Temple in the News
In recent years, new techniques and a rise in organ donors have increased lung transplants. However, all too often, recipients become too sick to even get to the...
January 20, 2011
While business activity is expected to pick up in 2011, weak sales remain the biggest worry for companies, according to a new survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of...
January 20, 2011
Are your friends more popular than you are? Temple mathematician John Allen Paulos answered this question for Scientific American. "We are all more likely to become friends...
January 20, 2011
Research on the effects of third-hand smoke — tobacco that builds up on surfaces over time — is still fairly new, but a recent study found that nicotine...
January 19, 2011
Not long ago an essential component for selling a house was a "TV room." Now, the TV room is disappearing. "The modernist architects would say that a house always responds...
January 19, 2011
Temple has been named one of the nation's 10 "most influential" colleges on Twitter, the increasingly popular online social network and microblogging service. TempleUniv (...
January 19, 2011
Are Chinese moms superior? Developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple weighed in on that controversial claim by self-proclaimed "tiger mother" Amy Chua. Chua's...
January 19, 2011
Scientists are developing "social robots" that are taking baby steps toward humanlike smarts. Developmental psychology's advice for producing smarter robots is simple:...
January 19, 2011
Republicans are pushing to repeal the health-care overhaul that President Obama signed into law last March. A vote in the lower chamber could come today. But columnist Will...
January 19, 2011
TIME published a photograph of Democratic candidate for Vice President R. Sargent Shriver as he gestured to a crowd at Temple in 1972. Shriver, the American politician,...
January 19, 2011