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Our talented faculty and broad curriculum of nearly 300 academic programs provide superior educational opportunities for academically talented and highly motivated students, without regard to their status or station in life. Temple?s richly diverse student population and the dramatic growth of our residential campus community of student scholars enrich the educational and extracurricular life of our people. While the University especially serves students from Greater Philadelphia, it is enlivened by a rapidly increasing number of students from across Pennsylvania, throughout the nation, and around the world.We maintain an international presence with campuses in Tokyo and Rome and programs in London, Beijing, and six other locations worldwide. A long-time leader in professional education, Temple prepares the largest body of practitioners in Pennsylvania; we are among the nation?s largest educators in the combined fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry and law. In addition, we offer more than four dozen doctoral and more than 100 master?s degree programs that contribute to research and scholarship. Temple seeks to create new knowledge that improves the human condition and uplifts the human spirit.To achieve this goal, we maintain our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and supporting outstanding faculty that prize diversity of thought, excel in scholarly endeavors, and support the aspirations of capable students.
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Dan Gross: Lawsuits, Web sites & K&A Gang
REPUTED mob associate John Berkery has created a Web site to embarrass Temple prof Allen Hornblum , whom Berkery has sued for defamation.Berkery's HornblumExposed.com is devoted to the author of "Confessions of a Second-Story Man: Junior Kripplebauer and the K&A Gang." Berkery sued Hornblum in 2006 for defamation over his...
2 men found shot to death
The mayoral election did nothing to quell the city's rising homicide rate, with two more victims being added to the rolls the next day.A little after 5:42 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a call about gunshots at 18th and Norris streets. There they found Carl Tomberlain, 42, of Cottman Avenue...
Astronaut recalls shock of Sputnik
Half-a-century ago, 82-year-old Scott Carpenter remembered, he looked up at the sky and saw what he at first thought was a low, fast-flying plane. At second glance, Carpenter, then 32, noticed it wasn't a commercial aircraft and realized what it was. It was Sputnik. Carpenter watched the small radio satellite...
Blaze in Kensington leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
One man died in a one-alarm house fire in Kensington yesterday morning and a second was admitted to Temple University Hospital, the Philadelphia Fire Department reported.A fire official declined to identify the men or say what caused the fire, in the 2900 block of Rosehill Street.The fire was declared under...
Leonard Cantor | Company owner, 88
Leonard Cantor, 88, formerly of Jenkintown, a company owner and civic activist, died of heart failure Wednesday at Watermark on Logan Square, a retirement residence in Philadelphia.In the late 1940s, Mr. Cantor joined Insinger Machine Co. The pioneering manufacturer of stainless steel dishwashers was owned by his father-in-law, Bernard Levene....
Phila.'s neighborhood 'anchor' man
Crisscrossing Philadelphia, State Rep. Dwight Evans catalogs its assets, the distinctive churches, schools and supermarkets he calls the anchors for leveraging improvements.Even in sections of Mantua, Kensington and North Philadelphia that look like Dresden after the war, the city abounds with solidity, he says; the next mayor needs vision to...
Trans fat: Expelled
A zero-trans-fat Hawk wrap at St. Joseph's University. A trans-fat-free "Vegedelphia" cheesesteak at Penn. Trans-fat-free bread, tortillas and cookies at Drexel. As the nation takes steps toward a trans-fat-free finish line - with 19 states considering bans or restrictions - some local universities have already tightened their belts against...
Incites | Don't leave these gift ideas on the shelf
My favorite holidays are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Super Bowl Sunday, days that include football, food and no gift-giving. But as much as we all hate the season of giving (you're doggone right I booed Santa Claus!), it's upon us. So here are some ideas for gifts that are easy to...
Tech Central: despite all the talk about wireless, Temple University leaders found it made sense to centralize its technology equipment on campus
IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? THAT WAS THE $16 million question Temple University (Pa.) executives, administrators, and trustees pondered before they gave the go-ahead to construct the largest student computer center in the country. "It wasn't a slam dunk," recalls Timothy O'Rourke, vice president of Computer and...
Inqlings | Temple police add a bomb dog
One of the newest Temple University police officers walks on all fours and drinks from a bowl. He's Jake, a black Lab, and Temple believes he is one of the only bomb-sniffing dogs on a university police force. Why does Temple need a bomb dog? "We found the university was...
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