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...
Kathryn Lockwood is a Senior Psychology major with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience. Throughout the past four semesters, she has worked as a research assistant in the Adaptive Memory Lab. Under the guidance of Dr. Vishnu (Deepu) Murty, Kathryn joined the Fright Night Project, which was an ongoing project looking into researching memory and fear. With this project, she learned how to hand code episodic and semantic memory details using autobiographical indexing guidelines, and she familiarized herself with R and MATLAB to analyze data and create data frames. After working on...
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.
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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...
This fall, after a yearlong hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Homecoming and the many traditions that come with it are set to return to colleges and universities
Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice is inviting applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship to support the development of early-career scholars from diverse backgrounds with particular attention to historically underrepresented groups on the professorial faculties of U.S. colleges and universities.The deadline for applications is October 31, 2021. Review the fellowship's full details.
Master of Public Policy (MPP) student Jaelen Buxton-Punch has started a new position as a policy analyst at Bellevue Strategies.Bellevue Strategies is a government relations, advocacy and strategic communications firm. Buxton-Punch is expected to receive her MPP in spring 2021.Congratulations on your new role, Jaelen!
Master of Public Policy student Mark Kilimnik, CLA '20, has started a new position as a trade specialist with the United States Commercial Service (CS). As part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, CS offers companies a full range of expertise in international trade.Kilimnik is expected to receive his Master of Public Policy in spring 2022.Congratulations, Mark!
As students explore the historic streets of Philadelphia, one professor is working to remind everyone to venture off the beaten path. According to Seth Bruggeman,
Maybe you can't remember what it was like before. Maybe the "before" was before your time. Or maybe you have some vague memories of it. Whatever the case, you'll now have to learn and define what the "after" of the United States' war in Afghanistan will be like.
This Friday, September 17 at 2 p.m., the History and Political Science departments will engage College of Liberal Arts students in a Teach-In about Afghanistan. If you join the Zoom, you'll hear from and interact with Political Science Professor Artemy Kalinovsky about 40 years of war and foreign intervention in the...
Economics Associate Professor Catherine Maclean has been selected to co-organize (with Vanderbilt University's Kitt Carpenter) the fall 2021 Health Economics meetings for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Temple University Geography and Urban Studies Professor Lee Hachadoorian will moderate Pennsylvania Redistricting with Geographers: Communities of Interest Criteria and Beyond on Monday, Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. as part of the American Association of Geographers' (AAG) Redistricting Panel Series.Redistricting to preserve geographically defined communities of interest (COI) is recognized as a way to constrain gerrymandering and ensure that legislatures are truly representative. However, communities of interest are just one of many important criteria in redistricting.The panel will...
Meet Temple's inaugural cohort of Cecil B. Moore ScholarsThe Scholars are the first to be selected for a new program that creates an academic pathway from hig
This semester the Economics Department is hosting several internationally known speakers for virtual seminars. All the seminars will be on Fridays from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and can be accessed via Zoom. Please check out our calendar for the complete list of presentations.
Master of Public Policy Accelerated Degree student Madison Nardy has co-written and researched a new report titled, How the Pandemic Response Has Failed Young People and What We Need to Thrive along with two other members of the Community Legal Services Youth Action Board.Nardy followed up this report with a Generocity article titled, "How the pandemic response has failed young people: Unemployment, caregiving and education."Congratulations on your publications, Madison!
Philosophy Professor Kristin Gjesdal has published a new volume on women philosophers with Oxford University Press. The volume, co-edited with University of Sydney Professor Dalia Nassar, is called Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition. Dr. Nassar and Dr. Gjesdal have written an extensive introduction to the volume and to each of the nine philosophers featured. Anna Ezekiel has translated the original works.
Economics alumna Amanda Olsen, CLA '21, recently presented Adapt or Die? Integration and Team Performance in the National Basketball Association at the European Sports Economics Association via Zoom. The presentation was based on research Olsen and Economics Professor Michael Leeds started in Olsen's senior year.
In his role as an intern with Rebuilding American Values and IUPAT District Council 21, Master of Public Policy student Tyler Honschke had the opportunity to present to the Pennsylvania Misclassification Task Force in August. View the presentation.Congratulations on your great work, Tyler!
