Progress

New Scholarship Endowed for Students with Disabilities—in honor of Josh Winheld, a Temple alumnus who passed away last year after a long battle with muscular dystrophy, by his aunt and uncle who donated $100,000, matched by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation; to begin in fall 2012

Smart Phone Apps for Nursing Students—using newly required smart phone apps, nursing students can access up-to-date information on drug interactions, dosing and FDA warnings

Academic Policy Changes—as part of a comprehensive effort to increase the undergraduate four-year graduation rate , the Provost's Office introduced revised policies for Repeating a Course, Academic Standing, Academic Forgiveness and Withdrawal from a Course, and a new Leave of Absence policy

Udall Award Winners—three students earned prestigious Udall awards: Emily Kinsel, a double major in environmental studies and French, plans to launch a non-profit that will provide affordable, nutritious food and good jobs; Sierra Gladfelter, a double major in cultural anthropology and geography and urban studies, will design a national outdoor education program; and Alex Epstein, a sociology major, aspires to establish new models for sustainable living that will transform blighted urban landscapes

Presidential Management Fellow Program—Health Administration/Public Health student Elizabeth A. Buckingham will participate in this prestigious flagship leadership development program of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Enhanced Disability Resources—new and enhanced programs include a Federal Workforce Recruitment Program, a partnership with the federal government to help Temple students with disabilities obtain paid internships (100 Temple students interviewed and at least 12 received internship offers); and Access TU, a web-based video that will provide guidance for students seeking to discuss their disability with instructors

Forensic Podiatry Club—an assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology and a podiatry student started the country's first forensic podiatry club

National Society of Black Engineers Awards (NSBE)—for the second year in a row, Temple's student chapter won the Region 2 Medium Chapter of the Year and took first place (Design and Presentation for Night Gliders) and third place (Distance Fly Off for Temple University's Pioneers) in the Boeing Flight Competition; also received the Freshman Retention Program NSBE Award

Rapid HIV Testing by HEART—School of Communications and Theater was the first of many Temple schools planning to offer AIDS screening by trained community professionals

Tyler School of Art Second Annual Blow-A-Thon—day of lectures and design seminars for students of glass included the "Experimental Glass Challenge," a timed glass-sculpting contest that pitted student-led teams from Tyler's glass program against their peers from Virginia Commonwealth University

Career Toolkit—created tools for academic advisors and seminar instructors to promote career success for freshmen and sophomores

Career Center Academic Partnerships—new and enhanced programs with Boyer College of Music and Dance, School of Communications and Theater, College of Engineering, College of Health Professions and Social Work, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Technology and Tyler School of Art; expansion of graduate school resources and conducting of more than 200 professional development workshops and classroom presentations

Revamped Mock Interview Program—Career Center’s $11,000 technology grant to enhance video-recording equipment provided students with mock interviews on USB flash drives, which resulted in student confidence in interviewing skills increasing from 57% confident/very confident to 90% confident/very confident

Business Communication Center—completed its second year helping Fox undergrads seeking assistance with business writing and oral presentation skills for any business course

Community College Dual Admissions/Articulation Agreements Expansion—Temple University and Reading Area Community College and Lehigh Carbon Community College finalized dual admissions agreements for spring 2011

Master of Social Work Expansion—Temple University Harrisburg expanded its social work program to schools across Pennsylvania to meet increasing demand for qualified, highly educated human service professionals; a new cohort began at Misericordia University

TU Japan Relief—fund established to help those most impacted by the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami including Japanese students studying at Temple campuses and students, staff, faculty and their families in Japan experiencing hardship; and a rededication ceremony was held to affirm the university’s commitment to Temple University Japan

Goldman Sachs Mochida Scholars Fund—a new four-year, full scholarship program supported by Goldman Sachs Gives, a donor-advised fund named after Mr. Masanori Mochida, President of Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd., who recommended the gift, which will support academically successful, but financially challenged Japanese students

Aid in Mali—an entrepreneurship and international business major spent his final spring semester at the Fox School of Business competing in global business plan contests (placed second in 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition and with brother was named as an Echoing Green fellow) and winning more than $100,000 in support for his social innovation venture Malo Traders, which aims to help alleviate poverty in Mali

Nicaragua Mission—two students and a surgical resident in the School of Podiatry went on a week-long humanitarian medical mission trip to Nicaragua (Heodra Hospital in Leon) led by an adjunct professor of podiatric medicine, orthopedics and surgery

Student work in Uganda—a student’s social work curriculum took her to East Africa, where she served as an adoption coordinator at the Amani Baby Cottage, an orphanage

CIBER Case Challenge—Fox School students won first-place, two individual awards and one honorable mention at the seventh annual CIBER Case Challenge, a competition with 15 teams from the U.S., Europe and Asia

Global Living Learning Center—International Affairs, in collaboration with Student Affairs, is launching this center to provide domestic and international students an opportunity to build cross-cultural communication skills starting fall 2011

TUTV Goes Global—launched a website to provide global access

New Partnerships—Ewha Woman’s University (Seoul, South Korea) established a general agreement, student exchange and faculty exchange with Temple; Seoul National University, Business School (Seoul, South Korea) formalized a student exchange; Southeast University (Nanjing, China) established a Dual Bachelor’s Master’s Degree agreement; Trans-Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program (consortium of universities in the U.S., Europe and Canada) formalized a student exchange; and Foundation College China Scholarship Council established a general agreement

Henry Luce Foundation—renewed the College of Liberal Arts $400,000 grant for an international program with Gadjah Mada University

State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA) in China—established relationship with Temple’s Career Center to develop opportunities for Temple students to teach English in China; and to share information about U.S. career services, hosted senior delegation from East China University of Politics & Law in Shanghai

Faculty Fulbright awards—Assistant Professor of Art Education Lisa Kay has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Hungary for an interdisciplinary project bridging art education, art therapy and qualitative inquiry; Physics Professor Charles (C.J.) Martoff has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for work on dark matter detection with the University of Milan at the Gran Sasso National Lab in Italy

Guggenheim Fellowship—awarded to Tyler art historian Elizabeth S. Bolman to document restoration of the Red Monastery in Sohag, Egypt

International Business (IB) Certificate Program—for the second year in a row, the Fox School of Business welcomed Executive MBA students and professionals from University of Ghana’s Business School for an IB Certificate Program

Disaster Response Symposium—School of Medicine and Temple Emergency Action Corps (TEAC) hosted a symposium on disaster response that has initiated long-term health-care solutions in countries around the world

Pittsburgh Medical School Campus—Temple's School of Medicine and West Penn Allegheny Health System are establishing a new four-year medical school campus in Pittsburgh to address a critical shortage of physicians

Knight Foundation Grant—the Temple Performing Arts Center has received a grant to fund Eyes Wide Open in North Philadelphia, a new initiative that will bring local elementary and high school students to campus to experience the arts

Health Information Professions Career Pathways Initiative—funded by a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Temple offers qualified low-income residents free training leading to certification for medical accounts and electronic health records positions

Community College Faculty—developed customized teaching curriculum for Delaware County Community College faculty, and a professional development program will be created for Montgomery Community College in the fall along with an online curriculum

Community Ambassadors—School of Medicine at its Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (CMHHD) is training neighbors on community-based research practices

Health Services for Uninsured and Under-Insured—a partnership between Bethlehem-area non-profits, St. Luke's Hospital and Temple's School of Medicine, conceived by Temple medical students, has brought after-school programs and immunization clinics to residents of Southside in Bethlehem

Presenting Our Perspective on Philly Youth News (POPPYN)—new youth-driven cable access and internet news show supported by Temple's University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia about youth issues that are "POPPYN"

Metro-Engagement Forum—showcased faculty members whose works advance the region's unique historic, physical, social, cultural and community assets

Tree House Books Volunteers—helps foster the success of young students who lag behind in school by tutoring them one-on-one

Diabetes Diaries—for a "Guerilla Altruism" class taught by a professor of architecture, students started Diabetes Diaries, a YouTube video channel where diabetics can share their stories

Smoking Cessation—a professor of public health received a contract from the City of Philadelphia to create a smoking cessation program for people who are unemployed

Non-Profit Management Certificate Program—together the Center for Social Policy and Community Development and the School of Social Work under the College of Health Professions and Social Work, Temple University Harrisburg and the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs offer an ongoing series of seminars and workshops to build expertise about small non-profits

Nutrition program for Norristown—as part of her Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Master of Public Health student Gabriella Rovito has been visiting Norristown classrooms since the fall to teach children about healthy nutrition habits

Philadelphia Neighborhoods—the Department of Journalism rebranded its Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab for which students work on all aspects of news production, as Philadelphia Neighborhoods, a website that had more than 100,000 discrete users and more than 250,000 page views in 2010

Design Challenge—90 Temple students in 15 teams participated in the first North Broadband Design Challenge, organized by the Center for the Fox School's Design and Innovation to create innovative solutions for local issues

Computer Donation—in a project praised by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Temple installed 15 refurbished computers at the John F. Hartranft Elementary School and Tree House Books, and a North Philadelphia after-school center opened a new computer lab equipped with Temple-donated machines

Impact of Tourism Interns—School of Tourism and Hospitality Management students regularly complete internships throughout Pennsylvania, helping to keep Pennsylvania tourism, the state's second largest industry, booming

President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll— for the third time, Temple was honored as a leader in higher education community service with this distinction, the highest national recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to service

Whitney M. Young Jr, Community Empowerment Award—the Urban League recognized Temple's ongoing efforts to provide high-quality education, job opportunities and medical care to underserved community members

Keystone Press Awards—several journalism students won these awards for their work produced for PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com

Minute Suites Partnership—the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management students are staffing Minute Suites 24/7, a "transit" hotel in the Philadelphia airport

Community Music Scholars (CMSP)—provides a comprehensive curriculum of jazz and classical music instruction, taught by undergraduate and graduate students, for school-age children in Philadelphia who have limited access to such classes

Economics of Conservation—Students in Landscape and Horticulture in the School of Environmental Design partnered with Fox MBA students to study the economic impact of the Heritage Conservancy's woodland sites

Reducing Threats to Pa. Water Resources—Temple faculty are examining the impact of a range of threats to Pennsylvania's water resources and seeking ways to mitigate potential problems

"Écolibrium – French Traditions/Modern Interpretations" —Temple Ambler's installment at the 2011 Philadelphia Flower Show, which incorporated modern sustainable practices, won the Bulkley Medal of the Garden Club of America and is being recreated at the northeast corner of 20th and Market in a vacant lot as a "pop-up" garden

Green by Design—the Fox School of Business and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management hosted its second annual week of events showcasing sustainable business practices

You and Your Adolescent: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25—a professor of psychology's newly revised book offers parents research-based tips for navigating the teen years

MIS Ranked #1 Worldwide—the Association for Information Systems (AIS) reported that the research output of Fox School of Business' Management Information Systems (MIS) Department was ranked No. 1 in the world for 2010 according to MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, the two top information systems journals

Radiology Distinction—Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology, Scott H. Faro, M.D, is the new president of the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology (ASFNR)

2010 Young Investigator Award—Vinay Parikh, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, received a two-year award of nearly $60,000 from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) for his research on "functional interactions between BDNF and glutamatergic signaling in front-to-striatal circuits"

MERIT Award—Yuri Persidsky, professor and chair of pathology and laboratory medicine in the School of Medicine, received a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), which extends his research grant CNS Injury Caused by HIV-1 and Alcohol: Protective Effects of CB2 Activation for five years

Survival of New Firms—Kauffman Foundation awarded Sheryl Winston-Smith, assistant professor of strategic management, "Best Paper" for "Intellectual Property, Prior Knowledge, and the Survival of New Firms," which she co-authored

que(e)ry—a new theater piece, funded by a Provost’s seed grant, directed by a theater faculty member  and created by 21 Temple University students, addresses students’ experiences with queerness and gender identity and was performed at the Equality Forum

USDA Grant—Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) at the School of Medicine received a $3.7 million grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to fund a program that will teach mothers how to promote appropriate food choices and portion sizes to their children

Nursing Home Study—a five-year study co-authored by Jacqueline S. Zinn, a professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, and funded--$1.5 million--by the National Institute of Aging, found that a national report card on nursing homes, which allows consumers to compare the quality of care provided by one facility to another, appears to motivate nursing homes to improve

Environmental Expertise—Michel Boufadel, professor of civil and environmental engineering was named to both the National Academies' committee examining the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill on the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's panel studying natural gas extraction from shale formations ;  and was awarded a one-year, $1.5 million grant by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to investigate technologies to enhance the natural biodegradation of oil trapped in the beaches along Prince William Sound since the Exxon Valdez spill

Goldman Sachs Gift —Be Your Own Boss Bowl business plan competition received a $500,000 donation from Goldman Sachs Gives to expand university-wide entrepreneurship over the next five years

NSF Grant for Research on Product Innovations—Jose Plehn-Dujowich, assistant professor of accounting and finance received a National Science Foundation grant for research on "The Sources and Consequences of Product Innovations in the U.S. Economy"

Federal Grant on Innovation Clusters—Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Mercedes Delgado, along with a team of Harvard and MIT researchers, earned a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) to help policymakers tap into regional innovation clusters that drive economic growth

Alternative Leukemia Treatment—the University City Science Center awarded Temple Neuroscience and Biology Professor George P. Tuszynski a $200,000 grant to develop a tumor-inhibiting protein to treat acute myeloid leukemia

Top Article on Environmental Law—a national panel of law professors and environmental scholars selected Law Professor Amy Sinden's article, "The Missing Instrument: Dirty Input Limits" as one of the top-five articles in environmental law for 2009

Alzheimer's Research—an associate professor in the School of Medicine published a study in the American Journal of Pathology demonstrating that a drug used to treat asthma helps reduce the formation of amyloid beta, a peptide in the brain implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease

Prolonged Bottle Use—a professor of pediatrics and public health at the Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) and his doctoral student published a study, which found that children who were using a bottle at 24 months were approximately 30 percent more likely to be obese at 5.5 years, in The Journal of Pediatric

Distracted Driving Data—a study led by a professor of public health, published in  the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found a widening gap between the evidence on distracted driving and the laws being passed to address the problem

Slavery Museum—a senior theater major created a website, "Portraits of Protest: A Micro Web Exhibit," spotlighting the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Movement funded by a Temple CARAS grant

Record-breaking Year for Tech Transfer—for the first time in its history, Temple will receive more than $1 million in a fiscal year from licenses on intellectual property developed by its researchers

Influx of Top Faculty Recruits—26 new tenured and tenure-track faculty members joined Temple from leading institutions for 2010-11

2012 U.S. News Graduate School Rankings—Beasley School of Law rose 11 places to 61st and ranked highly in specialty categories: second in trial advocacy, seventh in legal research and writing, 11th in international law, 10th in part-time programs and 61st in the diversity of its students (up from 66th last year); the School of Medicine's Medical Research Program ranked 45th (up from 52nd last year); Fox School of Business' Healthcare Management ranked 24th (up from 28th in 2007); and the College of Education ranked 46th (up from 50th three years ago)

U.S. News Ranking for Temple University Hospital—listed Temple University Hospital among the top regional hospitals in the U.S. and fourth in the Philadelphia region in its first-ever Best Hospital Metro Area rankings

School of Pharmacy Reaccreditation—for a full six-year term until June 30, 2017 by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education

Computerworld Ranking—for seventh consecutive year, Temple was named in Computerworld's "100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology" list and is one of only five universities listed

New Leader for Temple's Health-Care Enterprise—Larry R. Kaiser, M.D., past president and Alkek-Williams Chair of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, was appointed senior executive vice president for health sciences, dean of the Temple University School of Medicine and chief executive officer of the Temple University Health System

Owls' Nest—a high-performance computing cluster in the Bell Building significantly enhances the high-speed computing capabilities of Temple's researchers

New Head Coach—University of Florida Associate Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator Steve Addazio, a top recruiter, was hired as the Owls' new head football coach

Influential College on ‘Twitter'—Temple was named one of the nation's 10 "most influential" colleges and universities on Twitter by Klout

Athletics Ticket-Sales Partnership—Temple Athletics saved almost $300,000 by hiring a private company to handle ticket sales; its winning football season increased football ticket sales 35 percent, group sales 50 percent and total revenue per game 42 percent

Bill Cosby Honored—U.S. Navy honored Temple Trustee and alumnus Bill Cosby with the rank of chief petty officer

Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra in Residence— the 33-member orchestra, which traditionally performs at the Kimmel Center, spent part of its fall 2010 season in the Temple Performing Arts Center

Innovation in Kornberg School of Dentistry—in 2010, the Kornberg School opened its Phase I Clinic, an integrated, patient-centered model, providing treatment planning, periodontal and restorative care, recall check-ups and post-treatment reviews; opened its Podray Ortho Clinic outfitted with the most advanced systems; created state-of-art lecture halls; completed its new Central Sterilization Unit; held workshops to train faculty in evidence-based dentistry; moved to digital radiography; created an integrated course in implantology; and partnered with Drexel University to develop the D. Walter Cohen Oral Medicine Elective

Tuskegee Legacy—Temple's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection now includes the archives—papers, photographs and memorabilia—of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first military aviators of color to join the U.S. Armed Forces

Temple University Women of Color—since 2009, offers programming and events that foster interaction and dialogue among women of color across the university

"The Unseen World"—a three-story high sculptural celebration of bacteria, designed by a Philadelphia artist, was installed in the Commons Atrium of the Medical Education and Research Building

USA Sevens—Temple was the only local school represented in the 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship

Campus projects—new research-driven sustainability projects include five 12-foot wind turbines for  Pearson-McGonigle’s roof; testing of four state-of-the-art LED street lights powered by conventional electricity as well as solar and wind power by an associate professor of computer engineering; stormwater management controls for Main Campus construction; installation of rain gauges and flow meters at select Main Campus sites by the director of Temple’s Center for Sustainable Communities, and a professor of earth and environmental science; and a 12,000-gallon underground stormwater catchment system to collect and store rainwater runoff for irrigating greenhouse plants at Ambler Campus

Reduction of Carbon Imprint—Temple's Office of Sustainability launched a partnership with Zimride, a ride-sharing tool that uses social networking to bring Temple community members together to share commutes, and installed water bottle refilling stations in the lobbies of several Main Campus buildings