Congratulations,
Class of 2004!

Some 6,465 students are eligible to march down the aisle and receive their degrees during Temple’s 117th Commencement ceremony today.

President David Adamany will preside at the exercises for the largest graduating class in recent history, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the Liacouras Center...more

Alexis Anderson, left, will delay medical school to teach elementary school students in Camden, N.J., this fall—a decision she made after instructing children, such as Waring Elementary fourth-grader Laraea Strieby (right), at an after-school tutoring program.

Volunteer work changed senior’s plan

For Temple senior Alexis Anderson, inspiration is most powerful when it is witnessed, not heard. In her experience, even the most forceful rhetoric is ineffective when not grounded in proof and genuine examples.

These beliefs, practically a mantra for Anderson, have driven her to use her intelligence and gregarious personality to be a positive influence in her community—whether it was growing up in Neptune, N.J., or among her present neighbors, the North Philadelphians who border Temple’s Main Campus. No matter the situation—as one of the few minorities in her hometown with the talent and good fortune to attend a charter school, as a mentor to some of Philadelphia’s most at-risk children through a tutoring program, or as an African-American woman en route to medical school—Anderson seizes opportunities to be visible to those who share her most obvious traits: race and gender...more

Local physician selected to lead minority affairs
The School of Medicine has appointed Dr. Donald Parks, a physician who has cared for North Philadelphia residents for more than two decades, assistant dean for minority affairs...more

Psych professor explores science of good parenting
Temple psychologist Laurence Steinberg can’t guarantee that people who follow The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting will be perfect parents. But he can promise that the more consistently they practice them, the better off their children will be...more

Spotlight: Trustee Howard Gittis
Howard Gittis estimates that 40 percent of his Central High classmates enrolled at Temple. His exemplary SAT scores and a scholarship meant that he, too, could have gone anywhere...more

School of Dentistry receives ‘perfect’ accreditation report
Late last month, American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation representatives visited Temple’s School of Dentistry—and liked what they saw...more

In Memoriam
Timothy M. Fehrle Sr., director of labor relations for Temple since 1990, died suddenly on May 14. Fehrle was 53...more