Fifteen years after its first class, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program has spread way beyond its Philadelphia birthplace. Lori Pompa, a criminal justice instructor at Temple who created the program said, “The outside students aren't there to study the inside students. They're there to learn. All participants are in class together, as peers." These relationships lead to a better understanding of an array of social issues.

Can cutting off doctors’ access to drug company sales representatives make patients more likely to receive a prescription for a dangerous or ineffective drug? A new study led by Temple Fox School of Business Professor George Chressanthis found that doctors who rarely or never meet with pharmaceutical reps are much slower to drop medicines with the FDA’s “black box” warnings and to adopt first-in-class therapies.