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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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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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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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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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A new study from Temple University faculty members Sunil Wattal, a professor of management information systems and the Schaefer Senior Research Fellow, and Susan Mudambi, professor emeritus of marketing, finds that humorous, exaggerated product reviews can both increase and decrease sales.

PhD candidate Wangoo Lee conducted the study alongside Lu Lu, associate professor and Arthur F. McGonigle Research Fellow at the School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management. Their findings shed light on the unintended consequences of using self-service technology in busy restaurants.

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Simulations from Maciej Boni's Temple University lab are helping countries in Africa implement strategies to slow down drug resistance in malaria.

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Min-Seok Pang, an associate professor and the Milton F. Stauffer Research Fellow at Temple’s Fox School of Business, recently completed a study that found for the last 30 years, airlines increase the supply of flights from the airports in the home district of the chair of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

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Laura H. Carnell Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience Kamel Khalili, right, and a researcher, work in a lab at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

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Josh Gladden, Temple’s vice president for research, speaks to attendees during the grand opening of the Innovation Nest. The new space is dedicated to commercializing innovations from Temple researchers and spurring student innovation. 

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Johanna Jarcho and her research team have been awarded more than $3.7 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to study memory in adolescents with social anxiety.

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The #MeToo movement brought about a sea change to many industries, but according to a new study from Temple University faculty member Elizabeth Taylor, the sport industry remains a place where women employees still frequently find themselves the victims of sexual harassment at disproportionate levels. 

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