Earning a college degree is an incredible accomplishment under any circumstances, but some students have more challenges to overcome than others.
For Amanda Summers, those challenges involved earning two degrees in her 30s while working full time and raising her daughter. As Summers was accepting her master's degree in 2018, her daughter was graduating high school.
"if you have a goal that you want, then you work hard and you get there"
Neither mother nor daughter stopped their learning there. With her daughter now at Temple University's Lew Klein...
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...
Temple's Public Policy program is pleased to announce the appointment of David Thornburgh to the position or Professor of Practice.David Thornburgh has served as President and CEO of the nonpartisan Committee of Seventy, the Philadelphia-based good government group. Under his leadership, Seventy launched a major initiative to push back on partisan redistricting called Draw the Lines, a citizen mapping project which will give any Pennsylvanian the data and software they can use to draw Congressional and legislative maps. Mr. Thornburgh has also served as the Executive Director...
In a recently published paper, Professor Viviane Sanfelice uses data from Brazilian birth records to show that higher rates of dengue exposure during the third trimester of pregnancy reduces the average birth weight by almost one gram. She also finds that exposure to dengue increases the probability of cesarean delivery and raises fetal and maternal mortality rates. Her research appears in the current issue of Health Economics.
Lori Partin currently serves as a Management and Program Analyst for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), providing oversight, and supporting the development and operation of over fifteen state and tribal child welfare information systems. In her time as an instructor in the Master of Public Policy program, she has taught courses on Bureaucracy and Public Management and Project Management. Her new title of Placement Advisor acknowledges the work she has done supporting many policy students in launching their careers. The program is grateful for Ms. Partin's...
Hispanic. Latino. Latina. Latinx. Whatever your heritage and preferred term(s), the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) invites you to join our Hispanic Heritage celebration and reception.Today (Wednesday, October 13), the Latin American Studies (LAS) program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 with several events. Latin Dance Class with Dr. Christina Baker | Anderson Hall Terrace | 2 - 2:50 p.m.COVID and Latin America: Crisis, Politics, Democracy, panel discussion with Temple University professors Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Harvey...
Call for applications for five-year assistantships for doctoral program at Temple UniversityDepartment of Geography and Urban StudiesTemple University, Philadelphia PAApplications due January 15, 2022 The Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is accepting applications for funded doctoral position beginning Fall 2022. The doctoral program focuses on geographic approaches to the study of urban and environmental processes and conditions in US and international settings. Our emphasis is on the themes of globalization,...
Economics Professor Catherine Maclean will join professors Tom Buchmueller (University of Michigan) and Stacy Dickert-Conlin (Michigan State University) on a panel at the virtual fall meetings of the Association for Public Policy and Management. The panel will help explain the publication process to graduate students.Dr. Maclean is also co-organizer of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Workshop, "Successfully Navigating Your Economics PhD: A Mentoring Workshop for Women/Non-Binary Economics PhD Students." This workshop will take place in Houston...
Economics Assistant Professor Shreyasee Das has recently published several articles on the status of women in India. "Intergenerational effects of improving women's property rights: evidence from India," coauthored with Nayana Bose (Scripps College), has been published in Oxford Development Studies. It examines the intergenerational impact of women's inheritance rights."Women grow as much as 80% of India's food—but its new farm laws overlook their struggles," written with Bansari Kamdar (recently awarded an MA in Economics from UMass-Boston) analyzes how current farm...
Yuheiry Rodriguez is a Study Coordinator within the Emotion, Development, Environment and Neurogenetics (EDEN) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. The EDEN lab, led by Dr. Rebecca Walker, studies child development and the various factors that may impact child behavior. As a Study Coordinator, Yuheiry is responsible for recruiting participants, coordinating and running visits with children and families, training undergraduate research assistants, as well as monitoring data quality.
Yuheiry graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2019....
Through their exposure to research in social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, behavioral psychology, and other areas of the discipline, our students learn to apply their knowledge of psychological concepts to understand situations involving teamwork, problematic behavior, and conflict resolution. Furthermore, students will gain a deeper understanding of why people engage in certain behaviors in social contexts.Aristotle identified human beings as "the social animal." Indeed, our social nature, social connections, and dependence on one another constitute our...
The Psychology Department's Psychology Graduate Students for Inclusivity (PGSI) and the faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee hosted a hybrid Psychology Outreach Extravaganza event this Fall, as the culmination of local summer service. The event served as a celebration of recent local partnerships formed both within the department and our local Philadelphia community.The Psychology Outreach Extravaganza represents an exciting and ongoing collaboration between the faculty (through the DEI Committee) and student-led (PGSI) organizations, which are dedicated to...
Africology and African American Studies PhD alumnus Ibram Kendi, CLA '10, has been named to one of the 2021 MacArthur Foundation's Genius Awards!Of the 21 people receiving the $625,000 award, Dr. Kendi is considered the most well-known because of his book, How to be an Antiracist, which has sold more than two million copies. Dr. Kendi has become, by virtue of his publications and $10 million no-strings-attached gift from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, the most visible scholar in the field of Africology.We salute Ibram Kendi, who has always remembered his former department.
by Dr. Debra Bangasser, Dr. Chelsea Helion and Rebecca Brotschul
October 04
One of the great things about pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology or neuroscience at Temple University is the opportunity to work with world-renowned faculty to conduct research and contribute to new scientific discoveries. Faculty investigate a range of topics from the epigenetic underpinnings of addiction-related behaviors to developing interventions to improve the everyday function of adults with neurodegenerative disorders. To advance opportunities for undergraduate training, the Psychology Department and CLA Neuroscience Program developed the new BRIDGE (...
Iris Ka-Yi Chat is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program with specializations in Neuroscience and Developmental Psychopathology. Iris works in the Mood and Cognition Lab, under the guidance of Dr. Lauren Alloy, exploring the cognitive, psychosocial, developmental, and neurobiological factors which impact the onset and maintenance of mood disorders. Her research employs an integrative approach to examine the connections between inflammatory signaling, stress, neural reward processing, and their interplay in the onset and maintenance of mood disorders and comorbid...
