Despite coronavirus risks, young people are socializing and cases are surging. Psychologists explain why.

By Bethany Ao

“This is an age group where individuals tend to be focused on immediate rewards and not thinking as much about long-term consequences and costs,”...

Race in Philly 101: An NBC10 News Special Report

By NBC10

NBC10's Special Report "Race in Philly 101" features commentary from experts and scholars, including Professor and Chair of Africology and African...

Amid calls for police reform, better training needed to handle mental health emergencies: Experts

By Ivan Pereira

Ajima Olaghere, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Temple University, said a major roadblock for effective responses to mental health...

Missouri's Focus On Personal Responsibility for Masks Undermines Coronavirus Fight, Experts Say

By Alex Smith

While many communities are actively debating whether it’s necessary to mandate them, crisis communications expert Sarah Bass says that requiring...

Is it safe to return to the gym? How to protect yourself against the coronavirus as gyms reopen.

By Grace Dickinson

“Gyms are an area where we go to sweat, and we’re breathing heavily,” says Krys Johnson, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Temple...

Three approaches for the green phase, if you’re high risk

By Grace Dickinson

“Regardless of what phase we’re in, you need to maintain as many elements of the red phase as possible,” Krys Johnson, an epidemiologist and...

Philly looks for signs of COVID-19 in its raw sewage

By Frank Kummer

Each household in Philadelphia flushes up to 20 gallons of sewage per day down the toilet, amounting to millions of gallons flowing through 3,000...

Officer James Jones was a Temple football star in his own unique way

By Mike Jensen

It was a wild scene, appropriate for the achievement. Temple had just throttled Navy, on Navy’s field, for the school’s first conference football...

‘A Man Of Impeccable Character,’ Fran Dunphy Back With Temple University As Acting Athletics Director

By Pat Gallen

The retirement of legendary basketball head coach Fran Dunphy didn’t last long. Dunphy is back on North Broad Street with a new role.

He’s...

Fran Dunphy named Temple interim athletic director

By Marc Narducci

Fran Dunphy, the longtime basketball coach at Penn and then Temple, has been named the interim athletic director at Temple. First reported by The...

What is Juneteenth? The history behind the holiday celebrating the end of slavery

By Gray Hall

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a...

Philadelphia Orchestra adds its first black woman musician, a Girls High and Temple grad. She’s the new music librarian.

By Peter Dobrin

Music librarians audition, too. The Philadelphia Orchestra has just whittled a pool of applicants for the job to one: Nicole Jordan, currently...

A Photographer on the Front Lines of Philadelphia’s Protests

By David Remnick

Isaac Scott is twenty-nine. Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, he moved to Philadelphia a couple of years ago to study ceramics at the Tyler School of...

Black Lives Matter spreads to Tokyo as 3,500 people march to protest racism

By Ryusei Takahashi

Black Lives Matter Tokyo was founded June 1 by a half-dozen youths — most of whom, including Todd, are students at Temple University in Tokyo. In...

In 1951, Philly’s police brutality was brought to the United Nations. In 2020, are we any better? | Perspective

By Linn Washington Jr.

In 1951, one year after I was born, an interracial group of Americans sent a petition to the United Nations. A core concern: police brutality...

How doctors use stories to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis

By Stephanie Stephens

Dr. Naomi Rosenberg, an emergency room physician at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, studied narrative medicine at Columbia and teaches...

Temple legend John Chaney sees ray of hope in protests | Mike Jensen

By Mike Jensen

There are no sports to watch, no NBA playoffs that would usually take John Chaney deep into the night, so he’s got a friend trying to get him...

The future of small businesses as the country reopens

By Radio Times

MAURA SHENKER, director of the Small Business Development Center at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and DONAVAN WEST, president of the...

Pennsylvania Elections Officials Still Tallying Primary Results Due To Vast Amount Of Mail-in Ballots

By Howard Monroe

“Maybe a tenth of the mail-in ballots were cast in 2016 primary as opposed to what we might be expecting now,” said Michael Sances, a political...

Pedagogy amid pandemic and protest

By LiRon Anderson-Bell

This guest column was written by LiRon Anderson-Bell, a strategic communication and digital media executive and university educator.

Temple University intends to open for in-person classes this fall

By Susan Snyder

Temple University intends to open for at least some in-person classes in the fall, as long as public health guidelines allow, the university...

Is Trump’s Threat of Military Force Legal?

By Jacqueline London

President Trump threatened to deploy the military on cities where protests and violence were taking place. But can he do that legally? Duncan...

Can I hang out with my parents in the yellow phase?

By Grace Dickinson

“For people who are at high risk, you should act as if they’re still in the red phase, under stay at home orders,” says Dr. Krys Johnson, an...

Will the Pandemic Revolutionize College Admissions?

By Brennan Barnard, Richard Weissbourd and Trisha Ross Anderson

Administering a broader admissions process will not be easy. In the absence of SAT and ACT scores, “We’re left with a lot of qualitative material...

People with disabilities stay connected in quarantine thanks to Temple's "Connect with Tech" program

Thankfully, the community at Temple University's Institute on Disabilities stepped right into the role of changing that.

They have been...