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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...
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Temple linebacker Jordan Magee declares for the NFL draft in April
By Max Dinenberg
Linebacker Jordan Magee becomes the first Temple player to declare for the 2024 NFL draft. The Towson, Maryland, native spent all five years at...

In a 14-1 vote, Philadelphia becomes first city to deem ‘medical deportation’ unlawful
By Vicky Diaz-Camacho
Jennifer Lee, a professor at Temple University’s law school, is cautiously optimistic. “It’s really important that we’re the first city that has...
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Some Philly consumers love ‘buy now, pay later’ for holiday shopping. But experts have concerns.
By Erin McCarthy
Despite high interest rates, Wayne W. Williams, an associate professor of accounting at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, said he would...

Column: To make Downtown Long Beach safer, police should look to a new (old) strategy
By Jake Gotta
As it turns out, research supports this idea; in 2009 the Philadelphia Police Department did an experiment. They reached out to Jerry Ratcliffe, a...

‘A Christmas Carol’ dominates Philly stages this month. Why does it still resonate?
By Jane M. Von Bergen
Kareem Johnson, of Manayunk and a psychology professor at Temple University, said Christmas stories that evoke traditions old and new “connect us...
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College-aged kids are about to come home for the holidays. Helicopter parents, please be cool.
By Alfred Lubrano
Here’s some advice to parents as students start winter break: “Tread lightly,” said Laurence Steinberg, an adolescence expert and professor of...

2023’s Best Cities for Golfers
By Ryan Plank
Daniel Funk, associate dean, professor, and Ed Rosen senior research fellow, Temple University, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality...

UB overhauls admissions criteria, ends legacy admissions after Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
By Grant Ashley
Despite renewed national discussion about whether legacy preferences should have a place in the admissions process following the Supreme Court’s...

The next phase of computer science education: incorporating AI
By Sarah Huffman
Jamie Payton, professor and chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Temple University, presented on the topic’s importance as...

How to interview Trump while avoiding the mistakes of the past
By GEOFFREY BAYM
That means there is an opportunity for journalists here. The vast majority of Americans still encounter information and ideas circulated by the...

Temple Health trauma surgeon receives federal grant to study media coverage of gun violence
By Carmen Russell
A trauma surgeon at Temple Health was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study the impact of media coverage of gun violence...
Flu, COVID, RSV cases spiking across Pennsylvania after Thanksgiving holiday
By Alyana Gomez
: "Family gatherings at Thanksgiving very definitely had a role," said Dr. David Manoff, the chief pulmonologist at Temple University Hospital. ...
Flu, COVID, RSV cases spiking across Pennsylvania after Thanksgiving holiday
By Alyana Gomez
“Family gatherings at Thanksgiving very definitely had a role,” said David Manoff, the chief pulmonologist at Temple University Hospital. Manoff...
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Get a cancer screening on your next trip to the supermarket? You can at this new Temple clinic inside a Philly ShopRite
By Aubrey Whelan
Temple Health opened on Tuesday a clinic providing free health screenings inside a...
New Temple Health Hub that offers free screenings in Nicetown is now open
A unique partnership is helping to make health care more accessible to people living in a Philadelphia neighborhood. A new, free Temple Health Hub...

For Rite Aid customers in the Philly region, finding a new pharmacy might prove challenging
By Marcus Biddle
“I think that labor challenges are hitting pharmacists. Getting technicians is a major issue right now for me,” said Shawn Parekh, vice president...

Temple Health opens community health hub inside a North Philadelphia Shop Rite
By John George
Temple Health’s latest initiative to meet patients where they are can be found inside a North Philadelphia supermarket near the front entrance and...

9 Things Doctors Want You to Know About the RSV Vaccine
By Marygrace Taylor
Having an underlying condition can make you particularly susceptible to problems from RSV. So getting vaccinated is especially important if you...

Scandal over Japan’s ‘secret funds’ for Olympics deals fresh blow to unpopular Kishida
By Julian Ryall
“He has deniability because this all happened before he became prime minister, but it is still likely to hurt him politically at a time when he...
U.S. limits some Osprey flights in Japan, continues others- Pentagon
Robert Dujarric, a scholar at Temple University’s Tokyo campus, said Japan was very sensitive to residents’ concerns about military operations,...

It’s not your imagination. High school seniors are more over the top than ever before.
By Marco della Cava
“We live in a ‘me’ culture now, and it’s everyone just trying to cut above the noise with whatever it is they have to share,” says Kathy Hirsh-...
The Perception of Suburban Schools as White and Wealthy Needs to Change, Researchers Say
By Libby Stanford
As people continue to operate under preconceived notions of suburban schools as mostly white and wealthy, students of color feel abandoned, said...
Heights Philadelphia opens community access pathways at Temple, Drexel
By Chanel Hill
Students and families in Philadelphia are now able to get college and career readiness support through Heights Philadelphia’s new community access...

Temple doctors expand access to stool-based colon cancer screening to reduce racial disparities in Philly
By Nicole Leonard
In response to seeing racial disparities in screening rates and the barriers people face in completing colonoscopies, physicians at Temple Health...
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New PSSA results show some scores are rebounding, but kids are still behind
By Maddie Hanna and Kristen A. Graham
Experts said gaps from remote learning are still affecting student performance. “Learning is cumulative—skills that kids are learning now build...