The North American Association of Commencement Officers has posthumously named Lewis Katz the best commencement speaker of 2014. Katz presented his uplifting address at Temple’s 127th Commencement exercises on May 15.

A team representing Temple College of Engineering’s Pennsylvania MESA (Math Engineering Science Achievement) initiative has won second place in a prestigious national competition for designing and building a functioning prosthetic arm.

Two new investigational drugs in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating and deadly lung condition, are being offered to patients at Temple Lung Center.