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 hammered him, saying it was 'too little, too late'," Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan, told CNN.

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 prints, photographs, slave narratives, manuscripts, letters and other materials — joined philly.com for a live chat about black history.

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 be among the list of Olympic host cities to lose money on the event. "The benefits may prove elusive," says Emily Sparvero, an assistant professor at the sports industry research center of Temple University. "In Vancouver's case, the struggling economy, decreased interest in the Olympics will make it difficult to recoup its investment."

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 $1 million, is to be spent on research. According to the chair of the jury that selected Steinberg for the award, his rigorous ways of approaching questions make him well suited to tackle research that is relevant to public policy.