My college stopped relying heavily on the SAT. Enrollment of students of color climbed. | Opinion

By Shawn Abbott

“Temple University had in recent years already begun experimenting with “test-optional” admission, fueling a more holistic process. But the...

Powering the next phase of work

Remote collaborations also allow new brainstorming strategies. Leaders can give participants a prompt and allow them to work on a problem quietly...

Omicron’s radical evolution

By Carl Zimmer

Omicron may have turned a batch of 13 bad mutations to its advantage by evolving under unusual conditions. One possibility is that it arose after...

Security fears over antitrust legislation raise looming questions about a federal privacy law

By Tonya Riley

While European regulators have for years had to balance the intersection of regulating data privacy and governing tech firms’ anticompetitive...

Biden administration urges colleges to use COVID relief funds to meet students’ basic needs

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

A 2020 survey of 38,602 students by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University found 3 in 5 were experiencing food or...

Twins make dynamic duo for Temple University’s gymnastics team

By Jamie Apody

One look at the Temple University gymnastics team will have you seeing double. “We’re twins! Identical twins,” Sarah and Hannah Stallings said....

‘Where is the outrage ... from everyone?’ The story behind this Temple trauma surgeon’s tweet.

By Susan Snyder

Since 1993, Amy Goldberg has been a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital, which has the distinction of treating more gunshot patients than...

After tragic fire, firefighters and Temple football players teamed up to install smoke alarms

By Elizabeth Estrada

Coach Stan Drayton guided over 80 Owls to install smoke detectors in homes near Temple’s Main Campus, on the 2400 blocks of Carlisle, 15th and...

The myths of the past no longer represent our world view | GUEST COMMENTARY

By Malcolm Russell-Einhorn

One thing is clear: Our revised annals are richer and more complex. As Diane Turner, curator of an Afro-American history collection at Temple...

Strapped community colleges to receive additional $198 million in aid from Biden administration

By Stephanie Hughes

At the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland, the average student is 34 years old and receives financial aid, 60% are women, and many...

Will COVID be the new flu?

By Rachel Murphy

Although the omicron variant is highly transmissible, its milder symptoms are a good sign, according to Jeni Stolow, an assistant professor of...

Japan’s Kishida to discuss ‘free and open’ Indo-Pacific with Biden

By Julian Ryall

“From the Japanese perspective, the most important thing is that these talks are happening at all and the content is of secondary importance,”...

Why are we still rejecting blood donations from gay men?

By Tracey Anne Duncan

“There is no practical or necessary reason for all men who have sex with men to be excluded from blood donation,” Sarah Bauerle Bass, an HIV...

FOCUS: China’s economy may slow in 2022 on zero corona policy, Xi’s ambition

By Tomoyuki Tachikawa

Speculation is rife that Xi’s leadership could take military action against democratic Taiwan to reunify the self-ruled island with the mainland,...

Cheapest car insurance in Pennsylvania

By Daniel E. Goldberg

“I do not believe it is fair to consider gender or age when setting car insurance premiums. It is more about the individual, not their age or...

Don’t stop at a COVID vaccine mandate; flu shot should be required, too | Opinion

By Gregory Jasani and Shruti Gujaran

“Would a flu vaccine mandate be better received than the COVID-19 vaccine mandate? We do not kid ourselves that it would. But there are precedents...

Lawsuit against Georgetown, other schools, renews questions over admissions practices

“Students and parents believe that if they are admitted, it’s because of talent and hard work. This lawsuit suggests that often it’s because of...

Chaos on the roads

Psychologists say reckless driving is a symptom of widespread feelings of isolation, depression, resentment and despair. Reckless driving can be...

Why you should start a business in Philadelphia

By Emily Dickerson

Businesses can also take advantage of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Temple University, which provides consulting help at no cost...

Americans spend more time sitting than ever—and it’s shortening our lives

By Kathleen Hall

A January 2019 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology looked at nearly 8,000 U.S. adults aged 45 and older and estimated that...

Max McGee found a fresh start at Temple University, and now he’s ESPN’s newest SportsCenter anchor

By Jeff Blumenthal

Max McGee ultimately went back to Camden County College and earned his associate’s degree in 2012. His mother suggested that he apply to Temple...

The Tokyo Bar Association needs our help to understand racial profiling in Japan

“The survey on racial profiling by police in Japan is an encouraging step toward addressing long-standing issues with the way in which police...

Tokyo’s daily COVID-19 count tops 4,000 as U.S. military reports fewer than 1,000 cases in Japan

By Joseph Ditzler and Mari Higa

 Sending unscreened personnel from the United States, a global COVID-19 hotspot, into Japan, where new coronavirus cases were only in double...

Woman found dead in Bucks County park may have been killed in Philadelphia, DA says

By Walter Perez

If Jennings was killed in Philadelphia, it would add to the city’s skyrocketing homicide rate. There have already been at least 19 homicides in...

Midwestern community colleges work to lure, and keep, students struggling with poverty

By Becky Z. Dernbach, Mario Koran, Olivia Lewis and Ata Younan

Forty-two percent of Minnesota community college students say they cannot afford to eat balanced meals, according to a 2019 survey by the Hope...