Veronica "Ronni" Nelson was awarded a Dissertation Completion Grant from Temple's Graduate School. This award will support her final semester of work to complete her dissertation, "The Beginning of a Dehumanization Process: An Examination of Visitation Experiences During and 'After' COVID-19". The study draws on multiple methods to understand the effects of changes to prison visitation policies and practices in Pennsylvania facilities before and 'after' the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yat Ching Yeung, a third year PhD student in the Religion department, presented her paper at this year's American Academy of Religion Conference. The paper session was Buddhist Epistemology and Virtue Epistemology, and the topic of Yat Ching's paper is "Virtuous Vision: Navigating the Nexus of Virtue Reliabilism and Moral Phenomenology in The Treasury of Valid Knowledge and Reasoning" .
In a complicated world, diplomats are the face of American foreign policy. They represent the United States, coordinate policy and operations, and engage with their host nations. With all these important responsibilities, it is not every day that undergraduate students are able to engage with a diplomat. But recently, Temple students had one such opportunity to better understand their roles.
On Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Art Brown visited Temple University as part of the State Department's Hometown Diplomats Program. Ambassador Brown discussed...
The Philosophy department congratulates Austin Tate Fuller, one of two Nordev Prize recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year for his preliminary examination "Being the Devil: Rough Heroes, Fiction, and Videogames". Austin's main interests are in the philosophy of art and aesthetics, specifically doing work in the philosophy of literature, philosophy of video games, and the philosophy of humor. Austin is also interested in 19th century philosophy and Existentialism.
The Philosophy department congratulates Eli Benjamin Israel, one of two Nordev Prize recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year for his preliminary examination "Homo Noumenon: An Atemporal Reading of Kant's Postulate of the Immortality of the Soul". Eli Benjamin Israel is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Temple University, specializing in ethics, moral psychology, social philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His current research focuses on the normativity of trust and consent within interpersonal relationships. Israel has published in academic philosophy journals and has been...
On November 13th, the 27th annual Temple University Innovative Idea Competition was held by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at the Fox School of Business. The Innovative Idea Competition invites students, faculty and staff from all 17 of Temple's schools and colleges to present products, services and tech as the foundations of new businesses, with over $10,000 in total cash prizes at stake. Megan Kane, CLA '24, won first prize in the upper track, as well the overall grand prize, for AI-Aware Writing Environment (AAWE). AAWE is an application that allows students...
After a nearly fifty-year tenure at Columbia University, the Council for European Studies (CES) has officially made the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University its new institutional home. With this new partnership, Temple students and faculty will have easier access to resources and support toward European-focused academic endeavors across multiple disciplines.
Since its founding in 1970, CES has sought to support students, scholars and faculty in European-focused academic pursuits through fellowships, grants, a bimonthly journal, global conferences, and other programs...
This past September, New York City played host to the United Nations Summit of the Future. The conference brought world leaders together to develop a more cohesive, unified approach to tackling current global issues and preparing responses to challenges that will emerge in our future.
Of course, you can't properly plan for a greater tomorrow without input from our young, future leaders and the communities they represent. That's why a group of graduate students from Temple's Africology and African American Studies Department made their voices heard at the Black Paper...
For the past month, Temple University students have been educating North Philadelphia community residents on how to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime. It's all part
Elections stir up many emotions, including fear, anger, hope and disappointment, among other strong feelings. In a 2024 mental health poll from the American Psychiatric
Tony Thurmond, CLA '93, California state superintendent of public instruction, is on a mission to achieve something that has not been done in California's history: become
Criminal Justice PhD student, Hannah Steinman has co-authored a new article with Dr. Jennifer Wood published in Policing and Society entitled Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing. The article focuses on how policing, public health, and climate change are all interconnected. Police respond to health harms, from pandemics to mental distress, and to climate harms, such as floods and fires. These changing 'harmscapes' - or landscapes of harm - place new demands and strains on policing, but they can also serve as 'portals' to new imaginings of...
The Department of Criminal Justice is proud to have both current and former faculty members acknowledged for their career-long impact to the field of criminology by being named in the top 2% of all cited scholars in the field. Drs. Liz Groff and Jerry Ratcliffe are current faculty in the department with this international recognition. Dr. Ratcliffe is a former British police officer and host of the popular Reducing Crime podcast. He works with police agencies around the world on crime reduction and criminal intelligence strategy. Dr. Groff has spent twenty plus years applying...
The Department of Criminal Justice held its annual Goldkamp Lecture, on Friday, October 4th, in memory of the late Professor John Goldkamp, recognizing his significant contributions to criminal justice research. Each year, graduate students nominate potential speakers, followed by a student vote to finalize the selection. This year, the department was pleased to have Dr. Brittany Battle from Wake Forest University speak on topics related to abolition feminism. At the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Brittany Battle, drawing on the work of key abolitionist Angela Y. Davis,...
As language and identity continue evolving, knowing when to use certain terms can be tricky. One complex case includes the usage of Hispanic, Latino/a, Latinx and Latine.
Dr. Reynaldo Anderson will be representing Temple University and the Department of Africology and African American Studies, at the United Nations Summit of the Future in New York this week. He will be speaking at the Black Paper Chronicles side event, during the UN Summit. The Black Paper Chronicles event is the last series of these gatherings that will emphasize the United Nations Summit of the Future themes and narratives that are essential for the development of the global agenda in the years ahead, including Youth and Future Generations, Sustainability and Financial...
Keshema Davidson graduated from Temple's Master of Public Policy program in 2020. From 2021 to 2023, she served as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Cristo Rey Philadelphia. Learn more about Keshema's experience in the MPP program and how it shapes her work today!
Given her sunny disposition, you might be surprised that Dr. Lucy Bregman, Professor Emeritus of Religion, is best known at Temple for a course about death.
Bregman's signature course, Death and Dying, examines the end of life from various cultural and spiritual angles. Over time, she found that a large and diverse assortment of students were connecting deeply with the class as a setting to process their own experiences. Reflecting on a 45-year career at Temple, Bregman lights up when she talks about how much she gained from her students and providing that space for...
