When many states have cut their wellness and education programs for inmates, citing cost and political pressures, some wardens looking for a low-cost, low-risk way for inmates to reflect on their crimes, improve their fitness and cope with the stress of overcrowded prison life are turning toward yoga. “This seems like a relatively inexpensive technique that could be made available to inmates and doesn’t take a lot of space,” said Steven Belenko, a professor of criminal justice at Temple. “It could be taught with DVDs. It has scalability.”
A new study finds that letting an infant cry itself to sleep is the best way to ensure a good night’s rest for all. The researchers, led by Marsha Weinraub, professor and chair of psychology at Temple, concluded that babies should be left to go to sleep on their own - even if that meant they cried for a bit. Doing so enabled them to learn how to “self soothe,” which also gave frazzled parents a break.
Don Lee, the director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University, said that said as with his other books, his new novel explores "the idea of friendships and the way they form and wane." Lee said The Collective also allowed him to explore difficult issues facing Asian-Americans, and artists in particular.
In a compilation of 2013 forecasts, Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus, offered his take on Shinzo Abe, Japan's new prime minister. "Abe is going to hit the ground running," Kingston said. "He can get broad agreement on a 10 trillion yen ($120 billion) stimulus package with infrastructure spending to jolt the economy out of recession. That will add to Japan’s pile of debt, but after you [top 200 percent] of GDP, what's another 10 trillion yen?"
Philadelphian Ted Paluch, a World War II veteran, shared his recollections of the Malmedy massacre of December 17, 1944. On that grim day during the Battle of the Bulge, 80 U.S. prisoners of war were killed by their German captors. "Hitler issued an order of no quarter, no prisoners, and a terror campaign to instill horror and fear in the Allied armies," said Andy Waskie, a Temple professor who is president of an association of Battle of the Bulge veterans.
People with colon cancer who also have either diabetes or high blood pressure are more likely to die from their cancer or have the illness come back after treatment compared with colon-cancer patients without those two conditions. That's the conclusion from Temple surgical oncologist Nestor Esnaola and his team. The investigators reviewed more than 36,000 medical records. "Perhaps patients that have early stage colon cancer that are diabetic or have hypertension may warrant closer cancer surveillance, i.e. follow-up," Esnaola said.
Temple University Health System President and CEO Larry Kaiser told PBJ how the Affordable Care Act would impact TUHS. "The government wants to decrease disproportionate share payments on the premise that safety net hospitals like ours will have fewer uninsured to care for," Kaiser said. "It's an interesting premise, but it doesn't hold true for places like ours." Kaiser said Temple works hard at getting patients who show up at one of its hospitals without insurance enrolled in a Medicaid plan if they qualify.
Temple University Police have issued an advisory regarding a robbery with a gun involving a Temple student and an employee Thursday, Jan. 3, at 5:50 p.m. outside 1426 W. Venango Street, west of the Health Sciences campus.
NBC brought back a long-lost Christmas classic this holiday season, marking the golden anniversary of the program’s debut. Fifty years ago, NBC aired a pioneering animated special starring the myopic Mr. Magoo in a musical version of “A Christmas Carol.” Longtime television producer and Temple professor Paul Gluck says it was a milestone in mid-20th century animation: “Right after it aired, Walt Disney called its producer and said, ‘This is a program of such quality that it will be seen for generations,’” said Gluck.
The end of everything has been on Barry Vacker's mind. The professor of media studies at Temple put together three days of art, film, lectures and music revolving around the idea of apocalypse last month. He has tracked how visions of end-times have evolved from earliest myths to the latest social media-driven memes. "Technology is evolving rapidly and I think many people are fearful of what it signifies," said Vacker. "A sense of loss, a sense of an end, an end to a certain vision of America."
