Temple in the News
Faced with declining state revenue, Temple Provost and Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Richard M. Englert spent the last year looking at ways to cut costs and improve operations....
March 5, 2012
Temple Ambler’s exhibit was presented with “Best in Show” in the Academic Educational category at the Philadelphia International Flower Show. Assistant professor of landscape architecture Robert...
March 5, 2012
In the age of texting and tweeting, English grammar may seem like it's on the road to extinction. How can teachers fight back? Many still teach grammar by getting students to diagram sentences....
March 5, 2012
Gov. Corbett's proposed cuts in funding for mental-health and other social services in the city have wider implications that should worry Philadelphians, wrote Temple criminologist Jerry Ratcliffe in...
March 5, 2012
A recent case in Philadelphia leads to the question: Why would people allow an untrained medical professional to perform plastic surgery on them, and why do these cases sometimes result in death?...
March 3, 2012
Following the lead of their three starting guards — Juan Fernandez, Ramone Moore and Khalif Wyatt — No. 23 Temple men's basketball "has established itself as the class of the Atlantic 10 conference...
March 2, 2012
Temple senior Shey Peddy was named the 2012 Atlantic 10 women's basketball Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. Peddy is the first student-athlete to garner dual honors since Temple's...
March 1, 2012
It can be better to win small than to win big - at least for CFOs who want larger bonuses. In a groundbreaking paper to appear in a coming issue of Accounting Horizons, Steven Balsam of Temple’s Fox...
March 1, 2012
You would expect a nation famed for its efficiency and infrastructure to set the world standard for rebuilding. Yet one year after an earthquake and tsunami, Japan's revival has barely begun. "They...
March 1, 2012
Why are cats so popular on the Internet? Miles Orvell, a cultural historian at Temple who specializes in visual culture, said that what the Internet has done is leverage a preexisting fascination. “...
March 1, 2012