The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) organizes symposia throughout the year to showcase research, foster collaboration, and bring together faculty, students, and partners across disciplines.
These events highlight emerging areas of inquiry, create space for knowledge exchange, and strengthen connections across Temple’s research community and beyond.
Our annual Research and Creative Works Symposium is a university-wide celebration of innovative and impactful research. The 2025-26 symposium brought together faculty from across Temple’s 17 schools and colleges for a daylong showcase of interdisciplinary research addressing some of today’s most pressing challenges.
Held at Morgan Hall, the symposium featured presentations spanning areas such as artificial intelligence, biomedical discovery, population health, education, and environmental and social issues. Through a series of sessions and discussions, researchers shared emerging insights, explored real-world applications, and highlighted the university’s growing research momentum, while strengthening connections across disciplines and reinforcing Temple’s role as an R1 institution advancing impactful, collaborative scholarship
2025 was proclaimed the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025) by the United Nations, with the American Physical Society (APS) serving as a founding partner.
Temple University marked this milestone in Fall 2025 as its Semester of Quantum, where it hosted a series of events highlighting how rapid development of new technologies based on quantum science will advance discovery in a wide range of fields.
The QIST Symposium, Trajectories of Quantum Technologies: Applications and the Quantum-Ready Workforce, brought together researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to cover topics ranging from the exploration of the current state and future of quantum computing and sensing and workforce development, focusing on emerging tools for the research community and how we can best prepare students for a quantum-ready workforce.
