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Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Fox Chase Cancer Center secure $1.36 million in PCORI funding

With this funding, Temple Health will implement an electronic symptom monitoring system for patients undergoing cancer treatment. The PCORI initiative will be led by Amy J. Goldberg, the Marjorie Joy Katz Dean of Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Erin Tagai, an assistant professor in the cancer prevention and control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

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With this funding, Temple Health will implement an electronic symptom monitoring system for patients undergoing cancer treatment.
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Temple partners with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to expand programming at Tyler School of Art and Architecture

Tyler will begin leasing space within PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building and will look to expand academic programs and begin a "critic-in-residency" program. The Tyler community will now also have access to the PAFA Museum.

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Temple and PAFA have entered into a new partnership, where Tyler students, faculty and staff now have access to the PAFA Museum
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Temple marching band celebrates 100 years of legacy, life lessons and fun

Coinciding with its 100th anniversary, Temple University’s Diamond Marching Band will be serving up some serious spirit this November at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This marks the band’s first appearance in the legendary annual holiday parade. 

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The celebration this year includes the band’s debut performance at the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Redefining motherhood: Why more women are choosing children after 40

As teen birth rates reach historic lows, a new generation of mothers is reshaping the timeline of parenthood, backed by medicine, support and changing cultural values.

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As teen birth rates reach historic lows, a new generation of mothers is reshaping the timeline of parenthood, backed by medicine, support and changing cultural values.
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Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr.’s papers donated to Temple’s Blockson Collection

The papers will give scholars new insight into the two-term mayor’s career and legacy and will be preserved within Temple’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection—one of the nation’s leading research centers on the history and culture of people of African descent.

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Temple University announced that the papers of W. Wilson Goode Sr., Philadelphia’s first Black mayor, will be preserved in the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection.
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Distracted viewers can be prime targets for ads, Temple study finds

Few things are more annoying than receiving a push notification while trying to focus on the big game. But new research by Sunil Wattal and Vinod Venkatraman finds that those ads may have a higher chance of sticking with consumers, especially when they are timed right.

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New research from Sunil Wattal and Vinod Venkatraman found that distractions can also help, not always hinder, a consumer’s recollection of advertisements.
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Sandra A. Foehl retired from Temple University after a 52-year career

Foehl joined Temple in 1973 as an affirmative action specialist. 

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Sandra Foehl officially retired from Temple as the director of equal opportunity compliance.
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Rolling into an internship at Harley-Davidson

Junior industrial and systems engineering major and Honors student Ella Brasten completed an internship with Harley-Davidson over the summer.

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Junior Ella Brasten’s summer internship at Harley-Davidson in York, Pennsylvania, fit in with her industrial and systems engineering major and business minor perfectly.
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Sparking an idea: Temple history professor studies 1970s arson wave in new book

Assistant Professor of History Bench Ansfield explains why landlords set fire to their buildings in the Bronx and other U.S. cities in the recently released book Born in Flames

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In the new book Born in Flames, Assistant Professor of History Bench Ansfield chronicles the wave of landlord arson that ravaged U.S. cities in the 1970s.

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