“There’s going to be no single cause for the drastic and significant increase in homicide. But increasingly, it’s clear that there are two or three main factors,” said Jerry Ratcliffe, a professor of criminal justice at Temple University in Philadelphia.

To track COVID-19 vaccination rates on Temple University’s campus, Interim Chief Information Officer Larry Brandolph knew he and his colleagues at Philadelphia’s largest university, with nearly 40,000 students enrolled, had to work fast.

“Moon has been quite consistent since he came to office,” said James Brown, an associate professor of international relations at the Tokyo campus of Temple University.

There are ways that historic Black colleges and universities continue to address inequity, mentioned by panelists gathered by The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Facebook’s research on teens “could give researchers important clues about what to follow up on with scientific studies,” says Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University.