During Alumni Weekend 2012 CLA students showcased their first projects as alumni and friends toured the new Geographic Information Science (GIS) Lab. Awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, the studio is a hub for creating innovative solutions to address urban challenges through development of software applications using maps [...]

Spring Fling is a day when most Temple students descend upon Liacouras and Polett Walks en masse for free food, live music and fun. Some CLA Owls, however, saw an opportunity to spread the word about the student organizations. Wedged between the bungee hop and a funnel cake vendor, students from the Classics Club and [...]

Teresa S. Soufas, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the names of the three faculty members and two graduate students who are the 2012 recipients of the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Awards. These awards, established and vetted by CLA faculty, highlight the College’s commitment to excellent teaching at [...]

Seven members of the CLA Alumni Association returned to Anderson Hall on February 20 to share personal stories of lives and careers with a liberal arts degree. Some 50 students packed the Women’s Studies Lounge to hear career advice shared by panelists working in business, interior design, finance, the technology sector and the healthcare industry. [...]

With winter hopefully winding down (if the groundhog is to be believed), it’s not difficult to think about the warm breezes and beautiful blooms that will return to the stark landscape come spring. At the 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show, Temple University Ambler Landscape Architecture and Horticulture students will seek to strike a perfect balance between the natural landscape, architecture, landscape design, horticulture, art, and sustainability.

We often think of museums as locations where one-of-a-kind objects are showcased in antiseptic environments. But several budding historians in Seth Bruggeman’s “Studies in Material Culture” course have taken steps to change that.

Bruggeman, professor of History and American Studies and coordinator of Temple’s Center for Public History, and his students partnered with local non-profit First Person Arts to turn a museum into a site for conversation and story-telling and to transform ordinary objects into museum-worthy pieces that hold historical significance.

Visit Temple University Ambler student Brandon Huber’s home during Halloween this season and you might be left a little dumbfounded. Seeing a 600-pound jack-o-lantern would do that to anyone. CLA Horticulture student Brandon Huber has spent his spring and summer diligently working to grow not one, but two 600-pound pumpkins. The monster gourds are now a star attraction at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Meadowbrook Farms in Abington Township.

It’s easy to file by the Anthropology lab, tucked in a corner in Gladfelter Hall, without realizing that behind the double doors lies a repository of cultural resource reports and more than 200 collections from the National Park Service, as well as the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

For the third year, the Office of the Provost has awarded seed grants to faculty teams in the sciences for multi-disciplinary and clinical translational research, and in the arts and humanities for multi-disciplinary research and creative collaborations. This year, 21 grants were awarded, each totaling as much as $50,000, representing 59 scholars from 12 schools and colleges at Temple, and three campuses, including Temple University Japan. Congratulations to the CLA faculty who were among this year’s recipients!

In 2003, former chair of the Critical Languages Department John Means endowed a scholarship to enable College of Liberal Arts students to study abroad. In 2009 and 2010, 10 students traveled to Temple campuses in Rome and Tokyo to study subjects from language to art history and political science as a result of his generosity.