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Museum
is Dental School's crowning achievement
This Victorian dental office, complete with operatory from pre-electrical
years and tools of the time, is one of the many features at
the recently opened museum.
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With
items like a bucket full of real human teeth and all sorts of bizarre—and
painful looking—tools to extract teeth, most people might be
afraid to visit the School of Dentistry’s third floor.
But
once you get past the shock factor, you realize that the Dr. and
Mrs. Edwin Weaver III Historical Dental Museum at Temple’s
dental school is actually a celebration of how far dentistry has
come in the last century.
“I
think this is a great thing to create because we can share the history
of dentistry with people so they appreciate how painless it is now,”
said Susan Howell, curator for the museum, which opened earlier
this month...more
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NCAA
men's gymnastic finals to be held at Liacouras Center
When
senior gymnast Richie Maguire graduates from Temple, he would
like to either become a clown or defy gravity. Maybe even both
at the same time. Maguire
loves performing in front of people, so it’s only natural
that the marketing major would flip at the chance to audition
for internationally renowned Cirque du Soleil...more
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You
might say prof. has knight classes
Standing at the front of his intellectual heritage class,
he doesn’t look that different from his students. Clad
in jeans and a baggy sweater, he greets each of them by name
as they approach. Even when they’re late. How chivalrous,
you might think? Absolutely.
Although he’s not in shining armor, visiting assistant
professor Craig J. N. de Paulo is every inch a knight. Twice
over, in fact...more
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Softball
team springs into success
Senior
Chrissy Harris spent spring break in a much sunnier place than
Philadelphia, taking an 11-day trip to Florida. That might sound
wonderful, but for Harris and her softball teammates, it was
hardly relaxing. They played in three demanding tournaments
and came back from break exhausted.They
also came back triumphant. They went down to Florida 1-4, and
they returned 10-10...more
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Faculty
draws four art grants from PCA
Four Temple University faculty members have been awarded Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts (PCA) Fellowships for 2003...more
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