Temple’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve Neil Theobald as the university’s 10th president. The vote came at a public meeting that topped Theobald’s two-day visit to main campus. He emphasized his desire to not just meet but talk with everyone affected by Temple, from students to people in the surrounding neighborhoods. “We need to be responsive to their needs and to let them know what we’re planning,” he said.

Social media has created an interesting but also challenging platform for conversations about the Olympics, said Joe Mahan, of Temple’s Sport Industry Research Center. “It’s a way to further the athletes’ brands, but it becomes tricky because it’s often an ‘act first, then think’ situation.

With a goal of reducing its energy consumption by 25 percent over two years, Temple joined with PhillyCarShare to unveil two new Chevy Volts and electric charging stations. “We realize this is a very ambitious goal, but we will reach it through a number of different strategies including seeking greener forms of transportation,” said Temple Acting President Richard Englert.

A heat wave is not proof of global warming, but it does seem to help convince people that global warming is real. A new study based on surveys was examined to see if there was a relationship between beliefs about climate change and local temperature. The researchers, including Megan Mullin of Temple, found that unusual temperatures were associated with a shift in beliefs about evidence for global warming.