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Research & Facilities

Research Opportunities

Research Opportunities

Students in Tyler’s 22 academic disciplines can participate in research opportunities such as architecture and environmental design, art history, city/regional planning and community development, sculpture, and visual studies. 

The Diamond Research Scholars Program provides rising sophomores, juniors and seniors the opportunity to engage in a focused, mentored research or creative arts project during the summer and fall. 

Tyler and Temple University are closely tied to the city of Philadelphia, providing opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in hands-on, collaborative opportunities in the city. The richness of arts practice, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and allied professional fields across the Philadelphia region offers limitless possibilities for experiential learning.

Tyler BFA students have access to state-of-the-art equipment, expansive studios and exhibition spaces across Tyler’s 255,000-square-foot facilities, including dedicated areas for ceramics, fibers and material studies, glass, graphic and interactive design, metals/jewelry/CAD-CAM, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. 

Tyler's ceramics studios span about 10,000 square feet of space with four gas kilns, 13 electric kilns, a large glaze room, storage rooms for expensive glazes and supplies, an 18-station wheel-throwing room, a large hand-building room, a mixing room, clay storage room, and large exhibition and critique room. They also include a full suite of traditional ceramics tools and high-tech equipment for digital fabrication, including ceramic 3D printers. 

Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio

Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio

The Loretta C. Duckworth Scholar’s Studio at Temple’s Charles Library provides a space for collaborative work and individual research, offering technology for textual analysis, mining big data, working in and creating 3D spaces, geospatial technology, gaming, visualizations, and more. Its makerspace, VR Lab, Specialized Computing Lab and Tech Sandbox provide students with tools to stretch their creativity.