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April 30, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN, FirstAmendmentCenter.org
“After hearing a day and a half of testimony, a federal judge on Thursday abruptly dismissed a lawsuit brought against Temple University by a former student who alleged that his professors retaliated against him for his political views,” wrote John Gravois for the Chronicle. |
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April 27-30, 2007 | CNN, The First Amendment Center
CNN and The First Amendment Center web site are a few of the many to pick up the Associated Press story on the judge’s decision over the weekend: “In short, his academic performance just wasn’t good enough,” Temple attorney Joe H. Tucker Jr. said. “It had nothing to do with his First Amendment rights and had everything to do with Temple professors’ academic freedom to grade a student’s poorly written, poorly constructed ... thesis.” |
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April 30, 2007 | Daily News
Temple University senior Azaria Carter attended a protest against the killings in Darfur to learn more about the situation. "I look forward to these marches," she told reporter Diana Huynh. "They make me feel better as a human, as a global citizen." |
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April 30, 2007 | Washington Post
Temple School of Communications and Theater alumnus Steve Capus is profiled by Howard Kurtz, after several weeks of controversial decision making. Capus is president of NBC news. “In the space of seven days this month, the once lesser-known executive found himself in the maelstrom of two emotionally charged, fiercely debated controversies: whether Don Imus should remain on the air and whether Seung Hui Cho's final recorded words should be broadcast to the world,” wrong Kurtz. |
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April 29, 2007 | CW57 “Speak Up on CW Philly”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill and host Natasha Brown discuss the rising gun violence in Philadelphia. Hill said there is a crisis developing in the city, every bit as important as the crisis in Iraq. |
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April 28, 2007 | ABC News “World News Saturday”
“Going green” is now standard practice in Japan, where green technology is on the rise. “Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Japan's Temple University, said in Japan, conservation has become a state of mind. ‘It's normal here,’ he said. ‘It's part of how you should be, how you should live.’” |
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April 28, 2007 | The News Journal
Police are puzzled by Randi Lopez-Rivas’ killing of a 3-month-old girl. “Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, said the case is somewhat unusual because infanticide -- the killing of an infant by a parent or guardian -- is more common among women than men.?” |
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April 27, 2007 | CN8 “Art Fennel Reports”
Temple University instructor Ralph Young discusses the inaccurate military reports about the death of Pat Tillman and the kidnapping of Jessica Lynch. Young said the stories sounded too good to be true, and as congress has learned, they were not true. |
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April 27, 2007 | InsideHigherEd.com
America’s position as the world leader in graduate education is being challenged as other countries build strong graduate programs, according to a new report. “Ann Weaver Hart, the president of Temple University, told Inside Higher Ed that boosting graduate education and research should be part of a larger strategy. ‘High-quality undergraduate education is crucial,’ she said. ‘This is just part of that continuum.’ She said that while foreign competitiveness is increasing, she also felt that a certain complacency in the U.S. was responsible for the ‘lost ground’ referred to in the graduate council’s report and others.” |
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April 27, 2007 | Associated Press, Metro
Temple University won a civil case yesterday when a judge threw out a graduate student’s claim that his master’s thesis was not approved because of his political views. "In short, his academic performance just wasn't good enough," Temple lawyer Joe H. Tucker Jr. said. "It had nothing to do with his First Amendment rights and had everything to do with Temple professors' academic freedom to grade a student's poorly written, poorly constructed . . . thesis." Metro reporter Mike Benner wrote that, “The judge said there was ‘not a scintilla of evidence’ to support” the claims of graduate student Christian DeJohn. “‘It looks like DeJohn was used by his lawyers for their own agenda,’ Tucker said.” |
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April 27, 2007 | InsideHigherEd.com
Temple University reference librarian Stephen Bell, in an essay, argues that librarians are sometimes unwilling to get into debates with each other on important issues. “They are widely accepting of new ideas, and welcome into the discussion anyone who is willing to share their thoughts. But perhaps we have become too welcoming, too complacent to remember that we share a responsibility to take our profession forward through intellectual discourse.” |
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April 27, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
In a story looking at private supervision of public schools, reporters Liz Bowie and Gadi Dechter noted that “The state of Pennsylvania took control of the Philadelphia system and then gave 45 schools to a variety of operators, including for-profit Edison Schools Inc., the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. Five years later, the data show little difference between the schools run by those private operators and other public schools, according to Brian Gill, a senior social scientist at the RAND Corp. who studied the issue. In fact, he said, the Temple-run schools did not do as well as the rest of the school district.” |
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April 27, 2007 | National Review of Medicine
“Next time you see a med student bobbing their head to the playlist on their iPod, don't assume that thump thump thump is the latest Timbaland tune. It could just as easily be the lub-dub — or lub-swish-dub — of "Heart Songs," (Temple University) cardiologist Mike Barrett's new tool to teach tomorrow's doctors the fine art of cardiac auscultation. |
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April 27, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Temple will officially dedicate its baseball field as the James "Skip" Wilson Field tomorrow during a ceremony that will begin at 12:30 p.m., before the Owls' Atlantic Ten Conference game against St. Louis. The field is at the Owls' Ambler campus. Wilson, 77, retired in August 2005 after 46 seasons during which he compiled 1,034 wins and led Temple to 12 NCAA tournaments, 12 conference titles, and College World Series appearances in 1972 (third place) and 1977 (eighth place). |
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April 26, 2007 | KYW News radio
The Food and Drug Administration says in the wake of the tainted pet food problem, it will be stepping up testing of imported vegetable proteins that humans eat. Temple public health professor and food safety expert Jennifer Ibrahim said the FDA’s announcement was a “knee-jerk reaction” and believes this testing should have been done long ago. Not only that, she’d like better coordination of food safety testing between the public and private sector. |
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April 26, 2007 | Bloomberg
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first visit to the U.S. will draw a warm welcome from President Bush. “‘Japan's fence-mending is going to win Abe kudos,’ said Jeff Kingston, a political science professor Temple University in Tokyo. ‘On the things the U.S. really cares about, security and strategy, Abe will get gold stars.’ ” |
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April 26, 2007 | Associated Press
“A former Temple University student who says he was denied a master's degree because of his political views was actually a marginal learner who turned in an awful thesis, the school's lawyer said in federal court yesterday,” wrote Kathy Matheson in covering a civil trial over the matter. “There was no conspiracy to violate the free-speech rights of former graduate student Christian DeJohn, university attorney Joe Tucker said. DeJohn's history thesis ‘just wasn't good enough,’ he said.” |
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April 25, 2007 | The Hawk (St. Joe’s University)
It is no secret that our nation's waistlines are expanding. One of the biggest culprits: soda. But diet sodas are not really that much better, said Melissa Xanthopoulos, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. "Sodas do not provide nutrients and are empty calories," she said. |
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April 25, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Pepón Osorio, a professor in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, is using his multimedia work, “Badge of Honor: The Project,” to raise awareness and break the cycle of incarceration among Latinos and their sons. He hopes it “gives people a chance to think they don't need to be in prison to reflect.” Osorio is co-director of the Arts in Community Program at the Tyler School of Art. |
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April 25, 2007 | Houston Chronicle
In a broad-ranging feature on the impact the Apple iPod has had on American society, writer Jeannie Kever notes that the little device is also being used as teaching tool. “A study at Temple University in Philadelphia looked at using iPods to train new doctors to better recognize the cardiac sounds that indicate problems such as aortic or mitral stenosis. That study found that correct identification doubled — to 80 percent from 40 percent — after listening 400 times to different heart murmurs.” |
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April 25, 2007 | The Hollywood Reporter
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Foundation has awarded a total of $500,250 to 56 film-related nonprofit organizations through its Institutional Grants Program. Temple University received $7,500 to support the work of visiting filmmakers. |
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April 25, 2007 | Ambler Gazette
“Temple Ambler's campus was jam-packed last week with about 10,000 color-coded Pennsylvania school students - heads topped with newspaper pirate- and sailor-themed hats and hands filled with Dixie-cup plants - absorbed in the happenings of EarthFest 2007, a free educational outdoor festival hosted by the Temple Ambler Center for Sustainable Communities in celebration of Earth Day.” |
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April 24, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
"Why do the people of Bougainville look unique?" by Jonathan Friedlaender of Temple University is used as a source in this story on the Nasioi, one of the many indigenous people of Papua New Guinea. |
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April 24, 2007 | Fox News “Hannity & Colmes”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill discussed the history of anti-snitching in American society and whether it is furthered by hip-hop culture. |
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April 24, 2007 | Reuters
Japan's Shinzo Abe will visit the U.S. this week, but will have a hard time with Democratic leaders, since he has focused his contacts with conservatives in this country. "Koizumi and Abe put all their eggs in the conservative Republican basket," said Robert Dujarric, a researcher at Temple University, Japan. "They have very few contacts with Democratic leaders. They don't know them, and so they fear what they will do." |
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April 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
State Rep. Dwight Evans says that if he’s elected Philadelphia’s mayor, he will build up neighborhoods in the city by using anchors like Temple University to make a difference. “Without articulating the exact dynamic, Evans says he would create ‘synergy’ between the ‘people and places’ of those institutions, capitalizing on their nearness to Center City,” writes Michael Matza in a profile. |
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April 23, 2007 | Reuters, Yahoo Health, ScientificAmerican.com
“Taking risks may be an integral part of being a teenager, an expert on child development says. While the part of the brain that seeks social and emotional rewards kicks into overdrive during adolescence, Dr. Laurence Steinberg of Temple University in Philadelphia explains in a new analysis of research on brain and behavior, the network responsible for impulse control doesn't reach maturity until adulthood.” |
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April 23, 2007 | Daily News
Columnist Stu Bykofsky writes about recent local cases where free speech has been challenged by the government's representatives. "Temple University professor of constitutional law David Kairys told me that in recent years Supreme Court decisions have tightened limits of free speech and that when it comes to dissidents, 'the authorities want to keep them out of sight and out of mind.'" |
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April 23, 2007 | Daily News
Arthur Washburn, who teaches anatomy at Temple University, is one of only 40 active forensic anthropologists in the U.S. and one of a few in the area. He knows bones: He can pinpoint the sex, age, ancestry, stature and kind of bones with surprising accuracy. He has been working with the Medical Examiner's Office for more than 16 years and recently worked on the case of a missing Philadelphia woman. |
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April 23, 2007 | Fox29 “Good Day Philadelphia”
What's the best way to introduce vegetables into a child’s diet? How do I help my overweight child? What do you think about Hoodia as a weight loss supplement? On "Ask the Expert," Eileen Ford, MS, RD from Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education, answered these questions by offering practical and useful advice for families on living a healthy lifestyle. Ford does not recommend Hoodia because of the lack to scientific evidence to support its claims. |
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April 23, 2007 | The Buffalo News
Listening to the heart is a skill learned best by doing, according to the head researcher, Michael Barrett, a doctor at Temple University’s medical school in Philadelphia. |
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April 23, 2007 | The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
Temple University Japan (TUJ) will reorganize in 2009 as a full-fledged Japanese university, becoming the first foreign university to be designated a Japanese university. The change will allow TUJ to offer full Japanese university degrees, said TUJ Dean Kirk R. Patterson. |
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April 22, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Kris Sumey went to Temple University's Liacouras Center Saturday because, she said, "My whole family is overweight." Sylvaneta Lewis' motivation was her 8-year-old daughter, who "is overweight for her age." The two mothers were among 550 people registered for a conference run by Shaping America's Youth (SAY), a nonprofit group based in Portland, Ore., aimed at educating parents and other caregivers about childhood obesity. |
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April 22, 2007 | Phillyburbs.com
College students who exhibit troubling emotional behavior often get the help they need, but forcing a student to get help is difficult. “It is very hard if there haven’t been specific threats made to specific people or themselves,” said John DiMino, director of Temple’s Tuttleman Counseling Serivce. At Temple’s Tuttleman center, the number of students using counseling services has tripled in the last 11 years. Temple faculty and staff have access to counselors to discuss student behaviors to help determine if an intervention should be initiated, DiMino said. The college also has a “civility on campus” guide that walks people through what to do when they encounter behavior ranging from minor rudeness through emergencies. |
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April 22, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Job offers are on the rise, with more recruiters coming to campus. “At this time last year, Temple University’s Fox Business School graduates told counselors about 119 job offers. This year, the number just topped 200. Senior Mariam Adeyemo has an informal offer from the Philadelphia controller’s office. “It’s looking good right now,” she said on Thursday, just back from her interview. |
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April 22, 2007 | The New York Times Book Review
The Golden Age of access to Soviet Union documents is over, with a new secrecy creeping over the archives of the former Russian empire. “To some, collaborations between Western publishers and Russian archives aren’t necessarily signs of a broader openness. There’s no notion that there’s a public domain,” said Vlad Zubok, a cold war historian at Temple University. Material often becomes the “property of the archivists,” he said. “They sit on this and wait for some people who can come offer them some combination of good money and attractive trips abroad.” |
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April 21, 2007 | Newsweek, international edition
Phil Deans, a professor of international relations and director of research at Temple University’s Japan campus, writes an op-ed on the future of Japanese relations with its neighbors, much of which is based on the past. “It may seem strange that Japan’s imperial past still makes headlines. But the debate over history in Asia has much to do with the present,” Deans wrote. |
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April 21, 2007 | The New York Times
Gov. Jon Corzine’s recovery from a major traffic accident is moving slowly, but that’s not surprising. “He’s a fairly fortunate fellow, given the constellation of the thoracic injuries and the femur fracture,” said Dr. Thomas A. Santora, a surgeon at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. “It’s a major cluster of injuries.” |
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April 21, 2007 | Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)
“Our son, Jason, is a geology senior at Virginia Tech,” News Communications Director Ray Betzner writes in an opinion essay. “And every time we speak, I think about the parents whose lives won’t be interrupted by a son or daughter. I’ve learned my lesson. This weekend, when we’re together, I’ll tell him he can call me anytime, anywhere - even if it’s just to report on the latest odometer reading.” |
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April 20, 2007 | “Wall Street Journal” radio
Admissions expert Steven Roy Goodman discusses campus safety issues in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy. He mentions that Temple University has an “extremely good” security force. |
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April 20, 2007 | NBC10, ABC6
Temple engineering students tested their skills in attempting to launch rockets with eggs inside. |
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April 20, 2007 | CN8, Fox29, KYW radio
Earth Day festivities at Temple University Ambler brought many out to celebrate the planet. |
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April 20, 2007 | Good Day Philadelphia
How can women make their high heels more comfortable? How can runners protect their feet from injury? On “Ask the Expert,” Dr. Lesly Robinson, from Temple University’s School of Podiatric Medicine, answered these questions and more. |
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April 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Tribune
In a feature on the Temple Theater production of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Davine-Joy Randolph discussed the complexities of performing a role based on the real Ma Rainey. “You always have to do research,” Randolph says, “but what made this more difficult is the fact that Rainey actually did exist. In that sense I had to coincide with what the history books said of her and make sure I went along to portray, as much as possible, the real person.” |
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April 20, 2007 | TIME magazine
In a commentary, TIME correspondent Bryan Walsh says that the Japanese public is wary about increased military spending or action. “Remilitarization simply isn't in the budget. ‘If the Cubans tested a nuclear bomb, you can bet American politicians would have to increase the defense budget,’ says Robert Dujarric, a security analyst with Temple University in Tokyo. ‘But there is no pressure from any segment of Japanese politics to spend more.’ ” |
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April 20, 2007 | Globe and Mail (Canada)
Although they have had rocky relations in the past, Japan and China have much to gain by building stronger ties. "I think that the mutual benefits of improved relations, and the dire consequences of the alternatives, will nudge both governments toward managing these rifts," says Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Japan's Temple University. "This is critical for the region because the rapid rise of China and the relative stagnation of Japan are producing anxieties here." |
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April 20, 2007 | Wall Street Journal, Asia edition
Just as Japanese commuters were still digesting lurid headlines about the mass slaying in Virginia, on Tuesday they came home to evening news reports that Itcho Ito, the popular mayor of Nagasaki, was shot by a gangster while campaigning for re-election. |
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April 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A story about business competitions for local students includes an illustration showing the team from Temple University's Fox School of Business at the Association for Corporate Growth Philadelphia Chapter's first Philadelphia Cup business-case competition included Ted Swain, Andrew Hopkins, Christopher Bentley and Alyssa Cox. |
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April 19, 2007 | Fuji TV (Japan)
The research of Thomas Shaffer, Professor of Physiology and Pediatrics, was highlighted on the show, “Unbelievable Stories.” Shaffer’s work focuses on liquid ventilation, a technique to help premature infants breathe easier. |
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April 19, 2007 | The New York Times syndicate
Everyone has good reasons why they don’t eat right, workout and lose weight, but there are ways of getting around the excuses. Eating right is a great start. “Focusing on why you engage in emotional eating implies that there's a deep psychological problem,” says Gary Foster, Ph.D., director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. “But for most people, emotional eating is simply a bad habit.” |
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April 19, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In an editorial decrying the lack of diversity among the musicians in the nation's leading symphony orchestras, The Philadelphia Inquirer cites the role of the Music Prep program at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance in nurturing Philadelphia's young African-American musicians by offering scholarships to needy students. |
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April 19, 2007 | Kansan City Star
Even before the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech raised safety issues, college students were faced with a variety of complex issues, says columnist Barbara Shelly. Still, students are resilient. “My niece, who phones in with occasional reports from Temple University in Philadelphia, appears to be having the time of her life in her freshman year,” Shelly reports. |
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April 19, 2007 | Associated Press
Some Korean groups are worried about a backlash after the Virginia Tech gunman was identified as a South Korean native. "When I heard that the suspect was Asian, I was just like, I know what's going to happen," said Tamara Nopper, a Korean-American advocate who teaches courses on race at Temple University in Philadelphia. "For a while, all they had was 'It's an Asian man, it's an Asian man.'" |
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April 19, 2007 | The Bulletin
The shootings at Virginia Tech have prompted other universities to review the campus safety procedures. The University of Pennsylvania and Temple University are two such examples. Penn retains a police force of 116 sworn-in officers and Temple a force of at least 129 sworn-in officers, according to their respective public safety departments. Both universities' security policies have been under continuous review. "I feel very good about our state of security," says Temple's Executive Director of Campus Safety Services Carl Bittenbender. He noted that Temple's security budget exceeds $12 million per year. |
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April 19, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Former Temple football coach Wayne Hardin wants to see a huge turnout for Temple’s home games, and he’s vowed to sell out Lincoln Financial Field. "I said I'd do my best to do what I can to put 66,000 people in there for the first game," Hardin said. "I went out on a limb, and everybody said I kind of lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. My experience here was so great, I just felt if there was something I could do to help out, I'd do it." |
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April 19, 2007 | The New York Times
Intervening when a college student seems out of control is a complex matter on a university campus. “With the Virginia Tech killings, many universities are planning to remind faculty members of their protocols. ‘We’re actually going to go ahead and have the counseling service here do a session for all our instructors and faculty on what to look for, what the procedures are, and what the counseling center can do,’ said Shannon Miller, chairwoman of the English department at Temple University.” |
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April 19, 2007 | Voice of America
Security issues at universities across the nation are being examined in light of the Virginia Tech shootings. Students say they feel the tragedy was an isolated case. "Temple's got the fourth biggest police force in the state so, I mean, they're pretty well prepared for whatever comes their way," one Temple student told Voice of America, "You can't prevent everything. You can only try to prevent it. And I think they're doing a pretty good job at doing that." |
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April 19, 2007 | Interfaithfamily.com
Dr. Lewis Gordon has only been teaching at Temple University since 2004, but he's already made a name for himself on campus. That's because Gordon, 44, a professor of religion, philosophy and Judaic studies, is building up scholarship in an area few have explored: Afro-Jewish studies. |
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April 18, 2007 | WashingtonPost.com
Alison Kiss, program director of Security on Campus Inc., was online Wednesday to discuss security measures and recommendations for Virginia Tech as well as other colleges across the U.S. One writer asked her if universities were prepared to deal with “shooters.” “In fact, in Pennsylvania, Temple University is the third largest police force next to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Many campus security staffs are very well-trained to handle crime.” |
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April 18, 2007 | Des Moines Register online
What works in the fight against obesity? Some experts are beginning to focus on the amount of support and accountability that obese people need to recover. Australian researchers reviewed 26 studies over the past several years that used telephone contact to follow up with patients seeking to lose weight. Melissa Napolitano, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, said telephone counseling is not only convenient and cost-effective but it may also “be useful as it provides the accountability and social support that are important components for behavior change.” |
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April 18, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Students share their grief differently than their parents. Electronic media like instant messages and social websites are the new outlets. Jan Fernback, a Temple University assistant professor who researches new media, said social-networking sites and text messaging appealed to young people in part because it's a world that belongs to them. Older people don't use the technologies as much. "It's like a little club for them," she said. Youngjin Yoo, an associate professor of management information systems at Temple, said blogging, texting and other technologies can offer victims and others more accurate information more quickly. |
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April 18, 2007 | WNBC (New York)
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, schools around the country are evaluating their own safety procedures. “At Temple University in Philadelphia, officials told television station WCAU the school does everything it can to make sure tragedies don't happen there. Carl Bittenbender, Temple's executive director of campus security, said he feels one of the campus's strengths is the sheer size of the campus police force. The school has 125 officers, 450 security cameras and its campus safety is integrated with the Philadelphia Police Department's 911 system. ‘So, in any kind of major incident, there's a joint response. There's a joint response between campus police and Philadelphia police,’ Bittenbender said.” |
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April 18, 2007 | KYW News radio
Carl Bittenbender discussed campus safety precautions. |
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April 18, 2007 | MSNBC.com
“Workers facing shrinking retirement benefits aren't saving enough to make up for what they'll lose, according to a new study. The vast majority of employees are likely to need additional savings if they hope to retire with the benefits they expected before the shift away from company-sponsored traditional pensions to 401(k) plans, said Jack VanDerhei, the study's co-author and an associate professor of risk management and insurance at The Fox School of Business at Temple University.” |
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April 17-18, 2007 | CW57, CBS3, NBC10 and ABC6 (Philadelphia)
Temple students came together Tuesday night to express their grief over the shootings. "Hope, pray, give homage to the victims of the shooting. Just do what you can so it doesn't happen again," said Nicholas Bardotsos, a sophomore. |
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April 17, 2007 | CBS3, Fox29 (Philadelphia)
Dr. David Baron, Temple University School of Medicine, talked about depression in young people and its implications in an interview with CBS3.
Dr. Baron and Temple psychologist Frank Farley both discussed what college students will be feeling as a result of the tragedy and ways in which parents, friends and professionals can help, during an appearance on “Good Day Philadelphia” on Fox29. |
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April 17, 2007 | Metro
Temple University will sponsor a Boot Camp for Music Industry Entrepreneurs. “The business end of music is so important, and you need the information and tools to be a successful entrepreneur,” said Chris Pavlides, executive director of Temple’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute. |
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April 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Doreen A. Wright, Frank R. Sanchez and Daniel T. Garrett have been selected to receive the seventh annual Fox Information Technology awards from Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management. |
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April 17, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Metro, NBC10
The impact of the shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday is being felt on universities across the nation, including Temple University. “As the death toll climbed throughout the day, college officials in the Philadelphia area said they planned to review the sequence of events to see how they could improve their own security and avert a similar disaster. ‘We want to know if there were lapses,’ said Carl Bittenbender, executive director of campus safety services at Temple University. ‘We're tightening up everything just to ease the tensions that folks are feeling.’ ”
Adjusting to the violence won’t be easy. Dr. David Baron, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine and Temple University Health System, offered his advice for moving on. "But a way to move on is to take this in the context of the most terrible tragedy — the worst in American history — and realize that nothing could have been done to prevent it."
When Carl Bittenbender found out about the Virginia Tech massacre yesterday morning, he immediately thought about his daughter, a senior living on Temple University’s campus. Then the ramifications of such a shooting rampage made Bittenbender go over his duties as the university’s executive director of Campus Safety Services. “We prepare hoping that something like this never has us put our training into effect,” Bittenbender said to Metro.
"I feel confident we're prepared. I hope that's a preparation we never have to put in place," Carl Bittenbender said in an interview with NBC10. |
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April 17, 2007 | Radio Australia
Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan, discussed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plans to grow Japan’s military strength and changes in the nation’s constitution. “He's focusing on issues that are not really on many household's 'to do' list - constitutional reform, patriotic education - things like that. So I think there is not a lot of public enthusiasm about constitutional revision,” Kingston said. |
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April 16, 2007 | WebMD.com
“Most teens know plenty about the dangers of risk-taking behaviors like drinking, smoking, and taking drugs, but they are hardwired to ignore what they have learned,” writes Salynn Boyles. “That is the conclusion from a new analysis of emerging research on adolescent brain development from Temple University professor of psychology Laurence Steinberg, PhD.” |
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April 20, 2007 issue | Chronicle of Higher Education
In an electronic age when so much information is available online, what is the role of a reference librarian? "More and more front-line librarians are finding that what they thought would be reference work is turning out not to be reference work," says Steven Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University. In a recent forum at Columbia University, he argued that the reference desk would disappear by 2012. "With all of the demands that we have in trying to remain relevant, what is the value of having a highly skilled subject specialist sitting at a desk?" |
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April 16, 2007 | FoxNews.com
Personal finance columnist Gail Buckner warns we are not saving enough for retirement. “This week the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), a Washington, DC think tank, came out with its annual look at Americans’ retirement prospects. According to co-author Jack VanDerhei, an EBRI fellow and professor at Temple University, ‘What scares me is how many people are still focusing on age 85 as their life expectancy and not planning on having resources beyond that.’ ” |
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April 15, 2007 | The (Allentown) Morning Call
Students at Lehigh and Kutztown universities are demanding higher levels of diversity. “Ideally, a campus should strive to have a student body with 30 percent minority students, according to JoAnn Moody, a diversity consultant and director of the Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity. That percentage creates a ''critical mass'' that leads to a more comfortable atmosphere for minorities already enrolled. …Temple University was one of the few schools in Pennsylvania to top the 30 percent threshold, with black students comprising almost a fifth of its student body,” writes Genevieve Marshall. |
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April 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Baldev Lamba, an associate professor teaching landscape design at Temple University Ambler, has several notable recent achievements and has "become the darling of Montgomery County's elite Perkiomen School," according to reporter Lea Sitton Stanley |
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April 15, 2007 | Boston Globe
In a travel story on the Delaware Valley’s many public gardens, correspondent Carol Stocker recommends visitors check out Temple University Ambler. “The teaching gardens at the Landscape Arboretum of Temple University Ambler pioneered careers in horticulture for women. It has an outstanding formal perennial border.” |
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April 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's injuries from an automobile accident are serious and will require extended treatment. "One of the most serious involves a rapid breakdown of muscle tissue, said Temple University trauma surgeon Kevin M. Bradley. This releases toxic byproducts into the blood that can damage the kidneys. Occasionally, dialysis is necessary. To counter this danger, patients are given copious amounts of intravenous fluids to flush out the kidneys, while urine output and blood enzyme levels are closely monitored, Bradley said." |
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April 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Former Temple men's basketball coach John Chaney was featured among the African American athletes and coaches who discussed the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's appearance in major league baseball. |
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April 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple University sophomore gymnast John Vogtman has been named the 2006-07 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's At-Large Performer of the Year. Vogtman is one of six Temple student-athletes selected to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area At-Large Teams, three on the men's team and three on the women's team. The teams are voted on by the sports information offices of the 28 area institutions from the Philadelphia metropolitan area. |
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April 15, 2007 | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Competition for auto insurance dollars is heating up in Pennsylvania, although big insurers like State Farm tend to dominate the market. "The top 10 auto insurers in a state controlling over 50 percent of the market (60 percent in 2005) is very typical," said Michael R. Powers, professor of Risk and Insurance at Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia. "There are few big players in auto insurance." |
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April 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple men’s basketball coach Fran Dunphy is in his second year as the national chairman of the local chapter of Coaches vs. Cancer, writes Inquirer columnist Phil Sheridan. "We wanted to get involved with something tangible," Dunphy said. "Research is important, of course, but we also wanted something you could put your arms around in our community.” Plans call for the construction of Hope Lodge adjacent to the Fox Chase Cancer Center. |
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April 14, 2007 | The Oregonian
Although a judge has decided on a settlement package for victims of priest abuse in the Portland Archdiocese, the issue might not be resolved. "The fact that there may be a settlement in monetary terms may not, in fact, cure or remedy all the underlying harms," said Jonathan C. Lipson, a professor at Temple University's James E. Beasley School of Law. "There's a limit to what money can buy." |
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April 13, 2007 | The Intelligencer
Doylestown native Evan Peters has been working in a Japanese farm community, learning about the factors that have prompted young people to leave and reduce the local workforce. “After attending Temple University in Japan in Tokyo, Peters had a command of the language and of Japanese culture in the cities; however, becoming immersed in a countryside village has exposed him to an ‘entirely different world.’ ” |
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April 13, 2007 | Wall Street Journal online, Cox News Service, Scripps News Service
“During the past two years, 17 percent of workers have received cutbacks in workplace retirement benefits for themselves or their spouses, but only one-third of those affected have increased their savings in response, new research shows.
Among those who had a retirement-benefit reduction, ‘a full 40 percent came out and said they were doing absolutely nothing’ to compensate, says Jack VanDerhei, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and co-author of the Retirement Confidence Survey, scheduled for release today by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a Washington nonprofit group, and others.” |
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April 13, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
Columnist Rashod Ollison wonders if the current controversy casued by former radio host Don Imus will have any impact on similar language in hip-hop music. “We should have the same indignation when Snoop calls black women 'hos' or when Ice-T says it, says Marc Lamont Hill, associate professor of urban education at Temple University. 'Imus and the rappers who use words like 'ho' to describe black women - they're always wrong,' Hill says. 'The sad thing is that there seems to be no moral authority in the hip-hop community. We are creating the soundtrack to our own oppression.'” |
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April 13, 2007 | China Daily, UPI, Ivanhoe Newsire
A new report says that using educational and prevention programs alone to persuade teens to keep away from drinking, smoking or taking drugs are unlikely to be effective, as competing systems within the brain make adolescents more susceptible to engaging in risky or dangerous behavior. The report was written by Laurence Steinberg, distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University.” |
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April 13, 2007 | Bucks County Courier Times
Temple University senior Gina Sicilia is also a blues singer, with a debut CD, “Allow Me to Confess.” “It's important to me that the album contained original songs,” said Sicilia, a School of Communications and Theater major. “I always wanted to be known and respected as a songwriter. The songs on the album are ones I've been writing for a few years. There are a few I wrote when I was 16.” |
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April 12, 2007 | Wall Street Journal, TIME
Chinese and Japanese leaders are setting a simple agenda for Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Japan this week. "Now they are dealing with the easier things, the low hanging fruit," said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University's Japan campus
Speaking to TIME reporter Bryan Walsh, Kingston said that while the two nations are wary of one another, they recognize a growing dependency. "Japanese officials realize that China is Japan's economic future," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of history at Temple University in Tokyo. "The mutual interest is real." |
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April 12, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, associate professor of religion, is teaching a class on Jews, America and Sports. Says reporter Jared Shelly: “The class analyzes the 20th-century Jewish-American experience by exploring the community's connection to boxing, basketball, baseball and other sports, showing how successful athletes helped to undermine anti-Semitism and promote assimilation. It examines international events, like the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, and the role of sports in Israel.” |
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April 12, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
“Mancations” – trips by heterosexual men who normally wouldn’t vacation together, are becoming a new niche market. “It's all about creating special-interest travel, which includes the pro-creation vacation, during which couples try to become pregnant, and the 'babymoon,' which has expectant couples taking a trip before their baby is born,” said Joseph Goldblatt, Temple professor of tourism and hospitality management at the School of Tourism and Hospitality |
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April 11, 2007 | CBS3
Can "Sugarrest" stop your cravings for sweets? The new herbal supplement works by eliminating the taste of sweetness. "For some people it might help," said Angie Makris of Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education. "But you need to study it in a large number of people in a well controlled trial to really know what the effects are." Makris says it's only going to eliminate the taste sensation, not the actual craving. |
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April 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“As the Temple football team goes through its third week of spring drills, looking to upgrade every facet of last season's 1-11 performance, the fight for jobs in the defensive backfield may be the most competitive,” writes Kevin Tatum. Strengthening the defense is key. "Obviously, it was a function of us not being as competitive as we needed to be to be successful," Coal Al Golden said of his team's defensive shortcomings. "We're focusing on eliminating the things that cause you to lose.” |
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April 12, 2007 | BBC, RadioAustralia
Jeff Kingston of Temple University Japan and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill discussed the expected actions North Korea might take now that U.S. sanctions have been lifted on cash held by the nation in a Macau bank. North Korean officials said they would shut down a nuclear reactor if the money was released. |
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April 12, 2007 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Austin American Statemen; Associated Press; Inc.com
Many Americans are not being realistic about how much they need to save for retirement and how much assistance they'll receive from Social Security and the traditional pension plans that fewer employers are offering, writes Len Boselovic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "‘I think to a very large extent they're deluding themselves,’ said Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor.’” VanDerhei has issued a new report on the changing retirement picture. |
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April 11-12, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Deirdre Littlejohn, a Temple marketing and communications major, is using a scholarship from the Jackie Robinson Foundation to help pay for her schooling. "It takes a big burden off of me in terms of paying for school," Littlejohn, now a sophomore. "But also, it's a big network and a big family. . . . We all talk about what we're doing. We talk about our grades. We talk about our worries." |
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April 11, 2007 | KYW-radio
Marciene Mattleman reports that “Jay Sinha, a professor of marketing at Temple University and Thomas Foscht, an Austrian professor, have co-authored an interesting book,The Death of Traditional Marketing and the Rise of the New Pull Game. In anti-marketing, the idea is not about following a script, but trying to pique some interest by making products seem unreachable. According to this approach, people are tired of being told which product to buy and are jaded.” |
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April 11, 2007 | Associated Press, Kiplinger’s
Workers aren’t saving enough to make up for what they will likely lose as their employers shave retirement benefits. “The vast majority of employees are likely to need additional savings if they hope to retire with the benefits they expected before the shift away from company-sponsored traditional pensions to 401(k) plans, said Jack VanDerhei, the study's co-author and an associate professor of risk management and insurance at The Fox School of Business at Temple University. ‘Unfortunately, only 24 percent of those affected indicate that they will save more on their own, and only 8 percent indicate that they will save more in the employer's plan as a result of these changes,’ he said.” |
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April 10, 2007 | Health Behavior News Service, PsychCentral.com
“Phoning it in” works when it comes to losing weight and getting fit, according to a new systematic review in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Melissa Napolitano, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, said telephone counseling is not only convenient and cost-effective but it may also “be useful as it provides the accountability and social support that are important components for behavior change.” The telephone also allows for a real-time interaction, so a telephone counselor can help people problem-solve their trouble spots, reevaluate their goals and set new goals if they’re successful, said Napolitano, who was not involved in the review. |
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April 10, 2007 | Maclean’s magazine (Canada), The Sun (London)
“One of the most difficult skills a medical student must master is detecting common heart murmurs. According to a new study released last month, the solution is not a sophisticated new technology, but rather, the iPod. "Michael Barrett, M.D., clinical associate professor of medicine at Temple University, found that students who used their iPods to repeatedly listen to heart sounds greatly improved their stethoscope skills. Those demonstrating the most improvement had listened to each sound at least 400 times.”
Barrett’s experiences also made The Sun’s list of 20 things you didn’t know about the iPod. |
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April 10, 2007 | Maclean’s magazine (Canada), The Sun (London)
“One of the most difficult skills a medical student must master is detecting common heart murmurs. According to a new study released last month, the solution is not a sophisticated new technology, but rather, the iPod. "Michael Barrett, M.D., clinical associate professor of medicine at Temple University, found that students who used their iPods to repeatedly listen to heart sounds greatly improved their stethoscope skills. Those demonstrating the most improvement had listened to each sound at least 400 times.”
Barrett’s experiences also made The Sun’s list of 20 things you didn’t know about the iPod. |
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April 10, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s crime problems will not be resolved unless numerous efforts are made across the city. "This is a long-term problem, which will take a multitude of solutions and many, many people said Amy Goldberg, chief of trauma at Temple University Hospital, which hosted the hearing of the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Joining Goldberg was Scott Charles, outreach coordinator of Temple's "Cradle to Grave" program, which provides counseling to gunshot victims and their families to try to break the chain of violence and retaliation. Charles cited the quick official response in September when three people died after eating spinach contaminated by the E. coli bacterium. "We have more than 300 dead in Philadelphia," Charles said. "If this doesn't suggest we're in the middle of a public-health crisis, then I'm not sure what does." |
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April 10, 2007 | Daily News
Philadelphia school district officials will hold two hearings to discuss the future of the six management organizations operating some of the city’s lowest performing schools. "The main thing I'm going to ask for is the opportunity to sit down with people and discuss how Temple can do things that add a lot of value to our schools while not duplicating things that the district does," said C. Kent McGuire, dean of Temple's College of Education. "I look forward to talking about what it will take to improve these schools. That is a more important conversation than just talking about extending relationships as they currently exist," he added. |
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April 10, 2007 | The New York Times
With the first wave of baby boomers already in their 60s, gerontologists are bracing for a tsunami of disgruntled postretirees who have left the psychic and physical aspects of aging to chance. It also isn't a standard formula to retire at 65 anymore for many. “It used to be normative, you worked until 65 and then you retired,” said Adam Davey, an associate professor at Temple University’s College of Allied Health Professions, who has studied retirement. “Well, these days, you just can’t expect that kind of seamless transition.” |
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April 10, 2007 | Associated Press, CNN
Chinese officials are holding back their usual criticism of Japan in preparation for this week’s visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Japan. "Clearly, the Chinese have been incredibly restrained. They are very eager for this to be a success," said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo. |
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April 9, 2007 | ABC6 (Philadelphia): Asbury Park Press
All the rules and reasoning in the world may not be able to stop teens from risky behavior. Temple University psychologist Laurence Steinberg says the evidence shows that the biology of a developing brain sometimes wins out over education. |
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April 9-10, 2007 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Fox “Hannity & Colmes”; CNN “Anderson Cooper 360; Detroit Free Press
Radio jock Don Imus is under fire after racially charged references he made when talking about Rutgers’ women’s basketball team. Does his claim that such terms are used by African Americans absolve him of blame? “Referencing instances of African-Americans defaming their race is not a sound argument, said Marc Lamont Hill, professor of urban education and American studies at Temple University. ‘Even if you make the claim that black people do it, too, that's not an excuse for blatantly racist behavior.’” |
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April 10, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
For Temple University professor emeritus Tina Sloan Green, Imus' comments fuel a bigger fear. "The attack is on their sexuality and femininity because there's a fear that women's sports will take funding and even advertising dollars away from men's sports," said Sloan Green, executive director and president of the Black Women in Sport Foundation. She's also the first black woman to be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. "By perpetuating the stereotype that these women aren't really women, it helps slow down the process of women getting involved in sports." |
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April 6, 2007 | Bloomberg
Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma, who said in January that the U.S. decision to invade Iraq was “wrong,” was shunned by Vice President Dick Cheney in February and is now softening his remarks before traveling to the states to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “He's figured it's polite to soften his previous statement before he meets with Mr. Gates in Washington,” said Robert Dujarric, an expert on U.S.-Japan security and director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University in Tokyo. “He paid the price of not seeing Vice President Cheney for his previous remarks.” |
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April 6, 2007 | ABC6-TV (Philadelphia)
Finding obstetrics care is becoming increasingly difficult for poor pregnant women in the Philadelphia area. “Fourteen hospitals have already closed, or are closing, their obstetrics units over the past decade. Jeanes Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia will be closing its unit, as part of layoffs and cutbacks by Temple University Health System,” reported Anita Brikman. The latest hospital to consider closing its obstetrics unit is Chestnut Hill Hospital, prompting a protest. |
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April 5, 2007 | CNN “Lou Dobbs Tonight”; KNBC-TV (Los Angeles)
A new study from Temple University suggests that teenage brains are simply too immature to avoid such risky behavior as trying drugs or smoking. The area of the brain that controls impulse and emotions develops later than the area that controls logic and reasoning. |
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April 5, 2007 | USA Today; KYC-TV (Cleveland, OH)
“A new review of adolescent brain research suggests that society is wasting billions of dollars on education and intervention programs to dissuade teens from dangerous activities, because their immature brains are not yet capable of avoiding risky behaviors” writes Sharon Jason for USA Today. “The analysis, by Temple University psychologist Laurence Steinberg, says stricter laws and policies limiting their behaviors would be more effective than education programs.
“We need to rethink our whole approach to preventing teen risk," says Steinberg, whose review of a decade of research is in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science. It's published by the Association for Psychological Science. |
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April 5, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
When it comes to African-Americans and Jews, most research has focused on relations between the two groups. Lewis Ricardo Gordon, a Jamaica-born, Yale-educated author and Temple University professor, is studying African-Americans who are Jews, writes Dianna Marder. “The founder of Temple University's Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and its Center for Afro-Jewish Studies, Gordon, 44, says Jews are among the most racially diverse people on the globe -- and many don't even know it,” Marder writes. |
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April 5, 2007 | Fox29 “Good Day Philadelphia”
Viewers asked Temple University pharmacy expert Michael Mancano their questions today on Fox 29's morning program. Mancano addressed potential drug interactions with supplements like grapeseed extract. He also stressed the importance of posing your medication questions to a pharmacist rather than a technician or cashier at your local pharmacy. |
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April 5, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A former National Archives intern has pleaded guilty to stealing valuable Civil War documents. “Andy Waskie, a Temple University professor who teaches Civil War history and languages, said many institutions have instituted more stringent security rules and installed cameras in the last 20 to 25 years,” writes Edward Colimore. "You have to be vigilant," Waskie said. "In this day and age, we have to protect documents of great historical value for future generations." |
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April 4, 2007 | Phillyburbs.com
A water garden designed by Baldev Lamba in 1993 has opened on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Lamba, an associate professor in horticulture and landscape at Temple University Ambler, won a competition for the garden in 1993, and the intervening years have been spent in getting clearances and fund raising. “It's just a very complicated process, getting something like this built,” he said. |
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April 3, 2007 | The New York Times, Daily Collegian
The lead story in Eric Nagourney’s “Vital Signs” column this week describes Dr. Michael Barrett’s use of an iPod loaded with heart sounds to train interns and retrain cardiologists to better recognize heart problems. The Temple University School of Medicine cardiologist said doctors should be able to readily identify the most common heart murmur to prevent unnecessary tests. “They’re going to hear that murmur every day,” he said, “so it was really important for them to be confident.”
The Penn State daily newspaper also carries a story on Dr. Barrett’s research. |
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April 3, 2007 | The New York Times, Boston Globe
A Temple University professor is part of a team that believes patients who are working through the normal emotional fallout from bad events are too often being diagnosed as depressed. Mark F. Schmitz of Temple University is one of several researchers involved in the study, whose results were reported in today’s The Archives of General Psychiatry. |
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April 3, 2007 | Law.com
The recently created DirectWomen Institute will train female lawyers to be corporate board directors. Writes Jessica Jones: “Temple University law professor Amelia Boss says that many female attorneys are ideally suited to join boards. ‘There are a number of women in the legal profession who are knowledgeable about the issues affecting corporate governance,’ says Boss, who is also the co-chair of DirectWomen. ‘But these women [have not] been tapped by corporate boards.’” |
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April 2, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In a story about storm-water utility fees, a dedicated source of money to repair or replace drains and pipes, Temple geologist M. Richard Nalbandian says: “The question isn’t, ‘Should we do it here?’ but ‘Why are we always behind the rest of the country?’” |
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April 1, 2007 | North County (Calif.) Times
The Associated Press story on President Ann Weaver Hart’s proposal to pay passport applications fees for students who want to study abroad continues to gain attention. |
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April 1, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“Philadelphians by and large agree that government isn't doing a good job, that the people in charge can’t be trusted to do what's right,” said Temple University pollster Michael G. Hagen, who found in February that 71 percent of the 802 residents he polled said they thought the city was run by a few big interests looking out for themselves. “That's a big target that has got to be tempting to candidates.” |
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March 30 – April 1, 2007 | Scientific American podcast, News24.com, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
According to Temple cardiologist Mike Barrett, most doctors accurately identify different heart sounds only 40 % of the time. It's because they don't hear the sounds often enough. Barrett has posted the sounds online, so that doctors and med students can download and listen repeatedly. In one study, such repetitive listening increased accuracy rates to 80%. |
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