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Temple's Intergenerational Center wins 1st Eisner Prize

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Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer

Temple's Intergenerational Center has been named the first recipient of the Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence, which includes a $100,000 cash award. The Eisner Foundation, headed by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, established the annual award to honor the individual or non-profit organization doing the best work in creating partnerships with senior citizens and young people. Nancy Henkin, who founded the center in 1979, said she was thrilled: "We really see Philadelphia as our laboratory.

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Tea party finding its own protest music

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Associated Press

Tea party activists are increasingly turning to music — some of it inspired by protest music of the 1960s and '70s — to capture the spirit of their movement. About half of self-described tea party supporters are 50 or older and can remember listening to AM radio that spun 45s of liberal protest music like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. Temple historian Ralph Young, a protest music expert, notes tea party music has yet to seep through society, the way the music of the '60s and '70s did.

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Flu vaccines a major shot in the arm for pharmacies

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KYW News Radio

Flu season means big business for pharmacies, particularly those with clinics staffed with a licensed physician's assistant or a nurse who can give flu vaccines to children. Eric Keuffel, an assistant professor at Temple's Fox School of Business, says providing flu vaccines is a major shot in the arm for pharmacies. "Pharmacies are an increasingly larger share of the vaccination market," he said.

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Temple oncologist weighs in on new prostate cancer test recommendations

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Last week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, found that healthy men need no longer undergo PSA screens for prostate cancer because the tests don't save lives and lead to harm from unnecessary care. Curtis Miyamoto, chair of radiation oncology at Temple University Hospital, discussed the issues in a Q&A in the Inquirer. "I admit there are excessive screenings for men who will never actually benefit from it, but you cannot make the broad statement that we're not going to do this anymore," he said.

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Tepco paying price for Japan's nuclear disaster

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Washington Post

Seven months after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, Tepco, which operated the facility, owes $50 billion in compensation to the tens of thousands who lived close to the nuclear plant. In the first months of the crisis, Tepco's president disappeared from public view, then resigned. Tepco disclosed the meltdowns at the plant nearly two months after the fact and spun false stories about the timeline of events at the facility. "I imagine a lot of rank-and-file employees feel embarrassed by management," said Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus.

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CeaseFire program at Temple "intervenes to stop the violence"

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A new Temple program called Philadelphia CeaseFire is using a public-health approach to reducing violence among young men. The program identifies young people at risk of being shot and offers them guidance from street-smart "interrupters" who know violence firsthand. CeaseFire approaches "the whole notion of violence being a public-health issue and looks at it as a disease," said Marla Davis Bellamy, the program's director. Amy Goldberg, director of trauma at Temple University Hospital, said the hospital refers young people who have been shot to CeaseFire.

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Temple research in USA Today: Text messages help with weight loss

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USA Today, Philadelphia Magazine, Gannett News Service

Texting to track your calories may help peel off pounds. College students who used cell phones to monitor calories and physical activity and received personalized feedback about how they were doing dropped significantly more weight than those who didn't, according to new research from Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE). "Cellphones are a powerful intervention tool for weight loss," said lead author Melissa Napolitano. CORE Director Gary Foster says dieters often say they need to be held accountable.

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Apple's Delaware Valley connection

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Technically Philly

The Apple II computer developed by the late Steve Jobs used the original 6502 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in Norristown in 1975, said Dennis Silage, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Temple. MOS Technology was the only company that would ship chips to Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak because they were essentially operating Apple Computers out of a garage, said Silage. An original Apple IIe is part of the "Computer Museum" in Silage's System Chip Design Lab.

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Chemo pain could be relieved with marijuana component

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London Daily Mail

Cancer patients suffering from nerve pain due to chemo drugs could find relief from cannabidiol, the second most abundant chemical found in the marijuana plant, finds a Temple study. "Marijuana binds to the cannabinoid receptors in the body and researchers have long been interested in whether there is therapeutic potential for targeting this receptor system," said Sara Jane Ward of Temple's School of Pharmacy.

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Tyler instructor's new installation is "built by color"

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A new installation on view at Gallery2J by Katie Murken, an instructor at Temple's Tyler School of Art, received rave reviews in the Inquirer. The review calls Murken "an especially strong talent." Her current "Continua" project features 24 floor-to-ceiling columns made of reclaimed Philadelphia phone books, which have been transformed into dazzlingly colorful hand-dyed units according to a pre-established color formula. Murken's formula established a set of probabilities for choosing the colors.

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