Temple University Psychology graduate Tess DeVos has been a problem solver her whole life.
"I was the kid that always tried to resolve social issues in school. If someone was being bullied, I tried to stop it. If there was a fight, I tried to defuse it," she said. "My parents would joke that I would be the one at home that said 'Let's sit down at the table and work this out.' When I first told my dad I was thinking about Psychology as a career, he said 'Yes, that sounds about right.'"
With a stellar 3.95 GPA, DeVos said she initially planned to become a school...
High on the wall of the Landscape Architecture Junior Design Studio, two sentences have been immortalized.
"The work is hard. Do the work."
It is a phrase often said by Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Rob Kuper — an important mantra for all of the students that go through Temple's program and a reminder that, while the journey won't be easy, the outcome will be worth it.
It's a call to action that has certainly resonated with Landscape Architecture graduate Grace Manning, 23, of Hatboro, PA.
"I think one of the essential things I learned very early on...
Temple University Horticulture major Autumn Ayers' approach to plants might be a little different from many horticulturists.Rather than propagation or cultivation, Ayers is more interested in identification and sussing out the story the plants have to tell about where they are growing, when and how they were planted and how the gardens in which they thrive came into being. "I have a passion for plant identification — it's an odd passion, I know — but I know that's my calling," said Ayers, who completed her Horticulture bachelor's degree in December 2018 and walked...
It is the extremely rare student that comes to Temple University Ambler via Norway. Landscape Architecture senior Hanne Nilsberg is, fortunately, one of those rarities.
"I discovered Temple University Ambler and Temple's Landscape Architecture program on a list of programs provided by the Norwegian Landscape Architecture Association. I had been an exchange student in Florida and my family has traveled extensively in the United States, but I had never been to the Philadelphia region," said Nilsberg, who graduated with her Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture on May 9. "I...
Like many college students, Lindsay Washington's journey didn't start with the goal of getting her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Temple."At first, I was interested in retail merchandising. I started at Montgomery County Community College with the goal of working in the fashion industry," said Washington, 22, of Wyncote, who transferred to Temple University Ambler in the spring of 2018. "It didn't take too long to realize that it wasn't for me. I wanted to find something where I could help people, where I could make a difference."She didn't have to look far for...
More and more, faculty at Temple University are making a discovery of a different sort — the Temple University Ambler campus is an invaluable resource to conduct research and engage in hands-on learning in a broad array of disciplines.
At Temple Ambler, Civil Engineering and Earth and Environmental Science professors are researching seismic waves and earthquakes — an impossibility at Temple's urban locations — while College of Science and Technology researchers study hydrology, weather and more. Criminal Justice experts are training the next generation of police officers and...
A walk around the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University provides a clear indication that the care of trees is an important aspect of the research and hands-on opportunities undertaken by students and faculty every semester. With a continued commitment to determining new and better ways to care for the campus' tree collection, Temple University Ambler, home to the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, has been awarded a "Tree Campus USA" designation by the Arbor Day Foundation in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.The Arbor Day Foundation recently announced the campus has also...
Dr. Chantel White is a time traveler. Her Wayback Machine is currently set to 42,000 years in the past where a group of the first anatomically modern humans settled in a cave in what is now Jordan.
Unlike many other archeologists, Dr. White doesn't uncover the past through bones or carvings or structures. She finds history in plant material such as seeds and wood.
"In archaeology, there has been a lot of research about large scale agriculture — the beginning of farming, plant domestication, the development of staple crops that fed thousands," said Dr. White,...
Michelle Lapp had a rather fortuitous meeting not so very long ago that helped lead her down a career path she was always interested in taking."I've always had a passion for public and private gardens. Whenever I walk through one, I always feel good — I couldn't have imagined that I would be given the opportunity to contribute to Temple Ambler's Arboretum," said Lapp, who was a senior graphic designer at the Saint-Gobain Corporation for 13 years before the corporation let their in-house graphics team go. "While I was still at Saint-Gobain, I had the opportunity to take a...
It wasn't so very long ago that Dr. Kimberly Cooney was in the same position as the students she is dedicated to guiding in her new role as Manager of Student Success and Retention at Temple University Ambler."I had to answer the same questions when I was an undergraduate at Temple. What is the right major for me? What profession? How do I achieve my goals," said Cooney, who graduated with a degree in Psychology from Temple in 2006. "Each student has different needs, particularly when they are starting out; it can be a very complicated process. My goal is to help them determine...
Temple Owl Brooke Harkins didn't have to go far to get far. She found her calling right at her alma mater.A newly minted alumnus who graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Communication Studies, Harkins has been appointed Development Associate at Temple University Ambler. In her new role, she will provide essential support for the Ambler Campus Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University and the Ambler Campus Office of the Executive Director."My goal is to support these three offices, and the campus as a whole, as we continue to increase...
Temple University Ambler's Freshman Year Experience is expanding to provide more opportunities for students making the transition from high school to college.Beginning in fall 2019, Natural Science — a perfect entry point for almost any science or computer science major — and General Science with Teaching will be among the dozens of majors students may select when beginning their Temple experience at the Ambler Campus."The Freshman Year Experience at Temple Ambler allows students to choose from one of several Temple programs and complete their first year at the...
Benjamin Snyder knows a little something about "Flower Power."A graduate of Temple's Horticulture Program and Manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple Ambler, Snyder has guided the plant cultivation for more than a few of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture's award-winning Philadelphia Flower Show exhibits as both a student and dedicated staff member.With the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society embracing "Flower Power" as the theme for the 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show, Snyder said the plant palette possibilities were almost...
It is one of the most iconic images from the turbulent '60s era of the United States.
As demonstrators protested against the War in Vietnam in a "March on the Pentagon" in October 1967, they were confronted by armed soldiers from the 503rd Military Police Battalion. Rather than meet the soldiers with violence, at least one protestor stepped toward them, and placed a flower in a rifle barrel.
"Flower Power" won the day.
Fast forward to 2019 and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is embracing "Flower Power" as the theme for this year's Philadelphia Flower Show....
In fall 2018, if you were to visit the Ambler Arboretum, you might have found painting students from Temple's Tyler School of Art peppered throughout the gardens capturing the natural beauty around them as summer gave way to fall and fall ushered in winter.Coming this spring, adult artists of every experience level — including no experience whatsoever — are invited to take inspiration from the 187-acre Ambler Campus as Tyler offers a new, six-class non-credit workshop that takes full advantage of everything the Ambler Arboretum has to offer.Botanical Drawing with...
Anyone driving by the former site of the Gilbert House on Meetinghouse Road is likely to simply see it as an empty, grassy field.For faculty and student researchers in Temple's College of Science and Technology, it's a research opportunity. The quiet suburban field, located at Temple University Ambler, is providing the perfect location to study urban water infiltration.Dr. Laura Toran, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science (EES) in Temple's College of Science and Technology, and the Weeks Chair in Environmental Geology, is using the controlled site on campus to emulate...
During the month of November, cadets in Temple's Seasonal Law Enforcement Training Program (SLETP), located at the Ambler Campus, forswore their razors to show support for cancer patients bravely undertaking chemotherapy treatments."No Shave November," which began in 2009, has become an important tradition with many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, according to Chris Willard, Assistant Director of the Seasonal Law Enforcement Training Program. SLETP cadets this year were eager to become a part of that tradition for the first time."No Shave November was a...
On a recent Friday, Temple University Painting major Alyssa Brown found herself up a tree at Temple Ambler…literally."With landscape painting, you are usually far from your subject. I wanted to take it in a different direction — I wanted a different perspective," said Brown, a senior who received a full scholarship to study painting at Temple. "This way, I'm sitting inside my subject, working somewhere between realism and abstraction."Brown was among 11 remarkably talented students in the Landscape Painting class of Kati Gegenheimer, Adjunct Faculty in Painting and...
Susan Sacks has spent most of her adult life as part of the Temple University Ambler community.In 1997, she arrived on campus to pursue a degree in English. She returned to become one of the first graduates of Temple's newly minted Community and Regional Planning master's program, taking just a year away to help families in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with housing and other needs as part of AmeriCorps VISTA.Working closely with her mentor Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Sacks was appointed Assistant Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, helping to establish the Center as an...
Every business, large and small, has to start from the ground up — a novel approach, a new idea, a niche left unfulfilled.In March, Temple University is giving entrepreneurs — military veterans in particular — a new place and an essential partner to help their business concepts become reality. On March 20 at 3 p.m., Temple's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will cut the ribbon on a new office located in the Ambler Campus Library Building. This event is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, register online."We want to be able to...
