It's been just 30 days since the start of the new year and already four Temple faculty members have been featured guests on "Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane."

And that doesn't include today's 10 a.m. broadcast featuring Jan Ting and Peter Spiro, professors in Temple's Beasley School of Law, on the subject of comprehensive immigration reform. Ting served as Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice and Spiro specializes in international and immigration law and is the author of Beyond Citizenship:  American Identity After Globalization.

The critically acclaimed, Philadelphia-produced radio talk show features local politicians, academics and artist as well as figures of national and international prominence. Hosted by Moss-Coane (CLA '73), the two-hour program is broadcast live five days a week on WHYY-FM at 10 a.m. and rebroadcast at 10 p.m.

On Jan. 22, James Hilty talked with a panel of guests about President Obama's inauguration and what we can expect from his second term. Hilty, professor emeritus of history, is a nationally recognized expert on the history of American politics and the presidency.

On Jan. 25, Mark Salzer joined Radio Times to discuss new proposals for mental health legislation in wake of the Newtown massacre. Salzer is chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and director of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.

On Jan. 28, Beth Bailey discussed the significance of the announcement by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. Bailey is a professor of history and acting director of Temple's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy.

On Jan. 29, Robert Stroker described the creative process behind the GRAMMY-nominated "Music of Ansel Adams: America." Stroker, vice provost for the arts and dean of the Center for the Arts, served as executive producer for the recording. A second Boyer College of Music and Dance recording, "Overture, Waltz and Rondo," by former Temple faculty member Bill Cunliffe, was also nominated — the second Cunliffe-Boyer collaboration to be nominated in three years.

Last semester also witnessed a plethora of appearances on Radio Times by Temple faculty. Professor of political science Christopher Wlezien discussed the presidential campaign and his new book, “The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter;” Robin Kolodny, associate professor of political science, examined the money and the ads in the 2012 presidential campaign. And Gary Foster, professor of Medicine and Public Health and director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), reviewed some good news in the fight against childhood obesity.

Looking ahead, Heather Thompson, associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies, has been invited to join the show for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the high rates of incarceration in the U.S.