Temple in the News
Procter & Gamble researchers, partnering with Temple scientists, have been awarded time on the Titan supercomputer to develop the first molecular-based model for understanding how lotions or...
October 29, 2012
A seismometer was re-installed on the Temple Ambler campus after the device’s concrete housing flooded over the summer. The device is part of an East Coast quake measuring network. That hugely...
October 29, 2012
For hospital workers, staying at home during Hurricane Sandy was not an option. To make sure patients were taken care of throughout the storm, Temple University Hospital prepared in advance to...
October 28, 2012
A model of security in a very unstable Middle East, Jordan could now be teetering on the cusp of political conflict and instability. The elections are going to be the dividing line," says Sean Yom, a...
October 27, 2012
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, whose failed bid to buy disputed islands ignited a crisis with China, said he was resigning to form a party with the apparent aim of becoming a "third force" in an...
October 25, 2012
Proposed legislation intends to reverse policies allowing U.S.-based insurance companies to claim a deduction for reinsurance premiums paid to a foreign affiliate. The legislation’s net effect would...
October 25, 2012
A controversial gene therapy technique has produced human embryos free of defective maternal genes responsible for rare, debilitating diseases. "This is good, solid work; the real advance is to...
October 25, 2012
The science of being there without being there. That was the subject of a conference at Temple University on Thursday. It’s called telepresence. “Feeling like you’re actually with the other person,...
October 25, 2012
Philadelphia philanthropists Irvin J. Borowsky and Laurie Wagman have given more than $1 million to the Tyler School of Art's glass program. Borowsky said that Temple's status as a public institution...
October 24, 2012
For many, the phrase "struggling middle class" conjures a vision of a white, two-parent family, while the phrase "poor person" conjures an image of a single black mother. "That's why Obama can't talk...
October 24, 2012