Features

Draped above the desk of Jeffrey Montague, assistant dean of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, is a banner that reads: “I don’t make friends; I make alumni.”

Most people could care less about the habits of obese people, but Dr. Gary Foster, director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education, is doing something about it.

Whether they’re rewiring students’ minds to engineer this generation’s own Wall-E or slapping wrists with tough love in Speakman Hall, some Temple faculty and administrators are going out of their way to make a splash on Main Campus, with waves that reverberate beyond. The Temple News gives teachers’ apples and gold stars to a few of them in our first ever Movers & Shakers issue.