As tragic concussion and dehydration cases have raised the profile of those conditions, Temple University athletic trainers have made a priority of tending bumped heads and nagging football players to drink water. Before each practice, head trainer Dwight Stansbury along with three other full-time trainers and seven students soothe the previous day's sprains, strains and bruises in 105 players. "In athletics, especially in football, everybody's looking for a way to keep their kids healthy," he said.

Sean Yom, associate professor of political science at Temple, spoke with FPRI radio about his recent research trip to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Yom discusses the stability of Jordan a year and a half out from the so-called Arab Spring, and, more specifically, the stability of the institution of the monarchy and the staying power of the monarch himself. The institution of the monarch in Jordan is stable; however, the situation of the monarch himself is less so," said Yom.

Marla Wolfson, a professor of physiology, pediatrics and medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, was awarded a pair of grants, totaling $4.4 million, from the Office of Naval Research. One is to study a group of chemicals' ability to protect lungs in high altitudes and the other is to look at whether the same chemicals can lessen the impact of traumatic brain injuries.

The British government could find itself hauled before an international court if it moves in on the Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum. "It's pretty simple under international law," said Temple international law professor Peter Spiro. "Without the consent of the state whose embassy is implicated, the host state may not enter those premises."