Research
Temple University’s Center for Asian Health, in partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, the Asian Community Health Coalition and the Greater Philadelphia Chinese Restaurant Association, is spearheading an initiative aimed at reducing salt consumption as a means of preventing hypertension. The center is working with Chinese takeout restaurants to reduce the amount of sodium in their food by 10 to 15 percent.
June 4, 2013
Temple Center for Obesity Research and Education Director Gary D. Foster has been appointed to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee by the U.S. secretaries of Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
May 31, 2013
Temple researchers Justin Shi, Nadine Martin and Emily Keshner recently received a $275,000 grant to develop a virtual speech therapist that will provide people with aphasia with more cost-effective access to repetition and practice exercises that are crucial to speech recovery.
May 1, 2013
Hosted by the College of Science and Technology (CST) Saturday as part of Alumni Weekend, TEDxTempleU explored how scientists investigate the world, embrace uncertainty and discover new knowledge. The event featured two CST students and six CST faculty members, including Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zdilla, who demonstrated the Leidenfrost Effect by putting liquid nitrogen in his mouth during a talk on the uncertain path to renewable fuels.
Graduate students in "Criminal Intelligence," a course taught by Temple criminologist Jerry Ratcliffe, are tasked with performing a real strategic intelligence assessment for either the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It’s the first time either of the two agencies’ Philadelphia offices has partnered with a university on a semester-long, in-depth project aimed at helping students learn how to analyze data about a real crime problem in the city.
In her new book, “Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities,” Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, an urban education professor at Temple, explores the impact of the Center City Schools Initiative on inequality in the School District of Philadelphia.
For 16 years, Robert Stanley, associate professor of chemistry in Temple’s College of Science and Technology, has been studying an enzyme called DNA photolyase, which can repair damage caused by Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Now, through a four-year, $1.07 million grant from NASA, Stanley and his colleagues will explore how this process occurs at both extreme high and low temperatures.
In her forthcoming book, "Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters," Temple sociologist Judith Levine argues that we cannot understand life in poverty without attention to the production and consequences of distrust. For the book, Levine interviewed 95 low-income women on the topics of raising children in poverty and trying to make ends meet. In every interview, she found that distrust was a major barrier to opportunity.
Through a five-year, $1.58 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, Ho-Lun Wong, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is using nanoparticles as a delivery system to target the prostate cancer cells with an RNA-based drug.
An examination of 2009-11 Census Bureau data by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Temple Associate Professor of Sociology David Elesh revealed that Philadelphia has the highest rate of deep poverty — people with incomes below half of the poverty line — of any of the nation's 10 most populous cities. The analysis was published in an article in Wednesday's Inquirer that also quoted Assistant Professor of Sociology Judith Levine, who observed that those in deep poverty are more likely to stay mired in it long-term.
Temple’s Center for Neural Decision Making has earned a grant from the Advertising Research Foundation to evaluate responses to television ads in order predict their sales performance. Researchers will compare results from six neurophysiological exams — eye tracking, skin conductance response, heart rate, breathing and brain activity — with sales data to determine which measures best predict advertising performance.
Started five years ago with the support of alumnus Lonnie Moulder and his wife, Sharon, the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research in the School of Pharmacy has grown to become the Greater Philadelphia region’s only fully integrated academic drug discovery center.
As life expectancy continues to increase and greater numbers of people reach and surpass the century mark in age, Temple’s Department of Public Health Associate Professor Adam Davey and a group of researchers are using a new method to try to understand the cognitive changes that are part of extreme aging. They published their findings, “Profiles of Cognitive Functioning in a Population-Based Sample of Centenarians Using Factor Mixture Analysis,” in the journal Experimental Aging Research.
