Temple University College of Liberal Arts alumnus Osimiri Sprowal, CLA '20, has been named a 2022 Marshall Scholar. Sprowal is one of forty-one 2022 Marshall Scholarship recipients, including alumni from the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard Universities.
Founded in honor of Secretary of State George C. Marshall, the scholarship has awarded outstanding American students the opportunity to pursue two or three years of graduate study in the UK since 1953. Over 1,000 college seniors and recent alumni are nominated by their home university...
If there's one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has shown many of us, it's how much we rely on the internet. It's crucial to how we work, learn and communicate, yet for some communities in North Philadelphia, it's become harder to access just when they need it most.
Philly Community Wireless (PCW)—a group of community organizers, technologists and researchers who are all volunteers—has stepped up to help, building community-owned infrastructure and working to provide free, net-neutral Wi-Fi to residents in North Philadelphia. It's internet access for the community, by the...
Timothy Welbeck's extensive and diverse group of professional pursuits center around the core value of advocating for the rights of marginalized people. Whether working as an attorney, professor, scholar or hip-hop artist, his goal is the same: helping people fight oppression.
After a decade of teaching at the university, Welbeck was chosen to lead Temple's newest research facility—the Center for Anti-racism Research. The new center, to be housed on the roof deck between Anderson and Gladfelter Halls, is scheduled to break ground this fall and will open in the spring of 2022...
College of Liberal Arts Psychology alumnus Leonard Mazur, CLA '68, FOX '75, and his wife, Helena, are strong believers in the power of education and opportunity. A generous $5 million gift from the current Board of Visitors member and his wife will provide scholarships, stipends for completing internships and other valuable opportunities for College of Liberal Arts students, now and in the future.
In honor of Leonard and Helena Mazur's dedication to the College of Liberal Arts and its student body, Anderson Hall will soon become Leonard and Helena Mazur Hall.
"Broad"-ened...
In honor of Africology and African American Studies (AAAS) Chair and Professor Molefi Asante's 50th anniversary as Journal of Black Studies editor, publisher SAGE Publishing is endowing the College of Liberal Arts with a $100,000 AAAS graduate research scholarship.
"The SAGE Asante Award will become a standard by which we evaluate graduate student scholarship in the discipline of Africology," says Dr. Asante. "SAGE's audacious move in this direction captures the journal's visionary spirit.
"The Africology and African American Studies Department is thrilled by SAGE's...
Chelsey Lowe, CLA '14, has always been passionate about improving Black lives and supporting Black businesses and communities. Now, she applies her passion for equitable development with her political science knowledge and is a champion for Black lives, mental health and social change around the world.
Finding her Passion
Originally from Pittsburgh, Lowe grew up in a space where education and community engagement were a priority. After watching her family address social issues present in the community, she decided to get involved herself and worked with her sister, a...
In Heath Fogg Davis' most recent book, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, he provides guidance for organizations to become more inclusive by teaching them to question and remove gender and identity barriers. A professor of political science, Davis uses he/him or they/them pronouns, and has expertise in antidiscrimination law, transgender civil rights, political theory, and race, gender, and sexuality studies. For the past three years, Davis served as the director of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies department, and is now moving into the role of director of the...
Master of Public Policy student Amara O'Connell has been promoted to the role Director of Food Services with the Office of Homeless Services for the City of Philadelphia. The mission of the Office of Homeless Services is to provide the leadership, coordination, planning and mobilization of resources to make housing insecurities rare, brief and non-recurring in the City of Philadelphia. Congratulations, Amara!
Master of Public Policy student Brandon Boyer has started a new position as a Communications Analyst with the Bellevue Strategies. Bellevue Strategies uses its experience, relationships, and technology to plan, develop, and implement government relations strategies at the city and state level on specific legislative items. Congratulations, Brandon!
Professors Simon Hakim and Erwin Blackstone are coauthors (with Brian Meehan, Berry College) are coauthors of "No Child Left Behind in Foster Care," which appeared in the November 2021 volume of The Independent Review. They are also co-editors (with Robert M. Clark, EPA, ret.) of the Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, Volume I, which was recently published by Springer.
The Temple University Ambler Library Building didn't escape the wrath of the EF2 tornado that ravaged campus on September 1, 2021. Ferocious winds and debris tore holes in the building's roof and blew out most of the large windows, threatening the collection of 130,000 books, periodicals, research material and historical archives inside."Our first concern was the care of the materials. That was paramount in our thinking — how to save what we had because we knew there was major damage to a number of books," said Sandi Thompson, Head of the Ambler Campus Library. "We...
The Temple Public Policy program is proud to partner with Rebuilding American Values, an organization led by Bob Wolper, to help place policy students in internships with trade unions across Pennsylvania. On November 15, 2021, current Master of Public Policy student Tyler Honschke testified before the PA Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the issue of worker misclassification and the future of work on behalf of IUPAT District Council 21. You can view a recording of the hearing here and read the testimony here.
Tyler and Master of Public Policy +1 student Cindy Yoo...
Master of Public Policy program alumnus Jack Inacker, CLA '21, recently published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer titled "Lingering echoes of Jan. 6 underscore the need to pass the Freedom to Vote Act." Read Inacker's full Inquirer op-ed.
Professors Rhiannon Jerch and Viviane Sanfelice were recently awarded CLARA grants by the College of Liberal Arts to support their research project, "Do Electrical Blackouts Create Crime." Congratulations!
Economics PhD Thanh Lu, currently a post-doc at Cornell Medical College presented "Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests," coauthored with Economics Professor Catherine Maclean and Monica Deza (CUNY) at the Fall 2021 NBER Health Economics Fall Institute.
Samuel Titus (undergraduate Sociology major) for his paper "The Effects of Skin Color on Educational Attainment and Household Income in Contemporary Mexico" and Tyler Burgese (Sociology PhD student) for his paper "Fellas, Is It Gay to Sell Nudes? Sexual Storytelling and the Straight Men of OnlyFans" both won awards for their paper presentations at the 2021 meeting of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society in November. Visit this page to read about their papers in detail!
Professor Michael Leeds was interviewed by Inside HigherEd for an article on the skyrocketing salaries of college football coaches. Huge coaching contracts—unjustifiable or business as usual? Read the full article in Inside HigherEd titled "What Blockbuster Coaching Contracts Mean for Higher Ed".
On November 6, 2021, the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Program welcomed professionals, several of them MPP alumni, on campus for its Careers in Public Service Workshop. The workshop gave MPP students the opportunity to network and learn about careers in government, lobbying, advocacy and policy analysis. The keynote was delivered by Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, who reflected on the many challenges that public servants face today.
Continue reading for six key takeaways and tips from two of the MPP students who attended the workshop.
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On November 9th, Professor Roman was a featured panelist in UPenn's annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies, with this year's topic focusing on the Ecology of Homicide: Race, Place & Space in Postwar Philadelphia. Dr. Roman discussed how the historical and political context of the urban landscape creates hurdles for effective policymaking around gun violence. The entire lecture, including her comments, can be found on the The Ecology of Homicide Panel at Penn blog.
