Congratulations to recent philosophy prize winners! Graduating philosophy majors Brigit Andersson and Jebediah Taylor jointly won the Ira Lawrence Award for outstanding performance in the philosophy major.
Graduating philosophy major John Harris was awarded the Thomas Meyer Memorial Award for community-building activities among philosophy undergraduates.
The POWER InternshipThis past spring, POWER Interns produced two new podcasts. "Reflections" is an educational podcast about body positivity and self-love and how those concepts actually work in real life. In "The Lockdown of Women's Choice," POWER Interns examine the state of abortion access and misinformation in America. Tune in here.VOICESVOICES recently produced "About Me," a film where young people explored their personalities, identities and quirks! What's POPPYNThis past spring, POPPYN completed their 27th episode "Philly Youth and the Arts" featuring local young...
An issue memo from the Center on Regional Politics, "Southeast Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth Budget," shows Pennsylvania's southeast counties contribute more revenues than they receive in appropriations from the State General Fund. The Southeast consists of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. The report also documents the shrinking size of the State General Fund as a proportion of the State's Operating Budget, and it provides detail on grants for courts, hospitals, and other programs, not included in previous analyses. Read the full study.
The Criminal Justice Department is excited to announce that Professor Steve Belenko has been nominated for the Science Giants Award for Excellence in Drug Court Research & Evaluation award by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP)!
This prestigious honor acknowledges researchers or evaluators who have made outstanding contributions to the science and practices of treatment courts. Special emphasis is placed on distinguished scholars who have made foundational contributions in establishing the effectiveness of treatment courts and/or identifying...
By: Nick Santangelo
Tony Perry, CLA '12, chose Temple University because he felt "a sense of community" as soon as he stepped on campus.
"That was really an important factor for me," says Perry. "You felt like you were a part of it, that the university was ingrained inside of what made that section of Philadelphia what it truly is. And I think the community surrounding Temple benefited, and I think the students attending Temple benefited."
Maybe it's no surprise, then, that the political science major has ended up working for another community,...
Temple University's Criminal Justice undergraduate students excelled over the last year. Rachel Wolfman was awarded the Criminal Justice Excellence Award, Michael Sylvanovich was awarded the Criminal Justice Service Award and Enrique Melendez won the Criminal Justice Phoenix Award. The prestigious Doris Grabosky Award in Criminal Justice and the Chief Inspector Vincent J. Greene, Sr. Memorial Award in Criminal Justice went to Talia Lasane and Peyton Andrews, respectively. Finally, the Michael V. Gallagher Memorial Award in Criminal Justice was awarded to Derek Weiss....
By: Nick Santangelo
For most College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students, college is the first real opportunity to live out their stories on their own terms. These stories are written by trying new things, finding passions and developing new skills. But the stories don't stop being written after commencement, and, for some alumni, that's both figuratively and literally true.
Take Andrew Katz, CLA '15, an English major who in 2018 published his first novel, The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline & Halfway House for Orphaned Girls. Not "just another vampire story," Gideon...
On Friday May 17, our department chair Professor Terry Rey gave a talk at L'École normale supérieure in Paris, France. Professor Rey's talk was a part of Tepsis theory workshops held by Centre Maurice Halbwachs. The Theme of the workshop was "Quoi faire de la religion? (What to do with religion?)" and Professor Rey's talk was titled "Qu'est-ce que le capital religieux ? Sur une déconnexion transatlantique d'un concept théorique clé (What is the religious capital? On a transatlantic disconnection of a key theoretical concept)". You can view the full journal...
Our doctoral candidate Adam Koontz has been appointed as an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN. Congratulations!
By: Nick Santangelo
The College of Liberal Arts is proud to announce that one of our professors has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the second year in a row! This year, Philosophy Department Chair and Professor Miriam Solomon won a Guggenheim Fellowship that she'll use for a research project in philosophy of psychiatry, titled "Evidence and Values in the DSM 5.x."
The project will examine the process and criteria used to revise categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association's and make recommendations for...
On April 22, Temple University hosted a celebration of the creative talents of formerly and currently incarcerated artists and musicians. The event was a collaboration between Temple's chapter of Petey Greene and and FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums). The panelists included Blak Rapp Madusa, Jimmy Dennis and Luis "Suave" Gonzalez, who reflected on the role of arts and mass incarceration, followed by a Q&A and live performances. Music, poetry and interactive art pieces created by incarcerated artists in Pennsylvania were all included in the exhibition...
Criminal Justice graduate student Juwan Bennett, was recently featured in an article on billypenn.com. The article titled Homicide is the leading cause of death for young black men in Philly. What should we do? focuses on potential solutions for reducing the number of homicides of young black men in Philadelphia.
MFA candidate in fiction Trevor Lanuzza wins the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's 2019 Award for College Writers fiction prize for his story "nobody's a real mystic anymore."
The award, which debuted in 1991 and is the longest-running program of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, encourages college creative writers with support early in their writing careers. Almost 90 students from 60 colleges and universities submitted their work for the 2019 competition. The judges, who have sole discretion in making the selections, are sent...
Philadelphia is sometimes jokingly referred to as New York City's little brother. Temple University's home may be one of the country's largest cities and boasts world-class art, history, entertainment and employment opportunities. But, as Psychology and Africology and African American studies major Faithe Beadle puts it, Philly is less hectic than New York City, offering the chance to get involved without getting lost.
Beadle, having grown up in New York and North Jersey, first heard of Temple when her cousin transferred here during her senior year. When Beadle...
On April 28, the Criminal Justice Debate Team participated in a competition at Drexel University. Professor Cheryl Irons and students Jeremiah Baltimore, Lydia Anderson, Erin Houghton and Angel Rivera were all in attendance. The Temple Criminal Justice team placed in third, with only one point separating the top three teams. Baltimore took second place as an individual debater and our team won the Spirit Award, which went to the most cordial and disciplined team. The judges were unanimous in praising our team in this category.
Congratulations, team!
By: Nick SantangeloWhen history major Luke Tomczuk addresses his fellow 2019 College of Liberal Arts (CLA) graduates as a student commencement speaker Friday, it will be the culmination of a journey that he's been on virtually his entire life. Tomczuk's mother, brother and uncle are all Temple University alumni. But Tomczuk has an even more personal connection to Temple than that.As a young child, Tomczuk was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which meant preschools wouldn't accept him, but Tomczuk's mother wouldn't accept that. She discovered Temple University's...
By: Jessie Briggs
The Temple Cognition and Implicit Attitudes (CIA) lab, led by Dr. Andrew Karpinski, uses a social cognition framework to investigate how unconscious mental processes affect the way people think about themselves and others.
A prominent theme in our lab has been understanding how stereotypes unconsciously bias interactions with others; with a particular focus on intersectional stereotypes. Although plenty of research has been devoted to studying stereotypes, emphasis on intersectional stereotypes has only started to emerge recently. An intersectional...
By: Peter Marshall
In a previous Chair's Corner column in the Psychology Department newsletter, I noted how the synergy between teaching and research is central to the life of Temple University as an institution of higher learning. I mentioned various ways in which this synergy can be manifested, including the involvement of undergraduate students in a research laboratory. The article in this issue by Jessie Briggs on the Cognition and Implicit Attitudes Laboratory shows how, by working with faculty mentors, graduate students, and other members of a research group,...
Naoise Mac Giollabhui is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology area, working in the Mood and Cognition Lab under the guidance of Dr. Lauren Alloy. Giollabhui's research interest includes the impact of depression, both when individuals are depressed and when depression has remitted, on cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and executive functioning. In the Mood and Cognition Lab, he investigates the influence of factors such as body mass and inflammation on cognitive dysfunction in depressed individuals. Prior to coming to Temple, Giollabhui completed his...
