Temple in the News
Dinnertime has become a free-for-all in many households, with packed family schedules and the television on in the background. Experts talk repeatedly about setting, and how it affects manners and...
December 26, 2012
Temple scholarship donor Steven H. Korman was named Nice Guy of the Week for his surprise scholarship announcement at the Fox School of Business' Musser Awards. Korman donated $12,000 to each of 20...
December 24, 2012
Research groups have noted an uptick in entrepreneurial activity among the young. Even if the vast majority of students never start their own businesses, entrepreneurship skills will make them more...
December 24, 2012
NBC brought back a long-lost Christmas classic this holiday season, marking the golden anniversary of the program’s debut. Fifty years ago, NBC aired a pioneering animated special starring the myopic...
December 21, 2012
Philadelphian Ted Paluch, a World War II veteran, shared his recollections of the Malmedy massacre of December 17, 1944. On that grim day during the Battle of the Bulge, 80 U.S. prisoners of war were...
December 21, 2012
The end of everything has been on Barry Vacker's mind. The professor of media studies at Temple put together three days of art, film, lectures and music revolving around the idea of apocalypse last...
December 21, 2012
Rates of childhood obesity have declined in Philadelphia along with a few other cities. Though decreases are small, it is still welcome news after three decades of steadily increasing rates among...
December 20, 2012
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer write in their groundbreaking new book, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, published by Temple University Press, that Sojourner...
December 20, 2012
‘Tis the season when retailers intensify efforts to hook customers. Sherri Hope Culver, the director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple, says kids might know when they are...
December 20, 2012
In a compilation of 2013 forecasts, Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus, offered his take on Shinzo Abe, Japan's new prime minister. "Abe is going to hit the ground running," Kingston...
December 20, 2012