Temple in the News
More front-page coverage for Temple team’s fight to save Joe Frazier’s Gym
After 42 years of enduring the best shots that age, urban decay and commercial evolution could deliver, Joe Frazier’s Gym earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places this week. Starting...
May 2, 2013
Food critic praises Temple’s burgeoning food truck culture
In recent years, the Inquirer’s restaurant critic Craig LaBan has acknowledged what the Temple community has known for decades: Philadelphia’s food truck culture deserves respect, and Temple is a hot...
May 2, 2013
Sequester impact on research results in cuts to promising projects
As agencies begin to implement budget cuts due to sequestration, alarm is arising within the research and development community. At Temple, a group of researchers under the leadership of Steven...
May 2, 2013
NIMH Won't Follow Psychiatry 'Bible' Anymore
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will no longer use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to guide its research. Instead, NIMH is working on a long-term plan to...
May 2, 2013
Top Secret America
The journey from 9/11 to the Boston Marathon bombings includes a secret history of the battle against terrorism. At the Pentagon, by 2002, Donald Rumsfeld was waging a covert campaign inside the...
May 1, 2013
Joe Frazier's Gym gets historic status
Yesterday, the site of Frazier's gym was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Temple students were part of the multi-step effort to get this accomplished. It was a case study for an...
May 1, 2013
Is Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Eligible to Run for President?
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is weighing whether to run for president in 2016. Born in Canada, does Cruz meet the constitutional muster of being a natural-born citizen? The definition has never been...
May 1, 2013
New Temple president Neil Theobald has high hopes for the university
Temple’s new president Neil Theobald, recently hosted a barbecue for students. Among his top priorities are new plans for the physical campus. “We’re really trying to visualize, not just...
April 30, 2013
The benefits of block play
A growing body of research demonstrates blocks' ability to help even the youngest children with critical skills. A study by researchers at Temple University's Infant Lab found that children who play...
April 30, 2013
Temple’s jazz leader organizes orchestra for Philadelphia
Terell Stafford has created the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia. In addition to embodying the city’s vital jazz legacy, the Jazz Orchestra will “provide an essential educational component as part of...
April 30, 2013
