The first is a look at the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan, a joint effort by some of the city’s best planning groups to plan for a thriving industrial future in one of Philadelphia’s most important industrial districts. That story can be seen here.

The second story was a blog post on PlanPhilly’s blog, Eyes on the Street. This post is an update on the Philadelphia Housing Authority property auction – the somewhat controversial issue I covered last semester. My update can be seen here.

Hope you enjoy!

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Fox 10-10-10 marketing students fund smiles, name a dog – and raise $20,000 for charities

In just four semesters, undergraduate students in the Fox School’s entrepreneurial marketing course, popularly known as 10-10-10, have raised more than $50,000 for an array of charities and organizations, but their impact goes beyond even that impressive monetary value.

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Sanat Sarkar named Cyrus H.K. Curtis Professor for 30 Year Commitment to Statistics Department

Dr. Sanat Sarkar, a key member of the Fox School’s Department of Statistics for nearly 30 years, was recently named Cyrus H.K. Curtis Professor, an endowed professorship that supports his research and travel.

In his 30 years at Fox, Sarkar has authored more than 70 papers, received top awards and grant funding in recognition of his work, and supervised approximately 20 PhD students.

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Fox students travel to Connecticut for Travelers actuarial case competition

Early this semester, Fox professor Krupa Viswanathan took six of her top actuarial students to the Travelers Case Competition in Hartford, Conn.

Competing against actuarial students from Bentley University, Bryant University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Connecticut, Viswanathan’s students were given five hours to analyze a case relevant to Travelers Insurance and then present their findings to a panel of executives.

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Two Fox finance majors earn top national recognition from the Financial Management Association

Wenhao Zuo and Pete Grant, Fox School finance and international business double majors, have been named Financial Management Association (FMA) Collegiate Fellows – a title only 23 students nationwide received this year.

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• North Philadelphia: Philadelphia Housing Authority Auction Upsets Residents http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/murl/2011/11/10/north-philadelphia-philadelphia-housing-authority-auction-upsets-residents/
• Center City: Housing Authority Makes Money on Auction; Critics Complain Neighborhood Buyers Left Out http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/murl/2011/11/17/center-city-housing-authority-makes-money-on-auction-critics-complain-neighborhood-buyers-left-out/
• Parkside: Fairmount Park Conservancy Collaborates on Centennial District Master Plan http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/murl/2011/10/06/parkside-fairmount-park-conservancy-collaborates-on-centennial-district-master-plan/
• Parkside: Credit Union Opens in Shopping Center http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/murl/2011/09/27/parkside-credit-union-opens-in-shopping-center/

Wooden Shoe Books from Christine Fisher on Vimeo.

In the Multimedia Storytelling course I took with the Temple University Journalism Department in the spring 2011, we also learned how to code using CSS and HTML. To demonstrate my skills, I teamed up with Philabudance, a Philadelphia-based hunger relief organization, to produce two, hand-coded, interactive multimedia packages.

• Philabundance Fresh For All, an interactive slideshow

• Philabundance Community Food Center, a multimedia package

This (highly entertaining, engaging and critically acclaimed) .swf was the first Flash Animation I created: http://astro.temple.edu/~tub71085//multimed/BalloonMovie.swf

Using Flash we then advanced to created audio slide shows, like this project featuring Barry S. Slosbug, Inc., a Philadelphia auctioneer company.

My duties range from writing event coverage to profiling faculty, student and alumni for internal and external publication; pitching to media outlets; maintaining databases and assisting with rebranding efforts.

To date, some of my published clips include the following:

• Fox EMBA grad earns Champion of Change title from the White House

When Patience Lehrman immigrated from a village in Cameroon, West Africa, to a small town in Washington state, she never imagined she would one day sit at a White House roundtable advising top immigration policymakers. But this May, that is exactly what Lehrman, a recent Fox School of Business Executive MBA graduate and national director of Temple’s Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), found herself doing…

• Love of sports and Temple inspires painter’s work, published by Temple Times

A friend once told Arlene Dowd, “Always pick up the biggest brush you have and just start painting.”

That’s the approach Dowd, administrative coordinator for the Fox School of Business’ Human Resource Management Department, took with a recent fundraising project — a bird’s-eye-view painting of a packed Liacouras Center…

• TEFI World Congress, hosted at Temple, activates change in tourism education

This May tourism educators and industry professionals from around the world traveled to Temple University’s Main Campus to hear 37 presenters from 11 countries speak at the Tourism Education Futures Institute (TEFI) World Congress.

For three days, the 2011 World Congress attendees heard from internationally renowned tourism educators and professionals, worked together to develop programs and initiatives in the forward-thinking spirit of TEFI, and enjoyed themselves in Philadelphia…

• Fox launches Center for Statistical Analysis to further university-wide collaboration

The Fox School’s Department of Statistics has launched the Center for Statistical Analysis (CSA), which will serve as an avenue for university-wide collaboration and as a means to further the university’s overarching research mission…