Google Faces Rare Jury Trial in DOJ Bet on Public’s Tech Unease

By Leah Nylen

Overall, the case has a good shot at succeeding, legal experts said. It relies on traditional antitrust theories that hew closely to the...

How the first LGBTQ+ video game was given a second life

 Adrienne Shaw of the Department of Media Studies and Production joins NPR’s TED Radio Hour to discuss how Caper in the Castro,...

Lawyers can’t call jurors ‘yahoos’ in East Texas patent trial

By Michael Shapiro

Barring “yahoos” makes sense too, said Paul Gugliuzza, a law professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law via email. “It’s an expression...

A Philly cafe stole $1,200 in tips from workers, the city Labor Department found

By Juliana Feliciano Reyes

According to a 2015 Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple University Law report, in any given week about 130,000 Philadelphia workers...

Florida could face lawsuit over rejection of AP African American studies pilot program

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is threatening to sue Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his decision to reject an Advanced Placement African American...

Penn has shortest breaks among Ivy League and local universities, DP analysis finds

By Sneha Parthasarathy and Jin Kwon

Although Pennsylvania law requires that a semester be approximately 17 weeks long, other Philadelphia-area schools such as Drexel University, ...

To tip or not to tip, and other questions about subsidizing the service industry

Tipping at a restaurant. Rounding up at the grocery store for a charitable donation. Using the self-checkout line without getting a break on the...

Families gather to celebrate Tu B’Shevat at the Ambler Arboretum

By Ryan Genova

Temple University Ambler recently noted that more than 40 families celebrated Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, at the Ambler Arboretum...

Philly gun violence activists say the READI program can work, but only if it’s done right

By Sammy Caiola

Philadelphia saw 516 homicides in 2022, nearly double the total from 2016 and largely committed with a firearm according to data analyzed by the...

Report: Now is the time to connect SNAP eligible students to the benefit

By Liann Herder

 One resource that could help keep food-insecure students on track to graduation is the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

Sakhalin exception: the Russian energy Japan can’t quit

By Etienne BALMER

Japan has never forgotten the oil shock of the 1970s, and energy security threats “are ingrained in the mindset of the Japanese government,” said...

Temple University Jazz Band takes second place amid other honors at the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship

By Nate Chinen

Terell Stafford, director of the Temple University Jazz Band, has a custom after every edition of the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship in New York...

A new gun violence narrative

By ROXANNE PATEL SHEPELAVY

There are many things that contribute to our long-standing—and, now, record-high—gun violence crisis in Philadelphia. Is one of those things … the...

1 big thing: Teachers vs. ChatGPT

By Isaac Avilucea, Mike D'Onofrio

Temple University is reviewing potential policies around student use of tools like ChatGPT. “We are concerned about the potential misuse of these...

Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service focusing on gun violence prevention

By Corey Davis

Community partners such as Temple University Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia helped distribute the material and assist with...

At Girard College, volunteers honor King’s legacy by tackling gun violence prevention

By Jad Sleiman

For the event’s signature project, volunteers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Temple University Hospital helped assemble gun...

A new culinary entrepreneur program launches in Philly

By Jensen Toussaint

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Temple University and the Culinary Collective are partnering to launch a new Commissary Scholar...

Temple Hospital now has a ‘Yelp for OB-GYNs’ to improve care for families of color

By Courtenay Harris Bond

People giving birth at Temple University Hospital now have the opportunity to give immediate feedback on the care they receive thanks to a new app...

FBI sought to discredit King to stop the civil rights movement

By Stephen Williams

Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University, said that in the early...

MLK’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail

By Molefi Kete Asante

“As we remember and celebrate the activism and courage of Martin Luther King Jr., we must not forget that he was a plainspoken philosopher with a...

Temple kept its commitment to open a center on antiracism. Penn State didn’t. What does that mean?

By Susan Snyder

“The work of antiracism is the most important work of our time,” said Timothy Welbeck, executive director of Temple’s Center for Anti-Racism. 

Geoff Johnson: Forget suing TikTok—just teach media literacy

By Geoff Johnson

According to Sherri Hope Culver, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and the director of the university’s Center for Media and...

Bucks historians announce new history day internship opportunity

By Jeff Werner

The inaugural Ruth Maxson National History Day intern, Anna Durning, hails from Hatfield and is currently a junior at Temple University’s College...

The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+

By Judd Bagley

“Hosting something like the NBA All-Star Weekend is an absolute slam dunk,” says Thilo Kunkel flatly, completely unaware he just provided a...

Jeanes, Fox Chase nurse anesthetists ratify first union contract

By John George

The Temple North Anesthesia Coalition, a group of 35 certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) who practice at Jeanes Hospital and Fox Chase...