For the last 50 years, Dominic Galante has worked in the registrar's office at La Salle. He started as an administrative assistant on Nov. 5, 1962. Now he is the registrar. He supervises a department of nine and is responsible for rostering classes and maintaining records for 6,600 students, plus alumni. In this time of layoffs, it can be a challenge for someone to keep a job for 50 weeks, let alone 50 years. "It is unusual," said Kate Nelson, a human resources instructor at Temple's Fox School of Business. "I think it is generational."

"Atlantic City was Disneyland before there even was a Disneyland," wrote Temple historian Bryant Simon, author of Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, in a New Republic op-ed. Yet behind the fantasy, he argued, "there was always the reality of a city, a place of department stores and pawn shops, the well-heeled and the down and out, tourists and locals, black and white." Hurricane Sandy, wrote Simon, "brought the tensions between the two Atlantic Citys to the forefront, again."

Procter & Gamble researchers, partnering with Temple scientists, have been awarded time on the Titan supercomputer to develop the first molecular-based model for understanding how lotions or drugs are delivered through the skin. Michael Klein, director of Temple's Institute for Computational Molecular Science, explains that human skin is made of a complex matrix. "The structure of this matrix gives skin all these beautiful properties. Understanding how these processes work is of great interest to consumer products companies," he says.

The hunt is on to establish a Dow Jones for social media, and the competition is fierce for a compact way to interpret it all. Temple University’s TEMPO effort is among the most wide-ranging and promising. Through an alliance with LexisNexis, Fox School of Business researchers are collecting data for social and traditional media for about 900 candidates. “The whole purpose of this is to see how exposure relates to the polls,” said David Schuff, Fox's director of Innovation in Learning Technologies.