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Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 16th November 2020

All together now: The making of Temple University Jazz Band's 'Covid Sessions'

Produced during the pandemic, the band's new album was recorded, mixed and mastered remotely.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 16th April 2020

On WRTI, Bob Perkins gives self-isolated listeners a safe haven

Bob Perkins has been a fixture on Philadelphia’s airwaves for 50 years. Five days a week, on WRTI, “BP with the GM” (that’s Bob Perkins with the Good Music), plays jazz with a connoisseur’s ear and an infectious sense of joy.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 4th February 2020

Finding 'Somewhere': the making of a Temple Theaters play

The environment is on the verge of collapse. Humanity has passed the point of no return. And all the insects are disappearing. 
This is the world of Somewhere, a new play by the university's playwright-in-residence, Marisela Trevino Orta, specially commissioned by Temple Theaters and receiving its world premiere at Temple's Randall Theater. 
Step backstage with a behind-the-scenes photo gallery and learn how the creative team brought the play to life.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 8th September 2021

Meet Temple’s inaugural cohort of Cecil B. Moore Scholars

This fall, Temple welcomes the first students selected for the Cecil B. Moore Scholars Program, which creates an academic pathway from high school to college for students in North Philadelphia.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 22nd June 2021

In a class of her own

Nicole Jordan, BYR ’10, speaks three languages and is picking up two more. She knows the range of multiple musical instruments, what they can play and what they can’t. She can add bowing directions to sheet music for string players and fix awkward page turns. And she can analyze the structure and form of a piece of music, placing it in its historical and cultural context. 
She is the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal librarian and its first female Black member. 
Jordan stepped into the world of...

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 28th November 2020

HIV breakthrough gets Temple researchers closer to the cure

New research produced by a team led by Professor of Neuroscience Kamel Khalili and Associate Professor of Neuroscience Tricia Burdo further demonstrates how CRISPR technology is bringing us closer to a cure for HIV.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 23rd July 2020

Racial injustice has been fuelled by centuries of prejudiced hierarchies

The author of more than 90 books and 500 articles, Molefi Kete Asante is one of the world’s most prolific African American scholars. Professor and chair of the College of Liberal Arts’ Department of Africology and African American Studies—one of the oldest in the U.S. and the first to offer a doctoral program—Asante is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Black Studies, the top peer-reviewed journal in the field.
“The young people are writing a new history of America. They believe t...

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 15th June 2020

Byte-size books: Digitizing Temple University Libraries’ science fiction collection

A collaboration between multiple teams across Charles Library, the digitization project enables researchers to analyze science fiction books on a large scale.

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 16th September 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has made communication more important than ever

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we communicate. Advised to wear facial coverings and keep our distance from each other, we’ve had to find substitutes for the greetings, gestures and other nonverbal cues we used to take for granted.
When we communicate, “nonverbal is everything but the actual language itself,” said Tricia Jones, a professor at the Klein College of Media and Communication who specializes in nonverbal communication. 
Tone of voice, eye contact, facial expressions, body...

Temple Now | news.temple.edu • 10th March 2020

A million-dollar gift shines a spotlight on the Schneck Anatomy Lab

The right class inspires you for a lifetime. That’s how S. Jay Hirsh, MED ’70, feels. It’s why he donated $1 million to the Schneck Gross Anatomy Lab at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine—a gift to the school that helped shape his career as a doctor.
His donation will create the S. Jay Hirsh, MD Endowed Anatomy Lab Fund, which will help ensure students in the lab always have access to the most sophisticated environment and tools for teaching and learning.
Named in honor of Carson D. Schneck, MED...

The New Yorker • 3rd October 2016

Rhythm of the Spirits

To the living, may the dead come alive. Every November, Mexico revels in the splendor of 'Dia de Muertos,' the Day of the Dead. Part memorial and part carnival, the Day...

Medium • 26th April 2014

DIY Filmmaking: Nollywood in the Diaspora

Inspired by Nigeria’s booming video film industry, expatriates in the United States are making their own movies and struggling against the piracy that comes with it.