One of the more interesting projects I worked on during the past year was Research With Results, the first university-wise report on Temple University’s growing research enterprise since 2008. Designed to both bolster grant applications and encourage philanthropic support, the innovative design package devised by the university’s talented Creative Services graphic design team incorporates a tri-fold folder that  contains two inside pockets. The first pocket holds a 16-page overview of Temple’s research efforts. The second pocket contains–depending on the intended audience–up to six 8-by-10-inch, double-sided cards that highlight particular research centers and/or endeavors. I was responsible for the latter copy, including interviewing the chief researchers and writing the text. The greatest challenge was boiling down a lot of fascinating material into tight copy.

Featured are Temple’s: Center for Advanced Photonics Research, which is investigation the use of lasers to locate explosive devices; the Water and Environmental (WET) Center water treatment laboratory; the Cardiovascular Research Center and heart-related Center for Translational Medicine; the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology and the Fox Chase Cancer Center; the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research; and the university’s robust Undergraduate Research Program, which pairs professor researchers with promising undergraduates, allowing them to conduct the type of research most students don’t experience until graduate school.

Click here to see a full PDF of Temple’s latest research report.