Temple in the News
President Obama has shown a knack for beating odds but some important trends are working against him. The latest evidence came Friday in a lackluster jobs report. Temple political scientist...
July 8, 2012
This year's re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg featured breaking news coverage of one of the pivotal fights on Twitter. Anthony Waskie, a Temple professor and Civil War aficionado, called it a...
July 7, 2012
Mitt Romney has suggested that President Obama has done a worse job managing the economy than Jimmy Carter. Investors disagree. The trend in the economy also looks more favorable under Obama than it...
July 6, 2012
As an expert on a live panel discussion, Sean Rust, a student at Temple's Beasley School of Law, tackled immigration reform by making a case for a market-based strategy to distribute work visas. "...
July 5, 2012
Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding much of the Affordable Care Act should quiet critics who say the court acts out of partisan impulses. "It is going to send a message that this court is...
July 5, 2012
Japan's nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion,” an expert panel said Thursday. The panel urged strict checks on all reactors and said Japan's 21 oldest reactors may be...
July 5, 2012
Coral reefs off the coast of Panama collapsed for some 2,500 years, during a time of intense shifts in oceanic temperatures, found a new study. But when conditions returned to normal the corals came...
July 5, 2012
But we have become so dependent on air conditioning technology that when it stops working because of power outages, we become lost, says Frank Farley, a faculty member at Temple’s College of...
July 4, 2012
Four education majors, two from Simpson College in Iowa and two from Temple University, spent the past month exploring the diversity of rural and urban classrooms as part an exchange program. The...
July 3, 2012
The Supreme Court struck down most of the Arizona immigration law except for one of the most controversial provisions, the so-called “show me your papers” law. What’s the significance of the vote? “...
July 3, 2012