This week, a Temple symposium on “big data” identified research synergies across campus. In the fall, Temple’s Institute for Business and Information Technology is hosting an industry conference on big data’s potential. “… the biggest question is … ‘How can I actually create business value from big data?’” said Paul A. Pavlou of Temple’s Fox School of Business.
People with schizophrenia, are generally not violent, experts say, but the risk that they will be rises when they stop taking medications. William R. Dubin, chair of psychiatry at Temple’s School of Medicine, said research has found that in the absence of substance abuse, people with schizophrenia were less violent than those with depression or bipolar disorder.
An American flag that flew over U.S. bases in Afghanistan now flies over Temple University Hospital. Temple’s own Guy D. Lewis, a nurse and retired major with the U.S. Army, donated the flag which was raised Thursday morning.
50 Shades of Grey has taken what was once considered pornographic fiction and put it right into the mainstream. "But what makes this book popular with women is that it is written for them," said Temple sociologist Julia Ericksen. "What you find is an old-fashioned romance — the same you would find in any Harlequin romance or even a Jane Austen novel — but with a lot of explicit sex."
The media have given Mitt Romney a pass on his response to a report that he bullied other students while in school said Jan C. Ting, a professor at Temple’s Beasley School of Law in an opinion piece. “Romney has a law degree and should understand that what he did in boarding school was not a mere ‘prank”; it was a potentially criminal act for which he should have been held accountable,” said Ting.
Faculty and students from Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management presented their final reports to the city and public concluding a three-year partnership with Cape May. Betsy Barber, associate dean, called the project a labor of love that was as beneficial to the school as it was to the city. According to the research, 34 percent of visitors come from Pennsylvania, 32 percent from New Jersey and 12 percent from New York.
