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The Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded Temple University $7.5 million for a new study. Led by Professor Beth Pfeiffer and her team, the study will compare travel training approaches for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Benjamin Collier, an associate professor, studied the U.S. Small Business Administration’s disaster recovery loan program.

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New research from Brian Holtz and Crystal Harold suggests that even though employees are compensated for their hours, they care about whether or not their time is used in valuable ways.

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A new report from Sherri Hope Culver of the Klein College of Media and Communication provides a thorough overview of 15 specific guidelines that serve as recommendations for global children’s media leaders as they work to create all types of media, from television to podcasts to video games.  

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A new study from Joydeep Srivastava of Temple University’s Fox School of Business shows how newer brands are perceived by consumers compared to older, legacy brands. While the older brands are more associated with reliability, newer brands are more associated with innovation.

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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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Jeffrey Nesbit is an architect and urbanist who has spent more than a decade leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects. His latest research is focused on 20th century American spaceport complexes.

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Pictured from left to right: Temple President Richard M. Englert; Sen. Ryan Aument (D-36); Antonio Giordano, founder and president of Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at Temple; Miguel Mostafá, dean of Temple’s College of Science and Technology; and Temple Provost Gregory N. Mandel.

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A new study from Crystal Reeck of Temple University's Fox School of Business outlines how a person can reimagine their memories to ultimately change their past feelings of regret.

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Robin Kolodny's new book, "The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.: Why We Have the System We Have," offers a detailed look at the U.S. campaign finance system as it presently stands. The book considers the campaign finance system in the context of the broader U.S. political and economic system while outlining the various factors that have led the system to become what it currently is.

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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Haijun Liu (right) and PhD candidate Subhrodeep Ray (left) have developed a pickleball sound absorption barrier that they hope will satisfy players and pickleball court neighbors alike.

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From left to right: Jonathan Gerstenhaber, Yah-el Har-el and Peter Lelkes. The team has been developing the soy-based wound treatment for over a decade.

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One of the many challenges that tourists often deal with is overcrowding, which can lead to feelings of anger or fear. A new study from School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management faculty member Xiang (Robert) Li and Karen Tan, FOX ’22, shows how tourists respond once they begin to experience these feelings.

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A new study from Vinod Venkatraman (pictured here), associate professor in marketing and director of the Center for Applied Research in Decision Making, finds that consumers often make plans to binge-watch media content ahead of time, and that shows with more sequential, interconnected episodes are more likely to be binge-watched. 

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Biofiltration basins, and the plants that grow within them, play an important role in Philadelphia’s stormwater management. A group of Temple researchers has been collecting data on basins and their plants since 2017. Pictured from left to right: Joni Baumgarten, Sasha Eisenman, Laura Toran, Josh Caplan and Abdullah Al-Amin.

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