Molefi Asante, the founder of the first Ph.D. program in African American Studies in the country at Temple, created a new African think-tank in the heart of Germantown. Temple doctoral student Aaron Smith said, "The institute is important in Germantown because it can be part of a historic presence in the African American community here."

Temple University has tapped current provost and long-time administrator Richard M. Englert to serve as acting president while the search for a permanent successor continues. "We're confident we're going to have a great president to announce," said Temple University Board of Trustees chair, Patrick J. O'Connor, who is also head of the 12-member presidential search committee.

Does a child get a different experience from a book than an e-book? Studies that aim to answer this and similar questions are just getting under way, but researchers expect the answer will be yes. When a parent reads a physical book to a child, the child tends to take away more of the actual content, says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple. This doesn't mean that children shouldn't read books on the iPad. These apps can be fun for a child, which is a good thing.