Criminal Justice professors Steven Belenko and Matthew Hiller were recently awarded a grant to work with Chestnut Health Systems to conduct a national multisite evaluation of the guidelines for effective juvenile drug treatment courts JDTC. These guidelines were developed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, which awarded grants to a number of JDTCs to implement the guidelines. The study involved both a randomized experiment in three jurisdictions in which eligible youth will be randomly assigned to either the JDTC or traditional juvenile court, and...
By: Nick Santangelo
"I feel like a warrior, like I can take on the world."
It's a sentiment Avi Loren Fox hears all the time from women who take up the mantle. A mantle is a loose cloak or hood, but it can also be a symbolic passing down of responsibility from one person to another. For Fox, the founder of clothing line Wild Mantle, both definitions are equally important.
"Boosting your confidence and knowing that you're wearing something that will represent your passion and your legacy and that you can hand on to someone else, whether or not you do," says Fox, "is a...
By: Nick Santangelo
Much of Philadelphia may have experienced explosive growth in the years after the Great Recession, but that growth has not occurred equitably across the city. Far from it, Temple University's home is plagued by a poverty rate of 25.7 percent, the worst among America's 10 largest cities and more than twice the national average.
To address the crisis, College of Liberal Arts Public Policy Lab Director Judith Levine joined a group of academic, economic, non-profit and political leaders at last week's Prosperity Symposium at the Pennsylvania Convention...
Congratulations to Graduate Student Katie Brennan whose chapter, "Nietzsche's Hamlet Puzzle: Life Affirmation in The Birth of Tragedy" has just been published in the *Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy*.
By: Nick Santangelo
Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) encourages students to expand their worldviews through travel. Many of our students study abroad for a semester or to take an internship in the field or in another city. Not only do students have a great time seeing other parts of the country or world, but they also gain new perspectives that allow them to challenge conventional thinking and find creative solutions to real-world problems.
But while even the farthest reaches of the planet are within reach for CLA students, that wasn't the case for humans...
Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman's recent editorial response was featured by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace World Affairs. Dr. Roman argues it is time to leverage the strengths of the faith-based community by having government and community stakeholders actively engage the faith community. These partnerships, when carefully attuned to reducing criminogenic risks and responsive to needs, can be powerful and humanizing catalysts for rehabilitation.
Read the full editorial response.
Jennifer McAllister is a seasoned development professional with over 13 years of experience in developing resources for community development organizations. In her current role, Ms. McAllister is focused on connecting partners and donors with opportunities to create positive change in communities across the country.
Prior to joining NeighborWorks America, Ms. McAllister served as the Director of Corporate Development at Manna, Inc., a NeighborWorks charter member. Ms. McAllister is a native of Philadelphia, PA and received a BA in History from Temple University.
By: Nick Santangelo
How often do you write something? Between school papers, work correspondences, emails, texts or social media, you probably write dozens if not hundreds of times a day. It's easy, then, to fall into the trap of thinking everyone writes well.
"There's a difference between average writing and really good writing," says First Year Writing Program Director and English Professor Rachael Groner. "We know that employers want to hire people who write well. They don't want just passable writing. They don't want emails that are average. They want emails that...
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Karen Seto. Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. An urban and land change scientist, she is an expert on contemporary urbanization. Her central research focus is how urbanization will affect the planet.
For more information on Dr. Seto and this event please visit the event page.
By: Nick Santangelo
College is a time for trying new things. For Alexa Gingerich—who's graduating from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) this month—that meant trying vegetarianism and even veganism. Unfortunately, some health complications caused her to abandon that lifestyle, but her stab at a meat-free diet led her to try something else she'd never done before.
An Italian major, Gingerich applied to and became a finalist in Temple University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute's 21st annual Innovative Idea Competition. The competition is open to...
Mia Rosanio, a printmaking major, was among 62 contestants to enter our political cartoon contest. The image she created about pollution and environmental issues won first place.
First Place:
"Family Vacation 2070"
Mia Rosanio (Printmaking)
Second Place:
"Gross Mismanagement"
Carly Onofrio (Psychology)
Third Place (2):
"A Tale of Two Things"
Daisy Confoy (Political Science and Public Relations)
"Every Great Man"
Zillah Elein (Communications)
Honorable Mentions:
"Talk on Race"
Elija Clark (Undecided)...
By: Nick Santangelo
Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is proud to celebrate the recent release of a new book by history PhD alumni David Ulbrich, CLA '07, and Bob Wintermute, CLA '06. The book, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare, is a groundbreaking examination of race, gender and military history throughout Western warfare from the early 19th century through to the War on Terror.
The alumni, now both history professors, recently sat down for a chat about their book. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
How do you feel now...
Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Dr. Olaghere recently received a College of Liberal Arts Research Award (CLARA ) for her research project entitled, Legitimacy in Corrections at a Time of Crisis: Perspectives from Incarcerated Individuals. Procedural justice and legitimacy are important concepts that help us examine the fairness and soundness of our legal and criminal justice systems, and to a larger extent our democracy and the enfranchisement of marginalized and vulnerable populations. To date, most criminological scholarship focuses on the legal decision-making and...
By: Nick Santangelo
Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) strives to expose all students to new experiences and to broaden their worldviews. Whether they're studying in a North Philly classroom, at one of our satellite campuses or studying abroad, CLA students are constantly gaining new cultural perspectives.
Because the liberal arts are so broad and allow for so many cross-disciplinary studies, that's true no matter what a student's background is and where her interests lie. Take senior Asmaa Abdullah, for instance. A psychology major who's also pursuing...
The act of anticipation might seem emotional, but inside your brain, it's something much different. It's an exercise in focus. To that end, Temple University Psychology Professor Peter Marshall and a team of researchers from the University of Washington have discovered a new method for showing how a child's brain anticipates touch. Their findings, which produced a colored "scalp map," show brain activity during anticipation and were published in the November issue of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Read the press release in EurekAlert! to learn more about their...
By: Nick Santangelo
A political science major who's also minoring in biology, senior Diane Chogo recently presented her capstone paper at the nationally competitive Emerging Scholars Conference at the University of Michigan. Chogo's paper was titled How did the identity of African Americans in the diaspora affect the social and political movements in Africa? She wrote it for Political Science Professor Roselyn Hsueh's Political Economy of Identity in the Global Era course.
Following is an edited version of a conversation with Chogo and Dr. Hsueh about the paper and...
On January 12th 2019, Dr. Bingenheimer will present at the Buddhist Translation Forum 2019 in Gaoxiong, Taiwan. The topic will be "The Latter Days of Translation - From Human Translating to Evaluating Machine Translation".
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By: Nick SantangeloFor you, it's personal. But for them, it's just business.Negotiating a salary can be overwhelming or confusing, especially for seniors and recent college grads entering the workforce for the first time. That's why it's so important not to go in blind. During a salary negotiation workshop in Anderson Hall last week, career experts from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and Temple University laid out four steps to follow for negotiating salaries:Know your value. Know your target salary and benefits. Know your strategy. Practice, practice, practice."Salary...
By: Nick Santangelo
Reading books, attending lectures, taking tests and completing assignments are essential to improving language literacy skills. But foreign language students truly get the most out of their educations when they complement on-campus learning with studying abroad. At Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA), many German students do just that by studying in Leipzig, Germany. Some students, however, need a little help getting there.
To enable more students to take part in the Intensive Summer Language Program in Leipzig, CLA is holding a...
If there's one thing I've learned to do well in my four years at Temple University's College of Liberal Arts, it's taking advantage of the endless resources surrounding me.
My name is Mike Sylvanovich, and I'm a senior studying Criminal Justice and Spanish. By spring, I'll have had five internships, and I owe it to my professors, advisors, friends and family members for making it all possible.
In particular, Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Joe Alkus has been tremendously helpful. Professor Alkus helped me with my interview preparation, networking, resume and...
