Temple in the News
This weekend, Eastern State Penitentiary will honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a reading of his seminal text, "Letter from Birmingham Jail." King wrote the letter in April 1963 while incarcerated...
January 16, 2013
Photos from Temple’s Fox School of Business Musser Excellence in Leadership Award dinner tell the story on NewsWorks’ Circuits blog. The award was presented to Korman Communities founder Steven...
January 16, 2013
New research from Temple is adding fuel to the fire in an ongoing parenting debate — what to do when babies wake up crying in the middle of the night? The study tracked sleep habits of infants from...
January 16, 2013
The Los Angeles City Council voted to build a new football stadium in the heart of downtown. The city hopes to make $13.4 million annually in taxes paid once the stadium is up and running. But sports...
January 15, 2013
Scientific evidence for exactly which kind of legislation would help stem gun violence is lacking, a situation that is in many ways of the government's own creation. Several congressional efforts...
January 15, 2013
New Temple president Neil Theobald said he is excited about being part of the Big East conference. "I think everyone is going to do what's best for their own university," Theobald said. "I'll do what...
January 15, 2013
Temple will honor longtime sports information director Al Shrier at its Jan. 23 basketball game against Penn. Shrier has worked for the Owls for nearly 60 years. “He graduated from Temple in 1953 and...
January 15, 2013
"When you talk about Jews and baseball, what do people say?" asked Rabbi Rebecca Alpert at the Germantown Jewish Centre Sunday morning. "Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax." But in Alpert's view there...
January 15, 2013
The role of small companies in driving growth continues to wane, according to economists. “The environment for small businesses is not good,” said William Dunkelberg, a professor at Temple. “Sales...
January 14, 2013
Although the NHL lockout wiped out millions of dollars in revenue, some say the league won’t suffer too much because the top revenue-generating games will still be played. “The NHL saved the most...
January 14, 2013