Clare Maus is a second year student in the Master of Public Policy program at Temple University. She earned her bachelor's degree at Tulane University where she studied Political Science, with minors in Psychology and French. Clare hopes to continue to explore her interests in election, reproductive healthcare, and environmental policy.
This summer I completed fellowships with the Committee of Seventy and the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. Both organizations focus on advocating for good government practices, protecting fair and free elections, and encouraging active...
Congratulations to Master of Public Policy student Luke Tomczuk who was recently appointed to the Mayor's Commission for People with Disabilities! In addition, he was also recently offered an internship with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities. Both the Mayor's Commission for People with Disabilities and the Office for People with Disabilities work to ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to employment opportunities, accessible and affordable housing, appropriate education, health care, and government services and buildings. Congrats again, Luke!
From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Temple will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month to honor the contributions of Latinx/Hispanic communities throughout United States history.
In the United States, Hispanic Heritage Month has been observed since it was first signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. This year, the College of Liberal Arts invites you to its campus-wide recognition of the history and contributions of the Hispanic and Latinx communities.
This will be Temple University's largest Hispanic Heritage Month celebration to date. From September 15th through October 15th, twenty-three events are planned, with contributions coming from several of Temple's colleges and organizations, as well as local community partners. ...
The Ellman Lab, directed by Dr. Lauren Ellman, focuses on risk factors that contribute to the development of psychosis and related disorders. Projects in our lab span across two sensitive periods of development: the pre- and perinatal timeframe, as well as the period from adolescence into young adulthood. Our lab has several multi-site studies underway that aim to identify individuals showing the first signs of psychosis using targeted questionnaires, cognitive testing batteries, and biological methods, such as neuroimaging. Not everyone experiencing psychosis risk symptoms...
Temple's University College offers a summer program of "Pre-College Workshops", directed by Dr. Maureen Saraco. High school students can attend this program and obtain a two-week college-like experience. Students may live on campus or commute and are required to attend two workshops a day as well as "college knowledge" sessions and on- and off-campus student activities. The program offers a wide array of subjects to choose from, ranging from Dance to Engineering to Psychology. This past summer, Dr. Rani Vasudeva, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, taught two...
Over the past 20 years, there has been an increasing role of and utility for programming in psychological science and neuroscience. There are multiple reasons why these skills have become increasingly desirable. Some reflect good practices in approaching and working with information and some are very practical. In our research practices, programming has highly useful applications in many areas. For some research methods, like functional brain functioning and behavioral testing, we need to apply the same procedure on each of the participants' data to create useful indices for...
Haroon Popal is a doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience program. Under the guidance of Dr. Ingrid Olson in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Haroon explores the cerebellum role in social cognition, which has been a consistently neglected topic. His dissertation research is focusing on how the cerebellum uniquely contributes to social reward processing, distinguishing that contribution from the more well-known social and reward regions of the brain. Haroon hopes that his research on the cerebellum will help other researchers interpret their own data and...
Briana Odom graduated from Temple University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. During her time at Temple, Briana was a two-time conference champion student-athlete on the Women's Gymnastics Team, a representative for her team on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), a member of the Black Student Union (BSU), and a member of Temple University's Progressive NAACP. After graduation, Briana attended the George Washington University Law School and graduated in 2020 with her Juris Doctor. Currently, Briana is an Attorney Advisor at the American Foreign...
Joei Camarote is a Senior Psychology major with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience. Under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Gunderson, Joei is a Research Assistant in Temple University's Cognition...
Some may say winter has come early this year with HBO Max's release of the Games of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and our return to Middle-earth with Amazon Prime's
The MPP capstone, a semester-long project, is a core requirement of Temple's Master of Public Policy program which allows students to apply skills they learned in the classroom and gain valuable professional experience. In the capstone course, students complete an original, full-length project for a real-world client located in the greater Philadelphia region.
Master of Public Policy students Harry Hansen-Fleischman, Donna Hendrickson, Tyler Honschke, Brianna Seay, and Alex Teplyakov presented their work to Pennsylvania's Department of...
Many congratulations to James Taplin who just started a full-time, permanent job as Instructor and Program Manager for Student Engagement, School of Business, Oregon State University. James will be defending his dissertation on Nietzsche and education this fall (committee: Colin Chamberlain, Lara Ostaric, Kristin Gjesdal [Advisor]).
by Department of Africology and African American Studies
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Congratulations to Kristi Bezhani (CLA 2018, Minor in Africology) who received a Fulbright Award! Kristi is heading to Germany in the fall, congratulations Kristi! You can read a Q&A below about this tremendous accomplishment and how Temple helped to support and carve her path.
Why did you choose the College of Liberal at Temple?
I chose Temple's College of Liberal Arts because I wanted to study a multicultural approach to understanding history, popular culture and literature through pursuing a major in Global Studies, minors in Africology and...
This fall, Temple is launching Sexuality Education, a first-of-its kind class with two main goals: to close the gap left by wildly disparate K-12 sex education state
When Monica Rhodes, CLA '08, came to Temple, she was on track to become an African American studies professor. But her trajectory changed during a pivotal internship the
Master of Public Policy program student Victor Guillen recently published an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review titled "Biden administration must expand TPS for Venezuelans." Read Guillen's full op-ed.
Graduation has long been a moment of pride for CLA's alumni board. Every year thousands of students earn their degrees and simultaneously step into the ranks of our alumni. Far too often, though, the cost of graduation regalia prevents students from attending their own commencement ceremony. As students reach the finish line of their undergraduate education, reality sets in and many prepare to repay student loans whether or not they have secured a job. For some, purchasing a cap and gown—attire required in order to attend Commencement ceremonies—isn't in the cards....
The Department of Criminal Justice warmly welcomes new faculty member, Assistant Professor, Dr. Melissa E. Noel. Dr. Noel comes to us after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at American University in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology. She is a criminologist whose work focuses on the intersections of race, gender, transitions to adulthood, and parental incarceration. Utilizing qualitative research methods, her ongoing research examines parental incarceration among justice involved emerging adults and strength-based perspectives within incarcerated families. Her...
When Michael Idriss, CLA '19, sat down in the summer of 2016 with Professor Jay Lockenour, then the director of Temple's History Department, he discussed a noble vision
