It's been almost six years since John Chaney coached the last game of his Hall of Fame career. Daily News sportswriter Mike Kern caught up with him recently. "I miss the fellowship and the camaraderie, the love I had for the kids and the love they had for me, what we built. Every year when we started practice, I used to put a lot of crap on the board, like, 'Beware, El Tabasco is coming.' I was the hot sauce. I was going to be tough on them. I looked forward to that," he said.
"Hell and Back Again," a film edited by Temple film and media arts graduate student Fiona Otway, was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award. It's the third Oscar-nominated documentary that Otway has edited: "Iraq in Fragments" was a documentary feature contender in 2007 and "Sari's Mother" was a 2008 documentary short subject nominee. The 33-year-old editor received a fellowship to attend Temple.
The premise of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" is one of the most recognized in the world. The murder mystery has been staged continuously in London's West End since 1952. The play is famous for its surprise ending and a plea from the stage that the audience members not divulge the ending to their friends. "That feeds into the excitement of being a very small cognoscenti that knows the ending," said professor Priya Joshi, who is teaching a course on the detective novel at Temple.
A new study finds that women tend to report greater amounts of pain than men. Women are more likely to seek medical care than men, and the gender of the physician may affect how patients report their pain. But even if more women go to the doctor, that doesn't mean they are getting the treatment they need, said Gaurav Trehan, director of interventional pain medicine at Temple University Hospital.
Academy Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, and a documentary edited by Temple graduate student, Fiona Otway, is on the short list for Best Documentary Feature. "Hell and Back Again" chronicles the life of a 25-year-old Marine, who is deployed to Afghanistan, shot in the hip and comes home. "It's an incredibly visceral and intimate portrait of what it's like to go to war and come home again," said Otway. "The footage is absolutely stunning and unlike what many people have seen before."
Using puppets, Temple psychology researcher Neha Mahajan studied the reactions of eight-month-old babies to different scenarios. When puppets acted mean, and another puppet punished them for their actions, the babies flocked to the enforcer as their favorite toy. "Babies seem to have more nuanced views of morality and reciprocity than we had previously thought, and from a very young age they can conduct these complex social evaluations," said Mahajan.
