Temple in the News
Cigarette packs featuring images of cadavers, a field of tombstones or cancer-riddled mouths may indeed convince smokers to quit, a new study suggests, and those kinds of pictures may have a...
November 13, 2012
Whether your guy won or lost on Tuesday night, you have to admit it made for compelling television. "I think the election will actually strengthen the antagonism of Fox News and MSNBC," says...
November 13, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of Americans unhappy with the result of last week's voting have signed petitions on behalf of at least 35 states. What do they want? Secession. "The Civil War showed once and...
November 13, 2012
Why does monarchy march on while republican dictatorships precariously wobble in the Arab world? In an essay, Sean Yom, an assistant professor of political science at Temple writes, the Arab...
November 12, 2012
General Petraeus’ abrupt resignation amid news of his extramarital affair brings a new wrinkle to an old story of why yet another powerful man risks so much for a woman. Frank Farley, a faculty...
November 12, 2012
Top business schools are beginning to introduce classes on gamification, while others are “gamifying” aspects of their courses. Steven L. Johnson, assistant professor of management information...
November 12, 2012
The swirl of post-election analysis has begun to settle, and it's clear: Social media was pivotal. David Schuff, associate professor of management information systems at Temple's Fox School of...
November 11, 2012
In 2008, Dance Professor Philip Grosser, a member of the Boyer College of Music and Dance faculty for 27 years, suffered a stroke so severe that it left him unconscious all night on the floor beside...
November 11, 2012
The phenomenon of false confessions was the focus of a symposium at Temple's Beasley School of Law that was sponsored by the Temple Law Review and the Temple-based Pennsylvania Innocence Project. In...
November 10, 2012
Temple University Health System President and CEO Larry Kaiser, leader of "a genuine renaissance" at Temple Health, was chosen as Philadelphia Business Journal's "CEO of the Year: Silver" at PBJ's...
November 9, 2012