Temple University’s rise as one of the nation’s premier urban public research universities has taken another leap forward with the arrival of 57 outstanding new tenured and tenure-track faculty members for the 2014-2015 academic year.

To mark the release of 'Offering: Live at Temple University'—a recording of John Coltrane's legendary concert—Temple University Libraries, Ars Nova Workshop and Resonance Records will host a panel discussion on that unique moment in music history.

The 2nd Annual Temple Analytics Challenge: Making Sense of Big Data opens Oct. 1. The student competition is geared toward understanding data through visualization.