Around Temple

Presentations

David Barton Smith, health services administration professor, delivered the presentation “Racially Separate and Unequal Health Services: Measuring Segregation and Assessing its Impact” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Summer Nursing Research Institute conference on May 11.

Publications

Lou DeLise, Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance lecturer in composition, arranged and conducted the song “2 Steps Away,” featured on Patti LaBelle’s new CD, Timeless Journey. DeLise teaches music theory, arranging, composing for film, music in advertising, and song writing at Boyer. DeLise’s son Jonathan wrote and composed the song for LaBelle.

Researchers led by Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and co-director of the Center for Biotechnology, published “pRb2/p130, VEGF, p27(KIP1) and PCNA expression in hepatocellular carcinoma: their clinical significance” in the May 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research (http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org). Pier Paolo Claudio, biotechnology associate professor at the Sbarro Institute, was the study’s lead author.

Michael Lear-Olimpi, journalism adjunct instructor, had his chapter “Feature Planning: A Cool, Deep, Nourishing Drink” included in the recently published Best Practices of the Business Press.