Yesterday, Forbes magazine published an interview with 2004 Alumni Ryan Bowers. The interview, Muni Bonds Are More Exciting Than You Think: An Activist Investor's Approach details Ryan's municipal finance startup company. Congratulations Ryan!
Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Catresa Meyers will be teaching Criminal Behavior at Temple Rome this summer. This GenEd course will explore criminal behavior in the birthplace of criminology. The course will use the city of Rome as our backdrop and explore criminality though some of the sensational cases that have shocked the citizens of Rome. The course will examine the question of nature vs nurture through criminological theories, as we visit memorable sites, like the Crypt of the Capuchins and the Jewish Museum of Rome and the Jewish Ghetto, and the Mamertine...
"'Whaaaaaat? There are black people in Scotland?' Yes. We are everywhere."
That's how University of Oklahoma Professor of African and African American Studies Jeanette Davidson began her Monday afternoon discussion with an audience of College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Africology and African American Studies students in Gladfelter Hall's Weigley Room. And although her tone was sarcastic, the Scotland-born professor was serious about how she frequently gets asked that question.
A guest of the Africology and African American Studies PhD program—now in its 30th year with 100...
By: Nick Santangelo
Georgetown University Associate Professor Katherine Withy had a question for College of Liberal Arts Philosophy students and faculty last Friday: "Do we really have good reason to draw a distinction between being and entities?"
Dr. Withy was presenting the findings on the motivations of philosopher Martin Heidegger's ontological difference in Anderson Hall's Women's Studies Lounge. The professor had considered nine strategies for motivating this basic principle of Heidegger's philosophy, and she argued why each and every one of them was, according to...
Internships help students gain professional experience, discover what they like (and don't like) about a career path, make professional connections and get hired after graduation. But not every internship is paid, and many College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students have trouble balancing that with their studies without taking on another job. That's where programs like Pathways to Professions, which gives students a $2,000 stipend-all of which was donated by alumni and friends of CLA-while they work in a 200-hour unpaid summer internship, can help.
This past summer, over 200...
By: Nick Santangelo
There was no other choice, really. When it came to the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts' Economics Department's first Distinguished Alumni Award, everyone knew exactly who should be honored without giving it a second thought.
"When it came time for the committee to select a winner for our first award," said Economics Adjunct Professor Christopher Swann, "it was unanimous that it would be [Dr. Lacy Hunt, CLA '69]. He's a hugely successful business economist and is enormously supportive of the university with his presence and of the...
By: Nick Santangelo
Once you get your degree, how will you leverage it to land a job? It's a question that's on almost every student's (and their parents') minds as they approach graduation. Most students—most people in general, actually—take the most obvious but perhaps least effective path first. They hop onto sites like LinkedIn, GlassDoor, Indeed or Monster and fire off resumes and cover letters scattershot at every job that looks like it might be a fit.
There's nothing wrong with doing that. People do land jobs that way, but is it really the best way to land a job?...
Dr. Liz Gunderson has received a 2018 Understanding Human Cognition Scholar Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. The grant is for $600,000 over six years, and there were only ten awards given out this year.
By: Nick Santangelo
The College of Liberal Arts and Temple University as a whole pride themselves on their location within Philadelphia, a vibrant and growing city with the sixth-largest population in the country. Students have instant access to a wealth of some of the world's best arts, entertainment, sports and restaurant options. But when a major city grows and is revitalized through gentrification, it has to consider the impact on all of its residents.
Last Friday, the Department of Geography and Urban Studies welcomed Clark University Professor Asha Best to...
By: Nick Santangelo
Students today are at least as interested in politics as they've been at any other time. And with the 2018 midterm elections just over seven weeks away, History Professor Ralph Young held the first of his weekly Teach-In events this semester Friday afternoon in Gladfelter Hall, Room 914. Future Teach-Ins in the lead-up to Nov. 6 will focus squarely on the election.
Friday's event, however, saw Temple University Japan Campus Professor Robert Dujarric engaging students about how the current presidential administration's rhetoric and policy has...
Temple University and the National Park Service are again recruiting for the ProRanger Program. Through this program, recruits are eligible for non-competitive hiring status for a federal position with the National Park Service. As we all know, there are no guarantees in life, but this program boasts a 100 placement rate for students who successfully complete the program.
Students spend their summers in paid internships at national parks across the U.S. from Virgin Islands National Park in St. John to Yosemite National Park in California. Temple students intern in...
Dr. Ingrid Olson's article, Understanding Affluence: Predictive Modeling Highlights Importance of Delay Discounting for Income Attainment, was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology, and has been featured in news sources like Reader's Digest and Science Daily.
By: Nick Santangelo
Every College of Liberal Arts (CLA) student has a unique story, and they've each faced different challenges in their young lives, with more to come before they reach their academic and career goals. But that doesn't mean they're the first to face those challenges. And it certainly doesn't mean they have to face them alone.
Simple Transfers
Take transferring, for instance. About 40 percent of CLA students transferred in from another college or university. It can seem daunting. With 42,000 students attending Temple University and more than a million...
Congratulations to Graduate Student George Aulisio on the acceptance of his paper, "Descartes's Epistemic Commitment to Telescopes and Microscopes" at the Journal Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.
By: Dr. Thomas F. Shipley and Dr. Lauren Ellman
We begin the new school year with a column about Michael Pollan's recent outreach and translation effort. Readers may be familiar with Pollan from his 2006 book The Omnivore's Dilemma. Pollan likes to take on big topics in his quest to elucidate human's relationship with nature. In "Omnivore", he considered why we eat what we eat, and how meals have changed from being socially guided by family traditions and culture to guided by experts so that eaters are inclined to treat food as medicine that will cure our...
By: Dr. Debra Bangasser
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system and its impact on behavior. It encompasses a broad domain that ranges from neural development to circuits involved in cognition and emotion, to the causes of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. This rapidly growing field has applications ranging from health disciplines to economics and public policy.
In collaboration with the Departments of Physical Therapy and Kinesiology, the College of Liberal Arts Neuroscience program started a 2-year Master's Degree in Neuroscience: Systems,...
By: Lindsey Tepfer
Masters Student
How do people decide to behave fairly with one another? To what extent do social norms play in this choice? Does the type and number of choices influence people's decisions? And what happens when our loved ones are present during these decisions, especially as we age?
These are just a few of the questions that keep the Neuroeconomics Lab up at night, and what we actively work to answer. We're interested in studying the underlying neural mechanisms that drive social and economic cognition and use a variety of incentive-compatible games,...
By: Nick Santangelo
Since first setting foot on the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) campus, Aurora Kripa, CLA '05, has had an impressive journey to the C-suite.
Like many incoming students, Kripa was unsure of what her long-term plans were as a Temple freshman majoring in Psychology. She chose the major because of her interest in human behavior and wanted to learn more about why people act the way they do and make the decisions they make. Then, after taking advantage of a study abroad opportunity in Italy and being encouraged by her Italian professor, Kripa decided to add a...
By: Evan Calvo
The Honors Psychology Program at Temple University, led by Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, is unlike any other sequence of courses at Temple. Through the program's development and reinforcement of a wide array of skills, the program gifts undergraduates with an inquisitive and scientifically oriented mindset, thus transforming those who have little previous research experience into promising scholars by the time of graduation.
Such a transformation is one that I can personally attest to, having recently finished the program in the spring of 2018. Inside the...
Motunrayo "Tutu" Olaniyan is a third-year doctoral student in the developmental psychology program. Through her research in the Adolescent Social Adjustment lab, she examines how race-related stress uniquely impacts the overall well-being of minority students. Under the guidance of Dr. Ronald Taylor, Tutu studies racial authenticity, which is how we internalize the social ideals and expectations of our racial group's culture and experiences.
Often, societal norms lead people to conform to the imposed standards perceived to be characteristic of their racial group. Tutu is...
