Included among the newly discovered lizard species was one found near Goldeneye, Jamaica, which is where the former estate of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series of books, is located. The lizard, pictured here, has been appropriately named the James Bond Forest Lizard.

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Elham Sahraei, left, will serve as director of the Center for Battery Safety. A leader in battery crash research, Sahraei also directs Temple's Electric Vehicle Safety Lab, and she joined Temple after serving as co-director of the MIT Battery Consortium and research scientist at the Impact and Crashworthiness Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Sudhir Kumar, Carnell Professor of Biology, is also director of Temple’s Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine.

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The study demonstrated that vehicles with automation capabilities can make traffic flow more smoothly, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and keep drivers safe.

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Iyad Obeid, associate professor of engineering and Temple liaison to the NSF I-Corps Hub Northeast Region, encourages faculty and students to get involved in the program.

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