When Adjoa B. Asamoah, CLA '98, EDU '01, was 9 years old, her father Kwame, CLA '99, took her on a trip to Ghana, where he was born. In Elmina, on the south coast, they
Failure was not an option for Shane Flanagan, CLA '18. At least, not in the end it wasn't.
A Classics major, Flanagan was turning in papers late, missing classes and failing courses two years into his time at Temple University. Eventually, he had no choice but to step away from school.
Leave of Absence
When Flanagan first showed signs of struggling, it perplexed one of his professors, Alex Gottesman, who had seen that Flanagan was capable of academic excellence.
Flanagan, however, was struggling through some personal problems. Flanagan also found himself...
Joseph Margolis was a leading American philosopher, famous especially for his contributions to aesthetics and pragmatism. A veteran of the Second World War, he taught at numerous universities in the United States and Canada and was invited to lecture throughout Europe, in Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. Since 1991, he held the Laura H. Carnell Chair of Philosophy at Temple University. He was the author of more than 30 books in philosophy.
Criminal Justice Professor Jennifer Wood has been recognized by the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association has recognized Dr. Wood for her participation on their Board of Directors, and for her leadership in organizing the 2021 Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference. Read the full article post honoring Dr. Wood!
Students usually want three things out of internships: experience, knowledge and payments. While every internship will provide the first two, it's that third item that can be, well, hit or miss. No one wants to work for free, of course, but of even more concern is that many students simply cannot work for free.
Enter the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) Pathways to Professions program.
Get Paid for Unpaid Internships
Pathways to Professions gives students $2,000 stipends to undertake otherwise unpaid summer internships that are meaningful and valuable to them. The...
Congratulations to Ilan Hughes, graduate student from the University of Toronto, for his Edwin H. Sherman Family Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship in Force and Diplomacy-winning paper Flying too Close to the Sun? Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: New Laws Required.
When the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) wanted an independent assessment of the impact of major transportation projects on minority and low-income communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, they invited students in Temple University's Master of Public Policy (MPP) and Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) programs to conduct the study.
As the federally recognized Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the nine-county region, DVRPC has overseen transportation planning and implementation in the region...
Christion Smith graduated from the Professional Science Master's in Geographic Information Systems in May 2021 after completing his capstone project with the Economy League on Stop and Frisk in Philadelphia's Changing Neighborhoods. Upon graduation, Smith started a new position as a data analyst at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO). The DAO created a Public Data Dashboard, which provides the public with transparent, comprehensive and centralized data on the Philadelphia criminal justice system. Congratulations, Christion!
Two LAS majors were recognized for their superlative academic performance with awards by the Pan American Association of Philadelphia:
Matheus Fronza (double-major in Latin American Studies and Economics) was awarded the 2021 Alejandro Reyes Scholar Award ($5, 000) to be used for his senior year expenses at Temple this year, and Ivyanna Colón-Greider (double-major in Latin American Studies and Spanish) received the graduating senior 2021 Janice Bond Senior Award ($250).
Professor Ron Webb (Latin American Studies) and Rafael Arismendi served as Co-...
"People don't realize that students may have catastrophic needs," says Ronnyjane Goldsmith, CLA '68, '70, '81. "In my case, I didn't know I had to pay for books. I didn't have any money to buy books. I didn't know what to do. I think people don't realize that some students are just getting by, pandemic or not."
Common Cents
In 2011, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) alumna three times over created Temple University's 57 Cent Fund, named after Hattie May Wiatt, a young parishioner of Temple's founder, Russel Conwell. As the story goes, when Wiatt passed at five years old...
Today is the day, Owls! Today, Temple University will do something it hasn't been safely able to do in far too long (two years, to be exact). Commencement is here! With the Class of 2020 ready to join the Class of 2021 in walking at Geasey Field today at 2:30 p.m. EST, one soon-to-be College of Liberal Arts '21 alumnus will chronicle his class' journey in a performance.
English and Classics double major David Jones and fellow Temple student Rushil Vishwanathan have collaborated to bring students and their (virtual) guests Unity. Part music, part poetry, Unity was...
Billy Mitchell is a second-year doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience program at Temple University. Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Chelsea Helion, he works in the Social & Affective Neuroscience Lab, which studies the neural and psychological underpinnings of self-regulation processes to gain insight towards the factors that may govern adaptive or dysfunctional perceptions, judgments and habits.
Mitchell is interested in researching neural representations of emotion and emotion regulation tendencies as well as the regulation of social...
by Mathieu E. Wimmer, Hannah Mayberry and Charlotte Bavley
May 07
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a major public health crisis representing a massive societal burden. Approximately 65 million individuals are exposed to opioids annually, and a substantial proportion of patients go on to be diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD). Why are some people more susceptible to develop OUD? How can we improve preventative measures and available therapeutics to treat OUD?
In the Memory, Epigenetics, and Addiction Laboratory, we strive to better understand the neurobiology of OUD as well as the mechanisms underlying addiction vulnerability. Using...
In addition to being an Honors student, George Emory is a junior Psychology major with a minor in Statistics and Data Science. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Deborah Drabick, he is a Research Assistant in the Child Health and Behavior Lab. Emory assists with conducting literature searches, data analysis, creating project materials and problem-solving in research protocol development.
One aspect of the lab's work is the Coping Power program, which evaluates potential treatment moderators of an intervention for youth with conduct problems....
Susanna Nemes is an accomplished executive, researcher and clinician with 30 years of experience working with underserved populations. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Harvard University and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Temple University's College of Liberal Arts. While at Temple, she studied with Thomas E. Shipley, Jr., a former Psychology faculty member for whom the Shipley Research Award fund was established.
Dr. Nemes founded Social Solutions International Inc. to improve the health and well-being of...
One thing that I have always enjoyed about being an instructor is standing in front of a room full of students. In-person teaching can be part stage performance, part stand-up routine and part mind-reading act as you scan the faces of the students in the class. Do they understand? Am I going too fast or too slow? Of course, all of this changed last spring when we were forced to abandon in-person classes for online ones. For those of us who spent many years developing our classes and classroom teaching styles, this was a scary change; at least, it was for me. With the end of...
Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a national campaign occurring in March of every year with the goal of promoting public interest in neuroscience. The event occurs worldwide and brings together researchers, educators and students who host interactive lectures and activities for various institutions, such as K-12 classrooms, museums and libraries.
Within Temple University's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), professors Mansi Shah and David Waxler have been spearheading yearly BAW events for K-12 students. This year,...
Jennifer Hall, Class of 2021, is the living embodiment of "Perseverance Conquers," taking the initiative in turning her disrupted study abroad experience into
"When are you graduating?" It's a question every doctoral student (and even many part-time master's degree students) hears over and over again. The answer is always that you'll graduate when your studies are finished. This week, we're celebrating those grad students who are finishing their studies and joining the Class of 2021.
While this may just be another step in a lifetime of academic research for you, it's a big one. And it's worth taking a moment to celebrate the milestone. You persevered through COVID-19 and reached the finish line. Now, let's remember how some...
Kaya Jones, CLA '20, knows a thing or two about blazing a path. When she was a senior, the journalism and political science major was one-third of Temple's first-ever all