Temple in the News
In December, the Jacobs Foundation awarded Laurence Steinberg, professor psychology at Temple University, its first Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for Productive Youth Development. The prize, worth...
February 12, 2010
A federal appeals court Friday debated the government's ability to track your location at any time using your cell phone. Abbe Forman of Temple's Computer and...
February 12, 2010
Temple University economist William C. Dunkelberg has been shepherding the Index of Small Business Optimism for the National Federation of Independent Business since the 1970s. This week, the group...
February 11, 2010
Ticket sales and hotel bookings for this year's Olympic Winter games in Vancouver are anything but strong. Couple that with the high price of hosting, and it's easy to see why Vancouver will likely...
February 11, 2010
Toyoda broke his silence by appearing at a Friday press conference on problems related to Prius, but he was widely lambasted for his stiff and awkward performance "The press here on Saturday just...
February 10, 2010
SEPTA's "Did you find love on SEPTA?" contest is way for SEPTA, which suffered a black eye in November when workers went on a weeklong strike, to honor 14 winning couples with the most moving stories...
February 10, 2010
Curator Diane Turner and Librarian Aslaku Berhanu of Temple's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection — one of the nation's foremost university-based collections of African-American...
February 10, 2010
The question of age is being raised in the Supreme Court this year where the practice of sentencing young people under age 14 to life in prison without parole is being challenged. Brain science has...
February 10, 2010
Not everyone thinks of Starbucks as radical. In his 2009 meditation on Starbucks, Everything But the Coffee, Temple historian Bryant Simon says the chain says it sells coffee, but it doesn’t....
February 9, 2010
Toyota's secrecy and tendency to centralize decision-making in Japan contributed to the public relations debacle, experts say. "Toyota had the perfect model for the 1980s and 1990s, but its approach...
February 9, 2010