"Black history in America is obviously American history," says Morgan State University Associate Professor MK Asante. "It's something that I acknowledge and celebrate all year, honestly. But it's about understanding what came before us, it's about understanding the past so we have a better understanding of where we are, where we're going. It's about legacy. It's about untold stories."
Prof. Asante (who's also a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker and recording artist) will give the keynote address today, Feb. 19, in the College of Liberal Arts' 17th annual...
By: James Duffy
Temple University political science senior Connor Graf decided fall 2019 was the right time to see where his degree could take him.
In his case, it took him to Pennsylvania's State Capitol building in Harrisburg, along with 12 other Temple students, all part of the Pennsylvania Capital Semester Program offered by Temple's Institute for Public Affairs and Temple University Harrisburg. Interning with the House State Government Committee and assigned to the Republican research staff, Graf had already worked directly with multiple House members,...
On February 4th, Dr. Jacqueline Vayntrub (Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University Divinity School) gave a fascinating short lecture on the function of poetry in the oracles of the prophet Ezekiel! Missed it? No worries! Just grab Dr. Vayntrub's book Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms to gain insight into the modern scholarly history of theorizing biblical poetry.
Criminal Justice Professor Steven Belenko was recently named Researcher of the Month by the College of Liberal Arts at Temple. Dr. Belenko's expertise is on drug abuse and crime, the impact of substance abuse in justice systems, drug policy, organizational change strategies to improve the implementation of addiction treatment and other health services for offenders. He recently received a four-year grant from the PA Department of Health to identify gaps in care and support services and facilitate linkage to community-based medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for people who have...
By: Meg KiernanObjects in motion tend to stay in motion. Students' time is precious and often occupied to the brim. And the College of Liberal Arts gets it.Last week, CLA hosted its first-ever Minors and Certificates Fair at Charles Library. The event was attended by faculty and staff from most CLA departments and a team of academic advisors. All of them were available to answer students' questions and guide their discovery of the possibilities surrounding the addition of a minor or certificate to their program of study. The fair's unequivocal appeal (taking the cake ahead of...
The Center for the Humanities at Temple University (CHAT) is hosting a Climate Speaker Series this semester. Alissa Jordan from the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania was the guest speaker on February 10th. Dr. Jordan's lecture was the result of over a year's worth of living in a Haitian village researching zombies.
By: Dr. Jason Chein, Temple University Neurocognition Laboratory
With smartphone apps and social media becoming such a ubiquitous part of teens' lives, there is a growing fear that spending so much time peering at screens and stuck in the online world may be having a harmful and lasting impact on our youth's psychological development. Lay media articles, pop culture books, online blogs, and television news programs are replete with claims regarding teens' diminishing abilities to think deeply and analytically, to maintain and pursue longer-term goals, to pay...
A key strength of the Psychology undergraduate curriculum is the range of course options available to students. The Psychology major is designed to provide a solid grounding in the main areas of the discipline while allowing students to gain more exposure to specific areas of psychology that are of interest to them. At the heart of our program are key learning objectives that reflect the knowledge and abilities that are promoted by our curriculum. A useful summary of these objectives was recently formulated by Professors Pamela Shapiro and David Waxler.
What Knowledge...
Hi Dr. Carroll! Tell me about your current position and what it involves.
Currently, I am "retired," but voluntarily contribute my professional services to veterans with substance use disorders seeking recovery at the Brooklyn VA Hospital several days each week. As a veteran myself, I feel obligated to be of service to my fellow veterans and to put to good use my 47 years of experience in treating addicted men and women. Twice a week, I lead therapy groups as I did for more than a decade at the VA before "retiring." I do this in two of the hospital's programs...
Ariana Davis is a senior Psychology major with a Spanish minor. Throughout the last two years, she has worked in the Child Health and Behavior Lab as a research assistant. Under the guidance of Dr. Deborah Drabick, Ariana administers questionnaires and IQ assessments to participants of the Coping Power program and helps facilitate Coping Power sessions. The Coping Power program evaluates potential treatment moderators of the child Coping Power intervention among youth with conduct problems. Ariana is using data from this study to complete her Honors thesis on generalized...
The +1 Master in Psychological Research program offers Temple University undergraduate students the opportunity to earn a bachelor's and master's degree in just 5 years. It provides a research-intensive experience, advanced coursework, and professional development opportunities to students who intend to pursue a research-focused doctoral degree in a variety of psychology disciplines.
In May 2019, the first graduating cohort comprised of 3 students: Jairo Colon, Rachel Carpenter, and Ross Divers. Jairo is currently a Visit Coach/Family Resource Specialist at Justice...
The AML uses cognitive neuroscience techniques to examine how neuromodulators during motivational and affective states influence memory and decision-making. Our lab performs research characterizing memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes during states of reward, novelty, and threat in healthy individuals. By studying behavior and neural systems we can indirectly assess how neurochemical systems (dopamine, norepinephrine, etc.) influence memory-related processes. Further, we use mechanistic models developed in healthy adults to better understand neurodevelopment...
Daniel Moriarity is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program with a concentration in quantitative methods. He works in the Mood and Cognition Lab, under the guidance of Dr. Lauren Alloy. This lab studies the cognitive, psychosocial, developmental, and neurobiological factors which impact the onset and maintenance of mood disorders. More specifically, Daniel investigates an immunocognitive model of mood disorders, evaluating if cognitive vulnerabilities amplify risk for heightened inflammatory physiology in ways that confer risk for mood symptoms. He is also...
by Africology and African American Studies Department
February 04
Africology and African American Studies faculty member Timothy Welbeck gives his recommendations on media, films and books that represent the African American experience in honor of Black History. Read the full article, What to read, watch and see for Black History Month in Temple Now.
By: Nick Santangelo
Nisha Parekh, CLA '06, misses college. Maybe that's why she keeps on coming back. Well, part of why, at least. The former criminal justice major and psychology minor was on campus last September to recruit students for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) internships and entry-level work roles and will return tomorrow, February 5, for another recruiting effort.
The Campus Recruitment Team Lead for NGA, Parekh sees a lot of reasons why College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students stand out in the job market. As a CLA alumna and a seasoned...
By: Jasmine Lamb
During summer 2019, I had the fantastic opportunity to intern as a Legislative Fellow for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. I worked for the Minority Chair of the House Finance Committee, Representative Jake Wheatley Jr., and had the chance to sit in on committee meetings, write bill analyses for the committee, draft co-sponsorship memoranda, and draft and propose an original bill. Below are my six top pieces of advice for students seeking an internship.
Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
It's easy to fall in love with an internship...
As an undergraduate at Temple University, you are allowed to complete up to two GenEd courses through a single department. The Religion Department offers courses that fulfill FIVE different GenEd requirements: US Society, Human Behavior, Race and Diversity, Global/World Society, and Arts. Students were able to stop by our booth during Temple's first-ever GenEd Fair, held in the new Charles Library in October 2019. Students who stopped by learned more about the classes we offer and experienced a virtual tour of Hagia Sophia.
By: Nick Santangelo
What will you do after graduation? For most students, the answer is to put that degree to work and get a job. For others, the answer is to build on that degree by furthering their education with an advanced degree. But for still others, there's a way to build on what they've learned and put their degrees to work by giving back to society.
It's called a year of service, and Jillian Eller, CLA '18, will be part of a group that visits campus tomorrow, January 30, to talk about it with students from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Anderson Hall, Room 1221. An...
By: Nick Santangelo
It's not every day that someone releases a novel that gets compared to the work of writers like Tana French and Dennis Lehane and hailed as one of the most anticipated novels of 2020 by the media. But that's exactly what College of Liberal Arts English and Creative Writing Associate Professor Liz Moore accomplished earlier this month with Long Bright River.
Professor Moore's fourth novel, Long Bright River, received high praise from publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and O, the Oprah Magazine. Readers have also...
