Temple in the News
Temple is back in the Big East. "Exceptional, extraordinary: All those words apply," said Temple's athletic director Bill Bradshaw. How did Temple go from 0-11 in 2005 to Big East member in 2012? The...
April 18, 2012
Temple women’s basketball star Shey Peddy was chosen in the second round of the WNBA draft on Monday by the Chicago Sky, with the 23d overall pick. Peddy is the third Owl ever drafted by the WNBA....
April 17, 2012
Temple University just got a rich new resource for broadcasting history. Lew Klein, a major figure in Philadelphia television, sports and politics since the 1950s, has donated materials from his...
April 17, 2012
Academic literature on the effectiveness of employee-customer similarity has been riddled with conflicting findings. Does similarity, in fact, sell? According to a nationwide study led by Derek Avery...
April 17, 2012
When a doctor discovers a lump during a physical, the patient must be sent for more testing. But a new, inexpensive device developed by Temple engineer Chang-Hee Won can provide doctors with...
April 16, 2012
Computers are now helping medicinal chemists identify targets and develop complex compounds, increasing the potential for success in developing molecules that will attack disease-causing proteins. “...
April 16, 2012
Like the U.S., Mexico has a hotly contested presidential election this year. Videos have helped swing Mexican elections before, and a new viral video, “Niños Incomodos,” has ignited debate over...
April 15, 2012
Seeking to accentuate the positive in the Pennsylvania Legislature, often perceived in a negative light, Temple student researchers, Shelly Forrester and Van Huynh, have produced a "greatest...
April 15, 2012
March Madness may be over, but the hardwood at the Liacouras Center is still packed with players. The Owls' home arena is hosting the mid-Atlantic region championship for FIRST, a national robotics...
April 13, 2012
Dinosaurs that lived in Arctic regions 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters, a team of researchers has revealed. The team worked with fossils of herbivorous dinosaurs...
April 12, 2012