Urban communities should be seen as complex computing programs that can operate efficiently and smartly, offering the infrastructure for innovation and entrepreneurship, said Youngjin Yoo, a professor at Temple's Fox School of Business who is leading the university's new Urban Apps and Maps Studio. That was the central message from the second TEDxPhilly event which drew 200 people to Temple's Performing Arts Center.

A video produced by Temple's Office of University Communications appeared on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Tweed blog. The video features Seth Bruggeman, assistant professor of history and American studies at Temple, in a piece which spotlights Eastern State Penitentiary, a historic Pennsylvania prison that is converted into a haunted house each Halloween as a fund-raiser to keep it open to visitors. Some critics say that the haunted tour disrespects the history of the site. Bruggeman takes his students to the prison to explore that question.

While most gunshot wounds are to the head or chest, a smaller number of men suffer wounds to a much more sensitive area — the scrotum. Jack Mydlo, chair of the Department of Urology at Temple's School of Medicine, recently searched 20 years of hospital records for cases where they'd treated these types of injuries. Although only 97 patients were seen, in about half the cases, doctors were able to salvage the area. Mydlo said that in these types of cases, the motive for shooting is usually revenge for some perceived romantic slight.