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January 31, 2008 | CNN
No it's not an amusement ride; it's a virtual balance lab at Temple University. The idea is to throw participants off balance to see how they recover. More than 6 million suffer from chronic dizziness and those numbers are expected to grow. If you have an impairment of the inner ear, or in the sensations in your limbs, your balance can be disturbed, explained Emily Keshner, PhD, professor and chair of physical therapy and director of the lab at Temple's College of Health Professions. Keshner recommends exercise along with plenty of sleep as two of the best ways to avoid balance problems. |
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January 31, 2008 | The Jewish Exponent
Can cold weather really make people miserable and mean to each other, and unsettling to deal with and be around? "While temperature seems to have less of an effect on mood and behavior, cold weather, just as hot weather, can affect some people negatively," according to David Baron, D.O., professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral science at Temple University's School of Medicine and Hospital. |
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January 31, 2008 | United Press International
U.S. scientists have identified the cause of age differences in response to psycho stimulant medicines. Psycho stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, have been shown to relieve symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in both children and adults. In adults, however, some medicines used to treat the illness can also result in euphoria, and lead to abuse. Professor Ellen Unterwald of Temple University and researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and Rockefeller University identified a molecular mechanism known as the neurotrophin system as the cause of the age difference effect. |
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January 31, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Business Journal
Temple University Hospital and Crozer-Chester Medical Center announced yesterday an alliance they say will allow kidney-transplant patients who live in Delaware and Chester Counties to receive most of their care close to home. "This is the direction in which health care is leading - regional collaboration," Joseph W. "Chip" Marshall III, president and chief executive officer of Temple University Health System, said in a news release. "This move allows us to expand an already successful program and also allows Crozer to offer outstanding, uninterrupted care to its patients without having to create a kidney-transplant program. It's a win-win for everyone." |
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January 31, 2008 | Daily News
Senior Lady Comfort nailed two free throws with six-tenths of a second remaining to lead Temple to its fifth consecutive win, 17th consecutive win in Big 5 play and at least a share of the City title, with a 70-67 victory over visiting Saint Joseph's last night. Temple improved to 12-10 overall, 3-0 in the Big 5, and 5-1 in the Atlantic 10. Saint Joseph's fell to 10-10, 1-2 in the Big 5, 2-3 in the A-10. "Any time we get together, we make it a barnburner," said Temple coach Dawn Staley. "Any team could have won." |
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January 30, 2008 | Los Angeles Times
A shaky stock market could have a big impact on private retirement plans. “Given the public's growing dependence on 401(k) accounts, a deep or prolonged downturn in the markets could have a broad societal impact, said Jack VanDerhei, a retirement specialist at Temple University. "Without a doubt -- comparing where we are today with 401(k) plans as the primary form of retirement savings for many baby boomers -- the impact of a down equity market has a much bigger impact on society than when traditional pensions were the primary form of retirement income," VanDerhei said. |
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January 30, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Mayor Michael Nutter is drawing some national attention. What does it mean? "Any big new mayor will be a novelty at the U.S. Conference of Mayors," said Temple University political science professor Joseph McLaughlin. "Yes, Nutter has the potential to become something of a national figure, but the most important factor in these things is having some sort of dramatic success." |
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January 30, 2008 | Sydney Morning Herald
In an op-ed column on the increasing numbers of Americans who are likely to die alone – in many cases due to changes in the structure of families – author Elizabeth Marquardt cites research by Temple developmental psychologist Adam Davey. According to Marquardt, Davey's research suggests that geographical separation in the aftermath of divorce may be the cause. |
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January 29, 2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education
In its “Footnoted” column, the Chronicle notes that Marc Lamont Hill, an assistant professor of urban education and American studies at Temple University, is writing for “Down From the Tower,” a blog at the new online magazine The Root. |
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January 29, 2008 | KDRV-TV (Medford, OR.)
Though most MP3 players have the latest music blaring on them, med students might be listening to another beat. At Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, recordings of abnormal heart sounds are downloaded to iPods and similar devices. Then doctors-in-training listen to the heart sounds to help fine-tune their diagnostic skills. In a study at the university, students who listened to the different heartbeats at least 500 times improved their stethoscope accuracy from 39 percent to a heart pounding 89 percent. |
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January 29, 2008 | Daily News
The AlliedBarton security guards who work full time on a Temple campus will be eligible to receive up to three paid sick days per year. “This is huge for the guards, who are employed by King of Prussia-based AlliedBarton Security Services, the country's largest provider of private security personnel,” writes columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. |
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January 29, 2008 | The New York Times
Although unknown in most parts of the world, the role of bail bondsman is an integral part of the American justice system. “It’s a very American invention,” John Goldkamp, a professor of criminal justice at Temple University, said of the commercial bail bond system. “It’s really the only place in the criminal justice system where a liberty decision is governed by a profit-making businessman who will or will not take your business.” |
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January 28 and 29, 2008 | CBS3, NBC10, KYW radio
A historic state-owned building on Boathouse Row which has served as a home to rowing teams for decades has been shut down by the Department of Licenses and Inspections. Temple University, Father Judge, North Catholic and LaSalle College High Schools have been forced to move approximately 100 boats housed in the Canoe Club by February 15. The Fairmount Parks Commission owns the building. |
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January 28, 2008 | EarthTimes.org
The personal freedom issue concerning motorcycle helmets should be balanced against the cost to society for catastrophic head injury, a U.S. doctor said. Referring to a recent review of motorcycle helmet studies by B.C. Liu of Oxford University, published in the Cochrane Library, Dr. Robert McNamara of Temple University in Philadelphia and a spokesman for the Academy of Emergency Medicine, said "the review confirms the belief of specialists in emergency medicine and should put an end to any further debate about the protective role of helmets regarding head injury in motorcycle riders." |
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January 28, 2008 | USA Today
Without adequate planning, the exorbitant cost of nursing home care can deplete your retirement portfolio. Middle-income consumers are most at risk of being squeezed, says Jack VanDerhei, a fellow at the Employee Benefit Research Institute and a business professor at Temple's Fox School of Business. That's because they likely won't qualify for Medicaid, VanDerhei says, and might not be able to afford nursing home care. |
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January 28, 2008 | Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
The new Dallas Cowboys stadium still doesn't have a name, and experts say it could be difficult for a company to defend a multimillion-dollar marketing deal to its shareholders and employees. In a study co-authored by Michael Leeds, associate professor of economics at Temple, the authors found that most naming rights offer "no economic value" to the companies that buy them. And given the national economic woes, Leeds said that more companies will be reluctant to pursue such deals. "In general, such budgets, like luxury box sales, take a hit during economic slumps," Leeds said. |
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January 28, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Business Journal
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will announce today that Temple College of Liberal Arts alumnus Andy Altman -- a former head of city planning in Washington, D.C., who now runs a private development firm in New York City -- will serve as the city's commerce director and deputy mayor for planning and economic development. |
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January 27, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press
Sunday's front-page story explores the extraordinary saga of Randall "Tex" Cobb, the former boxer and actor who, at age 54, just earned a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Cobb decided to go back to college a little over three years ago. During his time as a student, he also worked construction jobs in the Philadelphia area. "This was no honorary degree," said Assistant Dean Jeffrey Montague. "He worked hard for this. He's a tremendous guy, a very, very genuine person. Some of the same qualities that made him a successful boxer made him a great student."! |
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January 27, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Inquirer's "Influences," the series that explores "what shapes the minds that makes the news," visits with Temple President Ann Weaver Hart. Book on her nightstand right now: Charlie Wilson's War, by George Crile. Living person she would most like to join for dinner and conversation: Maya Angelou. If she had the power to order all of the Philadelphia region to read one book, it would be: Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams, "because it explores personal, political and environmental issues of our day in a way that appeals to the finest in the human spirit." |
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January 27, 2008 | Washington Post
In an op-ed column on the increasing numbers of Americans who are likely to die alone -- in many cases due to changes in the structure of families -- author Elizabeth Marquardt cites research by Temple developmental psychologist Adam Davey. According to Marquardt, Davey's research suggests that geographical separation in the aftermath of divorce may be the cause. |
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January 27, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
U.S. Court of Appeals judges are weighing whether to reinstate Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence. Was the racial composition of the jury in the original trial fair? Until 1986, proving racial discrimination in jury selection was almost impossible. But in Batson v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court said that prosecutors could be questioned about their reasons for excluding black jurors. If the prosecution failed to offer race-neutral reasons, the remedy should be a new trial. Batson "was an important decision symbolically as well as practically," said JoAnne Epps, a Temple law professor. Prosecutors' "sensitivities are much more finely attuned these days." |
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January 27, 2008 | Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
After World War II, many companies set up pension plans that promised each employee a specific monthly benefit at retirement and required no investment decisions on the employee's part, said Jack VanDerhei, a Temple pension specialist. "The trend ever since 1974 has been moving in favor of defined contribution 401(k) plans," VanDerhei said. "The pace has picked up a lot in the last two years because of large pension plan sponsors doing pension plan freezes." |
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January 26, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A group of motivated Philadelphia seniors started a recycling program for their apartment building -- a labor of love in a city with a residential recycling rate far behind most major cities'. Dick Goldberg, director of Coming of Age at Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning, said the seniors serve as a textbook example of civic engagement among those 50 and over, the type of contribution his initiative encourages. "This exemplifies the spirit of what it means to be part of a community, to do something for yourself, and here, literally, for your neighbors," he said. |
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January 26, 2008 | Toronto Star
Count John Allen Paulos among the non-believers. A mathematician who teaches at Temple and who has popularized his subject in bestselling books such as Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Paulos's latest offering is a slim but explosive volume whose title is self-explanatory: Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up. |
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January 26, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News
Kent McGuire, dean of Temple's College of Education, publicly announced that he had withdrawn his name as a candidate for the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia School District. |
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January 25, 2008 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Gary Foster, the director of Temple University’s Center for Obesity Research and Education, has assumed the presidency of the Obesity Society, an interdisciplinary group considered to hold preeminence in the field of obesity. “It’s a challenge and an opportunity,” said Foster. The benefit for Temple is the increased visibility Foster is giving CORE, which he launched in March 2006. At Temple, he is directing a large school-based obesity prevention trial, aimed at reducing obesity and type-2 diabetes in children by changing food service and physical education environments at middle schools. |
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January 25, 2008 | Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
Writes Robert Dujarric: “Iraq has left the front page of the U.S. election campaign. The fear of recession partly accounts for this, but more broadly Americans believe that conditions in Iraq are improving. It is, however, important for Japanese to be aware that America's position in the region that was once Mesopotamia continues to worsen, with important implications for Japanese interests.” Dujarric is director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan. |
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January 25, 2008 | The Guardian (London)
In a sampling of how African Americans are reacting to the candidacy of Barrack Obama, Temple journalism professor Linn Washington writes that many blacks want to hear more than rhetoric. “Obama's refusal to raise uncomfortable truths, while tactically sound for his political positioning among whites, is pushing many blacks, Latinos and progressive whites away, or at least into a wait-and- see stance. Blacks are tired of having themselves and their issues pushed to the ‘back of the bus’.” |
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January 25, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Mayor Nutter yesterday said he would enforce new city gun-control laws even without state authorization to do so – setting up a possible legal and political showdown between the state and the new mayor. Temple University law professor David Kairys, a gun-control advocate, said, "that's what our City Council and mayor should be doing – they're dealing with an urgent problem." Kairys said the city's action could set up a test of a new Supreme Court, now under Chief Justice Ronald Castille, the former Philadelphia district attorney who promised to depoliticize the court. |
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January 25, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Karen Shuey, a senior at Temple majoring in news/editorial journalism and a writer for University Communications, is one of several students who will be writing opinion pieces for the Inquirer as part of its new “College Board.” |
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January 25, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple alumnus Robert Prosky is the lead actor in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” now playing at the Walnut Street Theater. |
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January 25, 2008 | Bucks County Courier Times, Metro
It’s too soon to tell what impact, if any, the federal economic stimulus package will have on the economy. “This is called discretionary fiscal policy,” William Dunkelberg, a professor of economics at Temple University's Fox School of Business told the Courier Times. “It's always too late. And it looks like it's too little.” |
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January 24, 2008 | CNN
21 million Americans have some form of diabetes. And of those 21 million, around 90 percent have type 2 diabetes, which is usually brought on by obesity and genetics. So if you're overweight and have diabetes in your family, you're a prime candidate. But you don't have to be. As you get older, maintain a healthy weight. According to Dr. Guenther Boden, of Temple University's School of Medicine, staying slim and physically active "cuts your chances of becoming a type 2 diabetic by 60 percent."
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January 24, 2008 | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Negative political ads may be a good thing, at least according to research done by University of Virginia politics professor Paul Freedman and three colleagues. The research is detailed in a new book, Campaign Advertising and American Democracy, published last month by Temple University Press. |
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January 24, 2008 | Jewish Exponent
Local energy executive Harry Halloran offered a "challenge grant" of $300,000, which he will give if the university is able to raise the remaining $1.2 million to create a new chair of Islamic studies. The donation was announced at the same time as Halloran's separate $1.5 million gift to establish the Leonard and Arlene Swidler Chair of Interreligious Dialogue. Swidler has been a Temple professor since 1966 and is an expert in ecumenism. Arlene Swidler has taught religion, literature and women's studies at Temple and other universities. |
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January 24, 2008 | KYW
Dr. Wissam Chatila, associate professor of medicine and co-director of the sleep center, says the results of a new study are intriguing but more research is needed to learn why cell phones might disrupt sleep. According to the Swedish study, those exposed to cell phone radiation spent less time in the deepest stage of sleep than those who were not exposed. |
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January 24, 2008 | Discovery Channel
An extensive new study on Pacific Islanders has determined that Polynesians and Micronesians bear little genetic relationship to Melanesians, who turn out to be among the most genetically diverse people on the planet. The first people to enter the Pacific came from Southeast Asia, along the stepping-stone island chain -- now Indonesia -- to ancient Australia and New Guinea, and to the nearby islands just to the east and southeast, the Bismarcks and the Solomons, lead author Jonathan Friedlaender from Temple University told Discovery News. |
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January 24, 2008 | Detroit News
The new fat blocker alli is raising hopes and some questions about its safety. This diet pill is safe and effective, said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. He even called the FDA's over-the counter approval of alli "watershed, even historic" that overweight Americans now have one tool that they can turn to for help. "I wish we had 10 (tools)," said Foster, who consulted for the drug maker on its online support program. "The more tools we have in this behavioral and biological battle, the better." |
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January 24, 2008 | Daily News
“There will be one face more famous and more grizzled than most among the graduates at Temple University tomorrow,” writes columnist DanGross. “Randall "Tex" Cobb, 54, the former boxer turned "Raising Arizona" star, has completed his Temple studies, where he majored in sports management.” |
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January 24, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
A tough season for Penn did not get any easier last night at Temple. Besides going down, 80-64, at the Liacouras Center, the Quakers faced a somber ride back to West Philadelphia mulling the reality that for the first time since the 2000-01 season, they have gone 0-4, as in skunked, in Big Five play. "It just kind of happened that way," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said of the barrage of three-pointers. "I wish I could say it was by design and that I drew it up that way but it just happened. |
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January 23, 2008 | CN8, “Arthur Fennel Reports”
Fox School of Business Research Assistant Professor of Finance Bruce Rader discussed the Fed’s interest rate cut and its intended impact on the stock market. Rader advised investors to stay calm about the economy. |
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January 23, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“For several years, a local initiative based at Temple University has captured the energy and expertise of many of the area's elders by connecting them to nonprofits,” writes Lini Kadaba. The initiative was created in 2002 as a partnership of Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning, AARP Pennsylvania, the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and WHYY. |
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January 23, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, KYW
The three finalists for the chief executive officer's job in the Philadelphia School District will meet in private with a 40-member citizens advisory committee, beginning at 2 p.m. today. Finalists Arlene Ackerman, a former superintendent in San Francisco and Washington D.C., Kent McGuire, dean of the College of Education at Temple University, and Leroy D. Nunery II, a former Edison Schools executive, will meet with the committee at district headquarters, 400 N. Broad St. |
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January 23, 2008 | Raleigh (NC) News Observer
Book reviewer Phillip Manning says John Allen Paulos, “a mathematician at Temple University, is a very good writer, who spices his clear prose with touches of humor. In this book, he lines up 12 arguments for God. Then, using well-honed mathematical reasoning, he shoots them down.” Paulos’s book is Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up. |
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January 23, 2008 | Physorg.com, MediLexicon.com
A review of a variety of studies shows that motorcycle helmets save lives. The analysis “confirms the belief of specialists in emergency medicine and should put an end to any further debate about the protective role of helmets regarding head injury in motorcycle riders,” said Robert McNamara, M.D., chairman of the emergency medicine department at Temple University School and spokesman for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. |
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January 23, 2008 | Pittsburg Tribune Review, Newport News (Va.) Daily Press
Columnist Walter Williams believes the Bush administration’s plan to help those caught in the subprime loan problem will cause even bigger issues. To support his argument, Williams points out that “according to Temple University professor of economics William Dunkelberg 96 percent of all mortgages are being paid on time; 30 percent of American homeowners have no mortgage; delinquency rates were higher in the 1980s than they are today; only 2 percent to 3 percent of all mortgages are in foreclosure; and the government bailout helps a few people at a huge cost to the rest of the economy.” |
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January 22, 2008 | Reuters
With lean times ahead, small business owners need to husband their cash. “Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Businesses and a business professor at Temple University, advises small companies to keep their inventories lean. ‘Don't spend your money, your cash, on things you can't liquidate,’ Dunkelberg says. Be careful not to be lured by government inducements such as low interest rates or tax credits.” |
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January 22, 2008 | The New York Times
Irreligion, a new book by Temple University professor John Allen Paulos, is reviewed. Paulos, a mathematician, is best known for his best-selling book Innumeracy. |
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January 21, 2008 | CIO Insight
Temple Fox School of Business professor Rajiv Banker says conventional reporting structures at many companies will not produce the desired results. |
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January 21, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Temple’s men’s basketball team scored a big win in overtime on the road against St. Louis Sunday. Temple improved to 8-8, 2-1 in conference play, with a coveted Atlantic 10 road win. "Anytime you win on the road - especially the way the league is this year - it's a great help," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said. |
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January 21, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In the Inquirer's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day front page story, Alfred Lubrano profiles Temple theater faculty member Charles Dumas, whose experiences in the struggle for civil rights inspire his work as a scholar. When Dumas speaks at Temple's first annual memorial celebration of King's life and legacy today (4 p.m., Student Center), he will stress the lessons of King. "I will be making myself an old bore with young people, talking about the civil-rights movement and the struggle we had to finally be treated as humans." Dumas is currently directing Temple Theater's production of "The Darker Face of the Earth" and recording stories of young people in North Philadelphia with the goal of turning them into plays. |
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January 21, 2008 | Campus Technology
Temple University in Pennsylvania announced recently that it's shifting its campus systems over to SunGard Higher Education's "Unified Digital Campus." The move is part of an initiative to improve and unify campus services, including administrative functions, learning communities, and other technologies. "After an extensive vendor evaluation, we determined that SunGard Higher Education offers the vision, solutions, services, and relationship that match our needs as a large, complex research institution," said Tim O'Rourke, chief information officer of Temple University, in a statement released last week. |
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January 20, 2008 | Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Associated Press
Shanea Cotton's basket with 23 seconds left lifted the host Owls to a 68-66 victory over No. 13 George Washington Friday in women’s basketball action. "To beat GW, it's bragging rights," Temple coach Dawn Staley said. |
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January 20, 2008 | Boston Globe
Temple history professor David Waldstreicher reviews three Civil War books for the Globe. Waldstreicher is the author of Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. |
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January 19, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
This spring Urban Outfitters will sprout a new store concept named Terrain, launching it with the purchase of J. Franklin Styer Nurseries Inc., a well-known garden center on Baltimore Pike in Concordville, near Chadds Ford. Temple University marketing professor Michael Smith said Urban's plan is all about margin diversification. |
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January 18, 2008 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Ron Brown, dean of the College of Health Professions at Temple University, said it's normal today for students from a variety of health-care fields – from nursing to physical and occupational therapy to health information management – to have jobs lined up well before they graduate. "We are seeing students come out with great jobs," Brown said, "some with compensation that beats the instructors' salaries. ... People realize there is a decent quality of life associated with being a health-care provider and they'll always have work, even in the leaner times." |
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January 18, 2008 | KYW radio
Attorneys from a Philadelphia law firm were in front of a federal judge on Friday on behalf of the families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The plaintiffs want to be able to sue the government of Saudi Arabia and key members of that country's royal family. In 2005, a judge said no. And according to Temple University law professor Jeffrey Dunoff, in order for the case to proceed, Saudi Arabia would have to be on the U.S. government's list of "sponsors of terrorism" -- which it isn't: "The threshold question is when a foreign state can be sued for terrorism in a US court. And the answer is, only when that state appears on a U.S. government list as a state sponsor of terrorism." |
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January 18, 2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education
A surprise request for proposals last spring from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation had university presses scrambling. Their mission: Put together collaborative partnerships to publish monographs in “underserved” areas of the humanities. New York University Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press, which announced their collaborative American Literatures Initiative last month. They got the biggest award — $1.37-million — and will also emphasize first books. They also will test what their Web site describes as a “shared, centralized, editorial office” in charge of book production. |
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January 18, 2008 | City Paper
Temple University's dance department chair Kariamu Welsh rehearses her company for a February dance concert. As two conga drummers pound out polyrhythms, the performers run through phrases that embody elements of authentic African dance integrated with elements of modern dance plus a smattering of more theatrical scenarios. Welsh's Umfundalai technique, is about creating transcendent spirit. She encourages her dancers to be dynamic and to emote enough intensity that the movement goes "beyond their bodies and reaches the audience ... so that everyone feels it." |
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January 18, 2008 | Asahi Shimbun
Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ) announced the appointment Thursday of Bruce Stronach, president of Yokohama City University in Yokohama, as its new dean. Stronach will replace Kirk Patterson on April 1. In the interim, Stronach will serve as an academic adviser to the TUJ. In 2004, Stronach became the first foreign national to be appointed president of a Japanese public university. |
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January 18, 2008 | New York Times, National Geographic, Science, International Herald Tribune, Daily India, Innovations Report
The ancestral relationships of people living in the widely scattered islands of the Pacific Ocean, long a puzzle to anthropologists, may have been solved by a new genetic study, researchers reported Thursday. The findings were described in the online journal Public Library of Science Genetics by researchers led by Jonathan S. Friedlaender, professor emeritus of biological anthropology at Temple University. He was assisted in the data analysis by his wife, Françoise R. Friedlaender, an independent researcher. |
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January 18, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple College of Education Dean Kent McGuire is one of three finalists for the top post at the Philadelphia School District. The School Reform Commission is expected to make a selection by the end of January or early February. |
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January 18, 2008 | Bucks County Courier Times
The burst in the housing market bubble is having a varied impact around the country. “Florida, the Southwest, California, New York — the places that saw the biggest increase in housing values over the last five or six years — are now seeing the biggest declines. That's why you see a lot of foreclosures in Florida,” said Forrest Huffman, a professor of real estate and finance at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. |
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January 18, 2008 | KYW radio
The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus and Temple University are joining in a hotel diversity training series that addresses the issues of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender travelers. |
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January 18, 2008 | Metro
Mayor Michael Nutter has appointed five new members to the city zoning board, a first step in his goal of reforming the board’s activities. The reforms are needed. “The city has evolved into a style of making planning decisions as big issues hit the agenda and are ripe for development,” said Joseph McLaughlin, assistant dean of Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. “That gives developers less certainty.” |
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January 17, 2008 | Fox News “Hannity and Colmes”
Temple Professor Marc Lamont Hill was among a roundtable of guests discussing the recent debate over race that has marked the Democratic presidential primaries. |
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January 17, 2008 | WPEN radio
With steroid abuse coming to light in the professional sports world, David Baron, professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral health, explained how steroids affect the body and mind. |
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January 17, 2008 | The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News
Temple’s men’s basketball team pulled an upset last night beating No. 20 Xavier in a decisive 78-59 rout. "I thought we played about as good as we could play on both ends of the court," said coach Fran Dunphy, whose team snapped a three-game losing streak with its first win over a ranked opponent in nearly 20 months. |
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January 17, 2008 | USA Today
Baby boomers entering retirement years will find themselves faced with a new problem: How to manage their sometimes sizable retirement savings. For some, receiving retirement money in one big pile can lull them into thinking they'll never run out. "It's this whole money illusion game," says Jack VanDerhei, a business professor at Temple University. "Having $500,000 looks much bigger than somebody promising to pay you $50,000 (a year) for the rest of your life. You feel rich going into retirement." |
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January 17, 2008 | KYW radio
2007 was another record-breaking year for the Earth's climate. This week's report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that 2007 was the warmest ever for all the land areas on Earth and the tenth warmest on record for the U.S. Temple University Geology Professor Laura Toran says she's not surprised: "We've been seeing this trend over the last ten years really.” |
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January 17, 2008 | St. Louis Post Dispatch
Lying on the internet is common, but should it be illegal? “The lying itself should come as no surprise. That has been around since the beginning of time, said Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University and former president of the American Psychological Association. What has changed, he said, is that the Internet has provided a new platform for some, and an opportunity for others. ‘It's become, in my view, a pretty serious problem with the Internet,’ Farley said. ‘Who do you trust?’ ” |
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January 16, 2008 | Associated Press
Temple University has received a $1.5 million gift to create a chair in interfaith dialogue. The donor, Harry Halloran, also gave $300,000 toward the creation of an Islamic studies chair. Halloran, 68, took just one religion course at Temple 30 years ago but offered $1.5 million to finance the Leonard and Arlene Swidler Chair of Interreligious Dialogue. Swidler, an authority on ecumenism, has been a Temple professor since 1966. |
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January 16, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple University announced it has received a new gift from a local energy executive and former Catholic seminarian to fund a chair in interfaith dialogue. Harry Halloran, 68, who took just one religion course at Temple 30 years ago, offered $1.5 million to finance the Leonard and Arlene Swidler Chair of Interreligous Dialogue. Swidler has been a professor at Temple University since 1966 and is an authority on ecumenism. "Len knows so many people and has done such a great job traveling all over the world and having dialogues with different religions," said Halloran, chairman and CEO of American Refining Group, an oil and alternative energy company. "I thought it was important to continue this work which is irreplaceable." |
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January 16, 2008 | Philadelphia Weekly
Want to learn a new language? Temple University Center City offers several options. The Temple program offers courses in 11 languages, including Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Polish and Russian, which program director Kevin Wood says are popular among Philadelphians seeking to reconnect to their family roots. Eight-week courses cost $165 and 10-week courses cost $185. |
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January 15, 2008 | Science Daily, UPI
With emerging diseases like the West Nile Virus, and re-emerging diseases such as the pandemic flu and drug-resistant tuberculosis, it’s increasingly important to promptly detect a potential infectious outbreak within a community. But public health officials can’t act quickly unless physicians report the diseases. “Quick reporting by several physicians, all acting independently, allows the public health authorities to promptly recognize a pattern and take the necessary action to contain the disease by isolating and treating cases, quarantining affected groups and taking other measures to hopefully prevent a wider outbreak,” said Temple University physician Dr. Lawrence Ward, MD, MPH, FACP. |
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January 14, 2008 | Daily News
Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner taught a Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure course in Beijing from the end of August to mid-October through Temple University's Master of Laws program at Tsinghua, one of China's top universities. Getting the Chinese students to engage in discussion, particularly in a second language for them, was a "work in progress" throughout the eight-week course, he said. Temple established its Master of Laws program in Beijing in 1999 with the Chinese government's approval. The program is part of the school's rule-of-law initiative in China. The students graduate with a Temple degree. |
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January 13, 2008 | ABC6
For thousands of people in our area with balance problems, even a walk across a room is anything but simple. A new lab at Temple University is working to free them from the invisible bonds that can seriously hem in their lives. As lab director, Emily Keshner, P.T., Ed.D., says, "Balance is in everything you do." Every second of your day, a complex system is silently at work, to keep your head and feet in the right place. |
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January 13, 2008 | The Virginian-Pilot
The potential sale of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia’s largest newspaper, has parallels in the sale last year of Philadelphia’s daily newspapers. “Linn Washington Jr., a journalism professor at Temple University and a columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune, a paper that serves the black community, said the newspapers' new owners have continued to shift coverage out of the core city to the suburbs in an attempt to build circulation and readership. If newspapers continue their decline, he said, democracy itself is in trouble. "I think the public wants news," Washington said. "I think the public needs news. No other medium can provide that news in the way that's really needed.” |
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January 13, 2008 | Chicago Tribune, Asbury (NJ) Park Press
Exercise is not a cure for hot flashes, but it does help postmenopausal women cope with stress, anxiety and depression, a Pennsylvania study has found. The researchers had hoped to prove that exercise could be a less risky alternative to hormone-replacement therapy for women suffering from hot flashes, said study author Deborah B. Nelson, a professor of public health and obstetrics and gynecology at Temple University in Philadelphia. But "we didn't find a relationship between physical activity and hot flashes." |
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January 11, 2008 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Saxby’s Coffee Worldwide is making major plans to move into Philadelphia. One of its first new stores in 2008 will open Jan. 16 on Liacouras Walk on the Temple University campus. |
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January 11, 2008 | CBS3, ABC6
A group of elementary students who participated in the Hear Our Voices music therapy program sponsored by Temple University's Arts and Quality of Life Research Center celebrated the culmination of their project with a CD release party. With the help of music therapists a diverse team of students who call themselves "The Little Saints" channeled their experiences with violence in their schools and communities into songs about violence, poverty, education, and hope. "The CD has given them a way to put out into the community their insights and their views on what's happening in the community," said Michael David Viego, music therapist with Temple's Arts and Quality of Life Research Center. |
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January 11, 2008 | WFTV-TV Florida
Stiff neck? Aching back? Sore knees? Maybe it’s your shoes. For some patients, a new style may be just what the doctor ordered. Dr. Kathya Zinszer of Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia said, "Every person is an individual and every footprint and foot type is like your own basic fingerprint. So every shoe type is going to be different for different patients." |
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January 11, 2008 | Newsday
On a radio show, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo used the phrase "shuck and jive" to describe the behavior of Democratic presidential candidates. The notion that Cuomo had made a racially insensitive remark rapidly spread across the Web yesterday. Temple's Nathaniel Norment Jr., a professor of African American studies, said the history of Cuomo's phrase made it inappropriate because it springs from an ugly period of our past. It refers to "how black people had to behave in the presence of white people to survive. You have to shuck and jive or buck dance; you're putting on an act," Norment said. |
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January 11, 2008 | Bloomberg.com
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, head of Asia's wealthiest city, said the U.S. and China will form stronger ties and leave Japan behind because of the two countries' "money worship." "His view on the U.S. reflects the fears of many Japanese,'' Robert Dujarric, who directs a Japan studies program at Temple University Japan, said in an e-mail. Japanese are afraid "that the U.S. and China will run Asia and Japan will be a passive bystander." |
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January 10, 2008 | Jewish Exponent
Albert Finestone, director of the Institute for Aging at Temple University, was photographed signing the final beam of the new medical school at its Topping off Ceremony on November 9. |
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January 10, 2008 | NBC10
How desperate are women to be thin? Fitness Magazine recently asked 1,000 women, and the results are shocking. Many women said they'd be willing to go to jail or lose 10 years of their life in order to achieve an ideal weight. Temple psychologist Frank Farley said the survey points to a lack of discipline. "What they are saying is they want a quick fix… but it doesn't work that way," Farley said. Diet and exercise is unappealing, says Farley, so we fantasize about a quick fix. "Of course," said Farley, "an alternative to all of this is to just accept who you are." |
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January 10, 2008 | ESPN, KYW News Radio
To get to their game against nationally ranked Duke at the Wachovia Center, the Temple men's basketball team took the Broad Street subway. "This is what a lot of Philadelphians do every day," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said. "We're just basically going to work tonight. We're taking the subway to work." |
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January 10, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News
C. Kent McGuire, dean of Temple's College of Education, is reported to be on a short list of finalists under consideration for the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia School District. |
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January 9, 2008 | Fox News, “Your World with Neil Cavuto”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill took part in a round table discussion of the role immigration reform is playing in the presidential primaries. |
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January 9, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter gets high marks for setting big goals, but it’s going to be difficult to make such dramatic changes on his own. “He seems to be relying a lot on his ability to motivate people who don't have to do what he says,” said Joseph P. McLaughlin, a professor of political science at Temple University. “Mayors aren't emperors. They don't control everything.” |
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January 9, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Inquirer profiles Sister Mary Annette of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, who has held numerous careers in her life, including that of big rig truck driver. She is also studying for a master's degree in therapeutic recreation at Temple University with an eye toward working with the elderly and disabled. |
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January 9, 2008 | The Guardian (London)
A divided Japanese government is preventing clear action on urgent social and economic issues. "Japan needs a change of government, but are they ready for prime time?" said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University's Japan campus. Analysts who expect an election say the government hopes a victory, even with a smaller majority, would allow it to force the opposition into cooperating by arguing it had public support. |
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January 9, 2008 | WHYY-FM
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s decision to declare a crime emergency on his first day in office could set the stage for more strict law enforcement in the city. Temple criminology professor Ralph Taylor said studies show this strategy does work, but cautioned that local neighborhood leaders need to be involved in the process to prevent problems. |
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January 9, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia television anchor Alycia Lane’s firing was not a surprise, given her recent prominence as part of the news, rather than reading it. “What [Lane] did was wrong – and seriously wrong,” said Chris Harper, a Temple University journalism professor and former correspondent for ABC. He was unsurprised by her firing. “The attack against police was bad enough, but then there was the slur against gays … I hope it sends a message to journalists who behave badly that there are repercussions.” Still, he said, Lane is employable: “Other people have made comebacks.” |
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January 8, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Inquirer's Mike Jensen profiles the Temple men's basketball team's hard-working sophomore point guard Luis Guzman, who stayed at Temple despite spending most of his freshman year on the bench. The reward for his perseverance: a spot in the starting lineup and the respect of coach Fran Dunphy. "He has always been a kid who has asked the question: What do I need to do to get better?" Dunphy said. "If you work hard enough and you do enough positive things, your day is going to come. For Lou, it has come." |
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January 8, 2008 | The Times (London)
Women who stop being religiously active are three times more likely to suffer generalised anxiety disorder than women who have always been religiously active, says a report in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Jan). Public health expert, Joanna Maselko at Temple University says that the relationship between religious participation and mental health may be tied to social networks. Women are more likely to build them through their religious activities, and then to feel their loss when they stop attending church. |
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January 8, 2008 | Washington Post
In the past, weight loss experts have spurned meal replacement plans such as those run by Jenny Craig or Nutri-System, but this approach is now earning respect. "The old thinking was that these programs didn’t provide real food or real life experience, and that people who followed them didn’t learn anything” about nutrition, says Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. “But we’ve found that you can use these programs to your advantage.” |
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January 8, 2008 | WHYY-FM “Radio Times”
Allen Hornblum, who research on the use of prisoners in psychological and medical experimentation has resulted in two books, discusses the practice along with one of the prisoners. Hornblum is an instructor in the geography and urban studies department at Temple. |
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January 7, 2008 | CN8 “Art Fennell Reports”
Fox School of Business economics professor Bruce Rader discussed the economic outlook for 2008 during an interview with Art Fennell. |
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January 7, 2008 | Ivanhoe (national medical news service), Medscape, News-Medical.Net (Australia), Money Times (India)
A brisk walking routine may be an effective, natural way for women to reduce an array of psychological symptoms associated with menopause. Researchers from Temple University, lead by Deborah Nelson, Ph.D., collected a sample of 380 women with an average age of 42 living in the Philadelphia area. These women were followed for eight years while they reported their physical activity levels and menopausal symptoms including stress, anxiety, depression and hot flashes. |
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January 6, 2008 | Washington Post
Temple historian Vladislav Zubok's new book on the Soviet Union and the Cold War, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union from Stalin to Gorbachev, is reviewed. Author Richard Rhodes describes the book as rich in "new information and fresh interpretation." Zubok draws on "abundant new primary sources to refine our understanding of the Cold War, turning it from a melodrama into a nuanced tragedy." |
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January 6, 2008 | The New York Times
Doctors and lawyers are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their careers, where long hours and vague rewards are making some wonder if they should switch. “Careers in more entrepreneurial industries like hedge funds and private equity firms follow the sky-is-the-limit model of the entertainment industry, the Web or professional sports. Kevin J. Delaney, a sociology professor at Temple University who has studied the culture of hedge funds and private equity firms, said executives there ‘love the idea of being responsible for their own fate. They’re going to make a million or lose a million based on the trades they make,’ he said.” |
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January 6, 2008 | ABCNews.com
Temple mathematician John Allen Paulos reports on The Beyond Belief conference. Despite the fact that the topics ranged over a broad spectrum, Paulos says “the conference remained -- pardon the adolescent alliteration -- an unbeliever's utopia, a heathen's heaven, a pagan's paradise.” |
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January 6, 2007 | Cincinnati Enquirer
From extreme sports to just plain stupid and risky daredevil stunts, social internet sites have become a place where teenagers chronicle their lives and broadcast their experimentation, the Enquirer says in an editorial. What in the past may have gained attention from a handful of friends can now be displayed for millions of anonymous viewers - a moment of fame, experts say, that leads other youth to try to do one better. “Behavioral studies at Temple University and elsewhere have shown that teens are up twice as likely to take risks in the presence of their peers - and Facebook, YouTube and other such sites are all about peers.” |
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January 5, 2008 | Fox News, “Bulls and Bears”
Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill joined a roundtable of commentators to discuss Barrack Obama’s caucus win in Iowa, and what it means for the New Hampshire primaries. |
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January 5, 2008 | Toronto Star
Is changing your mind in light of new information a sign or wisdom or a lack of principles? The Edge Foundation asked a number of thinkers to consider the value of flip-flopping. “A note of optimism is introduced by Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos, who cites the work of Nobel Prize-winning game theorist Robert Aumann. Aumann's so-called Agreement Theorem stipulates that individuals form rational responses to bits of information, which gradually become common knowledge that forces beliefs to change and coincide in the long run.” |
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January 4, 2008 | WHYY-FM, NBC10 (video)
When Temple student Leah Kauffman began writing songs for political videos online, she thought it was all for a laugh. But her biggest hit, “I Got a Crush on Obama,” has been viewed well over four million times on YouTube. And, Kauffman says, last week's election results suggest the videos may have been a bit more important. “Because a lot of the songs have accurate information about what the candidates stand for, a lot of people are actually learning about different candidates through our songs.” A classically trained musician, the Temple senior started writing songs in high school. Her next video celebrates the end of the Bush era, but for now she's concentrating on graduation. |
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January 4, 2008 | Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
In an op-ed Robert Dujarric writes that many in Japan were shocked when the U.S. agreed to strike a deal with North Korea, a nation President Bush once called an “axis of evil.” Writes Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan Campus in Tokyo: “Japan will have to adapt to a new situation. Though the way Washington has dealt with Tokyo has been humiliating, it actually offers Japan the opportunity to follow more effective and flexible policies toward North Korea.” |
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January 4, 2008 | WebMD, Copley News Services, numerous NBC and ABC affiliates, Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), HealthScout, Earthtimes (UK)
Chalk up another perk from physical activity: less stress for women as they transition to menopause. "These results suggest that maintaining or increasing physical activity during the menopausal transition period and postmenopause may assist in reducing a variety of psychological symptoms including anxiety, stress, and depression," write Temple University's Deborah Nelson, PhD, and colleagues. |
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January 4, 2008 | Jewish Exponent
A bad neighbor can hurt the sale of your home. Forrest Huffman, Ph.D., professor of real estate and finance at Temple University Fox School of Business, noted that bad neighbors are recognized as a nuisance legally. "The issue of bad neighbors is well-documented in nuisance law, zoning codes and deed restrictions, to some extent, but there is little research evidence from academia that I know about," he said. |
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January 4, 2008 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Although crime has been a concern in the city of Philadelphia, the number of students coming to schools like Temple is on the rise. Writes Peter Key: “The popularity of cities among young people is probably having the biggest impact on Temple. The number of students living at its main campus in North Philadelphia has more than doubled to 10,000 in the past five years, according to Mark Eyerly, associate vice president for communications. That growth appears likely to continue. Temple fielded nearly 18,000 applications for its fall semester, an increase of 44 percent from the number of applications it had for the fall semester of 2000. It also had a record freshman class of 4,300 and, with 2,700 transfers, a record number of new students, 7,000.” |
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January 4, 2008 | Associated Press
The grand jury that recommended a perjury charge against a Roman Catholic priest linked to casino owner Louis DeNaples is not finished with its work — and prosecutors say the panel may consider charges against other people. The technique of indicting one individual to get others to talk to a grand jury is not uncommon. "Prosecutors do that all the time," said Temple University law professor Maureen McCartney, a former assistant district attorney in Philadelphia who worked on a grand jury investigation into sexual abuse by priests. |
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January 3, 2008 | Voice of America
A walking routine may be an effective, natural way for women to reduce an array of psychological symptoms associated with menopause. Researchers lead by Deborah Nelson, of Temple University collected a sample of 380 women with an average age of 42 living in the Philadelphia area. These women were followed for eight years while they reported their physical activity levels and menopausal symptoms including stress, anxiety, depression and hot flashes. |
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January 3, 2008 | Voice of America
Does religious activity have an impact on your mental health? A considerable body of research, including a new paper by public health's Joanna Maselko, indicates that yes, it does. “People who belong to a religious community have access to more resources. So in terms of their social networks ... that could be protective for their mental health. There's some evidence also that people, when they begin to feel distressed, will resort to religiosity and spirituality as a method of coping.”
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January 3, 2008 | USA Today
Walking regularly might not ease the hot flashes of menopause, but it can help reduce stress and other psychological symptoms that can go along with the change of life, a study reports Thursday. Deborah Nelson, a public-health researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, recruited 380 women, most of them in their 40s, who had regular menstrual periods at the start of the eight-year study. The study found that walking wasn't able to stop hot flashes that often start a few years before menopause. But women who said they walked briskly 40 to 90 minutes five days a week were much less likely to report overwhelming levels of stress compared with sedentary women. |
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January 2, 2008 | Scripps News Service
“A new study produced by Temple University's Joanna Maselko, Sc.D., and published in Science Daily magazine and sciencedaily.com, revealed the following results. Women who were active in organized religious communities (churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.) and who later became disengaged were more than three times more likely to suffer generalized anxiety and alcohol abuse/dependence than women who reported ‘always having been active.’” |
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January 1, 2008 | Financial Times
When the G8 nations meet in Tokyo this summer, Japan wants to be at center stage. Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian Studies at Tokyo’s Temple University, says Japan takes its role as G8 president seriously. “In foreign policy, every country seeks status and autonomy. Since Japan doesn’t have a lot of autonomy,” he says, referring to its dependency for national security on the US, “it puts a lot of emphasis on status.” |
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January 1 & 2, 2008 | The Telegraph (U.K.), U.S. News & World Report, UPI, The Globe and Mail, Forbes, Washington Post, others
Women who stop being religiously active are three times more likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder than women who have always been religiously active, finds a new study by Joanna Maselko, assistant professor of public health. "One's lifetime pattern of religious service attendance can be related to psychiatric illness." |
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January issue | GPT: The Insider Guide to Group Travel
Dr. Ione D. Vargus, founder of Temple’s Family Reunion Institute, is profiled. She talks about the growing popularity of family reunions as major vacation opportunities and how planning such events takes a lot of co-ordination, but offers big rewards. |
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January 2008 issue | Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
What happens when diversity training goes awry? As a recent episode at the University of Delaware has demonstrated, “if not done correctly, these sessions are not only dangerous, but can be destructive,” says Marie Amey-Taylor of Temple's Human Resources department. Amey-Taylor, has been a diversity trainer for more than 30 years, and uses a variety of exercises and processing models to help participants confront their own biases and prejudicial behavior. |
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January issue | The Scientist
“With a PhD in pharmacology from Philadelphia's Temple University School of Medicine, George Kehner could have launched his career almost anywhere. He considered postdoctoral positions in Boston and Washington, DC, but he saw a bounty of opportunity locally and decided to stay. Temple offered him a nontenure-track assistant professorship and, two years later, he joined Shire Pharmaceuticals in Wayne, Pa. "Temple has been good with forging connections with the Philadelphia area," says Kehner, now a product manager at Shire. |
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January/February Issue | AARP Bulletin
Don’t expect dramatic results from today’s anti-obesity medications. Canadian researchers reviewed 30 trials of three weight loss drugs and found that participants only lost an average of 5 percent of their total weight. “These results are indeed modest,” says Gary D. Foster, director of Temple University’s Center for Obesity Research and Education. “You don’t lose 50, 60 or 70 pounds of body weight.” But he adds that even this small drop in weight can improve blood pressure, and levels of blood sugar and cholesterol. |
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January/February 2008 | Biz Ed magazine
In it research section, this month's issue includes an article, "Lower Pay Reflects Bias Against Women Execs" based on Fox School of Business professor Rajiv Banker's research on "The Gender Pay Gap in the Board Room: Are Women Executives Underpaid?" The study focused on whether and why women in positions of leadership were paid less than their male counterparts. |
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January 2008 issue | Philadelphia magazine
Temple was well represented in the magazine’s annual “People to Watch” feature. Leading off was President Ann Weaver Hart, whose commitment to the Philadelphia community is noted through the employee homebuyers program. Also on the list from Temple: Heidi Ramirez, director of the Urban Education Collaborative and School Reform Commission nominee; Leah Kauffman, the senior communications student who was the brains behind the “Obama Girl” and other political YouTube hits; and Clay Armbrister, former executive vice president and Mayor Michael Nutter’s choice as chief of staff.
The same issue of Philadelphia magazine also features photographs from the Fox School of Business 11th annual Musser Excellence in Leadership Awards dinner. |
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January 2008 issue | Prevention magazine
Patients experiencing pain should consider music therapy. “Music seems to stimulate the release of pain-masking endorphins in the brain, says Cheryl Dileo, a music therapy professor and director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University,” writes Jordan Lite for Prevention. “To stage your own music-guided imagery session at home, find a comfy chair in a quiet place to sit with your eyes closed and feet up, suggests Joke Brandt, PhD, assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple. If pain is limiting your mobility, select music that makes you feel energetic; if it's interfering with your sleep, choose tunes that make you feel relaxed."
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