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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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Theater reopens without incident
- 2006-12-09
The Pearl Theater reopened yesterday with heightened security, two days after a shooting outside the cinema left one teenager seriously injured. Four Philadelphia police officers and two security guards patrolled the lobby while patrons bought tickets last night. "People get shot every day," said Alfred Sweets, 19, while waiting at...
Shots prompt talk of N. Phila.'s future
- 2006-12-08
Community leaders yesterday decried the violence Wednesday night that marred the opening week of the new seven-screen Pearl Theater on North Broad Street in North Philadelphia, and insisted that the theater must be protected. The incident alarmed political and civic leaders who, just two days earlier, had celebrated the grand...
Cops: Argument led to gunfire; teen arrested
- 2006-12-08
THE FILM AT the newly inaugurated Pearl Theater in North Philly attracted so many patrons with its $1 admission price that some would-be filmgoers were left out in the cold, police said. Then, two young men, each with a group of friends, began to argue, said Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson....
Violence erupts outside theater
- 2006-12-07
It's been billed as a beacon of hope for a long-troubled neighborhood - the glistening seven-screen Pearl Theater near Temple University, the first movie house in North Philadelphia in six decades. But last night, the only beacons were the floodlights from police helicopters, as a streetside shooting just outside the...
Earni Young | Pearl of the North: Watch this moving picture
- 2006-12-04
ON FRIDAY, an unusually warm, misty day, developer Bart Blatstein stood outside the newly opened Qdoba Mexican Grill and watched the steady stream of Temple University students and local residents disappear through the door. "I'm sick that we didn't charge more rent," Blatstein said. But he couldn't hide his wide,...
After 30 years, it's MOVIE TIME
- 2006-12-02
After more than three decades without a movie theater, North Philadelphia is finally ready for its close-up. Next week, the Pearl Theatre at Avenue North will open at Broad and Oxford Streets. "A lot of people said there would never be a movie theater here," said Bart Blatstein, head of...
Hearing their voices
- 2006-11-27
Nia Davis never dreamed of being a playwright. She writes poetry, and she's a strong student at Northeast High. But she's planning to become a psychologist, not a scribe, so when she handed in a play as an assignment in her junior English class last year, she didn't give it...
A minimalist opera now too smoothed over
- 2006-10-25
The clearer experimental theater becomes, the more its poetic allure is threatened. That threat was ever present last week when Violet Fire, a minimalist opera about electricity wizard Nikola Tesla, emerged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after a workshop two years ago at Temple University. I had an investment...
Changing Skyline | Vision is limited in city's plan for N. Broad St.
- 2006-04-28
Ed Rendell's idea to brand Broad Street as the "Avenue of the Arts" may have originated as a marketing strategy, but it will be remembered as one of the former mayor's lasting accomplishments. Not only did his campaign succeed in concentrating culture and nightlife on the blocks directly south of...
Group hopes Uptown soon will be on upswing
- 2006-04-12
BACK IN the day, the art-deco Uptown Theatre was the place you went to hear R&B, Motown and rock & roll and to see scores of African-American artists introduced by radio personalities like the late Georgie Woods. For the last decade, Linda Richardson and her colleagues at the Uptown...
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