College of Liberal Arts

May 2017

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May 2, 2017

- Student Success

Next stop: U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Name: Jemie Fofanah Major: Political science Minor: Economics Hometown: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania   […]

Christopher Persaud standing in front of flowering trees smiling with his arms crossed.

May 2, 2017

- Student Success

Lavender Graduation ceremony honors LGBTQIA Owls

Christopher Persaud’s laugh can fill an entire room—especially the laugh when he recalled Ruth Ost, […]

April 2017

graduate student Zoe Ngo working with a child at a computer.

Apr. 26, 2017

- Research

Temple researchers delve into childhood memory

Have you ever wondered why you have no memories from the earliest years of your childhood, yet you […]

March 2017

Robert Berry at the front of a classroom talking.

Mar. 7, 2017

- Global Temple

Temple alumnus, now with Homeland Security, discusses Syrian refugee crisis

Temple students are no stranger to discussing, dissecting and debating the vexing world issues of […]

Dr. Joseph D Orazio holding naloxone in a trauma bay at Temple Hospital.

Mar. 6, 2017

- Community Engagement

Faculty join city task force to fight opioid crisis

Experts across disciplines at Temple University have spent decades researching substance use […]

February 2017

flags of countries around the world hanging in an atrium.

Feb. 14, 2017

- Staff & Faculty

Immigration order: Temple experts weigh in

As developments and the debate over President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from […]

January 2017

Books on a bookshelf in Samuel Paley Library.

Jan. 16, 2017

- Student Success

Alumnus’ history of racism wins National Book Award

Ibram X. Kendi, CLA ’07, ’10, intended his latest book to be a history of the black studies […]

December 2016

Lori Pompa talking to two men.

Dec. 7, 2016

- Staff & Faculty

Inside-Out founder earns lifetime achievement award

“One of the very cool things about this story is what can happen from the germ of an idea,” Lori […]

November 2016

Ta-Nehisi Coates talking with a black curtain behind him.

Nov. 3, 2016

- Community Engagement

A semester on plunder

The word plunder may bring to mind images of battle ax-wielding Vikings or the plot of an action […]

September 2016

Assistant Professor of Religion Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez.

Sep. 26, 2016

- Staff & Faculty

Professor on communication in a culturally diverse classroom

At a time when people seem increasingly divided over their beliefs, having open conversations in a […]

Morgan Hall.

Sep. 16, 2016

- Staff & Faculty

Temple professor on FiveThirtyEight: Why college tuition keeps going up

Why does the price of a college education keep going up? Commentators have pointed the finger at […]

Richard Deeg wearing a suit and sitting at his desk smiling.

Sep. 13, 2016

- Staff & Faculty

Richard Deeg appointed Dean at College of Liberal Arts

Richard Deeg, a celebrated teacher and widely published scholar with more than 25 years of Temple […]