Claire Smith, a Temple University alumna who this summer will become the first woman inducted as a sportswriter to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, will be the keynote speaker at Temple's Klein College of Media and Communication exercises in May. "We are so proud to count Claire among our alumni," said Klein College Dean David Boardman, "and we are thrilled that she will offer insight from her trailblazing career to the first graduating class of our newly named college." Smith, a 1979 graduate, will be inducted to the Hall of Fame in July in recognition of her work as the fir...

Sarah Hanson is finishing up a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Temple, after picking up a Master's in Globalization and Development Communication in 2016. As a full-time research assistant at Temple's Center for Biodiversity, Hanson has gone on three research trips to Haiti with the director of the evolutionary biology lab, Dr. Stephen Blair Hedges. On these trips, her job is to collect frogs, snakes and lizards for biological research. Though Hanson has had a passion for photography for several years, she developed an interest in conservation pho...