Temple in the News
A class of fourth-graders at Anne Frank Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia recently spoke via Skype with Astronaut Tim at the International Space Station. Astronaut Tim, aka Tim Belknap, is...
January 26, 2012
A Virginia woman faces up to one year in jail for disrupting a middle school dance production containing a character she considered racially offensive. The woman objected to a stereotypical "Mammy"...
January 26, 2012
The chorus wondering whether the Wilpons can retain ownership of the New York Mets continues to grow louder as the family attempts to overcome massive debt while maintaining a large-market payroll. "...
January 26, 2012
"A garden is more than just a pretty space; what you plant and how you plant it can affect the mind, body, and spirit," says Jenny Rose Carey, director of Temple's Ambler Arboretum, who led a public...
January 25, 2012
Hell and Back Again, a film edited by Temple grad student Fiona Otway, is up for an Oscar. The documentary is about soldiers in the Afghanistan war, and their struggles to return to domestic life....
January 25, 2012
Did media coverage of Joe Paterno fan the fire — or was this a story that would have burst into flame no matter what? Christopher Harper, associate professor of journalism at Temple, was with ABC's...
January 25, 2012
A group of U.S. lawmakers wants stricter rules for dissolvable tobacco products. Other advocates say smokeless products can lessen the disease, death and disability caused by smoking. Jennifer...
January 25, 2012
Members of a special committee exploring ways to overhaul Philadelphia's criminal justice system clashed Monday over whether the system should bring back the use of private bail bonders. Cash bail...
January 24, 2012
A tactile imaging sensor developed by a Temple engineering professor may assist doctors when they feel an irregularity during a physical exam. "Once a doctor feels a lesion, lump or tumor, they can...
January 24, 2012
"Hell and Back Again," a film edited by Temple film and media arts graduate student Fiona Otway, was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award. It's the third Oscar-nominated documentary that Otway has...
January 24, 2012