U.S. News, which has published its annual “Best Colleges” rankings since 1983, revised its methodology this year. Temple University placed No. 89 in the latest national university rankings, which marks the highest ranking ever for the university and the first time Temple has been included in the top 100. 

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A new paper by doctoral candidate Nicole Johnson and Professor Caterina Roman, both in the College of Liberal Arts’ Criminal Justice Department, seeks to offer some of the missing context behind Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis. The study shows that from March 2020 through June 2021, gun violence went up on average by 21.6% each two-month period, albeit slowing down considerably in 2021. The areas that saw increasingly more gun violence had something in common: they had high drug market activity.

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