The Occupy or "99 Percent" movement has as many main points as cities. Ralph Young, Temple history professor and author of Dissent in America, was involved in 1960s protests. He sees unity in diversity. "In all protest movements," Young says, "everybody's got their own reasons for being there. But economic injustice — that involves thousands. This person's issue will be a lost mortgage; this one's is no jobs. These protesters want the government to listen. 'We are screaming in pain and all the government listens to is Wall Street,' they're saying.

The art of storytelling is alive and well in CBS newsman Charles Osgood who was awarded Temple's Lew Klein Excellence in Media Award for his contributions to the media industry and society on Wednesday. As a journalist, Osgood favors quiet, thoughtful human interest stories. He advised young people looking for work in a tough economy to "find a door that's open and use it. Work your way up and fill a need. The fact that the world is changing shouldn't scare you, but suck you in. Now is your chance."

While developing technologies to clean contaminants from water is important, it is just as important to make sure those same technologies get to the marketplace. Temple's Water and Environmental Technology (WET) Center received a $1 million, two-year National Science Foundation grant to help it commercialize some of the water-treatment methods being developed by it and its industry partners.

A Temple-led study shows that social media can help college students lose weight. In the study, overweight students were split into three groups: a control group, one that received weight loss information on Facebook and a third that received the Facebook posts plus encouraging daily text messages.