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Shapiro visits Temple, highlights its nurse scholar program as model amid new budget investments to curb nurse shortage
By Racquel Williams
Governor Josh Shapiro’s new proposed Pennsylvania budget includes $5 million to help educate, train and recruit nursing professionals in the...
Temple University Going For Grammy Gold In Two Categories
By Vittoria Woodill
The Temple Owls have a lot to hoot about because this Sunday they’re going for Grammy gold in not one, but two categories.
“Take...
Philly Rising: Temple student living with disability defies stereotypes and limitations
By Antionette Lee
Shawn Aleong knows a thing or two about taking advantage of opportunities.
The Temple University student got his start in higher education...

Women’s City Six: Temple completes comeback against Penn, clinch share of Big 5 title
By Nick Tricome
Trailing by 13 to start the fourth quarter, the Owls went on an 18-3 run then closed out with a 7-2 rally, completing a comeback win over the...
Liz Moore on Capturing the Realities of the Opioid Crisis in Fiction
By Maris Kreizman
In the harrowing novel Long Bright River, author Liz Moore tells the story of two sisters who lead opposite lives: Mickey is a police officer,...

How Philly plans to combat the nation’s worst big-city opioid crisis in 2020
By Aubrey Whelan
The Temple hub. With help from a large state grant, Temple University Health System has expanded its treatment programs and referrals, acting as a...
Temple Hospital using new spray-on technology to treat burn victims
By Shara Dae Howard
Temple University's Burn Center is using new revolutionary biotechnology to treat burn victims.
Volunteers Honor Martin Luther King Jr. By Giving Back to the Community
By Beccah Hendrickson
All across the Delaware Valley, volunteers used their day off to give back in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Philadelphia police use 'scoop and run' tactic to save lives
By Dann Cuellar
As Philadelphia battles with a surge in crime, officers continue to do what they can to save lives, and every minute counts.

Heshimu Jaramogi, veteran Philadelphia newsman, radio host and newspaper publisher, dies at 67
By Valerie Russ
Mr. Jaramoji also served for a time as an adjunct professor in journalism at Temple University, and worked with Temple Professor Linn Washington’s...

Temple grad Chinonye Chukwu on her new movie ‘Clemency’ and her life-changing time in Philly
By Gary Thompson
When she ambled around Temple University as a graduate film student a decade ago, you would not see Chinonye Chukwu in a crimson Alexander McQueen...

An international black dance festival lands in Philly. Here are pro-tips for what to see.
By Cassie Owens
Noted scholar Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, a professor emerita of dance studies at Temple University, lavished praise on the lineup. "I would suggest...
Partnership gives Guthrie heart patients access to Temple transplant surgeons
By John George
The partnership will give patients in north central Pennsylvania and Upstate New York access to advanced heart procedures performed at Temple in...

Editing Out HIV Using CRISPR Technology
By Roni Dengler
#18 in our top science stories of 2019.

Temple researchers make progress on alternative to opioids for chronic pain treatment
By Michael Tanenbaum
Researchers at Temple's Institute for Computational Molecular Science, led by Vincezo Carnevale, above, have broken ground on the behavior of an...
D.C. United drafts goalkeeper Simon Lefebvre in MLS draft
By Adam Zielonka
D.C. United selected Temple goalkeeper Simon Lefebvre with its first-round pick, No. 21 overall, in the 2020 MLS SuperDraft Thursday.

This Philadelphia business has created a wearable panic button to protect hotel workers from sexual assault
By Mari A. Schaefer
Nationwide, there’s a push to make hotel, casino, and restaurant workers safer from on-the-job sexual harassment, thanks to expanding passage of...

Looking for a Book to Read With Friends?
By Elisabeth Egan
When their neighborhood is battered by opioids, two sisters choose very different paths through the wreckage. One is a cop; the other is an addict...

From Pennsauken High and Temple U, Jordan Dobson gets big Broadway break
By Gary Thompson
Talented “triple threat” local actor Jordan Dobson — who appeared in the ensemble for Theatre Horizon’s 2018 production of The Color Purple in...
‘Long Bright River’ by Liz Moore is the GMA Book Club pick for January
Critics have called “Long Bright River” one of the most anticipated novels of 2020, even comparing it to “Gone Girl.”

The Sages of College Basketball: Older Coaches Helping Glory Day Hires
By Brandon Lilly
Juwan Howard, Patrick Ewing and Aaron McKie were big players in college and the N.B.A. Now, as coaches, they have help from assistants who were...

Rutgers medical student and former Temple fencing star is closing in on an Olympic spot
By Damichael Cole
Kamali Thompson doesn’t have time to hit the snooze button when her alarm goes off at 5 a.m.
A fourth-year medical student at Rutgers and a...
Spray-on-skin cells helping treat burn victims at Temple University Hospital
By Action News
Specialists at Temple University Hospital have a new tool for treating severe burns. It's less invasive, less painful and can lead to faster...

A scholarship for Temple students is inspired by a dog
By Mari A. Schaefer
Thanks to a dog, students at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University can now apply for financial support to study abroad...

Temple doctors see hope, heartbreak among migrants at Mexican refugee camp
By John Kopp
Dr. Maura Sammon returned several weeks ago from Matamoros, Mexico, where she spent a week treating migrants at the largest refugee camp on the U....
Jefferson, Temple sign definitive agreement for sale of Fox Chase Cancer Center
By John George
Thomas Jefferson University entered into a binding agreement Wednesday with Temple University under which Jefferson will acquire Fox Chase Cancer...