Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service focusing on gun violence prevention

By Corey Davis

Community partners such as Temple University Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia helped distribute the material and assist with...

At Girard College, volunteers honor King’s legacy by tackling gun violence prevention

By Jad Sleiman

For the event’s signature project, volunteers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Temple University Hospital helped assemble gun...

A new culinary entrepreneur program launches in Philly

By Jensen Toussaint

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Temple University and the Culinary Collective are partnering to launch a new Commissary Scholar...

Temple Hospital now has a ‘Yelp for OB-GYNs’ to improve care for families of color

By Courtenay Harris Bond

People giving birth at Temple University Hospital now have the opportunity to give immediate feedback on the care they receive thanks to a new app...

FBI sought to discredit King to stop the civil rights movement

By Stephen Williams

Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University, said that in the early...

MLK’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail

By Molefi Kete Asante

“As we remember and celebrate the activism and courage of Martin Luther King Jr., we must not forget that he was a plainspoken philosopher with a...

Temple kept its commitment to open a center on antiracism. Penn State didn’t. What does that mean?

By Susan Snyder

“The work of antiracism is the most important work of our time,” said Timothy Welbeck, executive director of Temple’s Center for Anti-Racism. 

Geoff Johnson: Forget suing TikTok—just teach media literacy

By Geoff Johnson

According to Sherri Hope Culver, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and the director of the university’s Center for Media and...

Bucks historians announce new history day internship opportunity

By Jeff Werner

The inaugural Ruth Maxson National History Day intern, Anna Durning, hails from Hatfield and is currently a junior at Temple University’s College...

The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+

By Judd Bagley

“Hosting something like the NBA All-Star Weekend is an absolute slam dunk,” says Thilo Kunkel flatly, completely unaware he just provided a...

Jeanes, Fox Chase nurse anesthetists ratify first union contract

By John George

The Temple North Anesthesia Coalition, a group of 35 certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) who practice at Jeanes Hospital and Fox Chase...

‘Like I’m a nobody’: Breaking news coverage of shootings is dehumanizing and delays progress, per new Temple study

By Ben Seal

Episodic media coverage of gun violence can dehumanize victims and force them to relive their trauma while also undermining support for public...

ChatGPT: A threat to higher education?

By Jason Wingard

“Colleges and universities are at an inflection point, grappling with declining enrollments, soaring costs, growing popularity of educational...

National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $28.1 Million in Grants

By Sarah Bahr

Among the projects is the creation of an immersive online resource by the Jane Austen Summer Program in Chapel Hill, NC, which will allow people...

A group of leading businesswomen is calling for board diversity at local universities and health systems

By Ryan Mulligan

It was an idea first articulated by Happy Fernandez, the former city councilwoman and president of Moore College of Art and Design. But women like...

Abortion pill can be sold at pharmacies, FDA says

By Will Sullivan

Additionally, pharmacies would have to voluntarily apply for certification before selling the pill. If they do, “it could change the conversation...

ChatGPT: Educational friend or foe?

By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Elias Blinkoff

“Used in the right way, ChatGPT can be a friend to the classroom and an amazing tool for our students, not something to be feared,” Kathy Hirsh-...

Humble Parlor Brewing, a microbrewery owned by a Temple alumnus, is expanding to Fishtown

By Brian Saunders

Alex Howell graduated from Temple University in 2016 with a degree in accounting and is a certified public accountant; however, microbrewing is a...

California campuses try to lower college costs with free transit

By CARMEN GONZÁLEZ

Students can expect to spend around a fifth of their yearly income on transportation, according to a 2018 report published by The Hope Center for...

Has Sarbanes-Oxley made insurance riskier?

By R.J. Lehmann

A new paper from Martin Grace of Temple University and Juan Zhang at Eastern Kentucky University looks at how property and liability insurers have...

Smartphones as personal spy tools? Why it’s happening more and more often

By Sascha Brodsky

The recent paper describes the new phone attack method, EarSpy, which researchers from Texas A&M University, Temple University, New Jersey...

Academic institutions spent $89.9 billion on research in the 2021 fiscal year

By Renata Kaminski

Seven universities showed fast-growing research spending. Temple University in Philadelphia is among them with a 122.8% change from the 2011 to...

FDA grants accelerated approval to Alzheimer’s drug for people with early stage disease

By Sony Salzman

“This is a really exciting incremental development in the options we have to offer the millions of Americans affected by Alzheimer’s disease,”...

“Big Brother really is watching today” - New uses of facial recognition technology

Facial recognition technology has been used for security purposes for decades. But today, businesses are using it to track and identify consumers...

Why Denver Will Never (Ever) Get the Super Bowl

By Craig Meyer

For all of those potential drawbacks, the event still has a singular aura, one of many reasons cities continue to comply with the NFL’s extensive...