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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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1801 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
215.204.7000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Lightning-strike victims returning home
- 2008-07-25
No question, Sheila Gallagher said, this was a miracle. Less than 24 hours after being knocked unconscious by a lightning strike, her daughter Bridget, 21, came home yesterday from Temple University Hospital. "We owe this to God's grace," said the Bucks County woman, who said she had prayed throughout the...
A big loss for Temple: Staley quits for S.C.
- 2008-05-08
Dawn Staley, who carried the American flag at the 2004 Olympics and proudly bore the banner of Philadelphia sports as a socially conscious women's basketball legend, left Temple University for South Carolina yesterday, in the process leaving an enormous hole in both her hometown and the university. The North Philadelphia-born...
World Premiere Commission to Be Performed Sunday, May 18, by Settlement Music School's Trowbridge Chamber Orchestra
- 2008-04-22
PHILADELPHIA -- Settlement Music School has commissioned a world premiere, the second of three for its centennial year, by composer Jan Krzywicki to be performed Sunday, May 18, 3pm, at the Independence Seaport Museum, at Penn's Landing. The event is free and open to the public. Krzywicki, an active composer...
Marzano services to be held Friday
- 2008-04-22
A funeral Mass for former major-league catcher John Marzano will be held Friday at Annunciation BVM Church, 10th and Dickinson Streets in Philadelphia, with burial to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon. Mr. Marzano, 45, was a former Central High and Temple University star who became a big-league catcher...
Holy Family to honor Temple Health System President and CEO at annual ball
- 2008-03-12
PHILADELPHIA -- Holy Family University will present its prestigious annual Corporate Leadership Award to the president and Chief Executive Officer of Temple University Health System, Joseph "Chip" Marshall, III. Mr. Marshall will receive the award during the university's Scholarship Ball 2008 held on April 19. The Corporate Leadership...
Temple U. receives $5 mil. in anonymous donations
- 2008-02-25
Good things really do come in small packages. Just ask Temple University Vice President Stuart Sullivan, who reports that the Philadelphia institution recently received two anonymous donations--checks totaling $5 million. They came in a pair of nondescript envelopes sent via U.S. mail from a bank in Arizona. One envelope...
Youth Network leader may head education office
- 2008-01-15
Lori Shorr, vice president for policies and planning at the Philadelphia Youth Network - the organization pioneering an effort to cut the city's dropout rate - is expected to be named Mayor Nutter's point person on education, sources said yesterday. Shorr, who previously worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Education...
H.A. Shenkin, 92, surgeon
- 2007-12-11
Henry A. Shenkin, 92, an innovative neurosurgeon and an author, died Saturday at the Quadrangle, a retirement community in Haverford, where he had lived for 18 years. Dr. Shenkin was founding director, in 1960, of the neurosurgical research laboratory at Episcopal Hospital. He was a professor at the Medical College...
Temple student assaulted
- 2007-11-03
A female Temple University student was physically and sexually assaulted in an academic hall early Thursday evening by an unidentified male, Philadelphia police said. She was in stable condition at Jefferson University Hospital late yesterday. The assault occurred between 6 and 7 p.m. on Anderson's Hall's second floor, while classes...
Go slow with new workout regimen
- 2007-07-01
Nature beckons, but be wary with your summer workouts, cautions kinesiology professor C. Buz Swanik of Temple University, Philadelphia. "Anytime you change the mode of exercise you're used to, you're increasing your workload," Swanik says. "If you took the best cyclist in the world and put him on a treadmill,...
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