—approx- with workable energy-storage solutions. ethical sourcing strategies and supply-chain imately 2.2 billion, vastly outnumbering Zach Waliullah (BUS ’12, MS ’15), a garden transparency to highlight the growing number membership in all environmental protection roof associate for Chicago-based American of businesses that are interested in sustainable, groups combined—would make the church Hydrotech Inc., shared his enthusiasm for the ethical practices that meet consumer demand a major force for change. unique niche his employer occupies—green and their own mission and values statements. Following Misleh’s talk, Kristen Fornes roofing. The Double Demon in finance and (BUS ’11), business development manager at sustainable management explained how SoCore Energy, a Chicago-based provider of businesses complying with regulations for solar energy solutions, discussed the develop- handling excess storm water are turning ONLINE EXTRAS ing market for solar technology and some of increasingly to green roof solutions. Green the projects with which she has been involved. roofs also help with cooling, contribute to a The Rev. James Martin, S.J., of America Media, healthy ecosystem and provide social spaces explains in clear, concise terms the major SoCore provided the solar technology for points Pope Francis makes in “Laudato Si’” at the Walgreens store at 635 Chicago Ave. in for community residents. He cited Chicago depaulmagazine.com. Evanston, Ill., which is believed to be the first as a center for green roofing in the United SPRING 2016 DEPAUL MAGAZINE 3 Around_campus.indd 3 3/16/16 2:47 PM Around Campus The Women’s Center Celebrates 20 Years with Feminist Editor On Oct. 5, The Women’s Center welcomed award-winning writer Cherríe Moraga to commemorate both the 20th anniversary of the center and the 35th anniversary of the publication of “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color,” which Moraga co-edited. When it was released in 1981, the collection of essays was recognized as one of the first publications to explore feminism among women of color. Moraga spoke to the diverse crowd of women and men from the DePaul and Chicago communities who gathered at Cortelyou Commons to hear her reflect on putting together “Bridge,” as well as on her own experiences as a homosexual woman of color. DePaul students, faculty and staff were then asked to read select essays from the book, and some students shared original essays inspired by “Bridge.” “How can ‘Bridge’ still be timely 35 years later?” Moraga asked. “When we were putting it together, we felt it defined a whole epic of movements in the late ’60s and early ’70s.