After holding a range of internships in places as high profile as the White House and Madison Square Garden, Amy Bendekovits is ready to take on the Big Apple with a full-time management position at Aramark that starts in June.

Wilfred Beaye, a transfer student from Bucks County Community College, will attend Harvard Law School this fall. Beaye, who is the first in his family to attend college, says he owes much to his mother, who left behind her life and family in Liberia to move to the U.S. after his father’s death.

As president of Temple’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter, mechanical engineering major James Furman II led the group in establishing a connection with a local community garden. Now, the organization is designing a solar-powered, hydroponic growing system that will increase the garden’s yield.

A “Producing & Directing” course with Assistant Professor Kristine Trever Weatherston spurred Michael Busza to create, write and direct Temple’s first full-length web sitcom, “one of the guys.”

After her father suffered a brain injury from a serious accident, Jaslyn Johnson used what she learned as a neurology major at Temple to aid in his recovery.

Temple’s commitment to controlling student debt and increasing financial literacy extends far beyond Main Campus. Thanks to Zahra Safa—a student of accounting in the Fox School of Business—lessons in financial literacy have extended to Central America.