Reuben Kramer (Class of ’08) is a proud Temple Owl and graduate of the School of Communications and Theater. He considers his three awards at the Temple Undergraduate Research Forum (TURF) to be his greatest academic accomplishment. He looks forward to a career in Law or International Relations.
Elizabeth Parks (Class of ’10) was a Communications Major in the Honors Program. Along with being involved on Temple’s campus, she also participated with the New-York Historical Society’s college outreach efforts and studied abroad at Temple London. Her research interests are varied, having created scholarship on both the GLBT community within the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, as well as the final days of Coney Island’s famed amusement park.
Recent graduate Mariann VanDevere (Class of ’08) opted to give back to the community by creating a proposal for underprivileged youth to better understand the collegiate preparation processes. Her work was done as an independent project in her last semester before graduating. She summarizes it as: “The Underprivileged Undergrad (UU) is a program designed to prepare urban youth for college. Through a series of well-developed workshops high school juniors and seniors will receive information and guidance about topics such as filling out the FAFSA, choosing colleges, SAT prep, searching for scholarships, managing money and so much more.”
Nicholas Daly (Class of ’09) is a Film and Media Arts major in the School of Communications and Theater. He has worked to combine his interests in urban communications with coursework in media culture studies and anthropology in order to achieve a broader understanding of whatever project he pursues. He believes that the root of his academic success lay in the interdisciplinary nature of his studies and is proud to have been able to present his work at the Temple Undergraduate Research Forum (TURF).
From Melanie Menkevich, “Communication in Public Life: NYC as Text” student:
We went to New York with an agenda to not only to explore the city as a class, but to explore the city as individuals. Our first major project of the semester is to make a portfolio on a certain New York neighborhood. Many of us have different neighborhoods to study and so we all went our separate ways to learn what we could. When left to our own devices we managed to navigate our ways throughout the city safely and soundly. We experimented in alternative research; we observed the people and places, we took notes on the certain slant of a sidewalk square and the certain aroma of a street corner. We experienced a chance to fully divulge ourselves into a place that can be pinpointed on a map and we made it so much more. We were adventurous pioneers exploring a new world.
“… The city is the realm of selves in rut
and delirium of ownership, is property,
objects made marvelous by prohibition
whereby mere things of earth become ideas,
thinkable beings in a thought-of world
possessed by men themselves possessed by gods.”
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Reuben Kramer
Reuben Kramer (Class of ’08) is a proud Temple Owl and graduate of the School of Communications and Theater. He considers his three awards at the Temple Undergraduate Research Forum (TURF) to be his greatest academic accomplishment. He looks forward to a career in Law or International Relations.
Flipping the Script: Rethinking our Rhetoric in the Islamic Republic (PDF)
Elizabeth Parks
Elizabeth Parks (Class of ’10) was a Communications Major in the Honors Program. Along with being involved on Temple’s campus, she also participated with the New-York Historical Society’s college outreach efforts and studied abroad at Temple London. Her research interests are varied, having created scholarship on both the GLBT community within the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, as well as the final days of Coney Island’s famed amusement park.
Coney Island Caught on Tape: Death of the World’s Greatest Carnival (PDF)
Mariann J. VanDevere
Recent graduate Mariann VanDevere (Class of ’08) opted to give back to the community by creating a proposal for underprivileged youth to better understand the collegiate preparation processes. Her work was done as an independent project in her last semester before graduating. She summarizes it as: “The Underprivileged Undergrad (UU) is a program designed to prepare urban youth for college. Through a series of well-developed workshops high school juniors and seniors will receive information and guidance about topics such as filling out the FAFSA, choosing colleges, SAT prep, searching for scholarships, managing money and so much more.”
The Uplifted Undergrad: An Independent Project Proposal
Student Creative Work
Nicholas Daly
Nicholas Daly (Class of ’09) is a Film and Media Arts major in the School of Communications and Theater. He has worked to combine his interests in urban communications with coursework in media culture studies and anthropology in order to achieve a broader understanding of whatever project he pursues. He believes that the root of his academic success lay in the interdisciplinary nature of his studies and is proud to have been able to present his work at the Temple Undergraduate Research Forum (TURF).
Countercultural Mecca: Public Space and Personal Opinion in Greenwich Village
From Melanie Menkevich, “Communication in Public Life: NYC as Text” student:
and delirium of ownership, is property,
objects made marvelous by prohibition
whereby mere things of earth become ideas,
thinkable beings in a thought-of world
possessed by men themselves possessed by gods.”
- Irving Felding