Research
Cheryl Doughty, B.S. Biology. Doughty spent seven days in 2010 collecting and preserving deep water coral specimens in the Gulf of Mexico.
May 3, 2012
Laine Radell, B.S. Chemistry. Radell has worked Chemistry Chair Robert Levis in investigating the interaction of the ultra intense laser beams with biological systems.
May 3, 2012
Researchers at Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education are exploring whether education on healthy nutrition can help people with developmental disabilities who live in community homes to lose weight.
April 23, 2012
Juniors in a fluids mechanics course taught by Mechanical Engineering Professor Jim Chen turned the recreational field at 11th Street and Montgomery Avenue into Cape Canaveral last week, launching uncooked eggs aboard water and compressed air-powered rockets they designed and built from two-liter plastic soda bottles.
A recent study by researchers from Temple, the University of Cape Town and the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas has found that duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes. The findings, “Hadrosaurs Were Perennial Polar Residents,” were published in the April issue of the journal "The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology."
From geothermal to solar to wind power, Temple researchers are engaged in a variety of projects to develop new renewable energy technologies and to make them more efficient and cost-effective.
A study led by Carmen Sapienza, professor of pathology in Temple’s Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, may explain why eating too much fat and sugar puts a person at greater risk for colon cancer.
The Temple School of Pharmacy's Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research has entered into a collaborative partnership with the West Philadelphia-based Wistar Institute to accelerate the transition of biomedical research into new drug therapies for cancer and other diseases.
Leased office space at the University City Science Center’s Port Business Incubator will serve as a launching point for new businesses being spun out of Temple. The new off-campus space will allow nascent enterprises to move off of campus to focus efforts on fundraising and product development.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter visited Temple as part of the DESIGNweek Challenge, a four-day design contest organized by the university's new Urban Apps & Maps studio that brought together more than 125 area students to envision new products and services inspired by opportunities in North Philadelphia.
Temple's Center for Advanced Photonics Research has received a federal grant to develop laser-based technologies for the potential standoff detection of radioactive materials.
Temple's Department of Computer and Information Sciences has received and NSF grant that will help bring 10 top undergraduate students in computer-related disciplines to the university for a summer research experience with faculty.
According to a recent article in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Temple researcher Adam Davey has found centenarians diagnosed with diabetes in their 80s living 20 or more years with the condition. The study tested 244 older adults, ages 98 to 108, in 44 counties. It found that 12.5 percent — or 1 in 8 — of the group had type 2 diabetes.
