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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...
Want to Boost Math Learning? Show Students the Wrong Answers
By Sarah D. Sparks
Julie Booth, an education professor at Temple University, and Allie Huyghe, an assistant director at the Strategic Education Research Partnership...
For some bitcoiners, “a second passport is the ultimate hedge”
By Matt Levin
But the travel benefits are often the bigger lure. Some Caribbean nations have visa-free travel arrangements with the United Kingdom and European...
How Pennsylvania is playing a major role in former President Trump’s latest legal troubles
By Dan Synder
Pennsylvania is playing a significant role in former President Donald Trump’s latest legal troubles. The election drama that surrounded the state...
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More gay and bisexual men can soon donate blood, after they were banned for decades
By Victoria Ke Li
Expanding the pool of donors helps prevent blood shortages at hospitals, said Jennifer Aldrich, a professor of clinical medicine at the Lewis Katz...

2023’s Best Cities for Pickleball Lovers
By Sav Maive
Jonathan Howe, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Sport and Recreation Management, Temple University, was cited as an expert in this ...

Millions of smokers may have a tough-to-diagnose lung disease
By Steven Reinburg
Jamie Garfield, a professor of thoracic medicine and surgery at Katz School of Medicine in Philadelphia, thinks many patients with TEPS will...

Philly founders are growing their startups with these 3 summertime resources
Philadelphia Gas Works and Temple’s Small Business Development Center’s Energy Innovation Lab is hosting a pitch day on Thursday where three...
TUSafe: Temple University launching new campus safety app
By CBS Philadelphia staff
Temple University students will have a new way to stay safe when they return to campus later this month. The school’s Department of Public Safety...

'We're not in the '90s anymore': Temple University unveils redesigned owl branding to mark new era
By Ryan Mulligan
Temple University unveiled a new owl logo on Tuesday after largely dropping the mascot from athletics and university branding in recent years. ...

Temple University unveils new secondary athletics logo
Temple University unveiled a new secondary logo on Tuesday morning.
University officials say the modern logo mainly serves to celebrate...
Temple University adds new program to clear cluttered streets
A lot can happen in a year. This time last year there were mounds of garbage on the sidewalk in North Philadelphia near Temple University.

Bluey teaches children and parents alike about how play supports creativity – and other life lessons
By MOLLY SCOTT and ARIA GASTÓN-PANTHAKI
“As developmental scientists who study children and how they interact with the world, we sort of adore Bluey too. The show exemplifies what years...

11 things your kid should know before they leave for college
By Kelsey Borresen
Learning to tune into bodily cues will help your child be healthier, happier and better equipped to make good decisions. Here’s how you can teach...

AI helps crack salt water’s curious electrical properties
By ADRIAN CHO
Pure water is pretty good at it. That’s because its chevron-shaped molecules, in which a negative oxygen ion is bound to two positive hydrogen...

Japan seeks to ease arms export rules in bid to be ‘good actor’ in Ukraine war
By Julian Ryall
As Japan’s longest-serving foreign minister under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kishida will have “a deep respect for the liberal international order...

Why did 'Barbie' set records at the box office? Experts weigh in.
By Max Zahn
Barbie took part in more than 100 crossover product advertisements, allowing the brand to reach consumers of everything from Xbox to yogurt, Sheri...

Doctors say this 1 surprising habit can save your life on a road trip
By Julia Ries
“Riding in the car for a prolonged uninterrupted period of time in a seated position increases the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis—a kind...
'Nostalgia marketing': How Barbie's massive marketing campaign worked so well
By Heather Wright
It helps that Barbie and the color pink are fun and escapist, Sheri Lambert, a professor of practice in marketing at Temple University, told CTV...

Temple leads study to reimagine elementary school
By Isaac Avilucea and Michael Mooney
Temple Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek sees an educational crisis in the U.S. that saps joy out of learning and turns students into rote memorizers....
Group using ‘shield laws’ to provide abortion care in states that ban it
By Rebecca Grant
In March 2022, Prine read an op-ed by three legal scholars—David S. Cohen of Drexel University, Rachel Rebouché of Temple University and Greer...
‘Barbie’ movie’s marketing blitz helped it dominate the box office
CNN’s Laila Harrak talks with Sheri Lambert, a marketing professor at Temple University, about the strategy behind the Barbie movie’s marketing...

Barbie is the classic material girl. Scholars say she represents much more — for better or worse.
By Nadra Nittle
“The key story that gets told by Barbie is a story about how the American dream is an American dream of consumption,” said Dustin Kidd, an...

Porn studies is — and isn’t — what you think
By Nadra Nittle
Jennifer Pollitt’s porn studies course doesn’t involve watching adult films. In Social Perspectives in Digital Pornography: The Other Sex...
The hiring boom is hiding a recession signal
While some economists are optimistic as hiring booms, employees are actually working fewer hours. Usually, reducing working hours has been a...

Wesleyan University ends legacy admissions after Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
By Jessica Dickler
However, these preferences are not based explicitly on race, which distinguishes the practice from the overt race-conscious admissions programs...