Krista DeLone is an idea generator and implementor. You have to be when you're developing fun, educational programs for hundreds of summer campers with relatively short attention spans.DeLone is now bringing that creativity and ingenuity from her former role as Program Director at YMCA Camp Tockwogh, in Worton, MD, to her new role at Temple University Ambler — Assistant Director for Student and Campus Life."When I worked at summer camps, my primary responsibility was overseeing the development of events and programs, but I think what I enjoyed the most was just building...
Chris Willard has spent most of her life protecting and serving in law enforcement roles ranging from park ranger to police academy director.
Add one more to the long list.
Willard has been named the Director of Tactical and Professional Development, a newly created position in Temple University's Department of Public Safety.
"I am thrilled to still be involved in law enforcement training. Instead of completely focusing on recruit officers training, this new position has oversight in police officer, dispatcher, and security officer training," said Willard, who has been...
Bachelor of General Studies student — and very soon to be graduate — Tanika McRae, has a favorite quote she tries to live by."If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up!" said McRae, 45, who will share her experiences with her classmates and their families as the student speaker for the Temple University University College Graduation Ceremony on Friday, May 12. "I began my college journey in 1995, starting right after graduating high school. I had a lot of plans and dreams when I...
Landscape Architecture graduating senior Jasmine Henne arrived at her chosen profession in what could be considered a roundabout way.
"I discovered landscape architecture in high school through a project in English class. There was an essay that we had to write about careers that we were interested in, and I discovered landscape architecture for the first time," said Henne who will don cap and gown this week when she completes the Temple Landscape Architecture program, offered by the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. "From then on, I was sold because it was the perfect...
The books are coming home!
Some exciting changes are coming to the Ambler Campus Library in fall 2023, including new compact/moveable library shelves and the return of a significant portion of the Ambler Campus collection from the Charles Library where they were housed, and remained available for use, after the 2021 tornado.
The significant updates to the Library's shared space with the Ambler Campus Technology Center on the Ambler Learning Center first floor will require closing the physical space from Monday, May 15 through Friday, August 11. That won't, however, effect...
Ninth grade Upper Perkiomen High School student Eva McCormick wasn't familiar with green roof technology concepts. For her and about 20 other students, however, that changed quickly thanks to a hands-on green roof project they became instrumental in completing for the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University."I learned that there is a whole system that goes into developing a green roof. It's not just planting plants — there are layers below the plants and the types of soil that are important. I just learned today that you shouldn't plant in a straight line," said McCormick,...
For Malik Brown, President and CEO of Graduate! Philadelphia, going to college was an established aspiration and goal from the very beginning."I'm a first-generation college student. I was raised in a single parent home by my mother; my father and grandmother also helped to raise me — my grandmother was someone who fled racial violence in Virginia. She made it to Philadelphia, had my mother and aunts and uncles at a very young age and only completed the seventh grade; she wanted a better life for her children," said Brown, who will be the keynote speaker as the second...
On Wednesday, April 26, students from a wide variety of majors and backgrounds headed to the Pennsylvania Capitol for the annual Owls on the Hill Day.
Owls on the Hill is an annual tradition in which Temple students travel to Harrisburg and advocate for the Commonwealth's continued funding of the university, a proposed $169.4 million this year.
Temple Ambler was well represented among the students by junior Psychology major Josh Palackal and Landscape Architecture sophomore Owen Lambert.
"Programs like Owls on the Hill provide students with an amazing experience that...
In the words of the immortal Dr. Frankenstein, "It's Alive! Alive!"
That's right, a new corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, is set to bloom in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple Ambler in the coming days!
The new bloom follows in the footsteps of the recent bloom of two corpse flowers — "Big Stinker and 'Lil Stinker" in the Greenhouse in May 2021, which grew to about 60 inches and 52 inches respectively. You can follow their journey and all of the latest information on the new bloom at Corpse Flower Central on...
It's easy to discover Nicole Pileggi's goal when it comes to her new role at Temple Ambler. It's right in her title — Assistant Director of Advising and Student Success.
"The definition of 'success' depends on the student, but I think it's ultimately when a student achieves their personal, professional and academic goals while also getting a sense of fulfillment out of the experience," she said. "Everyone, of course, has different goals — for one student it might be achieving a certain GPA, for another it might be completing an internship and then getting a job offer. My...
Field research is an invaluable tool for researchers across all disciplines at Temple University and well beyond. It provides data in real time in actual environmental conditions.Of course, sometimes those environmental conditions don't cooperate with the needs of the experiment at hand."We've been involved in a multidisciplinary, 6-year-long study of stormwater management devices along I-95 in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. We're interested in the dynamics and conditions of these very urban stormwater systems and how they affect plants and soils," said Dr. Josh Caplan,...
Months of hard work, dedication and teamwork by the students, faculty and staff in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Landscape Architecture and Horticulture programs have been recognized with a stellar showing at the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show, which continues at the Pennsylvania Convention Center through March 12.Temple's 2023 Flower Show exhibit, The Power of Nature — Plug Into It, has been awarded an astounding six top honors, including a PHS Gold Medal, awarded to a major exhibit that receives 95 or more points out of 100 in the "criteria of design,...
They dot the landscape throughout the country and well beyond. Old electrical towers. Abandoned power stations. Monuments to changing technology, changing populations, changing needs.
Over time, nature will take back those sites, absorbing them once more into the natural environment. That is the power of nature, constantly changing, always recreating.
Tyler School of Art and Architecture Landscape Architecture and Horticulture students will harness nature's constant adaptability when they present The Power of Nature — Plug Into It at the Pennsylvania...
In the Tyler School of Art and Architecture Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple Ambler, a bit of horticultural magic is taking place.
Benjamin Snyder, Manager of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple Ambler, Temple Horticulture senior Ethan Smith, and Landscape Architecture sophomore Owen Lambert are working to convince 852 plants from 65 different species that a few days from now would be the perfect time to bloom.
This bit of foliage chicanery is all for a good cause as the plants will provide...
The spring semester is starting off right with new fresh food choices that will be available to students and faculty and staff morning, noon and night at Temple Ambler.This semester, Aramark is introducing a new P.O.D. (Provisions on Demand) Market in the Learning Center Lobby. P.O.D. Market options will be available at convenient times during the day and evening to support the needs of the entire campus community, whether it's students taking morning classes or adult learners pursuing new knowledge in a non-credit course.P.O.D. Markets combine the corner store with cutting-...
A dedicated group of Tyler School of Art and Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture students and faculty, Park Ranger Law Enforcement Academy cadets, Ambler Arboretum horticulture staff, and Recreation, Outdoor Education and Wellness staff recently came together for the culmination of an extraordinary collaboration to bring a student-created landscape design from the classroom to reality on campus.
"I contacted Ambler Arboretum Director Kathy Salisbury with an interest in engaging my Native Woody Plant Identification students in a project in the Arboretum. I...
At Temple University Ambler, there is a location where ideas are transformed into action.
In the past year, Temple Engineering, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture students in addition to Temple Ambler Field Station Research Interns have made the Temple Ambler Research and Collaboration Building (AR+C) a central hub for developing, designing and building projects that practically apply what they are learning in the classroom.
On any given day, in the Innovation Studio — the 8,000-square-foot collaborative space within the AR+C Building — Engineering senior design...
Science. Technology. Engineering. Math.From some students, they are subjects that may stir an initial sense of trepidation; for others, maybe even a little dread.Engineering senior design students and faculty at Temple Ambler are working hard to allay those fears and get young students excited about STEM."We're involved in STEM outreach because I think it's essential that we support STEM education and help middle and high school students learn about the work engineering students are doing at Temple. We want students to become excited about pursuing careers in science technology...
