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A celebration of Earth Day that welcomes 10,000 students, teachers, and visitors each year. Research to prevent flooding, improve transportation, streamline emergency management, and preserve the environment. Open houses, information sessions, and seminars to help you take that next educational steps. Special learning experiences for active seniors, kids, tweens, and teens. Lectures and special programs that entertain, surprise, and educate. Food drives, clothing drives, charity walks, and marathons. Faculty, students, and staff that are dedicated to giving something back to their communities.
Throughout the year, Temple University Ambler interacts with and engages the communities that surround it in new and innovative ways, welcoming thousands of visitors interested in exploring their educational options, recognizing the achievements of our students and faculty, or simply looking to lose themselves in a good lecture, a fun night of entertainment - or even a good ghost hunt!
From special events to webcasts, charity programs to student projects, learn how Temple University Ambler impacts our communities and how you can become involved!
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Throughout the year, Temple University Ambler holds special events that welcome thousands of visitors to campus.
Temple University Ambler dedicated a new Learning Center, which has opened up a wide variety of new opportunities to provide special programming for the campus and surrounding communities, including a new Cultural Affairs Series for Fall 2007. EarthFest 2007, a celebration of Earth Day that welcomed more than 10,000 people to campus...and EarthFest 2008 is just six months away! Cherry and White Day welcomed back thousands of Temple's Athletics alumni and will return to campus in April 2008. Ambler seeks new and creative ways for students, faculty, alumni, and the public to enjoy everything that the campus has to offer.
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Interested in taking courses, making education a lifelong process, or finding the perfect summer camp for your children? Temple University Ambler's yearly academic/educational programming provides something for every age group.
From open houses for everyone from traditional-aged and graduate students to adult/independent students; to the LifeLong Learning Society for active learners 50 and over; to more than 40 Summer Education Camps, Ambler provides a variety of opportunities to expand your horizons.
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The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights murders. Emergency preparedness. The horrors of dog fighting. The inspiring words of Coach Herman Boone, the basis for the film "Remember the Titans." A forum of the Philadelphia mayoral candidates. Fallscaping and the great gardens of the Philadelphia Region.
These have been just a very few of the dozens of topics covered by lectures and guest speakers throughout the year. A new series of "webcasts," offered in cooperation with the Philadelphia Urban Sustainability Forum provided new opportunities to spotlight sustainable concepts, which are at the core of Temple University Ambler College's academic programs and the campus' history.
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Throughout the year, Temple University Ambler faculty and students engage in research and projects designed to assist and educate communities throughout the region and beyond.
The Center for Sustainable Communities completed its Pennypack Creek Watershed Study, designed to alleviate flooding in a 12-municipality region, and have begun new projects to help streamline community food access in Philadelphia and prevent ongoing flooding issues in the Fort Washington office park.
Students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture transported 300,000 visitors to the "Poetic Landscape of Ireland" with a Best-In-Show winning exhibit at the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show. Professor Baldev Lamba saw the unveiling of the First Ladies' Water Garden, which he helped to design, landscape architecture students created sustainable garden designs for Habitat for Humanity, and Community and Regional Planning Chair Dr. Deborah Howe began research to support communities that encourage "active living and physical activities" across the country.
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It begins before classes even start and ends well after the semester draws to a close. If there is one thing that Temple University Ambler students, faculty, and staff share in common, it's their willingness to help others through any number of causes throughout the year. Temple University Ambler's student organizations, in particular, embrace the idea of giving back to the community in a wide variety of ways - clothing drives, food drives, toy drives, stream clean-ups, beautification projects, special events, bake sales, marathons, concerts, plays, and much more.
After the tragic events at Virginia Tech unfolded, Ambler's students, in just three days, created the "Temple Cares" campaign, a t-shirt sale that raised thousands of dollars for Virginia Tech's Hokie Hope Memorial Fund. Through turkey drives, blood drives, silent auctions, and charity walks, Ambler's faculty and staff also sought to lead by example. The campus community as a whole understands the importance of giving their time and effort to ensure a better life for others.
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If you can't find something to take part in at the Ambler campus throughout the year, then you aren't looking hard enough! Each year, Temple University Ambler's Office of Student Life and the Ambler campus student organizations hold numerous events to share their interests, show off their talents, and educate.
Ambler's cultural programs are particularly popular, such as the "Latin Fiesta" for Latino Heritage Month and a performance by Randy Shine where he shared the cultural impact of African Americans in the field of magic for a dazzling Black History Month Program. Classical music also returned to the campus for the first time in decades with a concert by students and faculty of the Boyer School of Music and Dance.
The WRFT student radio station, Brothers and Sisters United, and The Parable literary magazine gave students, the public, and area rock groups and opportunity to shine. Ghost Hunters Patti Starr and Chip Coffey led visitors on a spooky tour into the paranormal while the creativity of our Landscape Architecture and Horticulture students turned the campus into a house of horrors for Halloween. The Jubilee student organization held a series of successful worship concerts and United Voices of Praise capped of the fall and spring semesters with their incredible voices.
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Temple University Ambler faculty and staff come from all walks of life and are an important part of the communities in which they live.
The faculty and staff devote their time and energy to any number of causes, projects, organizations, and municipal boards. Many members of the faculty and staff belong to professional organizations or have taken key roles in their church or school district.
Others dedicate their time to helping animals, children, the homeless, and the environment. Others have engaged in research and projects to assist communities or have offered their expertise on a wide range of topics through lectures, discussions, tours, and interviews.
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