Temple in the News
Buying a bond used to involve visiting the bank, but now you have to buy bonds on the U.S. Treasury Department's website. Some have complained that the process is cumbersome. "It is true that some...
December 14, 2012
Temple University launched a redesigned version of its website on Thursday. The university said the new site features responsive design, so it can adjust its display to best fit the device it’s being...
December 13, 2012
Power might be about to change hands in Japan. That would mean a return of the country's conservatives led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a man known as a hardline nationalist. It could see...
December 13, 2012
In an op-ed in Japan's largest English-language newspaper, political scientist Tina Burrett of Temple University, Japan Campus, tackled Lord Justice Leveson's report into the culture, practices and...
December 12, 2012
Why are Americans so interested in the royal family? In an essay, Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple’s College of Education, said, “Everywhere one turns … one sees the media slavering over the...
December 12, 2012
Researchers say that childhood obesity rates are on the decline in Philadelphia and around the nation. "We're seeing it all across the country, so I believe it is a trend — not just in big cities…but...
December 12, 2012
Elias Siraj, director of clinical endocrinology at Temple University Hospital, was out for a walk when he noticed that a high school in Upper Dublin was being demolished. Siraj, the coordinator of a...
December 12, 2012
Plans to construct offshore wind farms include an agreement to limit noise that may be harmful to marine mammals. At the Jersey Shore, the concern is right whales. “It’s an agreement that will...
December 12, 2012
Richard M. Englert, outgoing acting president at Temple, was given the honorary title of chancellor by the university's board of trustees on Tuesday. Englert will step down Dec. 31 and take a year...
December 11, 2012
It’s pitch-perfect for Hollywood. An ancient Mayan prophecy suggests that December 21, 2012, is doomsday. Our media and movie cultures are filled with apocalyptic scenarios,” said Barry Vacker, an...
December 11, 2012