Austin Smith and Justin Santoro aren't interested in building a better mousetrap. Their focus is on fish — and plants — and ensuring both are thriving within a healthy aquaponics environment."Our plan was to develop a 'one-stop shopping' real-time monitoring system for aquaponics systems of any size," said Smith, a May 2016 graduate of Temple University with a degree in Environmental Studies who partnered with Santoro, a fellow Temple alumnus who graduated in August with a degree in Film, to develop the system using available open source technology in a way that...
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the Making of Nieuwpolders: Regenerating the Dutch Custom of Land Recovery!For hundreds of years, the Dutch found innovative ways to harness the land to meet the needs of their people. As seas and rivers threatened to envelope invaluable farmland, they discovered sustainable means to reclaim the land necessary for their communities to succeed and thrive.At the 2017 Philadelphia Flower Show, Temple University Ambler landscape architecture and horticulture students are drawing upon the strength and spirit of Dutch land reclamation for their...
You may not know Diana Fernandez just yet but with the lightning fast creative pace she has kept since graduating Temple University in 2012, you'll know her work in no time.Graduating from Temple University Ambler with a B.S. in Landscape Architecture, Fernandez has placed her stamp on innovative, cutting-edge design projects, from concepts for revitalizing the Reading Railroad site in Philadelphia to a community led waterfront project for the Port of Los Angeles."At Temple University Ambler, you develop a family of classmates that are there with you all four years. Everyone...
Say it loud and proud — the Temple Owls are the American Athletic Conference Champions! There is no question the #22-ranked Owls have had an amazing football season. Students, faculty and staff will definitely be cheering them on at the Military Bowl against Wake Forest on December 27!Earlier this season, the Cherry and White cheered on a different sort of Temple hero when she hit the field at the Linc. The Owls may have blown out Cincinnati with a 34-14 win, but Dr. Lolly Tai, Professor of Landscape Architecture and former Chair of the Department of Landscape...
Temple University will close at the end of business on Friday, December 20, 2019, and reopen Thursday, January 2, 2020. A limited number of services and offices will be open during the break. Information about specific facilities is available on the Campus Operations website.Most university services, including Shuttle Services, will be suspended for winter break. Parking Services and some Temple Bookstore locations will operate on an abbreviated schedule.Please note the following year-end schedule for Temple University Ambler:Monday, December 16, 2019: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.(...
A group of four students gets ready for a presentation to their class. Each of them has their part of the project on their own devices — laptops, an iPad, and Android tablet. When the time comes to share their findings, they are all able to seamlessly show off their hard work on the large projection screen at the front of the classroom.This level of cross platform integration is now available in two renovated classrooms at Temple University Ambler. Using a combination of Kramer wireless devices and Apple TV, students, faculty and staff have a new multiplatform tool that...
Angela J. Davis believes in the mission of Temple to provide an exceptional university experience to students from all backgrounds and interests.Recently celebrating her third year at Temple in Institutional Advancement, Davis is an Owl through and through."I have a degree from the Fox School of Business in Business Administration with a focus on marketing. My mother, Julia Davis, also graduated from Temple's Tyler School of Art and my son, Charles Patterson, is currently a Math and Computer Science Major at Temple," said Davis, who recently joined the Temple University Ambler...
If Dr. Frankenstein worked with plants instead of bodies, he'd still have nothing on Temple University Ambler alumnus Brandon Huber.Huber's collection of hundreds of plants sounds like something out of an herbology class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His home in North East Philadelphia and his home away from home at NC State are filled with all manner of carnivorous plants, spiny cacti of every shape and size and species a great deal more bizarre.It's no wonder that his pride and joy, a 6-foot, 4-inch tall, 38-inch wide behemoth of a flowering plant — a...
Temple University is on the rise. Now at No. 118, Temple has risen 14 spots in U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings over the past several years. Temple's momentum is red-hot and it is a great time to be an Owl!
The energy extends well beyond Main Campus in North Philadelphia and into Montgomery County. At Temple University Ambler, students experience the best of both worlds — a Temple degree at a convenient suburban campus location with support specific to their needs and interests.
There is a reason students are choosing to make Temple University Ambler...
When visiting Tyler State Park, Fort Washington State Park or Delaware Canal State Park, you may not immediately notice them but there is a dedicated group of people tasked with ensuring the safety of the parks and everyone who visits them.Just like national parks, state parks are protected by law enforcement rangers. The state park rangers are overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservations and Natural Resources (DCNR). For the first time, Pennsylvania's state park rangers are being trained by Temple University's Criminal Justice Training Programs."There are park...
Washington Square in Philadelphia has a history as old as the city itself. One of the five original planned squares devised by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme, today it is part of Independence National Park in the heart of the city's historic district.Washington Square's tree-lined avenues — an oasis in urban Center City — and its historic sense of place attracted the interest of Temple University Ambler History senior Sherrice Johnson who wanted to explore well beyond the "surface history" of the location, both figuratively and literally.What today is a...
By Kathleen BurnsMarketing and Public Relations InternIn the event of a serious incident — on campus, at work, out with friends — would you be prepared?"Often in dangerous situations, people will panic, they'll freeze. But thinking about how you'll respond and planning ahead knocks you out that 'freeze mode' quickly," said Sarah Powell, Director of Emergency Management at Temple University. "The more you think about something and react to it, the more likely you are to respond automatically. The main thing to remember is that in any situation, you are not helpless."...
Parks don't typically pop up in the middle of town overnight.Thanks to a collaboration between the Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, the volunteer Park(ing) Day team, residents and civic organizations, that's exactly what has happened in the heart of Doylestown four years running!This year, the team transformed the corner of Hamilton and West State streets in Doylestown Borough into "a fleeting green oasis," according to Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Associate Professor Baldev Lamba, who...
Temple University Ambler is enjoying a technology boom all its own.From new technology-supported breakout and meeting spaces to new specialized equipment to new software, the Ambler Campus has been enjoying advances in the technology capabilities available for students, faculty and staff throughout the summer."What drives technology services on campus is ensuring quality student/teacher learning experiences. We are always striving to make it easier for teachers to use technology in their instruction," said Reid Overturf, Information Technology Manager at Temple University...
When thinking about the nation's majestic national parks, law enforcement might not be the first thing that comes readily to mind. Protecting and serving the hundreds of thousands of people and families that visit the parks every year and the natural resources they have come to experience and enjoy, however, is vitally important.
Temple University's Criminal Justice Training Programs (CJTP) has been training professionals for nearly 50 years. In addition to Temple's Municipal Police Academy and training programs for deputy sheriffs, state constables, school security staff...
Mike Stokes considers himself among the very fortunate. He had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University, for more than 30 years.When Featherstone went to work for the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in the 1980s, Stokes thought of him as the "the young guy" even though Featherstone was two years his senior."There were the old engineers working with their slide rules and in comes this young guy with new skills and a new approach to planning," said Stokes, Assistant Director of the Montgomery...
Students in Temple's Division of Architecture and Environmental Design have developed a clear vision of a viable future for the Germantown Avenue corridor in East North Philadelphia.It is a vision where economic revitalization has taken a strong foothold. Where residents in the neighborhood just blocks from campus have not only found jobs but have developed their own businesses, providing goods and services not just to their community but well beyond.During the spring semester, master's students in the Department of Architecture and graduate and undergraduate students in the...
Andrew Sargeant can trace his interest in landscape architecture and design to some of his earliest memories — a comprehensive set of Legos will do that to you.Building upon his early creativity, day trips with friends to New York — located just minutes from his family home — provided him with a general understanding of the complexities of cityscapes and a desire to learn much more."I attended a magnet high school where I was able to take pre-engineering and environmental science classes. It was where I was introduced to the idea of landscape architecture as a...
Horticulture major Alexis Bacon doesn't consider herself an entrepreneur, but she should.She had already started two businesses before she turned 24, including a gardening business for several landowners in Chester County. Add in tutoring students in math, English and history outside of Temple and teaching a photography elective at her former high school and it's clear that Bacon, 24, of Pottstown, knows a little something about self motivation. It's a trait she might have picked up from her grandfather, Erwin Bacon."My grandfather's retirement plan consisted of moving to...
Caitlin Morrissey Glagola wasn't simply going to content herself waiting around for opportunities to make a difference to come to her. She decided to go out and find them, a search that landed her at Temple and the Master of Landscape Architecture program…though not immediately."I didn't always know that I was interested in landscape architecture. I discovered my passion later in life, but I was always interested in the environment and studying ecology. Consequently, I pursued a B.A. in Biology at Washington...
