Keeping tabs on an athlete’s health on the field is getting a technological boost: two devices that monitor for signs of serious head injury are due out over the next few months. “Brain is a soft tissue, kind of like tapioca pudding inside a bowl, and the bowl is the skull,” said Ausim Azizi, professor of neurology at Temple. “Anything that monitors the acceleration-deceleration or impact to the head is good. It’s a partial solution for parents, coaches and the athletes themselves.”

Spotted by Confederate pickets, members of the Sixth U.S. Colored Troops quickly ran into a torrent of artillery fire that cut through their ranks. That chaotic moment has been captured for the Union League in a new painting. Black soldiers wanted to help fight off the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in the month leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Professor Octavius V.

New studies on peer pressure suggest that teens, who often seem to follow each other like lemmings, may do so because their brains derive more pleasure from social acceptance than adult brains, and not because teens are less capable of making rational decisions. Peer influence during adolescence is normal and tends to peak around age 15, then decline. Teens get better at setting boundaries with peers by age 18 according to Laurence Steinberg, a psychology professor at Temple University.

As the Senate debates a massive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, one of its newest members has emerged as a leading opponent of the bill's most controversial feature: a path to citizenship for millions living in the country unlawfully. The views of Texas Republican Ted Cruz have been significantly colored by the saga of his own father, an immigrant from Cuba. Peter Spiro, a legal expert on U.S. citizenship at Temple, says Cruz’ father followed "sort of a zigzag path to citizenship.