Professors teaching Temple's "Mosaic" Intellectual Heritage courses are testing a variety of ways to increase student inclusion and participation, including one in which students are encouraged to use their smartphones to tweet during and after classroom discussions.

A study led by Temple undergraduate student Mary Wolfe and Department of Geography and Urban Studies Associate Professor Jeremy Mennis found that well-maintained vegetation lowered the rates of certain types of crime in urban neighborhoods.

Last week, more than 100 invited governmental, business, labor and non-profit leaders came together at the Penn's Landing Hyatt for a day of information and discussion sessions on the theme "Building a Stronger Regional Economy: How Public Pension Funding Challenges and Energy Development Opportunities Will Affect Our Future." The symposium was hosted by Temple's new Center on