Temple in the News
Kansai Electric Power, the Japanese utility most reliant on nuclear energy, might face a power shortage of about 20 percent unless it can restart reactors taken offline after the Fukushima crisis....
April 23, 2012
DuPont Co. is boosting sales its 200-pound bulletproof car kit which adds about $12,000 to the price of a car, to middle-class Brazilian families. "The upper middle class" in Brazil "has lived...
April 23, 2012
With a little creativity, you can more clearly understand what social media delivers to your brand. Steven Johnson, assistant professor at Temple's Fox School of Business, offered the example of...
April 23, 2012
Crime is down nationwide, but border towns have not enjoyed the same level of pacification as their big-city neighbors. Statistical evidence is wanting because the FBI data report numbers of crimes...
April 23, 2012
Temple psychologist Jason Chein trains subjects in his lab with something called a complex working memory span task. The goal is to expand a subject’s underlying working memory. Chein has found it...
April 22, 2012
Larry Kaiser, at the helm of Temple’s Health System for a year, is crafting a bold plan to steer the organization. So far, he has engineered the purchase of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and overseen...
April 22, 2012
Joseph Snizavich died of brain cancer and his widow blamed his exposure to chemicals at a Rohm & Haas research facility. But proving a connection between the chemicals and cancer could be...
April 21, 2012
In an AP "First Person" video distributed to more than 1,500 news websites worldwide, Temple Libraries' Director of Special Collections Margery Sly discussed the Lew and Janet Klein collection and...
April 20, 2012
Forty Temple engineering students had a “blast" turning a part of campus into Cape Canaveral as they launched uncooked eggs aboard water and compressed air-powered rockets built from two-liter...
April 20, 2012
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, its impact is still being felt. Temple biologist Erik Cordes is part of a group of scientists who have long been studying the...
April 20, 2012