Temple in the News

JoAnne Epps, dean of Temple's Beasley School of Law, said that the recent Carnegie Foundation report, "Educating Lawyers," and the changing economic climate have encouraged law schools to take a look...
May 20, 2010
(There is no link to this report.) Today is being called "Everybody Draw Mohammed" day. It started as a stand by cartoonists against censorship after Comedy Central edited an episode of "South Park"...
May 20, 2010
In an opinion piece, Robert Dujarric of Temple University, Japan Campus, notes that the entire world, including Asia, now sees China not only as the country of the future but already as today's only...
May 20, 2010
Some 50 hotel employees in the region learned how to be more sensitive to gay tourists during a training session at the Crowne Plaza Valley Forge last week. The training was coordinated by the...
May 20, 2010
The budding biodiesel industry is mostly fueled by vegetable seeds such as soybeans and canola. But, according to David Kargbo, an instructor in Temple's College of Engineering, green experts are...
May 20, 2010
Sen. Arlen Specter lost his bid for a sixth term, succumbing in the Democratic primary to relative newcomer Joe Sestak, a two-term congressman who successfully campaigned against Specter's recent...
May 19, 2010
The morning after Pennsylvania's primary elections, "Radio Times" took stock of what happened at the polls. Michael Hagan, graduate chair of the political science department at Temple, said that if...
May 19, 2010
"They got this one right. This one is big and it goes to exactly the most deserving sort of winner." That's how Inquirer columnist Bill Lyon responded to the announcement that Al Shrier, Temple's...
May 18, 2010
Bobbleheads have been a popular giveaway for sports organizations for years. According to Joe Mahan, assistant professor at Temple's Sport Industry Research Center, teams like them because they are...
May 18, 2010
In the Garden State, one agency in Trenton already issues locally-recognized identification cards to illegal immigrants. Later this week, that agency will do the same for Princeton. The program has...
May 18, 2010

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