On April 23, 2019, Professor Duckworth will give a talk about "Ethics and Emptiness in the ways of Bodhisattva" at Stockton University.   

By: Nick Santangelo Politics tend to move slowly. Real change often takes years or even decades to come about. For a Gen Z or millennial College of Liberal Arts (CLA) student, that can be off-putting. Just as you're learning more about the country and the world and are prepping to make your mark, the political process glacial pace can slow even the best-laid plans to a crawl. To help students see past that issue and understand how they can make an impact, CLA's Master of Public Policy program, in partnership with NExT Philadelphia, welcomed Congressman Dwight Evans to...

By: Nick Santangelo He's knocked on a thousand doors. He's lived in Australia. He's taken on a New Jersey political power broker. He's worked in human resources. He's played in and managed a band. He's founded his own company. He's studied at Penn State University and Temple University, graduating in just four years of study despite a gap year in between and a change in majors. And on Monday he'll speak with students as a guest of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA). Psychology major Max Young, CLA '12, is something of a Renaissance Man. But the way he tells it, many...

By: Nick SantangeloThe College of Liberal Arts is excited to announce that 10 of our students have been accepted into Temple University's 2019 Diamond Research Scholars Program! Each Diamond Scholar is awarded a $4,000 stipend to spend 10 summer weeks developing a research project with a faculty mentor before completing their project as a for-credit independent study in the fall.In addition to CLA's 10 Diamond Scholars, Temple also accepted two students from other colleges who chose CLA faculty members as their mentors into the program.Our 2019 scholars and faculty mentors are:...

Our graduate director, Professor Douglas Duckworth has published two new books from Oxford University Press. Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature is the first thematic overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. It is unprecedented in scope, treating several different traditions around philosophical themes rather than being exclusively focused on one text, figure, historical period, or tradition. The Profound Reality of Interdependence was edited and translated by Douglas S. Duckworth and Künzang Sönam. This is the first English translation of Künzang Sönam's...

By: Nick Santangelo There were always whispers in Hollywood. The industry knew Harvey Weinstein was acting inappropriately with women. The whispers reached D.C. too: both Hillary Clinton's 2008 and 2016 campaigns were warned to stop taking money from producer Harvey Weinstein because it was believed he was mistreating women. But Weinstein's pattern of unwanted advances, sexual harassment and more continued for at least 25 years. It finally all came to an end after brave actresses, assistants and other women in Hollywood came forward to speak with a pair of New York Times...

Barry Sauder, CLA '18, made the decision knowing it was a risk. What if the big city was overwhelming? What if he wasn't able to get through four years of college? As it turned out, he never had to find the answers to those questions. Sauder, who grew up in rural Lancaster, Pa., made the most of Philadelphia. He took advantage of exciting internship opportunities that wouldn't have been available outside of a major metropolitan area. The criminal justice major also made the most of Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA). He got through four years of school,...

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Philosophy Colin Chamberlain! He was awarded an NEH Fellowship for Spring 2019 for his project "Problems of Embodiment in Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Mary Astell." He will be preparing three journal articles for publication on the notion of body and self in the works of three seventeenth-century women philosophers: Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Anne Conway (1631-1679), and Mary Astell (1666-1731).

Why do some elementary school students master the correct way to use a ruler in measuring things more quickly? What misconceptions do children have when learning about decimals? How does using the number line compare to teaching children about fractions by dividing shapes, like circles and squares, into pieces? Interesting questions like these are the focus of the research being conducted in the Temple University Cognition and Learning Lab, directed by Elizabeth Gunderson, Ph.D. The lab investigates mathematical development from both cognitive and social perspectives, including...