The Graduate School of Temple University

1. The Graduate School of Temple University Welcomes You!

2. The Graduate School Regulation Guidance

3. Key Individuals of the Graduate School • Zeb Kendrick, Vice Provost • Responsible for the daily operations of the Graduate School • Responsible for Student Appeal Issues • Responsible for Graduate School Committees • Responsible for the Post-Doctoral Office • Marge Pippet, Assistant Dean • Mike Toner, Director of Enrollment and Data Management

4. Key Individuals in the Graduate School • Alice Abner • Cynthia Harmon-Williams • Tara Schumacher • Kathryn Petrich-LeFevre • Christa Viola • Nina Marie Campellone

5. Financial Assistance • Teaching Assistantships • Research Assistantships • Graduate Externship • Academic Internship • Fellowship Awards • Presidential • University • Future Faculty • Dissertation and Project Completion Awards

6. What You See and What You Do Not See

7. Research with Humans or Animals • Regulatory Affairs • http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/index.html • Human Subjects Training (IRB) • http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/irb/index.html • Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) – Requires login to acquire information • http://www.temple.edu/research/login.asp?val=iacuc • Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) – research that involves recombinant DNA, infectious agents, and other biohazards http://www.temple.edu/research/regaffairs/ibc/index.html • Environmental Health & Radiation Safety (EHRS) - safe use of radioactive materials, radiation- producing equipment, chemicals and biological substances at the University

8. Policies of the Graduate School • URL to the Policies and Procedures of the Graduate School • http://www.temple.edu/grad/policies/index.htm • URL to Student Forms used by the Graduate School • http://www.temple.edu/grad/forms/index.htm • URL to Graduate Student News • http://www.temple.edu/grad/news/index.htm

9. Graduate School News Please keep the Graduate School informed of your accomplishments

10. Media and Communication Alumnus Wins Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association Richard Popp, an alumnus of the School of Media and Communication's Media and Communication Ph.D. program, has won the Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA). The award recognizes the best new book in the country about journalism and mass communication history. Rick's book entitled The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2012. An earlier version of the work was named Best Doctoral Dissertation by AJHA in 2009. Richard is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He will receive the award and speak about his book at the 32nd Annual AJHA Convention in New Orleans in September 2013.

11. Doctoral Candidate in Psychology Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Sarah Seligman, a doctoral candidate in Psychology, was awarded a 2013 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Sarah was selected based on her outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. The award includes a yearly stipend of $30,000, with funding provided for a maximum of three years. Additional opportunities complement the fellowship award, including the Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide, which offers fellows the opportunity to enhance their professional development through international research collaborations.

12. M.F.A. Candidate in Film and Media Arts Edited Documentary That is Now Oscar Contender The documentary film entitled Hell and Back Again, which was edited by Fiona Otway, an M.F.A. candidate in Film and Media Arts, was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an official Oscar nominee for feature-length documentary on February 26, 2012. The film premiered in Philadelphia on November 4, 2011, at the Landmark Ritz Bourse. It is the story of a sergeant who tries to make the difficult transition back into everyday life after experiencing the brutality of war. Critics have hailed it as "compassionate," "tender," "mesmerizing," and "canonical." The film is already the winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary and the World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary awards. Hell and Back Again is the third Oscar-nominated documentary edited by Ms. Otway. The other are Iraq in Fragments, a documentary feature contender in 2007, and "Sari’s Mother,” a 2008 documentary short subject nominee.

13. Art History Students and Alumni Achieve Milestones in 2012-13 During the 2012-13 academic year, achievements by Art History students included: 37 conference papers and invited talks, 4 published essays Scholarships and fellowships: American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship; CHAT Grad Associate Fellowship; Common Ground Publishing's Graduate Scholar Award; Dissertation Completion Grant, with successful completion; Duke University/Delmas Foundation Scholarship; Fulbright Fellowship; Getty Center Travel Grant; Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship; Huntington Library Research Fellowship; KoninklijkNederlandsInstituut Rome Research Grant; Kress Foundation Fellowships; McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Research Associateship; Rome Fellowship; Smithsonian American Art Museum Pre-Doctoral Fellowship;

14. Doctoral Candidate in Kinesiology is First Author on Published Paper • Dianne Babbitt, a doctoral candidate in Kinesiology, is the first author on a paper published in the International Journal of Hypertension. Dianne and her co-authors report on a clinical study in "Endothelial Activation Microparticles and Inflammation Status Improve with Exercise Training in African Americans." Among the paper's "firsts" are that it is the first study to show that aerobic exercise training changes endothelial microparticles, as well as the first controlled study of the effect of aerobic exercise training on endothelial function in African Americans.

15. The Writing Center Offers Three Programs for Doctoral Students: The Writing Center has instituted three programs for doctoral students. Dissertation boot camp provides a disciplined atmosphere in which dissertation writers can undertake their work. Brown bag lunch seminars are offered on a variety of timely topics.  And dissertation writing groups meet regularly to give dissertation writers a forum in which to share their work-in-progress and receive feedback.