A program at Temple that uses maps, apps, and social networks to improve neighborhoods has gotten another infusion of cash. “The new funding will allow us to work more closely with communities … and with folks who are interested in … starting small businesses,” said Michele Masucci, interim vice provost for research. “It’s the idea of being able to involve students in learning skills that can give them advantages … in the local workforce, but also to become content creators and innovators,” said Masucci.

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation is granting $3 million to promote student entrepreneurship at Temple and Philadelphia University with assistance from the University City Science Center. "We fully expect to double the amount of students who receive our services," said Jaine Lucas, executive director of Temple's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute. "Great ideas will come from everywhere."

It’s a good thing federal mediators aren’t seeking to determine right and wrong in the NHL lockout. According to Aubrey Kent of Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, both sides have a valid claim that they are in the right. “Players feel as though they’re being bullied,” he said. “Owners feel from a dollar-value perspective that the next seven years they’ve offered would be far more lucrative than the previous seven years were, even as good as that was."

Temple has been awarded a $635,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to train high-school and college-age students from the North Philadelphia area on how to develop apps. The grant will enable 300 students to take part in six-week programs at Temple's Urban Apps and Maps Studios over the next three summers. Students will work to create apps to help solve problems encountered by residents of urban communities.