Members of Temple University’s football team, while in town for the Eagle Bank Bowl at RFK Stadium last week, took time out to visit some old stomping grounds. Owls captain Dominique Harris returned to the Richard England Clubhouse No. 14 Boys & Girls Club in Northeast Washington, where he started his sports career. "I have a lot of memories here, a lot of memories," said Harris, who elicited cheers when he told the kids he grew up "right up the street." Chester Stewart, Temple's sophomore quarterback, also got cheers when he told the 50 kids at his feet that he was a 2007 DeMatha Catholic High School graduate.

January 7, 2010 | Miller-McCune

Many American teenagers are rebellious thrill-seekers, but is it just biology that makes them do it? Or is American culture also to blame? That's what renowned adolescent psychologist and Temple University Professor Laurence Steinberg wants to know. With the rare bounty of a $1 million research award from the Jacobs Foundation, Steinberg plans to research adolescents in other countries to determine whether they're different from American teens — and, if so, why. "There are some changes in the brain during adolescence that are, we believe, very strongly linked to the pubertal hormones," Steinberg said. "To the extent that those hormones are universal, we might expect to find that their impact on brain development is pretty much universal. But some aspects of brain development during adolescence are probably more influenced by experience."

January 7, 2010 | Bloomberg

Before Hirohisa Fujii left his position as Japan’s finance minister, he oversaw the formation of a record 92.3 trillion yen budget for the fiscal year starting April 1. He was a strong proponent of keeping government bond issuances at about 44 trillion yen, the same as the current fiscal year, to rein in a public debt approaching 200 percent of gross domestic product. Fujii “was the veteran safe hand on the economy,” said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo. “Now he’s gone and they don’t have a huge depth chart in the finance ministry.”