(Photo by Alex Rogals for Wednesday Journal)

Since her arrival in River Forest earlier this month, Dominican University’s own Rosie Bea has gained local celebrity status, landing her a feature in Oak Park’s Wednesday Journal.

President Glena Temple and her new pup are profiled in the July 27 edition of the newspaper. In the article, Temple explains that Rosie’s adoption stemmed from seeing the positive impact that therapy dogs had on staff and students when they visited the university during finals week.

A five-year partnership between Dominican University and Wintrust Financial is giving 10 students an opportunity to gain real-world experience in business and finance.

Two Dominican students selected for the first year of the new fellowship are working in 12-week paid internships at Wintrust locations this summer, with another eight students to be selected over the remaining four years.

Dominican University is pleased to welcome its newest Star and “presidential pup,” Rosie Bea!

Choosing the best children’s and young adult literature from a list of roughly 2,000 titles can be a daunting task.

It was a challenge Dr. Sujin Huggins accepted this year as one of three judges for the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards recognizing excellence in youth picture books, fiction and nonfiction.

Pawel Kawa’s own experience of accumulating college loan debt inspired a project aimed at providing peers with basic college finance facts as they venture into higher education.

Kawa, an accounting major beginning his senior year at Dominican University this fall, developed a “financial literacy” workshop for new college students that was rolled out this summer during sessions of the student orientation program, SOAR.

For Immediate Release   

River Forest, IL  – Dominican University and the Oak Park Reparations Task Force are inviting Black residents of Oak Park to answer a short survey on reparative justice within their community.   

(Photo: Caleb Navarro during his freshman year at Dominican University in 2014).

Dr. Caleb Navarro ’18 is featured in an interview with OneGoal, an organization that works with high schools to provide students with college and career planning services.

Navarro, who was a bio-chemistry major at Dominican University, recently earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Roosevelt University and plans to complete a post-graduate residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Regan Coxon calls the three weeks she spent in Kenya this summer shadowing dentists, dental students and facial surgeons a “life-changing experience” that inspired new career goals.

“It opened my eyes to how I’m going to approach health care,” shared Coxon, an aspiring dentist and biology major at Dominican University. “And it made me realize I want to continue doing this. After dental school I want to work with Red Cross or another organization and travel the world, helping people with their teeth and teaching them about oral hygiene.”

A solemn prayer service was held in Dominican University’s Rosary Chapel this week in the aftermath of the July 4 parade mass shooting in Highland Park.

The service on July 6 featured prayer, scripture readings, hymns and reflections on the tragedy.

Rebecca Yowler MLIS ’13 is profiled in a June 27, 2022 feature story published by US Figure Skating.

An ordained minister and an assistant librarian for research and instruction at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Yowler discovered figure skating while an undergraduate at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. She continues to skate and competed in the 2022 U.S. Adult Championships this past April, according to the U.S. Figure Skating organization.