Temple in the News
Neuroimaging offers clues to how memory drills might improve pure intelligence. Brain scans conducted during memory training reveal that several regions of the brain become more active — indicating...
January 1, 2012
In a piece for the Times' Opinionator blog, Temple philosopher Espen Hammer contemplates the modern experience of time. Most of our experiences are socially-constituted and situated in temporal...
January 1, 2012
The limestone rock under much of the Lehigh Valley is riddled with sink holes which has caused problems for the construction of large structures in the past. Currently, engineers are exploring ways...
December 30, 2011
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter bestowed the honor of poet laureate, the city's first, on poet Sonia Sanchez, calling her the longtime conscience of the city. Sanchez, professor emerita at Temple,...
December 29, 2011
As the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, which just wrapped its second season, gains popularity, it has made the 1920s the latest decade worth emulating. Come Dec. 31, Roaring Twenties parties will abound...
December 29, 2011
The recession has been tough on college students and recent graduates looking to land that first job. Rachel Brown, director of Temple's career center, said it's important to see the opportunities...
December 28, 2011
In The New York Time's blog "Motherlode," blogger KJ Dell Antonia sited a 2006 study conducted at Temple's Infant Lab: "Parents interact differently with children over an e-reader than over a...
December 28, 2011
African Americans develop high blood pressure more often than white Americans. Michael Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Temple, is taking a different approach to the...
December 27, 2011
Children who have poor emotional relationships with their mothers are more than twice as likely to become obese, according to a study co-authored by Robert Whitaker, a professor at Temple's Center...
December 27, 2011
Researchers at Temple's Infant Lab found that when youngsters played with construction blocks with parents, they use words such as "under" and "on"—concepts which doctors say are important for...
December 27, 2011