College of Liberal Arts
Religion professor comments on possible selection of an African pope
Type: In the Media
March 12, 2013
Competitive approach to learning goes beyond fun and games
Type: News Story
Gamification — using gaming elements, mechanics and frameworks in non-game contexts — is thriving at Temple, with efforts underway at the university, college and departmental level. Management Information Systems and Intellectual Heritage faculty who use the approach to promote engagement and learning in their courses have seen positive results.
March 11, 2013
Senior horticulture major finds beauty in the macabre
Type: News Story
In the eight years that he has been showing his plants at the Philadelphia Flower Show, Temple Ambler Horticulture student Brandon Huber has garnered more than 250 ribbons. His extensive and diverse collection of exotic plants includes a hanging begonia, a climbing onion, a variegated ivy and a “corpse plant," which gives of a stench of rotting meat when in full bloom.
March 10, 2013
Historian Heather Thompson on legacy of mass incarceration in the U.S.
Type: In the Media
February 27, 2013
Renowned poet, author Ishmael Reed to read from his works
Type: News Story
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, Temple's English Department is hosting a reading by poet, essayist, playwright and novelist Ishmael Reed.
February 21, 2013
In some classes, smartphones are viewed as aid, not barrier, to learning
Type: News Story
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.
February 20, 2013
Temple's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History "talks about food"
Type: In the Media
February 6, 2013