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Faces of Temple: Travis Mahoney

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Travis Mahoney is the last Temple student-athlete to compete in 2011-12. The track and field star and exercise and sports science major is the only Owl who qualified for the NCAA Championships this week. In this month's entry in the Faces of Temple student profile series, learn what makes Mahoney's best event, the steeplechase, so unusual — and so painful.
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STEM careers are focus of NSF-funded middle school program

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College of Education Assistant Professor Carol Brandt is a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant that is funding the development an afterschool program to motivate middle school students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
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White House Hispanic Summit at Temple enables citizens to talk policy with federal officials

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Federal officials visited Temple’s Student Center on Saturday to hear the perspectives of local nonprofits, community groups and students as part of the White House’s 19th Hispanic Community Action Summit, which connects administration officials with the public to create action plans based on issues of importance to the community.
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OSHA rules on workplace toxics stalled

Posted Jun 5, 2012
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OSHA Rules On Workplace Toxics Stalled

OSHA is unable to act with urgency on well-known workplace hazards. A plan to address the toxic hazard silica has been tied up for 15 years. Ian Greaves, a physician and professor of public health at Temple, said recent studies show that even modest silica exposures heighten the risk of lung cancer. "It appears that any degree of lung fibrosis increases the risk," he said.

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