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
Global pandemic? Zoom classes? A mostly empty campus? None of this was any problem for the College of Liberal Arts Class of 2021!
OK, we get it. These were monumental challenges that altered your final few semesters as CLA undergrads in ways none of us saw coming when you first set foot on our North Philly campus. Life, however, is often difficult and unpredictable, and each one of you proved adept at overcoming such challenges.
That calls for celebration! Because we just can't wait to honor every one of your accomplishments during this week's Commencement...
We're just over one week away from the Class of 2021 Commencement on Friday, May 7! Before we look forward to all the amazing things this class will do as graduates, let's take a moment to look back on some of the amazing things they've done as students.
Yesterday, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) recognized dozens of outstanding 2021 graduates for winning Baccalaureate Awards. During a virtual ceremony, CLA Dean Richard Deeg congratulated the winners.
"I think it fair to say that all of you are bound together by a joy of thinking about everything," said Dean Deeg...
Lila Berman wins the 2021 Organization of American Historians’ prestigious Ellis W. Hawley Prize for her book The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution(link is external) (Princeton University Press, 2020). Congratulations Lila!
You can read below the official OAH statement:
Berman’s book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Princeton University Press) reveals how modern philanthropists have used structures and...
This time last year, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) was hosting our annual Teaching Awards virtually for what we hoped would be the first and final time. Instead, the ongoing pandemic necessitated another virtual ceremony in 2021. The accomplishments of CLA's faculty during the 2020-2021 academic year, however, are perhaps all the more impressive considering the challenges both students and faculty continued to overcome.
CLA Dean Richard Deeg congratulated 2021's winners and highlighted some of the criteria that earned them their awards.
Hamil Pearsall,...
Master of Public Policy (MPP) student Brittany Van Strien was recently offered a position as a Research Analyst for the Legislative Policy and Research Office with PA House of Representatives Democrats.
Van Strien has previously worked as a Communications and Policy Coordinator as well as a Constituent Services Advisor with the PA House Democratic Caucus. She is expected to receive her MPP in Fall 2021. We are excited for her to start this new chapter in Harrisburg!
Congratulations, Brittany!
Ted Maust, CLA '18, is putting his master of arts degree in public history to good use as the director of Elfreth's Alley Museum. A National Historic Landmark, Elfreth's
