Temple in the News
Teens take more risks than adults because they weigh risk versus reward differently, says Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist at Temple. To analyze teen risk-taking, Steinberg used a...
October 1, 2011
Temple's Fox School of Business has come up with a creative way to improve services. By combining three wireless projectors with a complete wall covered with projector paint, large whiteboards and...
October 1, 2011
The Prohibition era of the 1920s left an indelible mark in American history. Temple historian Bryant Simon used an old political cartoon to help explain the era. The cartoon "shows a picture of a...
September 30, 2011
A new installation on view at Gallery2J by Katie Murken, an instructor at Temple's Tyler School of Art, received rave reviews in the Inquirer. The review calls Murken "an especially strong talent."...
September 30, 2011
Kun-Yang Lin, an associate professor of dance at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance, was a dance prodigy in Taiwan, choreographing and performing when he was barely a teenager. He travelled...
September 30, 2011
A new study has found that tobacco companies knew that cigarettes contained a radioactive substance called polonium-210, but hid that knowledge from the public for over four decades. "Having these...
September 30, 2011
Young families who can't afford to buy a house in their desired school district have options. Building strong parent organizations can improve floundering neighborhood schools. But if parents can’t...
September 30, 2011
A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law. The judge upheld a section that requires state and local law enforcement officials to try to verify...
September 29, 2011
Temple senior Brittany Rogers will make history tonight at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Northeast Philadelphia when she becomes the youngest female boxing promoter in the country. "I got...
September 29, 2011
Students and faculty from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, part of Temple's School of Environmental Design, planted more than 100 trees in Fairmount Park on Sept. 28 — trees...
September 28, 2011