Temple in the News
Bankrupt coal mining company Patriot Coal will be able to void its agreement with the United Mine Workers union and stop funding pensions for retired miners, thanks to a ruling from a U.S. Bankruptcy...
May 28, 2013
A study by Temple undergraduate Mary Wolfe set out to answer the question: Does vegetation encourage or suppress crime? After studying Landsat satellite images and comparing the images to...
May 28, 2013
Newly minted Temple graduate Thao Nguyen is currently completing the management training program at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, but her job search began three years ago at a Temple...
May 28, 2013
In the Philadelphia area, teachers see themselves as first responders in the ongoing emergency of poverty, buying food, prom clothes, toilet paper, eyeglasses, and countless other items for children...
May 26, 2013
The new edition of “Psychiatry’s Bible” — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5 — is being released this month amid great controversy, with many in the field...
May 24, 2013
Researchers have urged the CIA to provide them with a copy of the agency’s electronic database for searching declassified documents, so that they can seek greater insight into U.S. history. “Scholars...
May 24, 2013
Pat Kraft, senior associate athletics director at Loyola University Chicago, has been named Temple’s deputy athletic director. Kraft came to Loyola after working on the senior athletic staff at...
May 23, 2013
Heavy consumption of diet soda can damage teeth as badly as methamphetamine or crack cocaine, a new Kornberg School of Dentistry study contends. “You look at it side-to-side with ‘meth mouth’ or ‘...
May 23, 2013
The line of applicants started early and spanned several blocks at Temple’s Main Campus. Candidates were hopeful they would find a job with one of the 60 employers participating in Temple's seventh...
May 23, 2013
In 1970, “Silent Sentinel,” a statue of a Civil War soldier that once stood guard at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon, was pulled it from its granite base by thieves. After decades in hiding, the...
May 23, 2013