Winter 2011

20/20:
The Future Comes in to Focus
important contributions
Individually, TEMPLE ALUMNI MAKE

together, w e m a k e
AN ESSENTIAL IMPACT
on aspiring students, The
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Winter 2011
FEATURES
A Magazine for
Alumni and Friends of
Temple University

Senior Vice President,

Institutional Advancement
David L. Unruh

Assistant Vice President,

Advancement Communications
Ingrid Heim, CLA ’99

Director, Alumni &

Development Communications
Betsy Winter Hall, SCT ’01 14 22
Editor
Maria Raha
14 Temple 20/20: The Future Comes in to Focus DEPARTMENTS
Design
Temple 20/20, the framework that will guide Temple’s growth
Temple University
Creative Services (087-1011) over the next 10 years, will further distinguish Temple as a 2 Then & Now
vibrant, international research university; a destination cam-
Contributing Writer
Greg Fornia, SCT ’92
pus; and a leader in higher education. 3 From the Bell Tower
Correspondence,
Address Changes and Gifts 22 Remote Control
4 Student View
TASB/1852 N.10th St. Researchers are turning to computational science to observe
Philadelphia, PA 19122
simulations of molecular, and even atomic, activity. At Temple,
215-926-2500 5 Campus News
800-882-7655 the new Institute for Computational Molecular Science uses
supercomputing to run nearly impossible experiments.
E-mail: 34 The Giving Spirit
treview@temple.edu
26 Parks & Education
Website: 37 Alumni Connection
www.temple.edu/temple_review Students in the ProRanger Philadelphia program spend their
summers working as rangers in national parks and training for
Temple Review is published full-time jobs with the U.S. National Park Service after 40 Class Notes
by Temple University of the
graduation.
Commonwealth System of
Higher Education. 52 Picture This
30 The Justice League
© Copyright 2011 by
Temple University Founded and run by Temple alumni from the Beasley School
of Law, the Juvenile Law Center has been leading the fight for
Temple University is committed to a policy
of equal opportunity for all in every aspect juvenile justice since 1975.
of its operations. The university has pledged not
to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex,
age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation,
marital status or disability. This policy extends
to all educational, service and employment
programs of the university.
 THEN
& now
Past Temple moments, facts, fun and trivia

In the 1930s, Temple students

toned up in Conwell Gym,
which was located on the
fifth floor of Conwell Hall on
Broad Street.

Present Approximately how many

students per day used Temple’s
fitness facilities during the
2009–2010 academic year? Visit
www.temple.edu/temple_review
for the answer.
Future

The new, renovated and expanded athletics and

recreation facilities on Broad Street — including
Pearson and McGonigle halls (below)—are part
of Temple 20/20, the framework to transform
Joseph V. Labolito

Main Campus and the Health Sciences Center

over the next 10 years. To learn more about
Temple University Fitness, at the corner of Broad
Temple 20/20, turn to page 14.
Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, opened in fall
2010. The 20,000-square-foot facility contains more
than 160 workout stations and more than 26 pieces
of strength equipment. The existing fitness centers in
Pearson and McGonigle halls also will be renovated
and upgraded.

A rendering of the proposed Pearson-McGonigle facility

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Connect and
Reconnect
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• Classmates and current students
• Jobs and networking
• Alumni events and photos
The one-stop site for Temple alumni!
Key to School and College Codes
CHPSW College of Health Professions
and Social Work
CLA College of Liberal Arts
CST College of Science and Technology
DEN Kornberg School of Dentistry
EDU College of Education
ENG College of Engineering
HON Honorary Degree
LAW Beasley School of Law
MED School of Medicine
MUS Boyer College of Music and Dance
PHR School of Pharmacy
POD School of Podiatric Medicine
SBM Fox School of Business
SCT School of Communications and Theater
SED School of Environmental Design
SSW School of Social Work
THM School of Tourism and
Hospitality Management
TYL Tyler School of Art
W hen Temple alumni returned to
Joseph V. Labolito
campus for Homecoming and
Parents’ Weekend 2010 (see page 39),
they were amazed at the many changes
made to the university since their days
as students. A vibrant 24/7 student
presence has replaced the almost total
“commuter school” atmosphere of ear-
lier years; new academic and research
programs are garnering international
recognition for innovation; and com-
mercial and private development in
the surrounding neighborhood have
transformed campus life.
Today, Temple is growing before our
eyes—while retaining its existing foot-
print—as major construction, new aca-
demic programs and research continue
to create exceptional opportunities for
our students, faculty, staff and alumni.
In this issue of Temple Review, you will learn about Temple 20/20, an ambitious frame-
work for Main Campus development. (See page 14.) Guided by the goals of the Academic
Strategic Compass, Temple 20/20 envisions a broad mix of new facilities that will make
Temple University a premier destination for students, educators, researchers and visitors.
Along with this physical growth and transformation, the intellectual contributions
of Temple’s research enterprise continue to advance work in many disciplines and improve
the lives of people and communities around the world. For example, at the Institute for
Computational Molecular Science, Temple scientists are gaining a greater understanding
of drug-resistant influenza and nanomaterials used in medicine and other areas by using
high-performing computers to simulate molecular behavior. (See page 22.)
During one of the toughest job markets in recent memory, Temple is developing unique
academic programs to prepare today’s students for rewarding jobs and successful careers.
ProRanger Philadelphia is a collaborative effort between Temple’s Department of Criminal
Justice and the National Park Service. ProRanger is just one of many innovative approaches
to career preparation that Temple offers. (See page 26.)
Temple alumni also have profound effects on both their professions and our society. I am
delighted to highlight the achievements of Robert Schwartz, LAW ’75, and Marsha Levick,
LAW ’76, whose work in exposing the wrongful incarceration of thousands of juveniles in
Pennsylvania changed the lives of so many young men and women in the commonwealth.
(See page 30.)
Temple alumni can take great pride in today’s Temple University, and I hope you will
continue to work with me to build the institution’s future. I can assure you that you
will be amazed each time you return to campus or peruse the latest issue of Temple Review.
I also hope you will join us to experience today’s Temple during Alumni Weekend 2011,
April 15–17.
Temple is growing stronger as a truly great institution of higher education. I am thrilled
that you are part of the excitement!
Ann Weaver Hart
President, Temple University
Winter 2011 3

Alex Epstein (right), Class of 2013, is planning an urban farm in the pictured North Philadelphia
lot. Shaniqua Chisolm is one of the community partners involved in the project.
Lessons New Orleans Taught Me
By Alex Epstein, Class of 2013
I first became interested in issues of
race, class and diversity in New Orleans.
On a high school trip in 2006, I worked
alongside residents of the Lower 9th
Ward — one of the neighborhoods most
damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 —
who were actively rebuilding their lives
and their community.
I came to understand that the district
had lacked a basic sustainable infrastruc-
ture for decades, and that Katrina simply
exposed and exacerbated various social,
racial, economic and environmental
problems that had long existed there.
When I returned to New York City,
I began to understand my own hometown
in an entirely new way. It became clearer
to me that the issues that plagued the
impoverished community in the Lower 9th
Ward were just as prominent in New York
and in nearly every inner-city community
in the nation.
As a result of my trip, a number of simi-
larly minded students and I co-founded a
youth-led organization called the New York
2 New Orleans Coalition (NY2NO) in
2007, to continue sending young people
to New Orleans to help residents of the
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Lower 9th Ward and to educate and inspire
more of us to become active in combating
similar social and environmental issues
closer to home.
Since then, NY2NO has organized 35
“brigades” to New Orleans, and its network
has developed into one that now spans
the nation. When the co-founders of
NY2NO and I graduated from high school,
we trained younger students to lead the
group and passed to them the responsibili-
ties of leadership. Then we started building
the Youth Coalition 4 Community Action,
a national alliance of active and inspired
young people.
Now that we are at different colleges
across the country, we each have begun
local projects on our campuses and in our
new communities.
I moved to Philadelphia in 2009 to attend
Temple. I was attracted to Temple for
numerous reasons, but the main one was its
rich diversity and its centrality in the city.
I also wanted to serve the community sur-
rounding Main Campus, and hoped that
I could one day become a part of a movement
to effect change in North Philadelphia.
During my first semester, I decided to
organize a trip to New Orleans, wanting
to inspire others to become active agents
of change. I knew that a group comprising
both Temple students and local residents
would be better equipped to aid the larger
North Philadelphia community upon our
return. Therefore, I organized two trips
to New Orleans during the 2009–2010
academic year: one for Temple students,
and one for high school students from the
surrounding neighborhood.
I had no idea how these trips would turn
out, much less how well these two groups
would merge if people stayed committed
once we returned to Philadelphia. But the
experience united us, and the diverse and
far-reaching energy of the volunteers cata-
lyzed Philadelphia Urban Creators (PUC),
a new youth-led organization. Though PUC
is still in its early stages, we have begun
to apply to North Philadelphia what we
learned in New Orleans.
We recently acquired two vacant plots
of land in the area and have begun working
to transform them into food-producing,
job-producing, sustainable and educational
urban farms. As our diverse network and
these projects evolve simultaneously, we
hope to stand as a model for how to build
healthy, sustainable relationships and
strengthen urban communities.
Our collaboration is a testament to the
fact that no matter how different we seem,
all people have the ability to come together
for a greater purpose and to generate practi-
cal change. It also is a testament to the fact
that young people, no matter how much we
might doubt the impact we have on society,
have the ability to change the world.
Alex Epstein is a sophomore Honors student
studying sociology in the College of Liberal Arts.
Number of Temple Students Studying Abroad Hits Record High

A s Temple’s returning study-abroad students waited in airport lines to

Barbara Gorka
have their passports stamped last academic year, they did not realize
that they were helping the university reach an historic milestone.
For the first time in Temple’s history, more than 1,000 students studied
abroad in a single year, capping a decade of growth in international programs
at the university.
According to the Office of International Affairs, 1,005 Temple students
studied in other countries in the 2009–2010 academic year, up more than
8 percent from 2008–2009. And, the number of Temple students who study
abroad has tripled in a decade.
“We’re thrilled, but we’re not going to stop pushing for more students to
make transformative study-abroad experiences a part of their Temple educa-
tion,” says Denise Connerty, assistant vice president of international affairs.
“Understanding global issues is no longer considered optional by students,
parents or employers.”
Participating students also have been transformed in more personal ways.
“My ambition level has gone through the roof,” says Nicholas Pivovarnik, a
senior in the Fox School of Business who studied in Chile. “I lost a lot of lazy
habits, because I have a better perspective on myself and what I want to do.
I had always dreamed of living and working in a different country, but studying
in Chile has transformed that dream into a tangible goal.” More than 1,000 Temple students studied in countries
such as India, Ghana, Japan, the U.K. and more during
To create more opportunities for students to study in foreign countries, the 2009–2010 academic year.
Temple launched a number of new programs that have played a major role in
increasing participation in recent years. The Ann and Randy Hart Passport
Scholarship, created in 2007 by President Ann Weaver Hart and her husband
to pay for first-time passports for new students who intend to study abroad, has
benefited 197 Temple students who had never left the country before. Also in
2007, the university launched the Diamond Ambassadors Scholarships, an
invitation-only program to help students with the strongest combination of
academic performance and financial need study abroad. Since then, more than
125 Diamond Ambassador Scholarships have been offered to students to help
pay for international academic experiences during their time at Temple. More
than 60 students have put the funding to use already.
Temple students studied in 40 different countries in 2009–2010. In addition
to semester- and year-long programs in Italy, Japan and Spain, Temple hosts
summer programs in Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Italy,
Jamaica, Japan, Spain and the U.K.; and exchange programs with universities
in China, Germany, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan and the U.K. Addi-
tionally, some Temple schools and colleges offer their own programs.
Connerty and her colleagues in International Affairs still have to work hard
to overcome the perception that studying in another country is an expensive
luxury, accessible only to students from privileged backgrounds.
Felix Alberto, a senior in the Fox School of Business, has a message for
fellow students who are skeptical about being able to fund a semester abroad.
“Do it!” urges Alberto, who studied in Japan in 2009. “I had no money and
was afraid of the unknown, but I overcame it. Now, I have a new sense of
accomplishment and responsibility.”
For more information about study-abroad and exchange programs at Temple,
visit temple.edu/studyabroad. —Hillel Hoffmann

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RYan S. Brandenberg
University Trustee Robert A. Rovner,
SBM ‘65, LAW ‘68, addressed the Rudmans
and SCT faculty, students, alumni and staff
during the official launch of TUTV.
Left to right: Lucille and Kal, EDU ’57, Rudman talk with Paul Gluck, SCT ’76, general manager of TUTV and the
Rudman Media Production Center.
SCT Celebrates the Launch of TUTV
I n the fall, the School of Communications and Theater
(SCT) and Temple entered a new era of hands-on
educational experience and community outreach with
the ceremonial launch of TUTV.
The new cable television station, housed in the Kal and
Lucille Rudman Media Production Center in Annenberg
Hall on Main Campus, televises content created at SCT
and throughout the university.
Temple President Ann Weaver Hart opened the
celebration by appearing on TUTV to welcome its view-
ers, including nearly 125 guests who were celebrating the
launch in Annenberg Hall’s Joe First Media Center.
“TUTV offers outstanding learning experiences for
Temple students, who will assist in all aspects of station
management, and for the Philadelphia community, which
will have access to exceptional and relevant program-
ming on a wide variety of topics,” President Hart said
from the station’s master control room.
Interim Dean Thomas Jacobson noted the impact
TUTV and the Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Produc-
tion Center will have on SCT students.
“Our students are gaining valuable experience in
a working TV station that will most assuredly act as
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a springboard to the next phase of their lives, be it entry
into the professional world or pursuit of an advanced
degree,” he said.
Jacobson highlighted programming from the Theater,
Film and Media Arts and Journalism departments, and
mentioned the contributions of students from other
schools and colleges at Temple.
“TUTV demonstrates that Temple continues to be at
the forefront of educating our students,” Interim Senior
Vice President and Provost Richard Englert said. Univer-
sity Trustee Robert Rovner, SBM ’65, LAW ’68, took the
opportunity to thank the Rudmans on behalf of the
Board of Trustees.
Kal Rudman, EDU ’57, concluded the ceremony by
expressing his hope that the creation of TUTV will allow
Temple students to gain the experience they need to be
able to find work in a tough job market. He assured the
students in attendance that innovation will foster new
opportunities in their field.
TUTV can be seen on Comcast channel 50 and
Verizon channel 45 in Philadelphia. Programming also
will air online at www.templetv.net. —Jeff Cronin
New Architecture Building Will Complete Campus Arts Quad
A Sept. 15 groundbreaking ceremony marked the
official beginning of work on Temple’s new archi-
tecture building, located on 13th Street and adjacent
to Presser Hall and the Tyler School of Art.
The ceremony took place in Tyler’s courtyard and was
attended by university trustees, deans, officers and stu-
dents. Temple President Ann Weaver Hart, Interim
Dean of the Tyler School of Art Robert Stroker, Board
of Trustees Chair Patrick J. O’Connor, Trustee and
Facilities Committee Chair Mitchell Morgan, SBM ’76,
LAW ’80, and architecture student Temitayo Fasusi,
Class of 2011, addressed the crowd.
Donning hard hats and grabbing shovels emblazoned
with the Temple “T,” Hart, Stroker, Morgan, Fasusi,
Architecture Department Chair Kate Wingert-Playdon
and architect Mykhaylo Kulynych broke ground at the
building site.
The opening of the new facility represents another
milestone in the realization of Temple 20/20, the universi-
ty’s development plan. The architecture building will
complete a Main Campus arts quad that also includes the
School of Communications and Theater, the Tyler School
of Art and the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
Basketball Season Opener Marks New Era for Temple Athletics
T emple men’s and women’s basketball marked the
beginning of the 2010–2011 season—and a new era
for Temple Athletics—with a doubleheader in the
Liacouras Center, accompanied by a topping-off cere-
mony for Temple’s new $13.5 million basketball practice
facility. Owls fans who attended either season-opening
game were invited to sign a 15-foot steel beam that will
be installed in the renovated Pearson and McGonigle
halls, where the basketball facility will be located.
Temple trustees, administrators, coaches, players and
fans lined up for their chance to put their mark on the
beam that symbolizes improvements being made to the
North Broad Street facility.
Temple joins Villanova and Saint Joseph’s universities
as the only “Big 5” institutions with dedicated basketball
practice facilities. The nearly 30,000-square-foot, one-
level facility will feature regulation practice courts for
both men and women that will be open around the clock,
locker rooms, player lounges, a strength and conditioning
Kelly & massa photography
Temple Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. O’Connor (third from right) and Facilities Com-
mittee Chair Mitchell L. Morgan (second from right) help President Ann Weaver Hart and
friends break ground for construction of the new architecture building on Main Campus.
Currently, the Architecture Department is housed in
the Engineering and Architecture Building. With the
new facility, both programs will have more room to grow.
The architecture building will be approximately 45,000
square feet and cost $10 million. Construction is expected
to be complete by fall 2011.
—Elizabeth DiPardo, Class of 2014
area, coaches’ offices and meeting rooms.
During the ceremony, President Ann Weaver Hart
noted that when the construction is completed next fall,
Pearson-McGonigle will not only be a story higher with
expanded basketball practice space, its new atrium will be
a more open and inviting part of Main Campus.
“The new front atrium will further enliven Broad Street
for everyone who drives by and hears that beckoning call,
‘Come to Temple,’” President Hart said.
Women’s Basketball Head Coach Tonya Cardoza notes
that that invitation will be open to everyone, not just ath-
letes. “The renovation of Pearson and McGonigle halls
will provide all Temple students with opportunities to be
strong in body and spirit, just as our classrooms and pro-
fessors prepare them to be strong in mind,” she said.
—Ray Betzner
To learn more about the next decade of campus develop-
ment at Temple, turn to page 14.
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 Psychologist Links Immune Responses During Pregnancy
to Schizophrenia
I nfections such as the flu are common occurrences
during pregnancy, and research has shown that chil-
dren born to mothers who suffered from flu, viruses and
other infections during pregnancy have approximately
1.5 to 7 times the risk for schizophrenia. A new study at
Temple explores that link.
In a study published in Schizophrenia Research, Assistant
Professor of Psychology Lauren Ellman found that expo-
sure during gestation to certain immune proteins, such
as those produced in response to the flu, leads to
increased risk for brain abnormalities associated with
schizophrenia in offspring.
The good news, Ellman says, is that not all of the
women in the study who showed an increase in immune
proteins gave birth to offspring who developed brain
alterations. “This tells us that some other factor—
perhaps a genetic vulnerability or something from the
environment—must also be present for the increased
immune protein levels to lead to the brain alterations
we identified,” she says.
joseph v. labolito
Assistant Professor of Psychology Lauren Ellman is researching
the link between schizophrenia and immunity during pregnancy.
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Previous studies, including one by Ellman, have estab-
lished a link between maternal exposure to flu and
increased risk for schizophrenia in offspring, but it was
not clear why the link existed—most infections do not
cross the placenta. Researchers then began to look at
maternal immune responses to infection as the possible
cause for the increased risk.
Of particular interest to the researchers were pro-
inflammatory cytokines, proteins that are produced by
the body in response to infection.
“Now, it appears that the damaging effects to the fetus
are related to these maternal responses to infection dur-
ing pregnancy, rather than to the infections themselves,”
Ellman explains.
Ellman’s study was conducted on archived blood sam-
ples drawn during the 1950s and 1960s from a group of
approximately 12,000 pregnant women during each
trimester of their pregnancies. The women and their off-
spring were followed after delivery, so those whose children
had developed schizophrenia could be identified easily.
Her study shows a direct correlation between struc-
tural brain changes among offspring diagnosed with
schizophrenia and increases in maternal levels of inter-
leukin-8 (IL-8), one of the pro-inflammatory cytokines
produced when fighting infection during pregnancy.
“The brain abnormalities we found are those consis-
tently linked with schizophrenia, suggesting that an
elevated immune response during pregnancy might
contribute to some of the abnormalities associated with
the disorder,” Ellman says.
She notes that maternal IL-8 levels were not related
to any brain changes among a control group of offspring,
indicating that vulnerability to schizophrenia must be
present for the fetal brain to be affected.
“Our findings underscore the potential importance
of prenatal contributions to schizophrenia, with implica-
tions for prevention, early intervention and treatment
strategies,” Ellman says.
According to the researcher, one of the main ways
pregnancy makes women susceptible to infections is
that changes in the immune system during gestation
reduce some of the body’s key defenses. In addition,
maternal emotional states, such as stress, can alter
immune functioning. This increased vulnerability to
infection comes at a time when the fetal brain is experi-
encing enormous growth. —Kim Fischer, CLA ’94
kelly & massa Photography
School of Medicine Mentors Help Teens Lose Weight
B y the time Isaiah Sutton was 16 years old, he
weighed 190 pounds. And as his weight increased,
he became increasingly sad and depressed and eventually
didn’t want to leave the house.
But after a check-up last year with Temple Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Adolescent
Medicine Eric Schaff, things began to turn around for
Isaiah. Schaff told Isaiah and his mother about a pro-
gram he was starting that would pair overweight teens
with medical student mentors who would help them
lose weight.
Now in his second year with the program, Isaiah meets
with his mentor, second-year medical student Brandon
Chatani, along with other teens and their mentors at a
support group every Wednesday after school. The meet-
ings are designed to inform the teens not only about their
weight, but about a wide range of topics from the impor-
tance of sleep to family planning to acquaintance rape.
“Everything is so tied to weight at that age,” second-
year medical student Sadie Wachter says. “We focus on
healthy eating and exercise, but we also talk about things
that can affect other aspects of their lives.”
In addition to the talks, the teens and their Temple
mentors also engage in physical activities ranging from
basketball to hip-hop dancing to martial arts. Once or
twice a week, each student sends a text message to his
or her teen mentee, offering encouragement and support.
Through a program in the School of Medicine,
Temple medical students meet with over-
weight teens and mentor them about health
and social issues.
“We figured that since all of the kids text, that would
be the best way to communicate with them,” says second-
year medical student Ida Teberian, who sends messages to
Isaiah. “It lets them know we care, and it also is helpful
in getting them to come back the following week.”
The personal attention appears to be working for
Isaiah, who has lost about 10 pounds so far. According
to his mother, Tina, her son is active and makes healthier
choices. He runs on the school track team and even
writes family grocery lists that include healthy fruits
and vegetables.
The program started informally last year, with a group
of students who worked with Schaff and were interested
in helping the community. The students say that Schaff
was the driving force behind getting the program off
the ground.
“He was so supportive of his patients, wanting to help
them, that for the first year, he paid for everything—
the supplies, the snacks and incentives—out of his own
pocket,” Teberian says.
The partnership also benefits the mentors. “I’ve had
weeks where I’ve been so busy with school work that
I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to make it to the session,”
Teberian says. “But every time I go, I feel better instantly.
When you’re in the midst of your work, it gives you the
chance to stop and say, ‘This is why I’m here. This is why
I’m doing what I’m doing.’” —Renee Cree
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In Brief
International Student Housing
to Rise on Main Campus

A new international housing complex is
being developed in conjunction with
Temple. The complex, Beech International
Apartments, will be built by Beech Interplex
Inc., a community developer in North
Philadelphia. Located near Main Campus
on the 1500 block of Cecil B. Moore
Avenue, it will be home to the university’s
growing population of international
students, faculty and researchers, and to
students studying international affairs.
 Alumni in the Media and Excellence in the
The 100-unit residential facility will include
a café, retail shops and a cinema. It is
due to open in fall 2011.
School of Communications and Theater
Launches Record Label
Broadcasting, telecommunications and mass
media students in a class called Advanced
Topics in Media and Telecommunications are
gaining real-world experience as they run
Bell Tower Music, Temple’s first official, not-
for-profit record label. The label will provide
many of the services offered by for-profit
labels, including scouting new talent, man-
aging artist promotion and providing record-
ing engineers and studios for signed artists.
Bell Tower Music’s first two signed acts
are projects by Temple students: reggae art-
ist Sonni Shine and the Underwater Sounds
and saxophone jazz artist Danny Janklow.
To learn more about Bell Tower Music, visit
www.belltowermusic.com.
Law School Holds Annual Day of Service

Each year, students, faculty members and
staff in the Beasley School of Law perform
a day of service at the St. Boniface Church
complex in Norris Square, about a mile
from Temple’s Main Campus. In October,
the volunteers painted the former St.
Boniface rectory, which will house the
offices of the Norris Square Civic Association.
The annual day of service is one of several
community outreach projects run
by the Law School throughout the year.
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Annual Award Ceremonies Honor Business,
Media Professionals
From 2007 to 2009, Mills served on
Joseph V. labolito
Temple’s Board of Trustees. Until 2009, he
also was a member of the Board of Overseers
for Temple University Health System. He
now serves on the College of Education
Board of Visitors.
In October, Good Morning America news
anchor Robin Roberts joined five School
of Communications and Theater alumni
honorees at the 10th Annual Lew Klein
Media Awards. The awards honor a highly
accomplished member of the media and five
News anchor Robin Roberts (left) and producer
Suzanne Smith, SCT ‘80, celebrate SCT with distinguished Temple alumni who have
Lew Klein (center). made significant contributions in their fields
B
oth the Fox School of Business and and communities.
the School of Communications This year’s Lew Klein alumni honorees
and Theater held their annual award cere- were Tamron Hall, SCT ’93, anchor,
monies in the fall. MSNBC; Alan Ross Kosher, SCT ’69,
The Fox School of Business honored PNC company manager, The Lion King; J Russell
Regional President J. William Mills III with Peltz, SCT ’68, boxing promoter; Harvey
the 2010 Musser Excellence in Leadership Pollack, SCT ’43, director of statistical
Award in November. The Musser Excellence information, Philadelphia 76ers; and Mike
in Leadership Award recognizes outstanding Strug, SCT ’64, retired reporter, NBC10.
achievement, leadership and commitment —Jeff Cronin and Brandon Lausch, SCT ’06
to the community.
Alumni Inducted into the Gallery of Success
E ach year, the Temple University Alumni Association and Temple’s Career Center
kick off Homecoming Weekend with the Gallery of Success luncheon. Now in its
13th year, the program highlights the achievements of distinguished Temple alumni and
aims to inspire current students through the accomplishments of alumni. One graduate
from each of Temple’s schools and colleges is featured in the Gallery of Success showcases,
located on the lower level of Mitten Hall on Main Campus.
The 2010–2011 Gallery of Success inductees are:
Derrick W. Brooks, THM ’00 Lisette L. Shirdan-Harris, SSW ’77
Stephen G. Charles, SCT ’80 Jacqueline Ouzts Shogan, CHPSW ’75
Nicolas J. Colella, CST ’77 Kile S. Smith, MUS ’83
Lynne Tarka Ewell, ENG ’86 Mitchell I. Sonkin, CLA ’74
Mildred L. Rice Jordan, EDU ’65, ’89 Lillian H. Stern, MED ’67
John V. Reitz, DEN ’80 James A. Walden, LAW ’91
Anthony W. Saby Jr., TYL ’92 Marilou Taylor Watson, CST ’87, PHR ’91
Brenton L. Saunders, LAW, SBM ’96 Jonathan M. Wright, SED ’06
Jay S. Schnitzer, POD ’71
 Psychology Professor Throws ‘Ultimate Block Party’ in Central Park

K athy hirsh-pasek is on a mission. In a world

DIAne bondareff
dominated by digital gadgets and high-tech toys,
the Temple developmental psychology professor hopes
to show the world that children learn best through
old-fashioned creative play.
In October, Hirsh-Pasek and her research partners
made that statement by hosting New York City children
for one of the world’s biggest play dates. Held at Central
Park’s Naumburg Bandshell in Manhattan, the Ultimate
Block Party attracted more than 50,000 children and
their parents to play hide and seek, build robots, create
with Lego bricks and pretend to be ship captains and
princesses.
“We wanted to show families, educators, business
innovators and politicians that playing is indeed learn-
ing,” Hirsh-Pasek says. “We hope that the first annual
Ultimate Block Party will mark the beginning of a move-
ment in support of playful learning.”
More than 50,000 children and families converged on Central Park to participate in
The event was a public manifestation of Hirsh-Pasek’s the Ultimate Block Party, organized by Temple Professor of Developmental Psychology
work as director of the Temple University Infant Lab. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.
Research in the lab, where approximately 10 to 15
studies are run concurrently, focuses on how language To that end, Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff, her
is acquired and the role of play in stimulating learning. longtime collaborator at the University of Delaware in
“First, we want to know how kids learn,” Hirsh-Pasek Newark, wrote Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our
says. “Then, we want to know how toys, school curricula Children REALLY Learn and Why They Need to Play More
and museum exhibits best support their processes. One and Memorize Less. Praised by child development profes-
of our primary missions is to ensure that cutting-edge sionals, academics and educators, the book’s common-
research doesn’t remain in academia, but gets translated sense approach to parenting debunks myths promulgated
into information society can use.” by the accelerated learning industry and provides frazzled
parents with clear reasons for steering away from comput-
erized and so-called “educational” toys. Instead, the co-
DIAne bondareff

authors argue that what children need most is time to play.

“The real educational toys are not those that scream
numbers and letters at you. Rather, they are the ones that
help children discover academic principles and master
social skills,” Hirsh-Pasek explains.
Despite evidence that points to a relationship between
play and learning, play continues to decline as an impor-
tant part of children’s lives.
“We know that the skills our children need in the 21st
century involve collaboration, communication, critical
thinking and creativity, and yet our schools remain
largely fashioned for the industrial age,” she says. “There
is too much focus on teaching the facts, rather than
teaching for meaning. Yes, they do need to know some
facts, but they also need to learn how to learn.”
—Kim Fischer, CLA ’94

Building with Lego bricks was one of many ways in which the
Ultimate Block Party promoted creative play.

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In La Paz, Bolivia, Temple students and Assistant Professor of Architecture Scott Shall devise ways to serve the local community.
Professor Teaches ‘Guerilla Altruism’ in Bolivia
I t is nearly dawn in Bolivia, and a guerilla operation
is under way on the dimly lit streets of La Paz, the
country’s capital. But rather than being armed, these
warriors carry research materials and sketchbooks.
They are a group of students, artists and educators
on a humanitarian mission.
They call their work “guerilla altruism,” an idea con-
ceived by Assistant Professor of Architecture Scott Shall
that challenges young humanitarians to create unortho-
dox solutions to global problems. Influenced by the ideas
of a diverse list of modern revolutionaries, Shall challenges
his students to use the improvisational techniques of gue-
rilla warfare and the spirit of altruism to design strategies
for improving the lives of underserved populations.
On their latest six-week mission to Bolivia in spring
2010, Shall and his team developed business strategies
and sustainable architectural structures to aid a group
of boys who live on the streets of La Paz. Known as the
lustrabotas, or “shoeshine boys,” the young men have
little or no access to education and often are sole pro-
viders to large extended families. Shall and his students
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saleem ahmed, class of 2011
have designed deployable classrooms and mobile school
platforms as educational resources that might help the
lustrabotas rise above their exploitative, low-wage jobs.
“The work is meant to get people thinking about long-
term projects that will improve the issues these communi-
ties face,” Shall says.
The projects are an outgrowth of a Temple GenEd
course titled Guerilla Altruism: A Mini-Manual of
Subversive Activism, which highlights the parallels
between the concepts of architecture and power. In the
classroom, Shall’s students study solutions to common
global problems such as water pollution, homelessness,
poverty and educational disparities. Students also are
challenged to enact small-scale interventions that help
disadvantaged people or community groups in and
around Temple.

Shall says, “In each case, the work utilizes a creative
reapplication of undervalued materials and resources to
address each community and develop projects that can be
continued by the members of that community for years
to come.” —Jazmyn Burton
In Memoriam: Trustee Frank Baldino Jr., MED ’80

T emple Trustee Frank Baldino Jr., MED ’80, passed

Mark Stehle
away Dec. 16. He was a cherished member of
Temple’s board of trustees, a devoted Temple alumnus
and a longtime supporter of the School of Medicine
and the university. 
After graduating from Muhlenberg College, Baldino
came to Temple to study pharmacology and received
his PhD in 1980. He pursued postdoctoral study at the
University of Pennsylvania and at Rutgers University
before joining DuPont as a senior research biologist
in 1982.
Baldino founded Cephalon Inc. in 1987 and, as the
company’s chair and chief executive officer, led its transi-
tion from a privately held organization to one of the largest
publicly traded biotechnology companies in the U.S.  
In December 2001, Baldino was elected to the Temple
University Board of Trustees and had since served with
distinction. 
“We will remember Frank for his energy, commitment
and creativity, which were the hallmarks of his professional
and personal life,” Trustee Chair Patrick J. O’Connor
and President Ann Weaver Hart said in a joint statement.
“Our thoughts are with Frank’s family at this very
difficult time.”
Frank joined the School of Medicine Board of Visitors
in 2003, and was its first chair, a position he held until
2007.  He also was an adjunct professor of pharmacology
in the School of Medicine.
“Frank was very important to Temple and to me,
personally,” School of Medicine Dean John M. Daly,
MED ’73, says. “He was a devoted adviser and friend. For
that, I am extremely grateful. I know the university joins
me in sadness over this untimely loss for his family,
friends and colleagues.”
Baldino’s leadership in business was even more signifi-
cant than his impact at Temple. In 2007, he was named
one of the “100 Most Inspiring People” by PharmaVOICE
magazine. He also received the first Hubert J.P. Schoemaker
Leadership Award, which recognizes leaders in the biosci-
ences who best exemplify the spirit of innovation in
Pennsylvania. In 2009, Temple University awarded him
a Certificate of Honor from the School of Medicine, one
of the highest honors the university bestows on alumni.
—Maria Raha

Winter 2011 13
 The Future Comes in to Focus
By Maria Raha

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campus and applying for enrollment have surged, making strategic vision for the future, will power Temple’s growth
the university more competitive than ever before. The and development over the coming decade.
$380 million Access to Excellence fundraising campaign Guiding the physical development of Main Campus
was a success, providing the resources for capital projects is the Temple 20/20 framework, a plan that ensures that
such as the Medical Education and Research Building Temple’s flagship campus is an inviting destination for
and Alter Hall, as well as for scholarships, service initia- students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors well into
tives and academic programming. the 21st century.
The arts at Temple have gained national and interna- Through Temple 20/20, Main Campus will be an
tional attention, from the award-winning Temple increasingly enriching and enjoyable place to live, work,
Theaters and Temple Opera Theater to new opportuni- study and visit. Some changes, such as improved signage
ties created by the renovated Temple Performing Arts and pathways, will bring consistency and definition to
Center (formerly the Baptist Temple) and the Tyler campus. Others, such as green spaces, retail and resources
School of Art relocation to Main Campus. Meanwhile, for the public, will strengthen ties with the surrounding
private investment in North Philadelphia, particularly community. Temple’s relationship with its neighbors
around Broad Street, has brought new residential, dining also will be fortified as the campus grows up, not out:
and shopping options, including the new Fresh Grocer Temple 20/20 will maximize the university’s current space.

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Living and Learning
Temple 20/20 will further enhance life for students and
neighbors. Perhaps most noticeably, Temple’s presence
on Broad Street—through additional retail space, new
and upgraded facilities, and more—will enrich living and
learning in North Philadelphia. The new development
on Broad Street will create a thriving, round-the-clock
urban campus for the thousands of students who live there.
At the south end of Main Campus, a new residence
complex will soon rise at the corner of Cecil B. Moore
Avenue and Broad Street. The complex will add more
than 1,500 beds, campus dining and street-level retail
space. Along with the nearby Fresh Grocer, the residence
complex will both add more amenities to the neighbor-
hood surrounding Temple and help define the southern
gateway to Main Campus.
Two blocks north, across from Temple’s main gates at
Broad Street and Polett Walk (formerly Berks Street),
a proposed 21st-century library will make research tools,
technology, and cultural and educational events available
to local residents and students alike. In front of the build-
ing, a public plaza will mark the library as a social, intel-
lectual and community hub for Temple and its neighbors.
Immediately next to the new library site, renovation
and expansion of Pearson and McGonigle halls is under
way already. The athletics and recreation buildings will
feature a new third floor, and will contain additional
athletic courts, exercise space, classrooms, faculty and
coaching staff offices; upgraded studios for the Department
of Dance; new men’s and women’s basketball practice
courts; and a new front atrium that will further increase
retail opportunities at the street level.
In addition to those renovations, Temple University
Fitness—a new 20,000-square-foot center at Cecil B.
Moore Avenue and Broad Street, across the street from
the site of the residential complex—features new workout
machines and strengthening equipment, offering students
more ways to maintain healthful lifestyles.
These new and renovated facilities, as well as additional
trees and greenery on Broad Street, will augment
Temple’s presence along Philadelphia’s main thorough-
fare, increase both convenience and campus amenities
for students and local residents, and make Temple’s 24/7
urban campus even more vibrant.
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Leading the Way
At the same time that Temple 20/20 is guiding the physical
development of Main Campus, the university’s two-year-
old Academic Strategic Compass provides direction for
Temple’s academic growth. Its four main priorities
for the future of Temple—Opportunities for Success,
Metro-Engagement, Research Excellence and Global
Commitment—all support the central ideal of Temple
as a local, national and international destination.
Together, the Academic Strategic Compass and the
Temple 20/20 Main Campus framework reinforce
Temple’s mission of providing access to a world-class
education. The university will increasingly be a place
that both provides intellectual stimulation and serves
as an international resource for expertise and innovative
art and research. Focusing on these four priorities will
bring to Temple the most eager, best and brightest
minds in every field of study from around the world.
In addition to the proposed new library on Broad Street,
which will provide scholars with additional research
tools, study space and library holdings, another new Main
Campus facility will bolster the university’s efforts to fos-
ter intellectual curiosity and scientific knowledge.
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Metro-Engagement
A new science, education and research facility, which
will contain laboratory and classroom space, will be built
to fuel Temple’s ongoing mission to attract talented
scholars to the university’s already outstanding research
community and provide students with abundant opportu-
nities for discovery.
Temple 20/20 intends to keep the whole university
competitive. Increasing campus amenities such as athlet-
ics and recreation facilities, and new research tools and
space means that Temple can continue to compete
seriously for students at the top of their class, and faculty
members who are leaders in their fields.
The framework also will give Temple a competitive
edge in athletics. In addition to the Pearson-McGonigle
renovation and Temple University Fitness, plans are
being made to upgrade the Edberg-Olsen facility, Temple
Football’s home base and practice space at 11th and
Diamond streets. Based on fundraising support, a $9 mil-
lion renovation is planned, to improve and expand its
strength and conditioning areas, sports medicine facilities
and academic support resources, in order to attract greater
numbers of high-performing student-athletes.
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Opportunities for Success

Global Commitment

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 Making Connections
As the vision of Temple 20/20 takes shape, the university
community will simultaneously be able to make the most
of Philadelphia’s diverse cultural and artistic offerings and
experience living, working and learning in a residential
college environment.
A large green space, planned near Polett and Liacouras
walks, will serve as Temple’s “great lawn” in the heart of
Main Campus. The new open space will foster shared
community experiences and create new spaces for events,
social interaction and self-expression.
Additional open space also will facilitate interconnected
pathways that link formerly disconnected sections of
campus, ease pedestrian traffic and provide cohesion
between the campus’s open spaces and university build-
ings. New, clearer campus signage will aid in navigation.
Furthermore, walkways will anchor the east side of
Main Campus and the Temple University SEPTA regional
rail station at Berks Street between 9th and 10th streets.
Photo Credits
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(top), Ryan S. Brandenberg (bottom left), Joseph V. Labolito (bottom right); page
18: Ryan S. Brandenberg; page 19: Joseph V. Labolito (top), Betsy Manning
(center), Lindsey Powell; page 20, Ryan S. Brandenberg (top), Joseph V. Labolito
(bottom); page 21: Joseph V. Labolito
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This visible connection between the campus and SEPTA’s
regional rail station provides another gateway between
Center City and Philadelphia’s outlying areas. Increased
emphasis on the university’s public transit options will draw
city visitors and residents to campus to explore Temple.
Other changes to Main Campus will position Temple
as a global destination for the arts. A new architecture
building, for which ground was broken in the fall, will
complete an arts quad that also includes the School of
Communications and Theater, the Tyler School of Art
and the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
Through these changes to Temple’s existing spaces on
Broad Street and Main Campus, residents and visitors will
view Temple as a place that stimulates their personal and
academic growth. As Temple 20/20 comes in to focus, the
university is poised to become a landmark for knowledge-
hungry students, adventurous artists and intrepid scientists
from around the world.
Learn more about Temple 20/20 at temple.edu/2020.
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Remote
The image below is a visu­
alization of a surfactant
micelle in water. Those
molecules are used every­
where, from detergents
over coatings to drug deliv­
ery systems.
22 Temple Review
The Institute for Computational Molecular
Science makes formerly unfathomable
experimentation possible.
Control
By Brian M. Schleter
T
hroughout history, the greatest scientific and engineering
advances have resulted from theories proven through costly,
sometimes dangerous and often repetitive forms of
experimentation.
Advances in computer technology are changing that dynamic—
rapidly. Every day, researchers use high-performance computers,
capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second, to
design safer, more effective medicines; predict the effects of climate
change; and search for new treatments for HIV, influenza and
other diseases.
Increasingly, researchers in the natural and life sciences are
turning to computational science to observe video simulations
of molecular activity. Now, researchers at Temple can utilize the
Institute for Computational Molecular Science (ICMS) in the
College of Science and Technology.
ICMS was founded in 2009 by Laura H. Carnell Professor of
Science Michael Klein, member of the esteemed National Academy
of Sciences — one of the highest honors
bestowed on a scientist —author of more than
600 publications, editor of four books and
winner of the American Physical Society’s
Aneesur Rahman prize for outstanding com-
putational research.
A leader in his field, Klein aims to bring
Temple’s research to the forefront of science
and to foster cross-disciplinary team-building
through ICMS, a new valuable tool for generat-
ing new approaches to discovery of all kinds. ICMS Director Michael
Klein (right) and ICMS
From increasing research capabilities for Associate Director Axel
joseph v. labolito
students to allowing scientists to witness Kohlmeyer are redefin­
molecular interaction visually, ICMS’s com- ing research at Temple.
puting will push the boundaries of what can be
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A C_60 molecule (or
“buckyball”) is swallowed
by a bilayer of lipid mole­
cules, a model for a cell
membrane. Researchers
study if the otherwise
inert buckyballs can have
negative effects on cell
membranes.
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accomplished — and what can be understood —  a role in Robert Kulathinal’s decision to join the
at Temple.
“Computational science is commonly described
as the third pillar of scientific discovery, beside the-
ory and experimentation,” says Axel Kohlmeyer,
associate director of ICMS and associate research
professor at Temple. “We use computers to do
experiments that cannot be done in reality.”
Building Bridges
In today’s research landscape, anyone who needs
a quick answer or has a large block of data to pro-
cess needs high-performance computing. Within
ICMS, a dozen Temple chemists, biochemists,
physicists and computer scientists use state-of-
the-art computer simulations to model molecular
behaviors. Similar to the way video games simulate
experiences based on data — but on a much more
expansive and complex level — computer models
designed by the ICMS group utilize scientific data
to verify the results of experiments put forth by
collaborating researchers.
“Providing high-performance computing tools
is a bit like being a pipefitter,” Kohlmeyer says.
“There is a certain infrastructure that has to be
available and maintained. If you pull a certain
handle, you’ll get hot water. People without that
knowledge, working by themselves, wouldn’t be
able to get hot water.”
Klein, a 16-year member of the chemistry fac-
ulty and director of the Center for Molecular
Modeling at the University of Pennsylvania, came
to Temple to found ICMS. That decision played
faculty last year.
“Temple’s successful recruitment of the ICMS
group was exemplary of the university’s commit-
ment to both innovation and excellence,” says
Kulathinal, an evolutionary geneticist and assistant
professor of biology. “It confirmed that this is a
place I wanted to be.”
His lab plans to use ICMS’s extraordinary com-
puting resources to construct three-dimensional
protein models from genome sequence data, to
understand how proteins have evolved over millions
of years. Kulathinal says the modeling might lead
to a new understanding of how proteins interact,
resulting in more effective drug treatments.
Part of Klein’s strategy is to seek seed funding
for researchers to collaborate across disciplines.
An example, he says, would be a pharmacologist
working to develop a new compound who needs
a chemist to synthesize it. The role of the ICMS
would be to use computers to help in the screen-
ing of millions of possible molecules to find
potential targets and thus reduce the workload
of the synthetic chemist. By facilitating these
conversations, the ICMS is creating an environ-
ment where “random, unexpected collisions” of
this sort can occur.
“We’re trying to build bridges,” Klein says.
Providing the Tools
Though the work of ICMS encompasses an array
of different sciences and researchers, the common
theme in all of the institute’s projects is the smart
and effective use of high-performance computing
clusters, or HPC clusters. We use computers to do
Just as bridges need sturdy foundations, the first experiments that cannot
order of business for ICMS is to build a state-of-
the-art cyberinfrastructure at Temple. The univer- be done in reality.
sity now has a hybrid GPU (graphics processing
unit)/CPU (central processing unit) cluster com- – Axel Kohlmeyer, associate director, ICMS
puter. In Temple’s case, the HPC cluster features
more than 100 nodes containing more than 1,200
processor cores, 48 Nvidia Tesla GPUs (hardware arises on the nano level can improve drug delivery.
made specifically for high-perfomance computing) “The purpose is to ‘package’ a drug so it can get
and 120 terabytes of storage. where it needs to be, instead of ‘flooding’ the body
In other words, the HPC cluster is the equiva- and thus risking side effects,” Kohlmeyer explains.
lent of hooking up approximately 2,000 laptop Another area of focus at ICMS is software
computers set to process the same information. development. Last summer, Kohlmeyer supervised
It provides more hard-drive space than 240 comput- two undergraduate students who helped improve
ers that each contain a 500-gigabyte hard drive. a simulation software package. The effect enabled a
Beyond the astounding capacity of the HPC postdoctoral researcher to run his calculations up to
cluster at Temple, ICMS also is part of TeraGrid, a 15 times faster than before, greatly improving the
cyberinfrastructure of even more powerful super- researcher’s efficiency.
computers used for scientific research, information “As I see it, the mission of ICMS, in this context,
and data sharing, which not only encourages is to share our experiences with other Temple
cross-disciplinary research, but also fosters collabo­ researchers and, in return, learn from their experi-
ration between Temple and other TeraGrid ences,” Kohlmeyer says. “Ultimately, we want to
researchers across the country. establish collaborative efforts that can solve even
more complex problems than the ones being
Targeting the Impossible worked on now.”
Most of the ICMS group’s research is literally As ICMS grows, so too will opportunities for
“trying to do the impossible,” Kohlmeyer notes, groundbreaking research at Temple.
by putting theoretical models to the test. Because “The vision for this institute is to foster collabo­
simulations are numbers-based, they know the rative, interdisciplinary, frontier research,” Klein
exact state of the whole system at any point, says. “It will take time, but it will be driven largely
allowing for perfectly controlled experiments. by recruitment. We need to recruit people aggres-
The institute’s ultimate goal — Kohlmeyer calls sively at all levels to staff centers and institutes,
it the “holy grail” of computational science — is to especially young people. This new generation of
arrive at a juncture where the molecular computer researchers is more adept at using computers to
simulations built are so accurate and detailed, they solve complex problems.” ◆
render many chemical and biological experiments
obsolete. Imagine a scenario in which a new drug Brian M. Schleter is a research freelance writer based
is proven safe and effective outside the labora- in Baltimore City, Md.
tory — where it currently takes years of high-cost
testing — and on a computer instead, with every
possible molecular interaction taken into account.
Though the technology is not there yet,
much of the current research at ICMS is helping
researchers improve drug treatments.
For example, one team is looking at the cellular
binding abilities of certain anesthesia agents.
“We know that anesthetics work, but we don’t
know how they work on the molecular level,”
Kohlmeyer explains. Understanding the molecular
activity of anesthetic agents, he says, will result in
safer anesthetics that can better target the area
of the body they are meant to act upon.
Polymer chemists in the group are using computer
simulations to unlock the secrets of nano-scale
materials. Mixing multiple polymers (chemical
compounds) and studying the new mixture that

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 Parks
Education
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ProRanger Philadelphia
prepares students for careers
with the U.S. National
Park Service.
Story by Greg Fornia, SCT ’92
Photographs by Ryan S. Brandenberg

Say the word “internship” and what comes to mind?

Students fetching coffee or making endless copies?
Or buried in spreadsheets and word processing?
Maybe doing some video editing or website design?
For Temple students in the ProRanger Philadelphia
program, “internship” can connote clearing an area
after a potential bomb threat—an unattended suit-
case—is discovered; preventing hunting on public
lands; participating in law enforcement tactical
training and being hit by more than a few paintballs.
And, unlike many other internships, their experi-
ence guarantees them a job.
ProRanger Philadelphia, one of just two new pro-
grams of its kind in the nation, began in 2010 as a
collaborative effort of the National Park Service and
Temple’s Department of Criminal Justice in the
College of Liberal Arts. Through Temple, the park
service recruits rangers by training college students.
The other program is coordinated through San
Antonio College in Texas.

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 “This is a great
opportunity to
be part of
something important.”
–Giancarlo Graziani, Class of 2011
Parks that participate in Temple’s program include
Valley Forge and Independence national historical
sites in the Philadelphia area, Gettysburg National
Military Park in Pennsylvania, Fort McHenry
National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore,
Prince William Forest Park, Colonial National
Historical Park in Virginia, Morristown National
Historical Park in New Jersey and Antietam
National Battlefield in Maryland.
Thirteen Temple students who major in criminal
justice, geography and urban studies, political sci-
ence and other related disciplines were selected to be
part of the first ProRanger cohort in 2010. The pro-
gram spans three years and includes a significant law
enforcement component. Students will attend the
Department of Criminal Justice’s 13-week Seasonal
Law Enforcement Training Program Academy, which
includes natural resource law, defensive tactics, fire-
arms and more. Those who successfully complete the
program will be guaranteed full-time jobs as park
rangers after graduation.
Temple is well-equipped to conduct such training.
Since 1968, the Department of Criminal Justice has
provided law enforcement instruction. The criminal
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justice training unit at Temple educates more than
3,000 law enforcement officers every year, from state
constables and deputy sheriffs to parole officers.
Many police departments in Pennsylvania send offi-
cers to Temple’s Police Officers’ In-Service Training
programs, which are held at Temple University Fort
Washington and at a facility in Bucks County, Pa.
“ProRanger is a true partnership between Temple
and the Park Service to attract new rangers to urban
and other national parks on the East Coast,” says
Anthony Luongo III, CLA ’96, ’01, director of the
Criminal Justice Training Programs at Temple. He
notes that approximately six in 10 law enforcement
rangers in the Park Service’s Northeast region will
be eligible for retirement over the next five years.
“We want to help fill these positions with talented
students who represent the nation.”
A Range of Experiences
Giancarlo Graziani, a geography and urban studies
major in the Class of 2011, never thought about a
career in law enforcement until he heard about
ProRanger Philadelphia. “This is a great opportunity
to be a part of something important,” Graziani says,
“and it is much less stressful to know that I will have
a job when I graduate.”
Graziani spent 12 weeks at Independence National
Historical Park learning how it operates. He started
by taking every tour, then joined the grounds crew
and eventually worked with the cultural resources
management team, which includes an archaeologist,
an historian, a curator and more. For the weeks
devoted to law enforcement, he shadowed park rang-
ers and acted as an extra set of eyes and ears. “This
program opens up doors to the Park Service and to
the federal government,” says Graziani, who would
like to work at a national park in the Washington,
D.C., area eventually. “It’s a springboard to so many
opportunities.”
Rosalia Fiorello, a student in the Class of 2011,
was stationed at Valley Forge National Historical
Park. She was impressed with how the Park Service
operates, but discovered that a career in law enforce-
ment is not for her. The political science major was
one of only two of the students enrolled in Pro-Ranger
to participate in firearms and tactical training at Fort
Dix in New Jersey. But what intrigued her most were
the proceedings she observed in the park’s makeshift
courtroom, presided over by a local judge.
“I heard cases involving illegal parking and dogs
off leashes and land disputes,” Fiorello recalls.
“I want to go to law school and possibly study envi-
ronmental law. That’s one way I can work with the
Park Service in the future.”
For Michael Hanna, Class of 2012, ProRanger
offers a chance to get out from behind a desk and
“work outside helping others.” Hanna, a criminal
justice major, grew up on a farm in Syria watching
American action movies and the 1980s television
show Knight Rider. “I always wanted to save people, Pages 26–27: Last summer,
seniors Giancarlo Graziani
solve crimes and be a good citizen.” and Melissa Burch worked
Working at Morristown National Historical Park with the National Park
Service at Independence
in New Jersey, site of a Continental Army encamp- National Historical Park
ment during the American Revolutionary War, in Philadelphia.
Hanna experienced every aspect of park operations. Above: Seniors Rosalia
“I learned something new every day,” he says, Fiorello and Keith DiFabio
learned about being park
“from preserving historic documents and understand- rangers at Valley Forge
ing federal law to identifying local plants and run- National Historical Park
in Pennsylvania.
ning a museum.”
“ProRanger provides both comprehensive training
and multiple internship experiences, addressing
everything students need to prepare for a career with
the Park Service,” Luongo says. Going forward, the
program will eventually include an academic compo-
nent, a sequence of one-credit seminars covering the
mission, operations and other aspects of the Park
Service. Luongo predicts that the number of Temple
students enrolled in ProRanger will increase from
the current 13 to 48.
“Temple had everything the Park Service was
looking for in a partner: a diverse student body, an
excellent criminal justice program and a large train-
ing capacity,” says Luongo, who envisions similar
Temple programs serving the needs of other federal
law enforcement divisions in the future. “More
importantly, they saw Temple’s leadership in crimi-
nal justice and law enforcement training.” ◆
To read more about the students’ experiences, visit the
ProRanger Philadelphia blog: prorangerphila.blogspot.com.
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 Jus L tice
The

eague
Alumni of the
Beasley School
of Law have
been leading
the fight for Alternately branded as media-savvy, self-absorbed, socially stilted and
worldly, the current generation of youth under age 18 might be savvier
juvenile justice than earlier generations, but its members still need guidance—especially
those who must navigate the justice and child welfare systems each year.
At the end of 2009, more than 16,000 children were living in foster care
for 35 years. in Pennsylvania*, the list of the commonwealth’s child abuse victims
was 3,777 names long**, and there were 19,274 juvenile arrests for every
Story by Maria Raha 100,000 commonwealth residents in 2008.***
These and other at-risk youth populations across the nation have been,
Illustrations by
in some way, protected by the work of the Juvenile Law Center, a public
Lynda Cloud Weber
interest law firm founded by Beasley School of Law graduates Judith
Chomsky, CLA ’63, LAW ’75, Marsha Levick, LAW ’76, Philip Margolis,
LAW ’75, and Robert Schwartz, LAW ’75, that has been central to
juvenile justice and legislation since its founding.
Now headed by Levick, deputy director and chief counsel, and Schwartz,
executive director, the Juvenile Law Center is a lodestar for policy,
advocacy, information and education about children’s rights and juvenile
law. It gained national media attention—and served as a plotline for more
than one television crime drama—in 2009 for uncovering the “cash for
kids” scandal, in which two judges in Luzerne County, Pa., received kick-
backs from for-profit juvenile detention centers; in return, a substantial
number of the nearly 4,000 children who appeared in the county’s juvenile
court were either detained or placed at the facilities. “Many of them were
adjudicated delinquent for conduct which typically might warrant only
a slap on the wrist,” Levick says.
For her role in shedding light on the scandal, Levick was named The
Philadelphia Inquirer’s 2009 “Citizen of the Year” with Juvenile Law Center
Associate Director Lourdes Rosado. And the juvenile cases in question
were cleared by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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 Setting up Shop
Aside from wanting to practice law together, the four Law
School graduates had good reason to focus their practice on
children. “We had an interest in advocating for individuals
who didn’t have access to the courts, who didn’t have a rec-
ognized status, and certainly kids rose to the top as a group

“The issues of fairness, that needed representation,” Levick recalls.

Then called the Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia, it
opened in 1975, when legislation protecting juveniles in
preventing harm and the justice system was nearly brand new. The Supreme Court
decision affording the constitutional right to counsel to

creating opportunity accused juveniles had been issued only eight years earlier,
in 1967. And, Schwartz explains, the 1970s was a watershed
decade for children’s rights legislation.
cut across our justice “There was this building going up and we were on the
ground floor,” Schwartz says. Among other legislation, the

system work and our Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law, which requires
those working with children to report abuse, was passed in
1975. The Pennsylvania Juvenile Act, which guarantees
foster care work.” minors legal representation in dependency cases—those that
decide guardianship, particularly following abuse—had been

— Robert Schwartz, LAW ’75 passed into law in 1972.

executive director, Juvenile Law Center
The young lawyers were able to set up shop in the waiting
room used by Chomsky’s husband, a cardiologist. Schwartz
says they took the cases that came to them, from referrals
to walk-ins, and dealt with everything from runaways to
special education.
“We were generalists for kids, and really the first office in
the country to be anything like that,” he says. “To figure out
how to operate and to struggle with all of the legal, ethical
and substantive issues those kids faced was eye-opening.”
Here were four new lawyers, he notes, who not only had
to learn how to be lawyers, but also had to learn how to
represent clients for which there were no established prece­
dents. For example, what is the procedure for representing
1-year-olds?
Though they were driven by enthusiasm, free office space
and a hunger for social change, Schwartz says that the afford-
ability of the Law School also played a part: They left school
with limited financial burdens and could survive on meager
resources. They also received their first grant from the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration, and assembled a
board of directors that included Temple Professor of Law and
later, Dean, Robert Reinstein (who serves as a member of
the board today).
By 1979, four years after the center was established, it had
handled 25 major cases involving juvenile rights. Through-
out the following decades, the influence of the Juvenile Law
Center expanded from Philadelphia to Pennsylvania, and
then across the nation. As their scope widened, their focus
also shifted, from individual representation to legislation
and policy.
Many legal victories of the Juvenile Law Center have
occurred in all areas of children’s well-being, from education,
healthcare and treatment in detention facilities, to fair
punishment, probation procedures, adoption law and child
abuse legislation.

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Deputy Director and Chief Counsel Marsha Levick, LAW ’76, and Executive Director Robert Schwartz, LAW ’75, have transformed the juvenile
justice system through the Juvenile Law Center, which they helped to found in 1975.
“The issues of fairness, preventing harm and creating
opportunity cut across our justice system work and our
foster care work,” Schwartz says.
Framing the Debate
Today, the center’s recommendations often are at the heart
of national dialogues about juvenile justice. The Juvenile
Law Center filed a brief for the landmark 2005 Roper v.
Simmons decision, which declared death sentences in
juvenile cases unconstitutional. In 2009, it served as lead
counsel for a brief filed for the U.S. Supreme Court’s con-
sideration of juvenile life-without-parole sentences. With
dozens of other organizations, the Juvenile Law Center
urged the court to take psychological development into
account when ruling. Now, juvenile life-without-parole
sentencing is limited to cases of homicide.
Another member of the Temple community offered input
in the same hearings. Laurence Steinberg, Laura H. Carnell
Professor of Psychology at Temple and a national expert
on the adolescent mind, served as scientific consultant for
the American Psychological Association brief for juvenile
life-without-parole sentencing. The Supreme Court’s deci-
sion relied significantly on the argument that adolescents
are fundamentally different from adults, shown in scientific
studies of brain and behavioral development.
The Juvenile Law Center also influenced Steinberg’s
MacArthur Foundation research network, Adolescent
Development and Juvenile Justice.
“Bob Schwartz was an active member of the research
network I directed, and the collaboration between the
researchers in the group and advocates like Bob and Marsha
were key factors in its success,” Steinberg says. “The Juvenile
Law Center is the nation’s leading organization engaged in
translating the findings from developmental research into
policy and practice.”
Professors Steinberg and Reinstein are not the center’s
only Temple connections: Levick serves as an adjunct
professor of law.
“The Temple graduates who founded the Juvenile Law
Center represent what drives most people to attend law
school,” Beasley School of Law Dean JoAnne Epps says.
“I believe that deep in our hearts we all have the passion
to experience what they did in the ‘cash for kids’ scandal,
which is to identify something that doesn’t seem right and
set about to fix it.”
Regardless of the number of landmark victories Schwartz
and Levick have celebrated throughout the center’s history,
the zeal that propelled the center’s early days is still alive.
And no matter how issues of justice evolve, their core
motivation remains the same. As Schwartz puts it, “We’ve
found different ways to change the world.” ◆
* Children’s Bureau. Foster Care FY 2002–FY 2009 Entries, Exits and Numbers of
Children in Care on the Last Day of Each Federal Fiscal Year, 2009.
** Department of Public Welfare. 2009 Child Abuse Annual Report, 2009.
*** Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Number of Total Arrests and
Arrest Rates per 100,000 Population: Pennsylvania.
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THE GIVING
spirit

One
for the Team
Donald, SBM ’59, and Nancy Resnick
jump-start funding for the Pearson-
McGonigle renovation.

W hen Donald Resnick, SBM ’59, was a freshman studying

business administration at Temple in 1955, the men’s
basketball team finished their season by competing in the NCAA
Final Four Championship. (They lost to Iowa.) In addition, he
was an Owls halfback in 1956 and 1957, played freshman football
and spent a year on the wrestling team. Resnick’s loyalty to the
Cherry and White endures. “Temple’s athletic program played a
great part in helping shape my life,” he says.
When he graduated, Donald began a 40-year career in real estate
that eventually led him to found D.J. Resnick Co., a real estate
brokerage and finance company, in 1972, and then, in 1980, the
Acorn Development Corp. As Acorn’s president and partner,
Donald oversaw 1.5 million square feet of suburban office buildings.
After selling its portfolio in 1997, Acorn focused solely on asset
and property management for third-party owners.
His wife, Nancy, attended Temple as a psychology major 10
years after Donald did, and subsequently worked as a teacher of
students with learning disabilities before staying at home to raise
their two children.
But Temple was never far from the couple’s minds. And in spring
2010, they stepped forward to significantly bolster the athletics
program they have always taken pride in. When Temple Athletics
set about renovating Pearson and McGonigle halls to upgrade the
space — which includes new regulation-size men’s and women’s bas-
ketball courts that are open around the clock — the Resnicks made

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 THE GIVING
spirit

joseph v. labolito
Donald Resnick, SBM ‘59 (kneeling, center), was a halfback for the Owls
in 1956 and 1957. He also played freshman football in 1955.

a $1.5 million gift to name the men’s court, which will be known
as the Donald and Nancy Resnick Court.
Additionally, their gift will support the Student-Athlete Academic
Nancy and Donald, SBM ‘59, Resnick and Temple Basketball Head Coach Fran
Advising and Success Center, which will be called the Nancy and Dunphy (right) add their signatures to a beam that will be used in the construc-
Donald Resnick Academic Support Center. tion of the new basketball practice facility in Pearson and McGonigle halls.
(Also see “Campus News,” page 7.)
“The educational element is just as important, if not more impor-
tant, than playing sports,” Nancy says. “We all know that only a few
Owls will become professional athletes.”
Their gift to Pearson-McGonigle reflects the Resnicks’ personal
passions. Not only does the couple follow the basketball team, but
they also are committed to community service. For example, Nancy
serves on the American Cancer Society Women’s Board and says
that though her children are now adults, she still encourages them
to perform volunteer work.
Donald’s ties to Temple Basketball go beyond his interest in
It feels good to do something
sports. After all, it was when he was a member of the national board
of Coaches vs. Cancer—a collaboration between the National for Temple that is enduring and
Association of Basketball Coaches and the American Cancer Society
that fundraises for cancer awareness, education and research — that meaningful. — Donald Resnick, SBM ’59
he met Temple Men’s Basketball Head Coach Fran Dunphy, then
with the University of Pennsylvania, approximately 15 years ago.
Their leadership in the organization sparked a longtime friendship.
When Dunphy joined Temple in 2006, Donald hurried to campus
to find out what the new coach needed to continue the momentum
of the program. “He said, ‘I need a practice facility,’ ” Donald recalls.
“At that point, I said to him, ‘We’re going to help you get it.’ ”
Four years later, the nearly 6,000-square-foot practice facility is
about to come to fruition. Built atop the current structure, it will
feature separate men’s and women’s practice courts, locker rooms,
recruiting lounges, coaches’ offices, a film-study area, a sports medi-
cine center and a weight room. The facility will open in fall 2011.
The renovation is part of Temple 20/20, the framework that will

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 THE GIVING
spirit
joseph v. labolito

President Ann Weaver Hart (second from right) and University Trustee Lewis
Katz, CST ‘63 (right), join the Resnicks in commemorating the final beam that
will be added to the new Pearson-McGonigle basketball practice facility. (Also
see “Campus News,” page 7.)
Temple did a lot for both of us,
and we always like to help
when it will make a difference
in people’s lives.
guide the university’s growth over the next 10 years. (To read more
about Temple 20/20, see “Temple 20/20: The Future Comes in to
Focus,” page 14.)
“In order for Temple to successfully compete and recruit players
at the Division 1 level, a practice facility is much needed. Thanks
to President Ann Weaver Hart and her vision, it is becoming
a reality,” Donald says. The enhanced athletics and recreation
facilities will help Temple to continue to attract high-performing,
disciplined student-athletes.
Dunphy says, “The university and basketball family is very hum-
bled by the support Donald and Nancy have shown our program.
Their gift represents both faith in the university and enthusiasm
for Temple basketball.”
Donald also serves as co-chair of the Pearson-McGonigle fund-
raising campaign with Aaron McKie, SSW ’02, assistant coach of
the Philadelphia 76ers and one of the numerous NBA athletes
Temple’s basketball program has produced.
“Temple has a rich basketball tradition comprising legendary
coaches, players, fans and victories,” says Temple Director of
Athletics Bill Bradshaw. “This practice facility will honor the hard
work and determination of those who have made our university
great. It represents a renewed commitment to elevate both our
men’s and women’s basketball programs to a new era of excellence.”
When the Resnicks talk about the university, they repeatedly
return to the idea of giving back. “Temple did a lot for both of us,
and we always like to help when it will make a difference in peo-
— Nancy Resnick ple’s lives,” Nancy says.
Donald adds that both he and Nancy deeply value their involve-
ment in the Temple community. “We’ve had so much enjoyment
over the past 25 years with the basketball program; it has become
part of our lives. It feels good to do something for Temple that is
enduring and meaningful.” — Maria Raha

To make a gift to Temple, contact the Office of Institutional

Advancement at 215-926-2500 or giving@temple.edu, or visit
myowlspace.com/makeagift.

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 ALUMNI
connection

What’s Your One Thing? How can you

make a big difference to today’s Temple?
In the previous issue of Temple Review, I asked
alumni to find one meaningful way to connect
to Temple University. From mentoring current
students to attending campus events to support-
ing scholarships, there are many ways to make
a positive impact on Temple and its students.
Working with the Temple Career Center and the
women’s lacrosse team, alumni who are Comcast
employees met with students throughout the fall
semester to provide networking opportunities, an
introduction to the corporate world and guidance
in clarifying their career goals.

I’ve heard from numerous alumni who are excited
by the idea of finding their “one thing,” and from
others who have come up with innovative ways to
move our university forward. I want to highlight
one novel effort by some of Comcast employees.
They are called Comcast Connectors, a group of
Temple alumni who now work at Comcast in
Philadelphia. They have agreed to help student-
athletes navigate today’s tough job market.
This effort not only offered students valuable
employment connections, but also demonstrated
that alumni can play a powerful role in the lives
of students. I hope this story inspires you to find
your “one thing,” and to make a big difference
to today’s Temple.
Bret Perkins, SBM ’91
President
Temple University Alumni Association

One thing: Network with

Temple University Young Alumni
Temple University Young Alumni offers many opportunities

ryan s. brandenberg
for graduates of 2001–2010 to meet new friends, connect with
former classmates and network at social, career, educational and
cultural events.

In November, TUYA held its 13th Annual Business Card Exchange

and Casino Night in Philadelphia, attracting more than 200
Temple graduates. Another way younger Owls can enrich their
professional lives is by participating in the Moving Forward
Professional Series, workshops and seminars designed to help
recent graduates compete in today’s tough job market.

Through TUYA, young alumni also can help today’s students

achieve professional success. Alumni of all ages are invited to meet
with Temple students and share career expertise and experiences
at the upcoming Student Networking Night with Alumni Mentors,
Tuesday, Feb. 15, on Main Campus.
Christine Griffith, CHPSW ‘10, and Jason Petrasanta, SBM ‘06, attended the
13th Annual Business Card Exchange and Casino Night hosted by Temple
To find out more about being a mentor and TUYA, visit University Young Alumni.
myowlspace.com/youngalumni.

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connection

Get involved
Join the conversation with the Temple Idea
The Temple Idea, a new series for Temple alumni in cities across the country,
offers stimulating discussion on a range of topics. So far, Temple faculty members
have led discussions on the Surrealist art of Salvador Dalí; the science of how we
make decisions; personality and politics; and what the success of the Starbucks coffee
chain says about the U.S. The next Temple Idea event is scheduled for Thursday,
Feb. 10, in Phoenix. To learn more and to register, visit myowlspace.com/IdeaPHX.
Kate Kemery, SBM ‘06

ryan s. brandenberg
Temple alumni, parents and friends gathered for the Temple Idea, where the university’s most engaging faculty members, such as Laura H. Carnell Professor
of Education Psychology Frank Farley (right), explore fascinating ideas in art, science, politics and more. In addition to Philadelphia, the Temple Idea has already
traveled to Atlanta and New York City.

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show your pride

Return to Campus in 2010–2011!
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1, 3. Alumni and friends rally for the 3 4

Owls at the Temple University
Alumni Association Homecoming
tailgate at Lincoln Financial Field.

2. Before the Homecoming game,

the parking lot of Lincoln Financial
Field is filled with alumni, students
and other Owls fans sharing their
Temple spirit.

4. An alumna shows her pride during

a reunion for Temple University
Black Alumni Alliance, held during
Homecoming Weekend.

On Oct. 16, approximately 2,000 students, parents, alumni and friends gathered at
Lincoln Financial Field to share their Temple pride at Homecoming 2010. But the
celebration was much more than tailgate parties and cheering Saturday’s winning
game against Bowling Green. From reunions for Temple University Black Alumni
Alliance, Temple’s marching bands and Delta Sigma Theta to a Sunday brunch for
parents and students, the Temple community celebrated the Cherry and White in
myriad ways throughout the weekend.

In addition to alumni events happening

across the country this year, another great
opportunity to visit campus, reconnect with
fellow Owls and celebrate Temple pride is
Alumni Weekend, April 15–17!

See you there!

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1950s
Leonard Zatz, EDU ’50, ’69,
is a retired teacher who worked
for Frankford High School in
Philadelphia and was twice honored
as “District Teacher of the Year.”
He is a World War II veteran who
was awarded a Bronze Medal,
a World War II Victory Medal, a
Combat Medical Badge 1st Award
and more.
Joseph G. Burcher, EDU ’53, ’59,
co-authored Remembering South
Cape May: The Jersey Shore Town
That Vanished into the Sea, pub-
lished by History Press. Burcher also
is an associate professor emeritus at
the College of New Jersey in Ewing.
John M. Rosenfeld, CLA ’58, ’60,
published Powertake: Get What
You Want Without Hurting Others
with iUniverse Inc.
Stephanie Sherman Cohen,
CLA ’59, SED ’81, co-authored
her third book, The Nonstop
Garden. It was released by Timber
Press in 2010. She also founded
the arboretum on the Ambler
Campus and was its first director.
Grace D. Napier, EDU ’59, ’68,
published Meet My Girls: 80th
Anniversary of the Seeing Eye
Inc., 1929–2009, a book about
seeing-eye dogs, with Wheatmark.
She has 69 years’ experience with
10 different guide dogs.
1960s
Richard DeBlasio, ENG ’61,
received the 2010 Institute of
Electronic and Electrical Engineers
Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award.
The institute honored him for
contributions to the standardization
of interconnection technology for
the electric power supply system.
Gerald Fox, ENG ’65, retired from a
career in engineering with Lockheed
Martin Corp. in Cherry Hill, N.J.
Neil Phillips, CST ’65, one of the
founding physicians of Delaware
Valley Urology LLC, has retired from
the practice.
Niles S. Benn, SBM ’67, of Benn
Law Firm in York, Pa., spoke at the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Associa-
tion’s 2010 Media Lawyers’ Confer-
ence in Hershey, Pa. His talk was
titled The Right-to-Know Law and
Motions to Quash Subpoenas
Affecting the Media.
Stephen H. Frishberg, SBM ’67,
LAW ’71, ’96, a shareholder in
Deeb, Petrakis, Blum & Murphy in
Philadelphia, was elected first vice
president of the Golden Slipper
Club & Charities of Philadelphia, a
philanthropic organization. In addi-
tion, he recently presented a legal
seminar called Promise Breakers:
An Artist’s Legal Guide to Conflicts,
Court and Contracts.
Arthur Neil Lebowitz, CST ’68,
MED ’72, co-wrote The Healthcare
Survival Guide, which won an Apex
Award for Publishing Excellence and
an Independent Book Publishers
Association Benjamin Franklin Award
for “Best First Book (Nonfiction).”
Stanley Uhr, SBM ’68, LAW ’72,
was appointed corporate counsel
of Philadelphia-based Campus
Apartments and will provide legal
advice to the executive team.
He also will serve as a liaison for
outside counsel.
Deborah Gross-Zuchman,
CLA ’69, has published a
book of poems and paintings,
Windows Into War (A Mother’s
Lament), with Abingdon Square
Publishing Ltd.
1970s
Harold B. Yaffe, DEN ’70,
a partner in the Dental Spa in
Philadelphia, was honored by the
American Jewish Committee with
its 2010 Human Relations Award.
The award recognizes Yaffe’s com-
mitment to the community and his
contributions to institutions that
enhance the quality of life in the
Philadelphia region.
James Harman Nesbit, CLA ’71,
DEN ’74, was inducted into the
Harrisburg (Pa.) Area Community
College Circle of Distinction. He
was honored for his efforts to
bring compassionate care to those
in need. Nesbit and his wife, Sheila,
worked on an HIV/AIDS project
in Swaziland, Africa. He also has
worked in the Amazon, and with
members of the Hualapai tribe
in Arizona.
Albert P. Black Jr., SBM ’72, ’76, 
was awarded the Senior-Level
Healthcare Executive Award from
the American College of Healthcare
Executives. He currently serves
as the chief operating officer of
the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Joseph R. Pozzuolo, SBM ’72,
LAW ’75, led two seminars for
Neumann College’s CLE/CPE (con-
tinuing legal education/continuing
professional education) program.
He co-presented A Graying Popula-
tion: Estate Planning for the Aging
Middle-Class Suburban Client with
Lisa A. Leggieri, LAW ’08; and also
presented How to Integrate an
Estate Plan for Succession Planning
for a Suburban Closely Held Busi-
ness Including Ethics.
Lou Rubino, CLA ’72, ’75,
LAW ’78, an attorney in Boulder,
Colo., spoke at a mental health law
program sponsored by Continuing
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or a few brief hours, the reality of what

Michael Vonal Photography

could happen outside the walls of the
USO center in Baghdad fades into
the background.
Instead, soldiers from the Army’s 1st
Cavalry Division, stationed in Iraq, focus on
both rock ‘n’ roll and trying to outplay mem-
bers of the Philadelphia Eagles.
The event is the result of Pro vs. G.I. Joe,
a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 by
Addie Zinone, SCT ’99, and her husband,
Greg (pictured with their son, Hudson).
Zinone is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army
Reserve who served two tours of duty during
Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now, she and
Greg tour the U.S. joining soldiers in the
field with professional athletes through
webcams and online gaming technology.
They compete against each other while Wounded Warrior Project — a group that “Their injuries include traumatic brain
playing video games such as Guitar Hero and advocates for wounded soldiers—and spon- injuries, multiple amputations, gunshot
Call of Duty. sored by Armed Forces Insurance, Pro vs. wounds, post-traumatic stress disorder and
“Hundreds, if not thousands, of troops G.I. Joe created Rehabbing with the Troops, more,” Zinone explains. The Wounded
have participated in our Pro vs. G.I. Joe a program that brings together wounded Warrior Arena allows troops to document
events,” Zinone says. “In February 2010, we soldiers and professional athletes. As part of their participation in Rehabbing with the
worked with the NBA to arrange for one of this program, the athletes act as soldiers’ Troops through images, videos, blogs, statis-
our ‘wounded warriors’ to play NBA Live 10 trainers during workouts conducted with tics and more.
against the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry on gaming equipment. According to Zinone, the School of
the JumboTron at Cowboys Stadium [in Thus far, Rehabbing with the Troops has Communications and Theater’s Department
Dallas]. It was the largest-ever screen on recruited the New Orleans Saints, the San of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and
which a video game was played.” Pro vs. G.I. Diego Chargers and the Washington Mass Media helped her hone the skills that
Joe also has held events at Superbowl XLIV Redskins as trainers. The program also secured her a role in communications in the
and the Indy 500. includes an online community called the Army. Her Temple education, she says, gave
This year, in partnership with the USO Wounded Warrior Arena, where soldiers can her “the tools, both personally and profes-
(United Service Organizations) and the find peer support while they heal. sionally, to be successful.” —Jeff Cronin

Legal Education in Colorado Inc. His
topic was “Uniqueness of the Client
Relationship: Developing an Effective
Strategy for Client Presentation to the
Court and to a Jury.”  University in Philadelphia. The award
Fred M. Stein, SCT ’72, was elected
to the board of directors of Susan G.
Komen for the Cure Philadelphia. He
has served as event director for the 20
years the Susan G. Komen Philadelphia
Race for the Cure has taken place.
John M. Daly, MED ’73, dean of the
School of Medicine at Temple, was
honored with the Rev. Clarence E.
Shaffrey, S.J., Award by Saint Joseph’s
recognizes outstanding achievements
in the medical profession.
Aaron S. Hasiuk, CLA ’73,
MED ’77, ’83, was named chair of
the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology at Lower Bucks Hospital
in Bristol, Pa. He also is a solo practi-
tioner at Bucks County Women’s
Healthcare, also in Bristol.
Michael S. King, DEN ’73, owns a
pediatric dental practice. He incorpo-
rates comedy into his practice, and
regularly performs at comedy clubs
in New York City, such as Broadway
Comedy Club, Comix and New
York Comedy Club.

Winter 2011 41
Warren Kantorbenefiting the nation
Business, Kantor began a lengthy career in more efficiently, more effectively,” he says.
ryan S. Brandenberg

investment and accounting. Benefits Data
Trust was founded in 2003, when he began
working with the Pennsylvania Department
of Aging PACE program, which provides
prescription assistance to low-income
seniors. Through a brochure that accompa-
nied PACE’s monthly renewal mailings,
Kantor offered to help recipients find out
their eligibility for other benefits. Within
three months of implementing that strategy,
Kantor had received 10,000 phone calls.
Since then, through partnerships with the
City of Philadelphia, AARP, the Department
of Public Welfare and more, Benefits Data
Trust has consistently faced new challenges
and expanded its purview.
Through data sharing, comparing lists and
streamlining the application process, the
organization is a conduit for applications and
the government agencies that provide
benefits.
One of the group’s latest projects is
BenePhilly, through which tens of thousands
of Philadelphia residents who could receive
aid but are not enrolled can apply for five
benefits programs during the course of one
phone call.
“Our database captures all of the informa-
tion and screens people for what they’re eli-
gible for,” he explains. “The call center
determines applicants’ eligibility and collects
the information that is needed by the admin-

W
arren Kantor, SBM ’62, ’65, has
passed the 200,000 mark. Though
he is an investor, this is a figure
for neither stocks nor bonds. Instead,
200,000 is the number of people Kantor has
helped apply for benefits programs as founder
and chief executive officer of Benefits Data
Trust, a nonprofit organization that aims to
streamline enrollment for those eligible for
low-income benefits, including prescription
drug coverage, Medicare benefits, food
stamps and more.
After earning both his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from the Fox School of
The group supports individuals through
complex application processes and employs
a database to assess information from various
government agencies, to find other benefits
for which they might also be eligible. Indi-
vidual applications and documentation are
then reviewed to avoid unnecessary rejec-
tion. “Now, we have a list of 1.4 million
Pennsylvanians who are eligible for more
than one benefit and are only signed up to
receive one,” he says.
Kantor has another goal for Benefits Data
Trust. “It’s becoming a pilot program for the
government, to show them how to do things
istering agency.”
Benefits Data Trust also receives informa-
tion about those who apply for Medicaid
benefits and helps them apply for food
stamps. The group also aids Pennsylvania
residents who are nearing the end of their
unemployment compensation in applying for
food stamps.
“We’re trying to change policy within the
agencies and we’re trying to help people,”
Kantor says. “I think it could become a
national model with an even bigger impact.”
—Maria Raha

Edward J. Strauman, MUS ’73,
assistant professor of music at Chestnut
Hill College in Philadelphia, has been
named a Yamaha artist/educator.
Yamaha Corp., a manufacturer of
musical equipment and instruments,
uses that title to recognize musicians
who are among the best in their field.
Michael P. Cooney EDU ’74, ’76,
retired commanding officer of the
Philadelphia Police Department’s
Training Bureau, wrote Dublin Odyssey,
which will be released in January
2011, and Imperfect Contrition, which
will be published in spring 2011.
Thomas J. Lyons, SBM ’74, wrote You
Can’t Get to Heaven on the Frankford
El, a book that addresses growing up
during the middle of the 20th century
in Philadelphia.
Valerie Rossman, TYL ’74, had a solo
art exhibition at Rosenfeld Gallery in
Philadelphia. Her acrylic paintings on
aluminum and pastel drawings are
based on the contemporary living pat-
terns that involve multitasking and
fragmented lifestyles.
Nan Smith, TYL ’74, was part of
the 2010 Earth Matters art exhibition
at the Galleries at Moore College of
Art and Design in Philadelphia. Her
installation, “Garden,” questioned
the collective ability to cleanse the
land and to change industrialized
farming practices.
Albert Dandridge, CLA ’75,
LAW ’78, is running for vice chancel-
lor of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
He is chair of the securities practice
group at Schnader Harrison Segal &
Lewis LLP in Philadelphia. 

42 Temple Review
Margaret Foti, CLA ’75,
SCT ’85, ’95, received the 2010
Philadelphia Pinnacle Award, given
by the Millay Club to those who
achieve professional success in an
unassuming way. Foti, CEO of the
American Association of Cancer
Research, has launched five peer-
reviewed journals and has led an
initiative that supports research
aiming to accelerate access to new
cancer treatments.
Craig R. McCoy, CLA ’76, a staff
writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer,
won the 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for
Journalistic Independence given by
the Nieman Foundation for Journalism
at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Mass. Through his work as a reporter
for the Inquirer, he has exposed injus-
tice and corruption in Philadelphia.
Erlene Bass Nelson, EDU ’76, was
the first Temple graduate to be
inducted in the National Teachers Hall
of Fame, located in Emporia, Kan.
Barry Irvin Sankey, SCT ’76, has
been a sports reporter and editor for
Phoenixville Newspapers for more
than 32 years. He has received several
Keystone Press awards for his report-
ing of local youth sports, and was
named a “Professional of the Year”
by The Global Directory of Who’s
Who for his sports reporting.
Linda A. Zappacosta, SSW ’76,
was chosen as the inaugural recipient
of the Crossroads Hospice Caring More
Award, given to social workers who
go above and beyond for their patients
and communities. She is a palliative
care social worker at Abington
Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania,
and has facilitated thousands of family
meetings about end-of-life issues.

Catie Wolfgangmobilizing the city

F
ifteen years ago, Catie Cavanaugh (GCC), a joint effort with the Office of

Ryan S. Brandenberg
Wolfgang, EDU ’05, relocated to Education. The GCC engages volunteers to
Philadelphia to work as a full-time support the high school students they know
volunteer for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a in the latter’s efforts to graduate high school
domestic and international program that and to attend college.
assesses the needs of local communities and Education also was Wolfgang’s specialty at
organizes volunteer support. Through her Temple: She was an urban education gradu-
work at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic ate student in the College of Education.
School in West Philadelphia, Wolfgang wit- “I worked with faculty members who were
nessed the true spirit of volunteerism: With creative, open and supportive of my ideas,”
limited financial resources, parents, church she says. One such professor was Barbara
leaders and community members regularly Ferman, professor of political science in the
joined together for service projects. College of Liberal Arts. Wolfgang and
“Everyone was willing to go the extra mile,” Ferman developed a “great partnership,” she
she says, noting that the experience inspired says, which for Wolfgang led to a position with
her career. the University Community Collaborative
Last year, Philadelphia Mayor Michael of Philadelphia (UCCP), a youth-based
Nutter named Wolfgang the city’s first chief organization at Temple that was founded by
service officer (CSO), a senior official com- Ferman. Through programs and technical
mitted to engaging the community in service. assistance, the UCCP promotes youth lead-
“This position is the perfect opportunity for ership development. The UCCP also demonstrated to
me to build on the experiences I’ve had in From 2003 to 2009, Wolfgang served as Wolfgang the dynamics of volunteerism—a
Philadelphia and further develop them,” the UCCP’s associate director of youth civic lesson she carries with her as CSO. “It made
she says. Funded through a Cities of Service engagement. There, she established different me understand that civic engagement is not
Leadership Grant from the Rockefeller initiatives, including the Leadership about individual projects; it is about rela-
Foundation, the post was created to establish Development Institute, which cultivates tionships and planning over time.”
service as a key strategy for problem solving. young people’s leadership and decision- —Alison DiPaolo, SCT ’05
As CSO, Wolfgang aims to increase the making skills. “Looking back,” Wolfgang
number and impact of volunteers citywide. reflects, “I am most proud of developing an To learn more about the UCCP, see “Voices for
One of the first initiatives she is working infrastructure that allowed youth to take on Change” in the winter 2009 issue of Temple
on is the Graduation Coaches Campaign leadership positions in the organization.” Review at www.temple.edu/temple_review.

Winter 2011 43
 Dario F. Bernardini, SCT ’77,
received his accreditation in public
relations (APR) from the Public
Relations Society of America. The
APR designation is the only national,
postgraduate certification program
for public relations professionals.
Charles H. Fitzpatrick, CST ’77,
was named president of the New
Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians
(NJSOP) for 2010–2011. He was
installed as president during NJSOP’s
annual conference in Atlantic City, N.J.
Thomas K. Kovic, CHPSW ’77,
is founder and president of Victory
Collegiate Consulting in Chadds
Ford, Pa. He has published numerous
articles and is a public speaker who
focuses on preparing athletes for
their college searches.
Jane Scaccetti, SBM ’77, was honored
by the American Society of Women
Accountants Educational Foundation as
“Northeast Regional Influential Woman
of the Year.” She is CEO of Drucker
& Scaccetti P.C.—a Philadelphia-based
business consulting firm—a Temple
trustee and chair of the board of
Temple University Health System.
Wendy G. Rothstein, SSW ’78,
a partner in Fox Rothschild LLP’s Blue
Bell, Pa., office, is one of 15 attorneys
who are teaming up with judges to
present six sessions on liberty and the
law to middle-school students in the
Norristown (Pa.) Area School District.
Rothstein and Judge James Gallagher
presented to a sixth-grade class in
Stewart Middle School.
1980s
Gaylene M. Carpenter, EDU ’80,
is a professor emerita of arts and
administration at University of Oregon
in Eugene. She co-edited Arts and
Cultural Programming: A Leisure
Perspective, which was published
by Human Kinetics in 2010.
Betty Jean Nobles, EDU ’80,
wrote Don’t Play Yourself, a stage
play about a minister struggling with
family and financial problems. A
performance of it at the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia raised funds
for Kandlelight Productions, a non-
profit organization.
Jill M. Bellak, CLA ’81, was appointed
to the board of directors of JEVS
(Jewish Employment and Vocational
Service) Human Services, a Philadelphia-
based nonprofit organization that pro-
vides services for those in need. Bellak
also is a partner with the law firm
Archer & Greiner P.C. in Philadelphia.
Michael P. Gaughan, SCT ’81, is a
documentary filmmaker whose short
film, The Story of the American Star,
was included in the 2010 Downbeach
Film Festival in Atlantic City, N.J. The
film tells the story of a lever-driven,
high-wheel bicycle that was developed
in the late 1800s.
Joanne Grossi, SCT ’81, was named
regional director of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services for
Region III, which includes the states
of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Virginia and West Virginia and the
District of Columbia.
Robert A. Levine, DEN ’81, clinical
professor of periodontics and oral
implantology in the Kornberg School
of Dentistry at Temple, was the
distinguished speaker of the annual
Straumann Lecture in the Department
of Periodontology at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Janet Roberts, SCT ’81, is enterprise
security communications specialist with
Progressive Casualty Insurance Co.,
where she has been employed since
2006. Roberts is designing the compa-
ny’s first security awareness program.
Joseph H. Blum, LAW, ’82, has been
appointed to the board of the Delaware
Valley, Pa., chapter of the National
Kidney Foundation. He also is a partner
at the law firm of Deeb, Petrakis, Blum
& Murphy in Philadelphia.

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Candice Dupreeplaying hard
O
f all the memories she has of her who now plays for the Phoenix Mercury, was

barry gossage/nbae/getty images

time at Temple, there is one in
particular that stands out to
Candice Dupree, CHPSW ’07, WNBA
athlete.
“In a televised game against Xavier, we
won the game with seconds left when my
teammate inbounded the ball by throwing a
pass to me at half court,” Dupree recalls. “I
somehow managed to tip the ball to a team-
mate running for a layup. It was the first time
we made the ‘Top 10 Highlights’ segment on
ESPN.”
That was just the beginning for Dupree,
who went on to win just about every award
she could in her four years as a women’s
basketball player for the Owls, including the
Atlantic 10 Conference’s “Player of the
Year,” “Defensive Player of the Year” and
“Most Outstanding Player of the Atlantic 10
Championship” in 2006. That same year,
Dupree was picked sixth overall in the
WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky.
Not bad for a former volleyball player who
never expected to be an All-American, let
alone a three-time WNBA All-Star in 2006,
2007 and 2009. Dupree, a 6-foot-2 forward
selected for the 2010–2012 USA Basketball
Women’s National Team, where she helped
lead the U.S. to a gold medal in the 2010
FIBA World Championship for Women in
the Czech Republic—qualifying the team for
a spot in the 2012 Olympics.
So it is not a stretch to say that the modest
girl who arrived at Temple in 2002 has gone
on to become one of the best women’s bas-
ketball players in the world.
She was not an All-American at Paul R.
Wharton High School in New Tampa, but
she was recruited by former Temple coach
and WNBA great Dawn Staley. The two
later became the only coach-player duo to
compete against each other when they
played for opposing squads in the 2006
WNBA All-Star Game.
“Being recruited by someone who had so
much respect within the basketball world
was definitely surprising,” Dupree says. That approach has certainly worked:
“I can’t really say what Dawn saw in me as Dupree led the Mercury in the playoffs this
a player; you’d have to ask her that question. season by averaging 20.8 points per game.
But I know that no matter what, I stayed true About such success, she says, “My life has
to myself, and that meant being a hard held more than I ever expected.”
worker and a good teammate.” —John Di Carlo, SCT ’98, ’06

Timothy Fallon, SBM ’82, was named
president and chief executive officer of
Columbus Foods Inc. in Hayward, Calif.
As CEO, Fallon will lead the company’s
efforts to expand the brand’s line of
deli meats.
Elvia Krajewski-Jaime, SSW ’82,
professor of social work at Eastern
Michigan University in Ypsilanti, was
named “Social Worker of the Year”
by the National Association of Social
Workers in 2008.
Michael J. Rosen, SCT ’82,
published Donor-Centered Planned
Gift Marketing with Wiley. The book
helps nonprofit organizations start
or enhance the marketing of gift-
planning programs.
Ruth L. Brons, MUS ’83, has been
teaching and performing the violin
and the viola since her graduation
from Temple. She also is the inventor
of Things 4 Strings bow accessories,
an aid for beginning string students
Brons also coordinates the Suzuki pro-
gram in the Cali School of Music at
Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Jay M. Goldberg, DEN ’83, was
appointed president of the Philadelphia
County Dental Society. He has been in
private endodontic practice in North-
east Philadelphia since 1985.
Gino J. Benedetti, SBM ’84, has been
elected chancellor of the Justinian
Society of Philadelphia, an educational,
nonprofit organization for lawyers of
Italian descent. He also is a partner
in the litigation department and co-
chair of the labor employment group
of Dilworth Paxson LLP, a law firm
in Philadelphia. 
Joel Hoffman, CST ’84, senior vice
president of Ingenix Consulting in
Denver, was named a “Top 25
Consultant” by Consulting magazine.
Marc S. Raspanti, LAW ’84, co-taught
a course called Industry Spotlight: Drugs,
Devices and the False Claims Act at
Hamline University School of Law in
St. Paul, Minn. Pamela C. Brecht,
LAW ’91, co-taught the class. He also
was reappointed to the Pennsylvania
Commission on Sentencing. 

Winter 2011 45
Albert Alleyseeing patients
courtesy of rick harpel
W
hen it comes to his patients,
ophthalmologist Albert Alley,
MED ’64, aims high: He works
to cure the blind. The leading cause of blind-
ness throughout the world today is cataracts,
which is treatable through a 30-minute surgi-
cal procedure. But in developing nations
with limited medical resources, living with
cataracts—and having them deteriorate to
blindness—is common.
To combat the problem, Alley co-founded
World Blindness Outreach Inc., a nonprofit
organization dedicated to performing eye
surgery, particularly to remove cataracts.
Michael G. Callahan, SCT ’85,
was named the deputy editor of
Town & Country magazine. He
previously served as articles editor
at Philadelphia magazine.  Engineering Board of Visitors at Temple.
Eric S. Elliott, SBM ’85, ’93, was
named president and chief executive
officer of Prime Therapeutics, a phar-
macy benefit management company
in Eagan, Minn.
46 Temple Review
Since the group was founded by Alley and
his colleagues in 1990, its volunteers have
embarked on approximately 65 missions,
during which medical teams perform surger-
ies, train the local medical community,
donate stockpiles of medical supplies and
even establish clinics. World Blindness
Outreach has deployed teams to 25 nations,
including Argentina, Cambodia, Peru, South
Vietnam, Ukraine and many more. Alley
estimates that they have conducted 6,000
surgeries worldwide.
He also runs Albert A. Alley Ophthalmic
Ltd., in Lebanon, Pa., where, in 1995, he also
Frank Murphy, CST ’85, LAW ’92,
a partner in the law firm of Deeb,
Petrakis, Blum & Murphy in Philadelphia,
has been appointed to the College of
Mario Zacharjasz, TYL ’85,
co-founder and principal of PZS
Architects and president of Puente
Construction Enterprises, purchased
503 Corp., a company that sells
maintenance and office supplies
and equipment. Zacharjasz also is
organized Mission Cataract Lebanon Valley,
which provides free cataract surgery to those
in need in his area.
Alley was inspired to found World
Blindness Outreach following a trip he took
to provide medical aid in the Philippines.
“I encountered conditions I hadn’t really
been exposed to before,” he says. “People
came by the hundreds, perhaps even the
thousands, to receive our care. They were
lined up for blocks and blocks. When I came
back home, I was really energized to do some-
thing about it.”
The organization’s first mission was coor-
dinated through districts of Rotary Interna-
tional, a worldwide service club of which
Alley is a longtime active member and past
district governor.
When planning a mission, Alley says,
there are some ground rules each host coun-
try must follow, especially when it comes to
gaining the cooperation of a nation’s medical
community. For example, volunteers must be
able to use local equipment and clinics and
train local staff, so healing can continue long
after a mission is complete.
He believes the generosity that informs his
career was instilled when he was young.
“When I left Temple, I was very well-prepared
to continue my medical career,” he says. “At
Temple, there was an emphasis on service
and on your profession for more than your
own self-fulfillment.” —Maria Raha
president of the Philadelphia chapter
of the American Institute of Architects.
J. Cynthia McDermott, EDU ’86,
was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant
to conduct research in Bosnia and
Herzegovina during the 2010–2011
academic year. While abroad, she will
teach courses designed to demonstrate
civic skills and practices. McDermott
is chair of the Education Department
at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Barry Featherman, CLA ’87, was the
2010 recipient of the Gravitas Award,
given by Gravitas Capital Advisors Inc.
to individuals who have contributed to
international economic development.
Featherman, executive director of the
Global Center for Development and
Democracy in Washington, D.C., was
awarded for his work in Latin America
and in the Caribbean.
Roger A. Herr, CHPSW ’87, was
elected to the board of directors of
the American Physical Therapy
Association’s House of Delegates.
He also serves as the director of prod-
uct management at OCS HomeCare
in Seattle.
Kevin Ryan, SBM ’87, partner of the
accounting, tax and business consult-
ing firm Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP
in Philadelphia, was elected to serve
as secretary and treasurer of the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Board
of Directors.
Rajen R. Vurdien, EDU ’87, ’89,
was appointed president of Fullerton
College in California.
Steven R. Alten, CHPSW ’88, four-
time bestselling author, appeared at
Barnes & Noble in Center City,
Philadelphia, in October. He signed
copies of his latest book, Grim Reaper:
End of Days.
Andrew S. Abramson, LAW ’89,
of Abramson Employment Law LLC
in Blue Bell, Pa., delivered a presenta-
tion to the Pennsylvania State Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights during a panel about
issues related to the employment of
people with disabilities. It took place
at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
Christopher J. Kirk, SBM ’89,
was named comptroller of the Naval
Surface Warfare Center Carderock
Division in 2010. He oversees a
department housed at both the West
Bethesda, Md., and Philadelphia sites.
David M. Tener, CST ’89, a share-
holder in the law firm of Caesar, Rivise,
Bernstein, Cohen and Pokotilow, was
included in the 2011 edition of The
Best Lawyers in America in the area of
intellectual property law. Additionally,
he recently spoke at a Pennsylvania
Bar Institute seminar called First Office
ActionInterview Pilot Program.

Arlene Lovechanging focus

T
he story of Philadelphia-based artist which was installed in the Kimmel Center

Arlene Love, TYL ’52, EDU ’53, she
says, comes in three acts: sculpting,
painting and, most recently, photography.
Regardless of the medium, Love has always
been inspired by the subject of most of her
work: people. “I feel that the vehicle of
expression that is most immediate and most
compelling is the image of a human being,”
she says. “It is the image that expresses the
most profound and basic emotions. It speaks
to us of our own vulnerability and
humanity.”
Love found her first professional medium—
her “Act I”—while in a sculpture class at the
Tyler School of Art. Though she had begun
school as a painter, the freshman student
soon discovered “the third dimension” and
majored in sculpture instead.
Love began exhibiting professionally
before she completed college. Owls might
recognize her Philadelphia sculptures, such
as the nine-foot-high “Winged Woman,”
which faces Rittenhouse Square from the
Dorchester building, and “Eight Figures,”
burt bender
for the Performing Arts in 2004.
Love’s “Act II” unfolded far from both
Philadelphia and the three-dimensional
medium for which she had become known.
In the 1980s, Love and her husband moved
to Oaxaca, Mexico; makeshift studios there
made sculpture impossible and she turned to
drawing as her medium of choice. But Love
also was photographing the people around
her and tossing the negatives into shoeboxes
because she “hated the darkroom.”
When the couple returned to Philadelphia,
Love anticipated that she would not con-
tinue taking pictures. However, she saw
Philadelphia through a new lens. “What had
always been familiar now seemed exotic; as
in Oaxaca, what had once felt exotic became
familiar,” she explains. “I saw my city and its
people with fresh eyes, and I delight in roam-
ing the familiar streets with my camera.” into a fourth medium, she answers playfully:
Today, Love has thrown herself com- “I really love photography and can’t imagine
pletely into her “Act III,” photography, and moving on to another medium. At my age, I
no longer practices sculpting or painting and think the next act is likely the final curtain.”
drawing. Asked if she is hoping to expand —Alix Gerz, SCT ’03, CLA ’07

Winter 2011 47
 1990s
Christian V. Badali, CLA ’90,
is an associate with Weber Gallagher
Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby
LLP’s practice in Norristown, Pa. In
2010, he participated in the Houston
Family Law Trial Institute, a program
that focuses on trial advocacy skills.
He also was named special master
in divorce by the Montgomery
County Court of Common Pleas
in Pennsylvania.
Helen L. Coons, CLA ’90, president
and clinical director of Women’s Mental
Health Associates in Philadelphia,
received the 2010 Pennsylvania
Psychological Association Psychology
in the Media Award. It recognizes
psychologists and members of the
media in Pennsylvania who have pre-
sented psychology to the public.
Christopher M. Roe, LAW ’90,
a partner in Fox Rothschild LLP’s Exton,
Pa., office, spoke at the Air and Waste
Management Association’s 2010
Vapor Intrusion Conference, held in
Chicago in September. He discussed
the latest developments in vapor intru-
sion from the legal standpoint.
Pamela C. Brecht, LAW ’91, special
counsel for Pietragallo Gordon Alfano
Bosick & Raspanti LLP in Philadelphia,
co-taught a course called Industry
Spotlight: Drugs, Devices and the False
Claims Act at Hamline University
School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. Marc
S. Raspanti, LAW ’84, served as co-
instructor of the class.
Barbara Di Toro, MUS ’92, ’94,
EDU ’10, received a doctorate in
higher education administration from
Temple’s College of Education in 2010.
She has served as associate director
of the Music Preparatory Division
in the Boyer College of Music and
Dance at Temple since 1996.
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Claire F. Storm, EDU ’92, received an
Inspiration Award from the Keystone
Society for Tourism. It is the highest
honor conferred on Pennsylvania’s
tourism leaders. Storm is a retired
public-school administrator and presi-
dent of Rivertownes PA USA, a non-
profit organization that works to
preserve and promote towns along
the Susquehanna River.
Louis Todd Teller, CLA ’93, earned
his PhD in academic/health psychology
from Walden University, an accredited
online university. His dissertation was
titled “The Effects of Jewish Religious
Identity and Age on Levels of Perceived
Academic Stress.”
Stephen Todd Walker, SBM ’93,
published Wave Theory for Alternative
Investments: Riding the Wave with
Hedge Funds, Commodities and Venture
Capital with McGraw-Hill. In the book,
he explains how to identify the best
times to buy, sell and diversify alterna-
tive investments.
Tracy R. Burton, CLA ’94, was hon-
ored with the 2010 Pitt County
Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority Inc. Community Leader
Award. She has served on the boards
of numerous organizations, including
Women for Women in Greenville,
N.C., and Democracy North Carolina
in Durham.
Jonathan B. Smith, THM ’94,
was promoted from associate profes-
sor to professor in the Department
of Health and Physical Education at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Marque Allen, POD ’95, received the
2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award
from Rowan University in Glassboro,
N.J. He serves as a foot-and-ankle con-
sultant for several San Antonio sports
teams, including both the NBA and
the WNBA teams.
Emmanuel O. Iheukwumere,
LAW ’95, was appointed to the
Pennsylvania Bar Association Board
of Governors, representing the inter-
ests of minority attorneys in the com-
monwealth. He also is managing
shareholder of Emmanuel Law Firm
LLC, based in Philadelphia.
Sheena Oliver, SCT ’95, was
appointed vice president of marketing
at Oticon Inc., a manufacturer of
hearing devices in Somerset, N.J. She
now oversees the company’s market-
ing, advertising and public relations
initiatives.
Kip Deeds, TYL ’96, exhibited his
drawings, paintings and books at
the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center in
Michigan last summer. In November,
Deeds showed his work at the University
City Arts League in Philadelphia. He
also taught printmaking at Maryland
Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Kelly Phillips Erb, LAW ’97, ’99,
is a partner with Erb Law Firm PC in
Philadelphia. The firm recently held a
series of events at Cook-Wissahickon
Elementary School in Philadelphia to
celebrate Law Day. Erb and Garrett C.
Spangler, LAW ’08, ’09, spoke with
seventh- and eighth-grade students
about legal careers and the law.
Karen F. Whitfield Scarpella,
CHPSW ’97, ’98, earned her PhD from
the University of Denver Graduate
School of Social Work. Her dissertation
is titled “Male-to-Female Transsexual
Individuals’ Experience of Clinical
Relationships: A Phenomenological
Study.” She also competed nationally
with the University of Denver figure-
skating team.
Becky Sheetz-Runkle, CLA ’98,
published Sun Tzu for Women: The
Art of War for Winning in Business
with Adams Media Corp.
Ryan Wexelblattcamping out
E
ach year since 2008, Ryan Wexelblatt,
SCT ’95, has revisited Main Campus
and Ambler Campus. But he doesn’t
go alone: He brings students from Hill Top
Preparatory School in Rosemont, Pa.
As upper-school counselor and summer
camp and enrichment director at Hill Top,
Wexelblatt helps high-school-age students
diagnosed with learning disabilities, such as
Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, prepare for higher
education. The aim of their trips to Temple
is to encourage them to enroll in college.
Wexelblatt, who joined the Hill Top staff
in 2008, began by developing an after-school
homework program. Then, when he discov-
ered that there were no other camps in the
area that addressed the social needs of stu-
dents with learning disabilities, he founded
Hill Top Summer Camp, for youth in grades
2 through 12.
Wexelblatt uses the camp as a platform
for building social skills, which tend to be
underdeveloped in the population Hill Top
serves. “Kids learn social skills the best when
they are having fun,” he says. The full-time
camp began with 40 students, in 2009. By
2010, the number of campers had increased
to more than 50.
His next undertaking will be Camp
Sequoia, an overnight camp for children and
adolescents with the same kinds of learning
disabilities. It will be located in Pottstown, Pa.
Wexelblatt’s career began while he was a
Temple student; he worked for an after-
school daycare program and at a camp during
Inez Markovich, LAW ’99,
a shareholder at the law firm of
Deeb, Petrakis, Blum & Murphy in
Philadelphia, was included in
Philadelphia Business Journal’s “40
Under 40” list. She is a founding orga-
nizer and board member of the Right
Bank in Northeast Philadelphia, the
first community bank in the U.S. to
serve the Russian-speaking community.
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summer breaks. While there, he discovered his students and helps them understand what
he preferred working with problem campers. the media are trying to communicate to audi-
“I found myself drawn to working with more ences. Exploring these issues helps his stu-
difficult kids as I enjoyed the challenge it dents identify ways to improve their social
provided,” he says. “I understood what they skills. “I believe kids can develop a greater
needed, which, most of the time, was a per- sense of themselves by determining what is
son to listen to them and to offer support.” healthy in terms of interpersonal relation-
As a radio, television and film major in ships,” he says.
the School of Communications and Theater, Today, Wexelblatt hopes to inspire his
Wexelblatt initially wanted to pursue students to continue their educations and
a career in the music industry. Inspired by opt for universities that offer rich curricula
both his work at summer camps and his own and diverse communities—characteristics he
experiences as a camper, Wexelblatt eventu- knows have long been part of the Temple
ally earned a master’s degree in clinical experience.
social work at Bryn Mawr College in “Temple teaches valuable lessons about
Pennsylvania. how to be an advocate for oneself and how
“Looking back, I see how much my experi- to deal with different kinds of people.”
ence at Temple plays into my work,” he says. —Alison DiPaolo, SCT ’05
For example, he discusses media literacy with
Susannah Mira, CLA ’99, was David A. Canton, CLA ’01, wrote
selected as an artist-in-residence at Raymond Pace Alexander: A New
Colorado State University-Pueblo. Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in
Philadelphia, the first full biography of
2000s Alexander, an African-American lawyer
Amy T. Brooks, THM ’01, LAW ’05, who played a prominent role in the
an associate with Wisler Pearlstine LLP Northern civil rights movement. The
in Blue Bell, Pa., was inducted into book was published by University Press
the athletic Hall of Achievement at of Mississippi.
Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Winter 2011 49
 Anthony J. Cinesi, SCT ’01, an asso-
ciate producer for the ESPN program
College Gameday, received a 2009
Sports Emmy Award for “Outstanding
Studio Show—Weekly.”
Judith P. Rodden, LAW ’01, led a
seminar for Neumann College’s CLE/CPE
(continuing legal education/continuing
professional education) program called
Current Trends in Employment Law:
Discrimination Through the Family
Medical Leave Act with Lesley M.
Ibanez, LAW ’08.
Stacy Weeks Groff, MUS ’02, was
promoted to director of volunteer ser-
vices at Tidewell Hospice in Sarasota,
Fla. She now oversees 11 volunteer
coordinators and 1,200 volunteers
in programming, compliance and edu-
cation in a four-county area. Groff
also is earning her master’s degree in
nonprofit management from University
of Central Florida in Orlando.
Orlando Haddad, MUS ’02, member
of the Brazilian music duo Minas,
appeared with his collaborator on an
episode of the WHYY television series
called On Canvas.
Ethan E. Prout, CST ’02, joined
Rettew—a Lancaster, Pa.-based
consulting firm that focuses on
engineering, planning and more—
as a project manager in the firm’s
environmental sciences group.
Sarah E. Telthorster, CHPSW ’03,
was appointed director of therapeutic
recreation for the Abramson
Residence, a long-term care commu-
nity that is part of the Madlyn and
Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish
Life in North Wales, Pa.
Edward A. Welch III, SBM ’03, of
Higgins & Welch Real Estate in Glenside,
Pa., organized a team and raised funds
for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s
Light the Night Walk at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art in October.  
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Lynn Wen Acquaviva, CST ’04,
gradu­ated from the Philadelphia College
of Osteopathic Medicine with a doctor
of osteopathic medicine degree.
Nikki Johnson-Huston, LAW ’04, is a
tax lawyer for the City of Philadelphia
Law Department. Additionally, with
the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia
chapter of the American Jewish
Committee, she co-founded a dialogue
group for African-American and
Jewish women.
Joseph M. De Julius, EDU ’05, was
elected chairman of the Evesham (N.J.)
Municipal Utilities Authority (EMUA)
Board of Commissioners. He also
serves on the Capital Improvements
Committee of EMUA.
Davis Eckard, CLA ’06, served as on-
site coordinator for the Campus
Consciousness Tour, which took place
at the Liacouras Center in October.
The tour promoted environmental
consciousness and was co-sponsored
by Reverb, an organization that advo-
cates for environmentally responsible
practices in the music industry.
Jonathan Harrison, EDU ’06, pub-
lished Naked Being: Undressing Your
Mind, Transforming Your Life with
O Books. The book invites readers to
embark on a journey of self-realization.
He lives in Gascony, France.
Christian C. Mattioli, LAW ’06,
joined Deeb, Petrakis, Blum & Murphy
as an associate in the Philadelphia
firm’s commercial litigation group.
Ned Rauch-Mannino, SCT ’06,
is an adjunct professor of economics
and urban studies at Temple. He pub-
lished FingerTip Island: The Vincenzo
Adventure, a children’s book, with
Better Karma Publishing LLC.
Maria Simone, SCT ’06, a communi-
cations studies professor at Rowan
University in Glassboro, N.J., estab-
lished the Iron Scholarship Fund to
support students in Rowan’s Equal
Opportunity Fund/Maximizing Academic
Potential program. The fund was
established as she trained for the 2010
Ford Ironman Triathlon.
Mairead Conley, CLA ’07, competed
in the 2010 Rose of Tralee International
Festival in Ireland. The annual event
includes a pageant for young Irish
women from around the world. Conley
serves as deputy director of community
programming at the Irish Immigration
Center of Philadelphia.
Akshra Verma, MED ’07, joined
Southern Illinois University School of
Medicine in Springfield as an assistant
professor of general internal medicine.
Daniel R. Bernard, CLA ’08, attends
the Rutgers School of Law in Newark,
N.J., as a member of the Class of 2013.
Abraham Cisne, CLA ’08, was chosen
to participate in the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Public Policy
Fellowship Program, which offers recent
Latino graduates the opportunity to
gain experience in public policy. He is
working in the office of Rep. Xavier
Becerra, whose district is in Los Angeles.
Lesley M. Ibanez, LAW ’08, led a
seminar for Neumann College’s CLE/
CPE (continuing legal education/con-
tinuing professional education)
program called Current Trends in
Employment Law: Discrimination
Through the Family Medical Leave
Act with Judith P. Rodden, LAW ’01.
Shaismy Kudakachira, CST ’08,
joined the Class of 2014 at West
Virginia School of Osteopathic
Medicine in Lewisburg, W. Va. She
is working toward a doctor of osteo-
pathic medicine degree.
William Mifflinhosting travelers
intimate travel experiences to which many leaders across the nation with the hope that
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tourists and locals alike are not privy.
“We invite small groups for VIP behind-
the-scenes opportunities to meet distin-
guished Philadelphians,” says Mifflin, who
has been leading the nonprofit organization
since 2007. “Guests can visit private homes
and see the city’s cultural institutions from
another angle.”
Groups of visitors never comprise more
than 30 guests, who participate in private
tours of art exhibits, homes and gardens,
or attend receptions held in cultural and his-
torical institutions. Recently, Philadelphia
Hospitality also has been focusing on draw-
ing more tourists from the region surround-
ing Philadelphia and on creating
near-exclusive experiences for small groups
of two to four guests.
The organization cross-promotes with the
they will return home and promote the city
as a travel destination.
Mifflin’s rich Philadelphia background has
augmented his perspective on the city, its
history and its tourism. Prior to leading
Philadelphia Hospitality, he served as execu-
tive director of Fairmount Park—one of the
largest urban parks in the nation—from 1988
to 2002. Additionally, Mifflin is a direct
descendant of Thomas Mifflin, who repre-
sented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional
Convention in 1787 and served as governor
of Pennsylvania from 1788 to 1799.
He also remains closely connected
to Temple by serving on the School of
Environmental Design Board of Visitors.
And Betsy Barber, associate dean and
associate professor in the School of Tourism
and Hospitality Management, is a member of

A
s tourists in any major city know,
wandering off the beaten travelers’
path—or straying from the pages of
travel guides—is difficult to do without get-
ting advice from a local resident. After all,
tracking down local haunts can impinge on
valuable touring time.
But in Philadelphia, William Mifflin,
SED ’66, THM ’84, ’86, executive director
of Philadelphia Hospitality, gives visitors
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Com-
merce, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism
Marketing Corp. and the Philadelphia Con-
vention and Visitors Bureau, and serves
approximately 30 groups per year.
“The singular mission of Philadelphia
Hospitality is to promote the region as a
world-class destination,” he says.
Philadelphia Hospitality treats its guests as
ambassadors, targeting decision-makers and
the board of Philadelphia Hospitality.
What does the former director of
Fairmount Park think of the evolving land-
scape of Main Campus? “The changes have
been extremely positive,” he says. “It feels
like a true college campus and no longer the
commuter campus I attended back in the
early ’80s. And the buildings are beautiful.”
—Maria Raha

Lisa A. Leggieri, LAW ’08, led a Christa J. Detweiler, SBM ’09, was
seminar for Neumann College’s appointed volunteer center coordina-
CLE/CPE (continuing legal education/ tor for the North Montco Volunteer
continuing professional education) Center in Hatfield, Pa.
program called A Graying Population:
Estate Planning for the Aging Middle- Amanda Hill, SCT ’09, was
Class Suburban Client with Joseph named account coordinator for the In Memoriam
R. Pozzuolo, SBM ’72, LAW ’75. Philadelphia-based public relations
Listings of alumni who have
firm Barton Gilanelli & Associates.
Garrett C. Spangler, LAW ’08, ’09,
passed away since the last issue of
an associate with Erb Law Firm PC in Temple Review are available online
Philadelphia, celebrated Law Day at at myowlspace.com/memoriam.
Cook-Wissahickon Elementary School.
To submit a name, call
He and Kelly Phillips Erb, LAW ’97, ’99,
spoke with students about legal 215-926-2562 or e-mail
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 A student gains
practical experience
through Temple’s
model pharmacy
in 1968.
I n light of the evolution of the pharmaceutical
industry from local business to international
titan during the late 20th century, the model
pharmacy pictured above might seem quaint
today. But since the establishment of pharmacy
as a department within the School of Medicine
in 1901, Temple’s School of Pharmacy has con-
sistently provided its students with a learning
environment where cutting-edge research and
practice flourish.
Today, pharmaceutical companies are increas-
ingly looking for research and testing partner-
ships with small biotech companies and academic
1968
institutions. In response to this trend, the
Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research —
established at Temple in 2008 and directed
by School of Pharmacy Associate Dean Magid
Abou-Gharbia — will be expanded through
university funding to become Philadelphia’s
only fully integrated center for researching and
developing new medications.
The initiative will allow the Moulder Center
to foster greater collaboration with local, national
and international biotech companies, and with
researchers in Temple’s School of Medicine,
College of Science and Technology and College
of Engineering. As a result, it will be a valuable
resource for researchers working on different
biological targets, such as proteins and enzymes
associated with various diseases.
52 Temple Review
The improved Moulder Center will feature
state-of-the-art medicinal chemistry and screen-
ing laboratories, a 20,000-compound library that
will allow for better drug screening and optimiza-
tion, and a computer-aided drug design system
for virtual drug screening.
The center also will add more staff, including
a tenure-track associate professor who joined
Temple in the fall. Additionally, the School of
Pharmacy will hire two new faculty members
who will contribute to the initiative.
Other programs in the School of Pharmacy
further cement its influence around the world —
particularly in the Middle East. A 2009 collab­o­
rative agreement between Temple and Future
University in Cairo established an exchange
program between the two universities for
students and faculty in pharmacy, engineering
and dentistry.
Students of pharmacy will spend a four- to
six-week rotation in the School of Pharmacy
at Temple’s Health Sciences Center, in order
to hone their clinical skills at Temple University
Hospital or their drug-manufacturing techniques
in Temple cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing
Practices) Services, which focuses on the produc-
tion and packaging of clinical supplies.
Now more than ever, pharmacy students will
learn their profession at the forefront of an ever-
changing industry. — Preston M. Moretz, SCT ’82  
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