Through a transdisciplinary effort launched by faculty, Temple University is introducing a master's degree and a certificate in sustainability both focused on practical
High-quality teaching assistance is critical to the educational mission of the Criminal Justice department and university. Fourth year PhD student and teaching assistant Steven Chen has won this year's CLA TA (SR) Teaching Award. In his time here at Temple, Steven has assisted 5 different instructors in 19 courses. These comprise 13 different courses, covering all ranges of difficulty from introductory-level courses to methodological courses to capstone/writing intensive courses. This alone speaks to the wide experience Steven has accumulated and opportunities to help our...
Former MA and Ph.D. students from the Economics Department gathered on April 13 in Gladfelter Hall for a Graduate Alumni Symposium. The day consisted of two research sessions and a panel discussion of non-academic career paths in Economics. Pictured above L to R: Afrouz Azadikhah Jaromi (Widener University); Thanh Lu (RTI International); and Keisha Solomon (Howard University) chat during a break.
Imanee Adisa is a freshman English major. Since January, she has been interning at Temple University Press, working in acquisitions. Read on to learn about how she found her internship and her experience at TUP.
What does your day-to-day look like at TU Press?
I'm an acquisitions intern, and I work ten hours a week. A lot of what the day-to-day entails is sending emails. I'll send out peer review requests to potential reviewers for manuscripts and proposals, and if they're interested, then I send them the materials they need to review. . After they agree, I put...
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at Temple University held its annual Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award (LAURA) Reception on April 10th, a celebration of academic excellence and innovation among undergraduate students and their faculty mentors. Deputy Dean Sandra Suarez serves as the Director of the LAURA program, and she is dedicated to its mission to provide students with hands-on research experience while supporting faculty-led research initiatives within the College. The LAURAs grant $2,000 each to undergraduate student-faculty member teams to conduct a research...
Student groups from the Department of Economics gathered together to experience some spring events. Members of Women in Economics joined students across the country at a watch party sponsored by the St. Louis Fed that was devoted to careers in Economics. Members of the Diversity in Economics group met with Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Jason Cutmore has been awarded the Fulbright Research Grant, awarded to support his dissertation research at Tubingen University in Germany during the 2024-25 academic year. Jason is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University with interests in ancient philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of education, social/political philosophy and Continental philosophy. His dissertation work centers on the Bildung tradition. It aims to both reconstruct an account of classical Bildung—one that focuses on the governing role played by the ancient concept of...
Just 24 hours after completing the most arduous interview of her young career, Ray Epstein, Class of 2025, became the sixth Temple University student to receive the
Abby Whitaker might not be able to tell you how to get to Sesame Street, but she can tell you just about anything else that you need to know about the iconic children's
The Criminal Justice department held its annual Criminal and Social Justice Career Fair on Wednesday, March 20th for all current students and alumni seeking networking, internship, and employment opportunities in the criminal and social justice sectors. Over 50 employers attended, representing federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to local law enforcement agencies such as SEPTA, and human services and advocacy organizations like The Children's Home of Reading. Over 280 students attended, making the career fair a huge success!
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PhD student Megan Mohler sole authors a new study, clarifying how spirituality and religious participation contribute to desistance from binge drinking among youth with prior involvement in serious or violent crime. Desistance scholarship recognizes both subjective (i.e., internal) and structural (i.e., social or external) sources of behavior change. However, prior research on the link between religiosity and criminal behavior has not fully disentangled the concept of religiosity into its subjective (i.e., spirituality) and social structural (i.e., religious participation...
Dr. Caterina Roman has won the CLA Faculty Award for Excellence in Community Engagement. Dr. Roman has contributed to community engagement in three main areas: violence reduction, reentry, and community health. Put simply, she serves as a role model for community-engaged scholarship not only for faculty and students in CLA and at Temple, but also for criminologists and researchers across the country. The meaning and power of Dr. Roman's work shines through when both organizations and university leaders speak about these efforts.
For examples, in the words of Judith...
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership. The Council for European Studies (CES) is moving to Temple University and finding its new home within our walls in Gladfelter Hall. After a thirty-year tenure at Columbia University, CES is ready to embark on a new chapter of innovation and collaboration with the vibrant Temple and CLA community. Why the College of Liberal Arts at Temple? The interdisciplinary study of Europe aligns perfectly with our core disciplines, particularly in political science, history and European languages and...
Postdoctoral Fellow Karissa Pelletier has been awarded a New Investigator Research Award from the American Public Health Association to utilize National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) data for her project titled "Trends in the Collective Transaction of Homicide, 2015-2022." Dr. Pelletier's research seeks to unravel the intricacies of homicide incidents by categorizing them into meaningful typologies informed by seminal works on homicide syndrome and data disaggregation. Through meticulous analysis of NVDRS variables and advanced methodologies like topic modeling, she...
On February 2nd, College of Liberal Arts students from the Criminal Justice, English, History, Political Science, Psychology and Neuroscience and Sociology departments gathered in Northeast Philadelphia for a half-day workshop at one of the regional offices of the PA Attorney General.
Students had the opportunity to hear presentations from and network with various attorneys, special agents and police officers in Pennsylvania's top law enforcement office.
Some of the speakers that presented were from the offices of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco...
Dr. Melissa Noel lead-authors a new study examining how family members mitigate adverse life outcomes for adult children of incarcerated parents focusing on the role of familial socialization. Key findings highlight four interconnected agents of parental incarceration socialization—"the talk," familial beliefs, relationship with the incarcerated parent, and expression and navigation—that informs how they should navigate society. This socialization process involves learning what to say to others, how to interact with the criminal legal system, how people will perceive them...
This weekend, thousands of fans will flock to Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field for two days to witness World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) annual spectacle,
The College of Liberal Arts held its 2024 Celebration of Faculty Awards on March 27th at the Howard Gittis Student Center. Deputy Dean Sandra L. Suárez served as the Master of Ceremony for this year's event.
The Edward Buthusiem Faculty Research Award, established last year, is awarded to faculty whose applied research adds to our knowledge of how large-scale societal decisions are made and/or whose research adds significantly to the University's public reputation for scholarly excellence. This year, Dean Richard Deeg presented the award to Hamil Pearsall, Associate...
Please join us in celebrating these fantastic achievements by our students and classmates. They are so deserving of the recognition and we're so proud of their excellence! These Sociology majors graduating in 2023-2024 have reached the pinnacle of academic achievement. First, are students graduating in December 2023 or May 2024 who earned Distinction in the Major, a designation reserved for students who maintained a 3.50 GPA or better in the major and a minimum 3.25 overall GPA. They are:Distinction in the MajorHannah AukersMaddy BartonEmily Baxter-GreenMonica BlassouHaily...
