Every year, prior to spring Commencement, the College of Liberal Arts announces the year's Baccalaureate Award winners and a ceremony is held in their honor. Separate from Latin Honors, a strictly GPA-based distinction, Baccalaureate Awards are CLA's highest honors given to graduates who have exhibited dedication to the academic and social life of their departments and to the College of Liberal Arts. The following students received this honor at the 2022 Spring Graduation ceremony.Cecelia Curran won the Chief Inspector Vincent J. Greene, Sr. Memorial Award in Criminal Justice...
Juneteenth often serves as a time for discussions about racism and the ways it continues to affect American society. This year, the holiday also nearly aligns with the
Rebecca Alpert's connection to Temple University extends back to her childhood. Her mother attended the university for two years during the Great Depression. Although she didn't graduate, she shared the good word of the university with her daughter.
Rebecca eventually attended Temple, earning a doctorate from the Department of Religion. She also was among the first women in America ordained as a rabbi at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1976.
After working as a rabbi for a number of years, Rebecca chose a new career path in academia. She returned to Temple in...
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The Smart City PHL team at the City of Philadelphia works with departments to understand whether different technology programs can help solve issues and develops pilot programs with various technologies. Smart City PHL is part of the Innovation Management team in the city's Office of Innovation and Technology that works with departments to come up with innovative solutions with the ultimate goal of improving city processes, training, and spaces.
As the Smart City Coordinator, my role...
Assistant Professor Christopher Swann, a Temple alumnus (MA, 1981; Ph.D. 1997), has been doubly honored by Ivey Publishing. Ivey announced that his case study, "Netflx: Will Content be Enough," coauthored with Mary Kelly (Villanova), was the best-selling case of the year. Professor Swann also received Ivey Publishing's Best New Author Award. This award is presented annually to the author who has published their first Ivey Publishing case within the last three years and who the highest total case usage over this period.
When the College of Liberal Arts called for new General Education (GenEd) course proposals, Sean Yom and Lee-Ann Chae thought it was the perfect opportunity to introduce
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I work currently as a Compliance Auditor for the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, which has a footprint that includes Pennsylvania, DC, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, West Virginia, and parts of North Carolina. My daily responsibilities include conducting audits on public works projects to ensure contractors are compliant with applicable statutes and that workers are being paid the rate they are owed. Beyond this, I do research into policy developments that are in the interest of...
Come each spring, feelings of pride, joy and accomplishment float in abundance through the air for all to feel as our graduating College of Liberal Arts Owls prepare to spread their wings and take flight.
For a select handful of graduates, there's an extra cause for celebration during this time.
Every year, prior to spring Commencement, the College of Liberal Arts announces the year's Baccalaureate Award winners and a ceremony is held in their honor. Separate from Latin Honors, a strictly GPA-based distinction, Baccalaureate Awards are CLA's highest honors given to...
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I recently joined LISC Philadelphia as the Program Officer for Equitable Neighborhoods three weeks ago! Since I am still relatively new, my day-to-day looks like learning about my portfolio of work which includes initiatives aimed at addressing safety and justice, placemaking and placekeeping, and capacity building. LISC functions as an intermediary so my role is to partner with community leaders to ensure they have the resources they need to address intersectional issues impacting neighborhoods and...
This year, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) was excited to celebrate our Teaching Award recipients in person for the first time since 2019. Last month, CLA faculty and graduate student awardees gathered in Shusterman Hall where their awards were conferred and celebrated."The CLA excellence in teaching awards are presented annually to outstanding instructors who positively impact students through innovative courses and supportive practices, inside and outside of the classroom", said Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Hiram Aldarondo."This year's winners have...
Kaitlin Zinn is a Psychology major with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience. The summer after her sophomore year, she became a Research Assistant in Dr. Lauren Ellman's laboratory, examining genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the development of schizophrenia and related disorders. As part of her work in the lab, Kaitlin studied research articles, participated in weekly lab meetings, and recruited participants for two studies aimed at developing new mental health screening measures. More recently, Kaitlin joined the Temple University Eating Disorders program (...
Temple's Psychology and Neuroscience Program and Youth Education and Maternal Support Association (YEMSA) Co-Host Brain Awareness Week 2022 In-person Brain Awareness Week is a national campaign in March of every year that has the goal of promoting public interest in neuroscience. Events occur worldwide and bring together researchers, educators, and students who host interactive lectures and activities across a variety of venues, including K-12 classrooms, museums, and libraries. This year, the Youth Education and Maternal Support Association (YEMSA; a student organization at...
Gina Williams graduated from Temple University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. For the past 5 years she has been working at Vanguard, a large investment management firm based in Malvern, PA. She became interested in applying her Psychology background to the business industry after interning as a Recruiter at PeopleShare during her junior year. Gina had little financial knowledge prior to starting at Vanguard, but her new employer was willing to help her build her financial acumen from the ground up. After obtaining the appropriate licenses, Gina started her...
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Rasheed J. Atwater, a doctoral student in Africology, has been awarded the 2022 SAGE Molefi Kete Asante Award, the top graduate prize in Africology at Temple University. Created in honor of Molefi Kete Asante, the founder of the Journal of Black Studies, by SAGE Publishing, one of the nation's largest social science publishers, the prize is made possible by a $100,000 endowment to the College of Liberal Arts for the Department of Africology and African American Studies. Dr. Asante says, "The SAGE Molefi Kete Asante Award recognizes the top student in the department based on...
Professor Sue Sullivan, who teaches courses in the Departments of Criminal Justice and Political Science, was featured on TRT World discussing the leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion related to abortion rights. Professor Sullivan addressed what the "likely" decision would mean to women across the country including the possibility of abortion being a criminal offense. Watch the TV clip from TRT World.
Temple Infant and Child Laboratory Imagine an ordinary bus stop that has morphed into a community playful learning space where families engage in puzzle making and word games while they wait. Or imagine a SEPTA bus pulling up to the stop, wrapped from the outside as a "Reading Express Bus" and decorated with reading games on the inside. These Playful Learning Landscapes are now a reality thanks to the work of Drs. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff (University of Delaware) who thought the science of learning could be baked into public spaces where families and children...
Please describe your organization and its mission.The Library of Congress is the largest library in the World. With its main location in Washington D.C. and a few branches around the world, the Library serves as the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home to the US Copyright Office. The Library preserves and houses millions of books, recordings, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and more.Please describe your position and what your day-to-day work looks like.I am a Congressional Service Analyst in the Congressional Research Section. The Research section is...
The end of the school year is always an important milestone, and as the spring semester ends, it is normal to reflect on the year gone by. For students and faculty alike, each semester finished is another step towards academic and professional goals. Some students may be rejoicing as they celebrate their hard-earned graduation, while other students may be just getting started as they mark the end of their very first year. Still others may be getting ready to start all over again during the summer semesters. As a faculty member, my annual spring ritual involves reviewing which...
Earlier this week, a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that established the right to abortion nearly
