Arthur M. Feldman, who has been chair of the department of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, is moving to Temple next month. Effective Sept. 1, Feldman will become executive dean of the Temple University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Temple University Health System. That makes him the second-in-command on the academic side of the health system to Larry Kaiser, who took charge of the system and medical school in April.

Fashion industry observers say it's not just celebrity moms who mimic their daughters' styles — many ordinary mothers do, too. Researchers tried to quantify the trend in a study led by Ayalla Ruvio, a marketing professor at Temple's Fox School of Business. Based on a survey of 343 Israeli mother and daughter pairs (ages 44 and 16, on average), she found that, in cases where mothers and daughters viewed each other as fashion-savvy and respectively youthful or mature, mothers were significantly more inclined to imitate their daughters than the other way around.

Temple business student Mohamed Ali Niang will skip his Aug. 26 graduation to kick off his own rice-processing and distribution business in his native Mali. "Our vision," he said of the company, "is to never, ever lose a child" to inadequate diet. "I see a lot of entrepreneurs come through this program," said Jaine Lucas, executive director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at Temple's Fox School of Business. "You learn early on who the real deal is and who the tire-kickers are.