When it comes to major cultural events, nothing is quite like the Super Bowl. According to Bryant Simon, a professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts, the appeal for the event starts with the fact that as game, football just works. 

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Part of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes Accelerating Research, Transforming Society and Growing the American Workforce program, Temple University along with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Florida and Educational Testing Services will have five years and $19.5M to pursue inclusive and intelligent technologies for education. The Temple project will be led by Jamie Payton, professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences in the College of Science and Technology.

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Bryant Simon, a professor of history at Temple University, has been conducting research as he prepares to write a book that will focus on the history of the public restroom in the United States.

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A new paper by doctoral candidate Nicole Johnson and Professor Caterina Roman, both in the College of Liberal Arts’ Criminal Justice Department, seeks to offer some of the missing context behind Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis. The study shows that from March 2020 through June 2021, gun violence went up on average by 21.6% each two-month period, albeit slowing down considerably in 2021. The areas that saw increasingly more gun violence had something in common: they had high drug market activity.

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Thilo Kunkel is an associate professor in Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management and directs the school’s Sport Industry Research Center.

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