Philadelphia has been called The City of Neighborhoods and the smallest big city, and for good reason. Temple University College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students get to enjoy all the opportunities inherent in going to school in one of the country's largest cities while still feeling like they're part of a tight community. This semester, some students chose to make an impact on that community through a book drive at nearby Tree House Books, which gives out free books to North Philly kids.
This semester's book drive got started when CLA Enrollment Management Coordinator Darvin...
By: Nick Santangelo
Election Day 2019 has come and gone, but the nice thing about elections is that there's always another one on the way. And when Election Day 2020—and every election thereafter—comes along, the College of Liberal Arts would love to see a larger number of female candidates on ballots across the country. To that end, the Political Science Department's 2019 Featherman Lecture welcomed University of Virginia Professor Jennifer Lawless on campus to discuss why women often don't run for office and what happens when they do run.
Dr. Lawless opened...
By: Nick Santangelo
Election Day is here! While it might be tempting to turn your attention to the 2020 presidential election, several important races are taking place right now. Whether you're registered to vote in Philadelphia or somewhere else, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) urges you to get informed and get to the polls. Pennsylvania residents can check out the Committee of Seventy's website to review their ballot, and Philadelphia residents can find their voting place here.
But before you head out to the polls, you might still have a few questions about why...
Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman was recently featured in four different news articles. The topics include gun violence in Philadelphia and reducing drug-related crime in Kensington. See below for each article:
- Comments to Philly.com columnist Mike Newall on availability of guns and shootings of children
- Fear of crime and Trick-or-Treating
- The Temple News highlights new grant creating a research partnership between the PA Office of the Attorney General and Department of Criminal Justice
- Comments on the importance of studying the impact of...
By: Nick Santangelo
The College of Liberal Arts prepares students for their future lives and careers by exposing them to new perspectives and teaching them how to ask the right questions and think critically about the world around them. For many of our students, experiential learning is one of the best ways to build that skill set. And one of the college's myriad ways for students to learn outside the classroom is through the Intellectual Heritage Program's study abroad opportunities.
Intellectual Heritage (IH) began offering study abroad trips four years ago as...
For Halloween this year and as a preview for Dr. Terry Rey's first ever Zombie Apocalypse course, to be held during the Spring 2020 semester, members of the Religion Graduate Student Association (RELGSA) organized a zombie costume contest. Dr. Rey gave a quick lecture on the origins of zombies, both the word and the Haitian belief of zombification in Vodou, while students enjoyed free candy.
A recent publication provides new evidence of drivers influencing the spatial distribution of invasive disease species. Traditionally, scientists have used environmental data such as temperature, precipitation or vegetation to predict the area occupied by a given species. The paper, written by members from three colleges at Temple University, including Daniel Wiese (first author), Victor Gutierrez (senior author) and Kevin Henry from the GUS department, uses freely available data sets to show that in addition to environmental variables, neighborhood conditions...
By: Nick Santangelo
The spookiest time of the year is here, but College of Liberal Arts students don't have to leave campus and go door-to-door dressed as Spider-Man, El from Stranger Things or Pennywise from Stephen King's It to celebrate Halloween this year. For the seventh year in a row, Psychology Assistant Professor of Instruction David Waxler is holding his annual Halloween talk tonight, Oct. 30, at 6 p.m. in Basement Room 035 of Weiss Hall.
Co-sponsored by The Undergraduate Neuroscience Society and Nu Rho Psi (the Neuroscience honors society), this...
by Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi
October 28
By: Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi
The College of Liberal Arts' Professional Development team recently held its annual Internship Fair, giving students the chance to network with dozens of top employers and find internship opportunities. After having attended the fair, Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi (CLA students from Professor Gabe Wettach's English Career Seminar) share what they learned.
Lauren Steinberger | English Major | Senior
CLA Helps You Prepare
The welcoming atmosphere made me feel at ease. As...
By: Nick Santangelo
Perception can be a funny thing. For instance, Dave Lambert, CLA '83, says a common perception many would-be college students and their parents perceive studying the liberal arts as being akin to studying art appreciation. By that he means an education in the liberal arts is misperceived as being ill-suited for producing graduates who can experience successful, lucrative careers. But the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) sociology PhD graduate can speak from experience about how that's simply not the case.
"The thing about sociology, especially...
By: Nick Santangelo
It took a village, or, more precisely, a city. But for Anne Long, CLA '81 and '89, it also took a university and a lot of self-drive. Long, the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) 2019 Gallery of Success winner, describes herself as self-made, Philly-made and Temple-made. But these days, she's giving back to the "village," helping maximize opportunities for CLA students as the Board of Visitors' Chairperson since 2014.
Long credits the liberal arts with teaching students how to ask the right questions, how to learn and how to solve problems. They're skills...
On Monday October 14th by the Bell Tower, Temple Owls celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day. Sponsored in part by the Department of Religion, this event celebrated the original inhabitants of North America and it coincided with the opening of a contemporary Lenape art exhibit at the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) in Gladfelter Hall. Read the full article in the Temple News for more information on the art exhibit and Monday's event.
By: Audrey Kurtyan
On October 3, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Office of Alumni Relations, partnered with the CLA Center for Professional Development, hosted the Leonard and Helena Mazur Alumni Networking Event at The Logan Hotel in Philadelphia.
As a senior global studies and French major with pretty undefined career goals, I've recently been interested in "informational interviews," in which you meet with someone who has a career you're interested in and simply ask them questions, listen to their story and be open to any advice they might have for you. I...
Editor-in-Chief of the 84,000 Project, Dr. James Gentry visited Temple on October 10th to discuss the project's origins, mission, procedures, and progress, as well as the challenges it has faced. This paramount project was created so that everyone may have free online access to Buddhist scriptures that have been translated into English and other modern languages.
Rachel Bleiman, a Criminal Justice senior working with Professor Aunshul Rege on her NSF CAREER grant, has been selected to participate in the undergraduate track at the upcoming 2019 NSF SaTC PI Meeting. She will present her work on social engineering and security and receive travel support for up to $1,500.
Congratulations, Rachel!
Please join us in congratulating Criminal Justice Professor Jerry Ratcliffe, who has been selected to receive the prestigious Joan McCord award from the ASC Division of Experimental Criminology/Academy of Experimental Criminology. The Joan McCord Award recognizes distinguished experimental contributions to criminology and criminal justice. Award recipients must have conducted significant experimental research that is in the tradition of Joan McCord and has important implications for policy and practice. Dr. Ratcliffe will be giving the Joan McCord Award lecture at on Wednesday...
Josh Lukin taught full-time in Temple University's First-Year Writing Program from 2003-2019, where he earned five Outstanding Teacher citations and was inducted into the Instructors' Hall of Fame. He also taught literature courses in the history of criticism, contemporary global fiction, noir fiction and film, and social issues in literature.
His scholarly interests were U.S. fiction since 1945 and disability studies. Josh published articles, reviews and interviews in such venues as Journal of Modern Literature, MLN, minnesota review, Twentieth-Century Literature...
The College of Liberal Arts' Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) has released a new report in conjunction with a recent National Science Foundation funded three-day Sustainable Urban Systems workshop held at Temple and hosted by CSC. The report highlights the role of infrastructure in shaping equity and well-being across the urban-rural gradient, the need for research into the interconnections between and across urban and rural communities, and the necessity of "knowledge co-production" in sustainability research inclusive of a range of expertise and voices.
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One of our graduate students, Shahid Nigro, was nominated for an award by a former student of his. Shahid will be recognized with the other nominees during halftime of Temple's Men's Soccer team's Most Valuable Professor game. The game will be held at the Temple Sports Complex located at 1300 Master St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 on Tuesday October 1st, 2019. Keep up the good work Shahid!
Congratulations to graduate student Joshua Cutts who has just published his article "Herbert Marcuse and False Needs," in the Journal Social Theory and Practice.
