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John Fry wants Temple to be Center City's 'anchor university'
By Ryan Mulligan
Temple University will take over the landmark Terra Hall building at Broad and Walnut streets come 2027, but President John Fry ...

How the Super Bowl Event Became America’s Biggest Cultural Tradition
By Paulius Kundzelevicius
Jennifer Freeman, an advertising expert at Temple University, says this shows a shift in strategy. One reason, according to Bryant Simon, a...

Rich Americans Are Turning to Second Passports To Protect Their Wealth
By Snejana Farberov
Peter J. Spiro, of Temple’s Beasley School of Law, noted that a growing number of Americans are waking up to the fact that U.S. citizenship no...
How one man gummed up NOAA
By ARIANNA SKIBELL
The agency relies on a significant number of contractors who provide an array of services, from maintaining critical weather satellites to...

Women with PAH report struggles with family planning, caregiver needs
“The findings of the studies are significant in that they identify and describe the impact of having PAH in important ways distinct from...
School newspapers thousands of miles apart team up to heal from wildfires
By Hallie Golden
Claire Smith, founding executive director of Temple University’s Sports Media Center, had known Lisa Nehus Saxon since they helped carve out a...
This Philly student lost a brother to gun violence. Now, he’s got a full ride to college — and beyond.
By Kristen A. Graham
George Lane learned how to read when he was 3. An honor roll fixture, he was named student of the month so often in elementary school that...
MOVE bombing 40 years later: For many, Philadelphia hasn't done enough to rectify "unconscionable" act
By Joe Holden
“For all intents and purposes, the city has closed this chapter,” said Linn Washington, a Temple University professor and award-winning journalist...
Jay Bilas shares why the NBA Draft will be completely different after this year: "I happen to think this will help the NBA"
By Jan Rey T. Obguia
According to Thilo Kunkel, an associate professor at Temple University, the court “ruled that the NCAA’s restrictions on providing college...
Temple students from North Philly whose tuitions were fully paid graduate in inaugural class of scholars
By Zoe Greenberg
Sa’Dasia Jordan grew up immersed in the world of Temple University, but never thought too much about the college. Raised in North Philadelphia,...

Philadelphia drug overdose deaths fall, but novel substances in the street drug supplies present new dangers
By Nicole Leonard
The substance was detected in 72% of illegal opioid drug samples tested in Philadelphia from September through December of last year, according to...

The legal limits of Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities like Philadelphia
By Jennifer Lee
"As a law professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, where I supervise students who represent low-wage immigrant workers, I know that...
Cheap generic drug slashes knee pain in new study
By Don Rauf
“The study adds to growing indications besides diabetes for this relatively safe medication,” says Ajaykumar Rao, chief of the section of...

Temple University Police introduce new K-9, Zaki
By 6ABC Digital Staff
A Temple police officer who suddenly lost her K-9 companion last year now has a new partner. K-9 Zaki was introduced on Tuesday during a scent...
Temple University students print newspaper for schools destroyed by California wildfire
By TaRhonda Thomas
Running a student newspaper in a city like Philadelphia, there’s no shortage of big stories. “With Temple, we’re right in the middle of it all,”...
Menendez re-hearing, DePaul lawsuit, abortion abolitionist movement and much more
By Ben Anderson
Temple University Beasley School of Law Dean Rachel Rebouché explains the evolution of the abortion abolitionist movement.
Temple product Maddux Trujillo excited for the NFL draft
By Gabriella Galati
Maddux Trujillo turned heads this past football season as a highly efficient kicker at Temple University. He had nearly a 73% success rate on...
Philadelphians mourn Pope Francis’ death and recall the 2015 visit of a pontiff who ‘was for the people’
By Nick Vadala, Beatrice Forman, and Michelle Myers
Julia Barth, a Temple University junior, can’t believe that she got to see Francis speak at his last Easter service. Barth, 20, has been studying...
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Why ordering food at a kiosk can be smooth, easy—and more expensive than you realize
By Sarina Trangle
Kiosks can improve sales and gather valuable consumer data, but the machines perform worse in restaurants with lines, according to Lu Lu, an...
Former NFL playmaker renews quest to be paid by concussion settlement program
By David Gambacorta
The evaluation measures a broad range of cognitive abilities, from attention span and language comprehension to visual-spatial perception skills,...
Why Mayor Cherelle Parker is asking Council to approve a tax cut that will take effect in 2038
By Sean Collins Walsh
Joseph P. McLaughlin, a retired Temple University professor who served as a lobbyist on behalf of the city under four mayors, applauded Parker’s...
Temple unveils newly upgraded university police communications center
By NBC10 Staff
Temple University has moved to provide a better work environment for the dispatchers who work around the clock in the school’s ...

Temple expands its move-out assistance program with new Habitat for Humanity partnership
By Racquel Williams
To curb the waste and headache for neighbors, the university launched TUmove, a new way students moving from off-campus housing can responsibly...

New research finds evictions rarely result in wins for landlords or tenants
By Greg Childress
The interactive map was developed by LSC in partnership with the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University. It examines how...
Four Philadelphians among this year’s Guggenheim Fellows
By Earl Hopkins
From a pool of more than 3,500 applicants, Gettysburg College Professor Jim Downs, choreographer Merián Soto, University of Pennsylvania Political...

A Guide to Long-Distance Parenting of Adult Children
By Marie Sherlock
First, it’s important for parents of any adult child, LDK or not, to understand that parenting our “grown-up” offspring today is a brave new...