As a child with Asperger’s Syndrome, Brian Schwartz became fixated on game shows. From Bob Barker to Wink Martindale, he learned everything there was to know about this exciting television niche. Now 30, Schwartz is graduating with a degree in media studies and production and stakes claim to being Temple University Television's first game show host.

When soon-to-be journalism grad Luci Volpe receives her degree at Commencement this week, she will be fulfilling a pledge she made to her mother years ago. Volpe has persevered and thrived despite taking on tremendous responsibility after losing both parents by the age of 14.

Candidates for dean positions in the College of Health Professions and Social Work, the School of Media and Communication and the College of Education will continue their visits to Temple this week. Each finalist will present a scholarly talk open to the university community and participate in sessions for staff, faculty and students within each respective school/college. For additional information on each of the dean searches, visit www.temple.edu/provost.

Last week, Jeffrey Robinson, a 1967 School of Media and Communication alumnus who has spent his career uncovering and telling great stories, visited Temple to share some of his writing secrets with students during a short master class.

Jad Sleiman is the first Temple student to win the prestigious Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship. Sleiman was among 14 aspiring foreign correspondents selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 165 applicants at 72 different colleges and universities. In his winning essay, the former Marine Corps correspondent wrote about watching a group of Marines training Ugandan soldiers to face extremism in East Africa, and the young Ugandans’ surprising resiliency.