Cherie P. Erkmen, a thoracic surgeon and director of the lung cancer screening program at Temple University Hospital and professor of thoracic medicine and surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, reminds us, “Cigarette smoking is the No. 1 risk factor for lung cancer. Even if you ...

 “I have never seen this much change occurring in our student loan system in a period of four months. It’s unprecedented,” said Bryce McKibben, senior director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. “We really need a ...

Temple University President Jason Wingard, author of a new book, The College Devaluation Crisis, says that although colleges once reliably produced graduates who could succeed in the workplace, “for the first time, the market economy is not being satisfied by the skills and ...

A recent New York Times piece on commercial real estate focused on the fate of suburban office parks—those post-war complexes often referred to as cubicle farms. This line stood out: “From the outside, it’s hard to know that the 20th floor of a skyscraper has gone vacant. In a suburban ...

Billy Penn is partnering with Temple’s new Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting on a yearlong project examining inequities and disparities within the Philly School District. On Monday, our photographers captured the atmosphere outside several of the city’s schools — all with ...