Temple in the News
Philadelphia offers some small, lesser known museums that are fascinating.
The Shoe Museum at Temple’s School of Podiatric Medicine features fabulous shoes: everything from Egyptian burial sandals to...
June 10, 2012
Why is there an audience for online gore and violence? As Frank Farley, a faculty member at Temple’s College of Education, says, “There’s an arousal value that’s involved in this high stimulation...
June 10, 2012
Philadelphia has the highest obesity rate of America's big cities. It also has an ambitious plan to turn 632 corner stores into greengrocers. But whether that will have a health impact remains to be...
June 8, 2012
Journalism departments around the country are starting to give their students new news opportunities. More than beefing up course catalogs with multimedia and convergence offerings, journalism...
June 8, 2012
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warns that Joe Frazier’s gym may not be able to hold out much longer. The gym's precarious condition came to the attention of the Trust after a group of...
June 8, 2012
A new study finds that of high school graduates who are not in college or do not have a college degree, just 27 percent are employed full-time. "The market has been discriminating against those with...
June 7, 2012
"The American political dance has the tendency to transform even the most upstanding citizens into prepubescent teenagers," wrote Temple School of Communications and Theater student Ali Watkins in an...
June 7, 2012
Some interns will get more out of their internships and that will have a lot to do with what they put into it. “It is very important to be professional, that includes being on time all of the time,...
June 6, 2012
Very soon, the Philadelphia Phillies' home-sellout streak, currently at 232 games, will come upon three years. According to Joris Drayer of Temple's Sport Industry Research Center, demand tends to...
June 5, 2012
OSHA is unable to act with urgency on well-known workplace hazards. A plan to address the toxic hazard silica has been tied up for 15 years. Ian Greaves, a physician and professor of public health at...
June 5, 2012