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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 ...
A deadly virus is spreading from state to state and has infected 19 million Americans so far. It's influenza
By Scottie Andrew
The flu is a constant in Americans' lives. It's that familiarity that makes it more dangerous to underestimate, said Dr. Margot Savoy, chair of...
NBC10 News Director Anzio Williams Graduates With Executive MBA
By NBC10 Staff
NBC10 News Director Anzio Williams graduated alongside others from Temple University’s Fox School of Business at the Liacouris Center in North...
Philly radio station drops DJ, shuffles lineup as Entercom eliminates nighttime hosts
By Jeff Blumenthal
Ali Castellini, an assistant professor at Temple University’s Klein School of Communications, who spent years as an on-air host at WXPN and other...

The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends
By Lydia Denworth
The intensity of feelings generated by friendship in childhood and adolescence is by design.

Billy Lange, Aaron McKie, Mike Krzyzewski among college basketball’s tributes to Kobe Bryant
By Marc Narducci
McKie posted his tribute to Bryant on Twitter. “You dedicated your life to the game of basketball and to being great,” he said, in part. “So many...

This Philly novelist’s new book is a mystery set amidst Kensington’s opioid crisis
By Aubrey Whelan
Temple University professor and novelist Liz Moore says her new book, Long Bright River, is her first “Philadelphia book.” The Framingham, Mass....
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.”