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13 unusual facts about Temple University


Avenue of the Arts, Inc.

Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts Corridor (13th-15th Street) extends along Broad Street from Temple University (Glenwood Avenue) in North Philadelphia to Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia.

John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos (born July 4, 1945) is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who has gained fame as a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy.

John E. Fryer

He joined the medical faculty at Temple University in 1967 and was made both a professor of psychiatry, and a professor of family and community medicine.

Joseph Petro

Petro is a graduate of Temple University and was a Fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Kenneth Adam

Following his retirement he often lectured on broadcasting matters at seminars in the United States, being made Visiting Professor of Communications at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Leon Ehrenpreis

Leon Ehrenpreis (May 22, 1930 - August 16, 2010, Brooklyn) was a mathematician at Temple University who proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

National Philatelic Museum

The National Philatelic Museum was unusual in that, in conjunction with nearby Temple University, it offered courses in philately through its Philatelic Institute.

Ronn Owens

Owens began his career in broadcasting in 1968 after graduating from Temple University.

Sunlight Solar Energy

Sunlight Solar was founded in 1988 by Paul Israel, a graduate of Temple University and co-founder of the Central Oregon Green and Solar Tour.

Temple University, Japan Campus

, MBA and LL.M programs, and semester and year-long study abroad programs for U.S. undergraduates and law students (the latter was the first American Bar Association-accredited study abroad program in Asia).

TUJ has classrooms and student facilities in two buildings in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

WBEN-FM

Finally, in September 1997, when the station was bought by its current owner, Greater Media, an executive from that company announced that the station's classical recordings would be sold to WRTI (Temple University's radio station); the stated rationale was that classical music is best presented in a non-commercial format.

Willson Osborne

He taught music theory and composition at Philadelphia's New School of Music (now part of the Boyer College of Music at Temple University).


1975 college football season

#6 Penn State was the only other top 10 team to play the weekend, and struggled to defeat Temple University in a game in Philadelphia, winning 26-25.

Alex Ely

After returning to the U.S., he earned a master’s degree from Temple University in English Education before becoming a teacher first at Cardinal Dougherty High School then Archbishop Prendergast High School.

Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.

Dennis Klocek

After graduating with an MFA in 1975 from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with a thesis on Goethe’s color theory, he taught for seven years at a community college.

Edmund V. Ludwig

Ludwig was elected a Judge on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 1968, and went to serve as a Clinical associate professor at Hahnemann University, and a visiting lecturer at Temple University's Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980's.

Gastrointestinal pathology

That first evening session was organized by Jack Yardley from Johns Hopkins University, and included Henry Appelman (University of Michigan), Harvey Goldman (Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Bill Hawk (The Cleveland Clinic), Tom Kent (University of Iowa), Si-Chun Ming (Temple University), Tom Norris (University of Washington), and Robert Riddell (University of Chicago).

Hakim Warrick

Even with his high school's proximity to the City 6, comprising Division I programs Penn, St. Joseph's, Temple, LaSalle, Drexel, and Villanova, none of those schools heavily recruited Warrick.

Haverford Fords

The first intercollegiate basketball game played east of the Mississippi River occurred in Ryan Gym (now a lounging area for students) in 1895 between Haverford and Temple University.

Howard Taubman

He was the recipient of honorary degrees from the Philadelphia Academy of Music, Oberlin College and Temple University.

James William McClendon, Jr.

Mcclendon taught theology for over 46 years, teaching at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, University of Notre Dame, Fuller Theological Seminary, Baylor University, Temple University, Goucher College, Saint Mary's College of California, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Jennifer McCarty

McCarty has a BS in Chemistry from Temple University, and completed her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, based on her studies of recovered material from the RMS Titanic.

Jitendra Nath Mohanty

In his long academic career, he had taught at the University of Burdwan, University of Calcutta, New School for Social Research, University of Oklahoma, and Temple University and has held visiting professorships at many renowned universities.

John Cheffers

Receiving his Masters of Education in 1970, and his Doctorate of Education in 1973, both from Temple University in Philadelphia, John moved north to Boston where he worked for Boston University.

Joseph Fort Newton

Newton held the honorary degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Literature (Coe College, 1912), Doctor of Divinity (Tufts University, 1919), Doctor of Humane Letters (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1926), and Doctor of Laws (Temple University, 1929).

Lab School of Baltimore

Baltimore Lab is a training site for interns from Temple University, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University, Towson University, Goucher College, and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Nina Weiss

Nina Weiss received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia.

Pallam Raju

He is an alumnus of the Hyderabad Public School (HPS), Begumpet (1971–1979), an Electronics & Communications Engineering graduate (BE) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (1979–1983) and an MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (1983–1985).

Reinsurance

Using game-theoretic modeling, Professors Michael R. Powers (Temple University) and Martin Shubik (Yale University) have argued that the number of active reinsurers in a given national market should be approximately equal to the square-root of the number of primary insurers active in the same market.

Robert A. Baruch Bush

Together with Joseph Folger of Temple University he is the originator, and best known advocate, of the transformative model of mediation.

Steve Capus

He graduated from William Tennent High School in Warminster, Pennsylvania, and went on to attend Temple University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1986.

Steven Gaines

He graduated near the bottom of his class at Erasmus Hall, and flunked out of Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Blue Horizon

Michael has worked to make the building a cultural center for the surrounding neighborhood by creating a learning center with connections to Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania and a Philadelphia Boxing Museum.

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.