A study supported by Temple's Center on Regional Politics released Monday showed that closing the gaps in Pennsylvania’s student achievement levels would result in major economic gains.

Temple is collaborating with China’s Zhejiang Normal University to launch the Confucius Institute at Temple University. This center for the teaching of Chinese language and culture is the first of its kind in greater Philadelphia.

The ability to demonstrate psychology’s real-world application is one reason Psychology Professor Jason Chein is so easily able to engage his students.

President Theobald has appointed William Stull, who served as chair of economics at Temple for 18 years, as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He will be assisted by Richard Deeg, chair of political science, who has been appointed senior associate dean for operations. Rebecca Alpert will continue as associate dean for academic affairs.

Last semester, students enrolled in Ken Finkel's ‘Museum Studies’ class met weekly among the mounted skeletons and preserved animals at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, located just a few blocks from Temple's Main Campus.

In recognition of Temple's sixth annual National Coming Out Week celebration, meet Morgen Snowadzky, recipient of Temple's MarcDavid LGBTQ Scholarship Award.

After a summer of collecting donated school supplies, representatives from the College of Liberal Arts and its alumni association delivered more than 4,200 items to Philadelphia's Tanner Duckrey School.

In his new book, "Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society," Associate Professor of Sociology Dustin Kidd puts his knowledge of popular culture in the spotlight and examines how mass media influences identity.

Wilfred Beaye, a transfer student from Bucks County Community College, will attend Harvard Law School this fall. Beaye, who is the first in his family to attend college, says he owes much to his mother, who left behind her life and family in Liberia to move to the U.S. after his father’s death.

Edie Windsor, CLA ’50, is coming back to Philadelphia for a historic celebration Saturday, April 26, during Alumni Weekend 2014. She will be receiving an alumni fellowship award from Temple before a screening of “Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement” and a question-and-answer session.

Inhabitants of the Schuylkill Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic made guest appearances in Assistant Professor Dan Featherston’s 'First-Year Writing' class.

Temple’s John Raines, emeritus professor of religion, has been all over the national news lately. “The New York Times,” “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” National Public Radio, NBCNews and more have all covered the story of the burglars—of which Raines and his wife, Bonnie, were two—who broke into an FBI office nearly 43 years ago and made off with numerous documents.