DePaul University's SPARK Center launches a new research collaboration with leading global professional services firm Aon plc and NFP, an Aon company. The initiative examines how community banks can better support entrepreneurs, particularly those leading underserved and women-owned businesses.
The School of Cinematic Arts partners with the Chicago Housing Authority for a summer documentary filmmaking program. Teenage girls are introduced to basic theory, aesthetic, and technical skills to produce their own documentaries.
Each year, CDM sponsors several undergraduate women to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing.
DePaul University and Sinai Chicago established a partnership in 2020 based on the institutions' shared commitment to addressing social and health equity challenges in Chicago communities.
Formed in alliance with Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, CDM’s School of Cinematic houses a professional production facility where students learn filmmaking craft and techniques, steps away from productions filming on the Cinespace lot.
The Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) collaborates and partners with industry, community-based, and educational partners.
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DePaul’s collaboration with 1871 allows our students, faculty, and alumni access to Chicago’s prestigious entrepreneurial technology hub, including programming, special events, workshops, lectures, and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
The School of Cinematic Arts teamed up with Cinespace Chicago to provide students with production experience in the midst of Chicago's premiere working studio. DePaul's 60,000-square-foot facilities includes six shooting stages, a Virtual Production stage, multiple freestanding sets, extensive lighting and grip equipment, a greenscreen cyclorama, sound equipment, scenic shop, editing suites, and classrooms and collaboration rooms.
The DePaul Center for Data Science (CDS) is a research, educational and collaborative center that focuses on the applications of data science. The center seeks out partnerships with industry as well as educational and nonprofit organizations (for example, the Motorola Solutions Foundation Scholars Program) to plan and conduct joint analytics projects that provide students with an invaluable opportunity to work on real-world problems and gain problem-solving experience in data science.
The Dr. Curtis J. and Mrs. Gina Crawford Institute for Business Technology Leadership provides students with intensive and intentional career-based leadership education through training, mentoring and direct work experiences that promote social mobility and ethical leadership. The institute facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration between CDM and the Driehaus College of Business, where it is housed.
Each year, the School of Computing sponsors several undergraduate female students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing. GHC is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists, produced by AnitaB.org.
CDM’s Innovation Development Lab (iD-Lab) serves as a model for university and corporate partnerships in the area of technology innovation. The iD-Lab offers a space to build the bridges between DePaul and companies to grow into a leading technology innovation and research hub. Current work in the lab focuses on three primary areas: development of projects with member companies; education through training, workshops, and practical experiences; and research on technology innovation. Partners include companies such as Abbott, Allstate, Bosch, CareerBuilder, CDW, and Digital Mint.
The Jarvis Center for Innovation and Collaboration connects students with industry professionals, creators and experts-in-residence. The center is an 8,000 square-foot multi-disciplinary, collaborative space that inspires both faculty- and student-led curricular and extra-curricular innovation and strengthens the academia-to-industry pipeline.
The center also houses DePaul Originals Game Studio, an interdisciplinary lab that brings together game artists, designers, engineers and sound designers to producers high-quality game experiences. The studio produces and publishes work that will be shipped to publicly visible platforms like Steam, Xbox, PS5, and Switch.
PUSH Studio is an interdisciplinary design studio where students and faculty partner with industry professionals and social impact organizations to apply human-centered design methods to emerging technology challenges.
The Unreal Academic Partner Program recognizes exemplary universities that integrate Epic Games’ Unreal Engine into their classes and labs. Selected programs, like DePaul Games, are committed to providing high-quality educational opportunities with experienced faculty, innovative facilities and an environment where students can thrive and graduate career-ready.
Since 2016, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) has partnered with DePaul’s Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media to offer youth in public housing valuable skills in documentary filmmaking, screenwriting, and photography. Through the six-week summer intensives, high school-aged students are trained by our award-winning faculty, mentored by our graduate students, visited by industry guest speakers, and taken on a number of experiential field trips to get inspired by our city’s rich arts culture.
DePaul's new Cybersecurity Clinic is an interdisciplinary collaboration between CDM’s School of Computing, the Driehaus College of Business, and the College of Law. The Clinic provides students with real-world experience working on cybersecurity projects for community-based nonprofit organizations.
Matters at Play is a transdisciplinary design lab partnering in the creation of interactive advocacy solutions for positive social transformations – especially for social justice, health, and environmental issues. M@P both incubates and launches projects for real-world impact. Partners include advocacy, government, nonprofit, and academic organizations looking to use interactivity in both digital and analog contexts with the goal of informing and transforming society and its people.
DePaul’s Strategic Partnerships for the Advancement of Research and Knowledge (SPARK) Center turns research into accessible materials that invite community partners into informed conversations that shape the future. SPARK’s data science, design, and AI teams can model and visualize the history of a challenge—as well as multiple predicted scenarios for the future—providing far-reaching impacts that benefit local, national, and global communities.
The Technology for Social Good Research and Design Lab in CDM's School of Design brings together faculty, students, and other collaborators to design, build, and study tools with the goal of fostering equitable education and collective action in urban communities. Taking a human-centered approach, research projects draw from fields such as learning sciences, computer science, human-computer interaction, experience design, data science, and psychology to address social issues, particularly in the areas of empowerment, learning, and human development.
Through several NSF-funded projects, CDM Interim Dean Lucia Dettori has partnered with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to ensure that all CPS high school students take at least one relevant and compelling computer science course (Exploring Computer Science, ECS), and that middle and elementary school children are exposed to computational thinking integrated in other disciplines. This partnership, which also includes computer scientists from Loyola, UIC, and educational researchers from The Learning Partnership, has now been formalized as the Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFECS).
The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) is housed in DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business, but their experimental programs, vibrant ecosystem, and academic curriculum cultivate a foundation for entrepreneurial success for the entire DePaul community. Several CDM students are interested in founding a startup, learning about funding opportunities, and building sustainable businesses. CEC is the hub to connect, advise, and inspire entrepreneurship and innovation in creating businesses with purpose and passion.
The mission of the DePaul AI Institute is to capitalize on the expertise of faculty across many colleges and programs to promote interdisciplinary research and educational programs centered around the promises and challenges presented by AI. By leveraging interdisciplinary collaboration, the institute connects experts across diverse fields like healthcare, law, business, natural and social sciences, computing and the arts while also focusing on ethical, societal, and legal aspects of AI.
DePaul University and Rosalind Franklin University of Science and Medicine are funding interdisciplinary faculty research projects bringing together AI, biomedical discovery and health care. Projects led by CDM School of Computing faculty include combining wearable sensors with GPS to prevent injury and analyzing neurons in the brainstem to discover boundaries that control speech and swallowing.
In collaboration with The Second City, the School of Cinematic Arts offers graduate and undergraduate programs in comedy filmmaking. Students attend classes at The Second City as well as within our expansive studio and classroom facilities at Cinespace. The curriculum gives students the opportunity to create, develop, and showcase their comedic voice and original material through a methodology honed over decades by The Second City.
Sinai Health System and DePaul University have joined forces to address critical health inequities in Chicago through the creation of a community-driven, applied research institute. Sinai Health System’s research arm, Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI), and DePaul will collaborate on education, research projects, and development and implementation of programs aimed at addressing social and health equity challenges. Roselyne Tchoua, assistant professor in the School of Computing, was named a SUHI Equity Research Fellow, and is focusing on using machine learning to reduce repeat visits to the emergency department.