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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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4 dead in weekend violence
- 2008-03-24
Easter weekend in the city was nothing to celebrate. Four men were shot to death and two others were riddled with bullets but somehow managed to survive.The latest murder victim was a 22-year-old man shot multiple times on 11th Street near Diamond, North Philadelphia, at about 6 p.m. yesterday. He...
3 are dead, 2 wounded in weekend violence
- 2007-05-21
To hear Kammie Anderson talk, it was just another day in Philadelphia.Four shootings in 15 hours?"That's nothing," she said in a bitterly sarcastic tone. "That's a good day. That's nothing to write home about."Anderson, 42, mother of a 19-year-old shot dead in Philadelphia several years ago, stood leaning against a...
Another day of violence: 1 dead, 6 hurt
- 2007-04-07
The city's mayhem-minded toughs felled seven people - including one fatally - overnight yesterday and yesterday afternoon.The homicide victim was a 52-year-old woman whom police declined to identify. Police found her collapsed on Stanley Street near Berks in Strawberry Mansion at 12:30 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the chest, stomach,...
The Point | In our war zone, an impossible job
- 2007-02-25
Before we went for a drive around his turf, Philadelphia Police Inspector Carl Holmes handed me a flak jacket. He noted my surprise. "We'll be in a marked car," he explained. "Sometimes it draws fire." The war zone in question was East Division, from the Delaware River west...
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...
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...
2 homicides in city bring year's total to 332
- 2006-10-30
Just in time for Halloween, Philadelphia was treated to another dose of blood and gore over the weekend, bringing the city's homicide rate to a staggering 332. The first round of violence occurred shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday, cops said. Investigators in North Philadelphia were trying to determine why Lanise...
2 men in 20s gunned down last night in Phila.
- 2006-09-27
As Pennsylvania legislators meet today to consider ways to combat gun violence, they'll have two more fatal shootings of young men to add to the sense of alarm. The city's homicide toll for 2006 is up to 292. About 11:30 last night, a man, 29, was found shot in the...
2 slain, 3 hurt in day of violence
- 2006-08-12
The bloodshed began just after midnight yesterday and continued well into the evening, as two people were shot to death and three others wounded in separate incidents. Cops said a dice game in Queen Village turned into a deadly argument when someone shot Leon Thomas, 20, once in the...
After the trigger is pulled
- 2006-06-27
Third in the series Tuesday, March 14 - In a lecture room at Temple University Hospital, a color slide flashes on the screen: It's a close-up of a throat slashed open, the windpipe still visible in the bloody scene. Cynthia Vega, 13, whose eighth-grade class is studying violence...
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