The Criminal Justice Department is very excited to announce that graduate students Trinh Nguyen and Rachel Bleiman are co-authors with Associate Professor Aunhsul Rege on the forthcoming paper, "A social engineering awareness and training workshop for STEM students and practitioners." The paper has been accepted for publication at the 10th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) to be held at Princeton University.
This is Nguyen's first publication! This was the first training workshop that Dr. Rege had put together and Nguyen and Bleiman were instrumental in...
The Criminal Justice Department is very excited to announce that Alyssa Mendlein and Trinh Nguyen are co-authors with Dr. Rege on the forthcoming paper "Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Through a Multidisciplinary OSINT Course Project". The paper has been accepted for publication at the 2020 American Society of Engineering Education's Annual Conference and Education.This is Alyssa's first publication as primary author! Congratulations to all of you!
By: Nick Santangelo
March is Women's History Month, and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) will be celebrating some of our women who've made (or are making) history all month long. We got a jump start by closing out Black History Month with a story about an alumna who earned a historic promotion. With March now underway, we're continuing that effort by highlighting Brittany Bronson, CLA '14, who was honored as a Future Leader at the Philadelphia Inquirer's inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Awards Gala this past November.
Work with Purpose
A former sociology major...
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Temple University's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History works to inspire curiosity and interest in American Jewish History. I'm here to talk about the people that learn from Feinstein's efforts. I'm one of those people.
My name is Sigal Felber and I am interning with Feinstein this semester. I am new to Philadelphia, and when I thought about how to make my four-month stint here meaningful, I knew that I wanted to intern with an organization that matched my interests. A center for the study of American Jewish life seemed like...
Being the first to accomplish something means not just doing something great for yourself, but paving the way for others to follow in your footsteps. For former criminal justice major Laina Stevens, CLA '04, that's exactly what happened when she became the first African American woman to be given a position of rank at Pennsylvania's Upper Darby Police Department last October.
"I'm glad that I can be an inspiration for other people, especially the youth that I come in contact with while I'm doing my job," says Sergeant Laina Stevens. "As part of my job, I'm a guest...
On Tuesday, February 20, 2020, Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman testified before Philadelphia City Council on solutions to overcoming barriers to victim services for those injured in street assaults in Philadelphia. She reported on the early findings from her study that examined help-seeking behavior by individuals represented in the victim-offender overlap.
Criminal Justice professors Steven Belenko and Caterina Roman were recently featured in The Temple News for the research on opioid treatment options on people who were incarcerated and are at risk for relapse. As part of the research, people who were incarcerated and live in North Philadelphia will be linked with Temple's Recovery Utilizing Scientific Treatment Clinic to receive treatment, while those in West Philadelphia will be offered preexisting treatment options and reentry services in the area. Read the full article titled Temple professors study opioid...
"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...
