Temple in the News
If you look at the last couple of weeks of the election, it becomes pretty clear that one of the deciding factors will be how a voter decides to answer or view the better off question. "Political...
September 9, 2012
Much political rhetoric has focused on whether the U.S. economy and individual Americans are better off now than we were four years ago. "If you're talking about the U.S., think about where we were...
September 9, 2012
Inside Out is a nonprofit headquartered at Temple that trains college professors to teach humanities courses inside prisons to a mixed group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated students. The program...
September 7, 2012
Although record summer heat has been shifting public opinion on global warming, research co-authored by Temple political scientist Megan Mullin suggests that the weather on the day when opinion...
September 7, 2012
What if we lived in a world where candidates were legally obligated to disclose their tax paperwork history from day one on the trail? Are current disclosure laws enough? "I'm reluctant to say that...
September 7, 2012
Obesity rates for Philadelphia schoolchildren fell significantly over four years, suggesting that the sort of steps taken here might help reverse a national epidemic. The "environment" -- price,...
September 7, 2012
Temple has launched an advertising campaign to sell itself to prospective students, trumpet its entrance into the Big East and inspire its alumni to help raise $100 million for scholarships. Tim...
September 7, 2012
At the moment President Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points in the Gallup Poll and by 4 points in the Reuters/Ipsos and Rasmussen polls. A study co-authored by Temple...
September 7, 2012
At Temple's Student Center, 60 students gathered to watch President Obama's acceptance speech on the big screen. "I am fired up and ready to go," said sophomore Dylan Morpurgo of Temple's College...
September 7, 2012
Jean-Pierre Issa of Temple’s Fels Institute for Cancer says thanks to funding from Stand Up to Cancer, he is working on groundbreaking research on epigenetics. Instead of killing cancer cells with...
September 7, 2012