Starting this fall, the use of robotics will allow doctors at Temple University Hospital to perform intricate heart surgeries without having to open a patient's chest. Four small incisions are made in the chest where the probes to the robot are placed, and they can be used for a number of procedures including valve repair and replacement, tumor removal and bypass surgery. Sloane Guy, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Temple's School of Medicine, says that the robotic arms are easily controlled via a console: "I have absolute control over those arms.

Jonathan Nyquist, chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Temple's College of Science and Technology, says that earthquakes do happen here in the Philadelphia area occasionally, but it's unlikely today's quake will lead to a stronger event: "Little quakes occur on the East Coast all the time, but mostly they're ones that you're not going to feel unless you’re extremely close to the epicenter — and even then it's probably just a little shake. Big ones like this occur probably every 40-50 years."

Jason "J.R." Read, who left an indelible mark on Temple rowing as a student-athlete and went on to a standout career with the U.S. National Team, is returning to his alma mater. "It is rare that a you have one of your greatest athletes come back to serve as a head coach, but we are fortunate at Temple in that regard with the naming of Jason Read as the women's rowing coach," said Bill Bradshaw, Temple's director of athletics.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the east coast Tuesday. Jonathan Nyquist, chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Temple's College of Science and Technology, explained what causes an earthquake through a demonstration.  "The simple model is two plates sliding past each other," represented in the demo by a brick and some sandpaper, said Nyquist. "After stress builds up sufficiently, there is a sudden movement of the plates."