Temple in the News
For kids with sensitivity to bitter tastes, certain vegetables — like broccoli — are hard to eat, says Jennifer Orlet Fisher, researcher at Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education. In a...
January 13, 2012
"The passing of the former director of Delaware County's data processing center might seem of little consequence," wrote Joseph McLaughlin, director of the Institute for Public Affairs at Temple, in...
January 13, 2012
Following the lead of a growing number of hospitals, Geisinger Health System will turn away job applicants who smoke starting next month. It's another way to get the message across that smoking is...
January 13, 2012
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has appointed a fiscal hawk as his deputy in charge of tax and social security reform in a cabinet reshuffle. "Noda...has found out it is difficult to navigate...
January 13, 2012
Temple biologist Tonia Hsieh's study of the locomotion of lizards continues to garner attention. The goal of the study is to figure out how these lizards remain upright on varied terrain, and she...
January 11, 2012
This week, the Paley Center for Media, at its locations in Manhattan and Beverly Hills, begins almost two months' worth of programs celebrating Temple trustee and alumnus Bill Cosby's 50 years in...
January 11, 2012
For two years, the Hidden Collections project, funded by a grant from the Carnegie Mellon Foundation, has been straightening out some unorganized archival collections. "It's not hectic. Nothing in...
January 11, 2012
The shift among employers toward policies that ban smokers, not just smoking, has been growing in Pennsylvania and the 20 other states that allow it — making even some longtime tobacco-control...
January 11, 2012
Two members of the Temple women's soccer team, junior Kate Yurkovic and sophomore Jenna Gosnay, have journeyed to Granada, Nicaragua to volunteer their time with Soccer Without Borders, a program...
January 9, 2012
For two decades now, economists have been urging Tokyo to create one or two special-enterprise zones. Southern China features such a place — Shenzhen. Today, the once small coastal village is a...
January 9, 2012