Future of abortion pill mifepristone will be decided by Supreme Court

By Sarah Varney, Maea Lenei Buhre, Shrai Popat

Legal experts say taking away this option for patients and overriding the FDA would be unprecedented. Rachel Rebouché, dean and Peter J. Liacouras...

Delores Brisbon shares wisdom from book ‘A Privileged Life’ at Temple’s Blockson Collection

By Valerie Russ

Last week, she spoke at Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection about her second book, A Privileged...

Is Fast Food Affordable Anymore? Here’s How Menu Prices Have Changed Over the Years [2024]

By Josh Koebert

“In the words of Yogi Berra—‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’ Yogi Berra’s wisdom aside, fast food prices have been...

How to Talk to Children About Cancer

By Talya Minsberg

Conversations like those that Catherine has had with her children are among some of the more important and delicate discussions that parents can...

Quinta Brunson will be Temple University’s commencement speaker this year

By Elizabeth Wellington

Quinta Brunson has been tapped to deliver Temple University’s 137th Commencement speech on May 8. The Emmy Award-winning actress and Temple...

Professors blame the pandemic for why college students are still struggling with basic math

For Jessica Babcock, a Temple University math professor, the magnitude of the problem hit home last year as she graded quizzes in her intermediate...

Can Prices Really Fall?

By William Dunkelberg

“Changes in economic activity clearly impact the incidence of price cuts. The incidence of price cuts is clearly related to recessions and booms....

What a 76ers arena in Center City would mean for parking, foot traffic, and SEPTA

By Charmaine Runes

The proposed arena site is on Market Street, between 10th and 11th streets, and would replace a third of the Fashion District mall. The arena...

Welcome to Temple’s Saturday College, where Philly middle school students can learn on campus for free

By Susan Snyder

Under nearly cloudless skies Saturday, a dozen Philadelphia middle school students wandered around Temple University’s 187-acre Ambler Campus,...

Temple University unveils new facility to be used for science, innovation, technology

Temple University unveiled a new facility on Tuesday that will serve as a hub for innovation, discoveries and new technology by students and...

Temple wants North Philadelphia to model University City as innovation hub

By Ryan Mulligan

Could North Broad Street be the city’s next innovation corridor? Temple University is betting on it with iNest, a new incubator space the school...

Temple leans into the startup game with new innovation center in North Philly

By Sarah Huffman

Philadelphia has a new center for research-based startups. Today marks the grand opening of Temple University’s Innovation Nest. Known as iNest —...

Presidential elections in the media should be more than a horse race

In a presidential election year, the political news coverage can be overwhelming. It seems like there’s a new poll every week, watching the stats...

Adam Fisher: John Chaney 'smiling down on us' as Temple wins

By Myron Medcalf

With his team on the cusp of its first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2019 after an improbable win over Florida Atlantic in the AAC tournament...

Chestnut Hill Hospital’s new CEO is Richard Newell

By Harold Brubaker

 Temple Health has picked Richard Newell, a Tower Health executive, to be the new CEO of Chestnut Hill Hospital, the nonprofit health system...

Learning new things with the ‘spacing effect’ and its long-term impact on memory

By Eric Ralls

This approach enabled the researchers to simulate real-world repetition, where some aspects remain constant while others change. Emily Cowan, lead...

Judge Shopping Policy Selectively Targets Political Lawsuits

By Michael Shapiro and Lauren Castle

 “It’s pretty ironic that the area of law that triggered this discussion in the first place and that, as a quantitative matter, sees judge...

AI hallucination mitigation: two brains are better than one

By Lucas Mearian

Subodha Kumar, a professor of statistics, operations and data science at Temple University, said no genAI platform will be without biases, “at...

Cashless businesses are banned in Philadelphia. How do concert and sport venues get around it?

By Henry Savage

But why are there consumer protections against businesses going cashless? The answer is accessibility, said Judith A. Levine, director of Temple...

These Temple doctors are on a mission to cut colonoscopy wait times by getting people to test their own stool

By Abraham Gutman

Temple University Hospital patients will be able to walk through a giant inflatable colon this Wednesday and learn about the dangers of colon...

REBIRTH trial seeks answers on heart failure in new moms

Doctors there said it was pneumonia, but after a transfer to Temple University Hospital, Svenson-Boyce learned the real cause. 

"That's...

Temple University Hospital part of nationwide study on drug to treat heart condition in pregnancy

By Stephanie Stahl

Temple University Hospital is part of a new nationwide study of a drug to prevent or treat a rare heart condition that happens to pregnant women...

Colman Domingo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph represent Philadelphia and Temple at 2024 Oscars

By Sabrina Boyd-Surka and Nigel Thompson

“She actually started as a voice major in the [Boyer College of Music and Dance] and transferred over, walked in from Boyer across the street to...

Insurer delays and denials hamper patients seeking at-home breathing machines

By Tom Murphy

Temple University doctoral student Jaggar DeMarco waited more than three years to get his. “Breathing is not a luxury,” he said. “It’s really the...

Philly City Council passes law to help student athletes navigate financial deals

By Stephen Williams

"I think it’s good for the student-athletes, who were exploited for too long by colleges and universities who made money off the backs of these...