Temple University Ambler

09/03/2026

Students, it’s time to take a moment for yourself and de-stress! Temple University's 5th Annual Wellness Day on Friday, October 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. will provide students a chance to stop and take a breath during a busy fall semester. Register online here for the event at Temple Ambler — https://bit.ly/4ctGZB7. Please register by Monday, September 21. Inter-Campus Bus transportation from Main Campus will be provided!

Students will be able to choose your their adventure with activities including Goat Yoga, Pilates, Candle-making, Esports, Mindfulness Meditation, wandering the Ambler Arboretum, or discovering something incredible in the campus Greenhouse. There will be therapy dogs and food trucks too!

09/02/2026

We were excited to welcome members of the Temple University College of Engineering community at Temple Ambler for their First-Year Engineering Retreat! We hope to see you back on campus again soon!

Prior to the start of the semester, some of our ENGR 1101 and 1102 faculty and undergraduate teaching assistants (UGTA) participated in the First-Year Engineering Retreat at Temple University Ambler. This team of faculty and upperclassmen undergraduate students work throughout the academic year to foster a supportive environment for our first-year engineering students.

Assistant Director of Campus and Student Engagement Holly Lynn led the group through a series of activities and challenges. After a day of team bonding, our faculty and students were ready to welcome first-year students for the first week of classes!

09/01/2026

The recent Field Station Summer Research Symposium celebrated a summer of discovery, learning and collaboration at Temple Ambler.

Field Station research interns shared the projects they spent the summer developing, highlighting the breadth of hands-on research and student training happening across the Temple Ambler Field Station.

The Field Station also welcomed Brian Banks, Hydrologic Technician with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as their invited speaker, strengthening the connections between our students, researchers and partners. More than a showcase of results, the symposium was a celebration of emerging scientists, mentorship and the community that makes field-based research possible.

Want to learn more about the Field Station, year-round research internships, or opportunities for research and collaboration? Contact [email protected]!

08/31/2026

A bit of Monday Morning Zen to start your week of right courtesy of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University!

08/28/2026

How does your garden grow? At the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, it’s with the support and dedication of an army of volunteers!

The energy and creativity of volunteers provide essential support to our gardens and programs. Interested in lending a hand? We welcome volunteers with an interest in plants to help the Horticulture Staff maintain the Arboretum’s gardens.

Drop-in volunteer sessions are held on Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Thursdays, 1 to 3 p.m. A Saturday session is also coming up on September 12 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.!

Tools, instructions, snacks and gloves are provided. Wear close-toe shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Dress in layers and remember water, sunscreen and insect repellent. We hope you’ll stop by!

08/27/2026

Today, we’re beginning a new series of spotlights on our Temple Ambler Field Station Research Interns as they share insights into their research and their experiences on campus.

Jack Brownfield is an Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity senior in the College of Science and Technology at Temple University.

“The Ambler Campus is the whole reason I do research, I feel. It’s amazing to be able to come out here; to have a great urban campus at Temple (Main) and then get on a bus and be in a forest that we have perfectly mapped out for research, which is exciting” he said. “I became a research intern my very first week at Temple as a freshman and I never left — it will be my seventh semester as a Field Station intern this fall. What’s great about this place is that there is always someone doing something new and cool; you get to help out with their research and learn a whole lot.”

Students gain advanced training by engaging in hands-on research internships that bring alive the excitement of science through an inquiry-based experience. Student interns work alongside researchers in the field to support ongoing projects and can develop investigations of their own.

Students interested in becoming a Field Station Research Intern, should reach out to the Temple Ambler Field Station at [email protected] with their name, why they are interested in working with the Field Station, current transcripts, and current resumé.

Learn more about the Temple Ambler Field Station at https://ambler.temple.edu/fieldstation.

08/27/2026

Celebrate the essential forces that sustain the landscape! The Ambler Arboretum of Temple University will present Ambler in Bloom 2026: Rooted in the Elements on Saturday, October 3, from 12 to 3 p.m.! Register today at https://bit.ly/4xfTR64.

This year’s theme centers on hands-on experiences highlighting roots, sun, water and soil. Live music will welcome you to the heart of campus and lunch served by a curated collection of artisanal food truck chefs. Between bites, explore the Arboretum the gardens at your own pace and discover guided interactive activities.

Along the paths, enjoy another bite to eat with our roaming oystertainer, create botanical cyanotype sun prints, try soil leaf printing, craft a pressed flower glass suncatcher, watch a bonsai demonstration, help plant bulbs for a future spring ephemeral flower path and discover a legacy wood-turning display that reminds us that every tree’s story continues, even after it falls. Be sure to take a memory home with you by participating in the silent auction!

Proceeds from Ambler in Bloom support the Arboretum’s mission of environmental education, horticultural excellence and free public access to the gardens.

Can’t attend? Please consider supporting the Ambler Arboretum with an Ambler in Bloom donation through the event registration page.

08/27/2026

This is it! It's the last day of the Temple Ambler Scavenger Hunt!

The hunt is on! Here's your clue!

08/26/2026

As we welcome our new and returning students to campus this week, we’d also like to place a spotlight on a recent graduate who made a big impact on campus!

Jarett Figlin graduated with a degree in Psychology from the Temple University College of Liberal Arts in the spring. Through a combination of in-person and online courses, he completed his degree at Temple Ambler. It was the in the Ambler Arboretum community where he truly found a home, working several seasons as a student gardener and staying on in summer 2026 as an intern in the Collins Nursery of the Ambler Arboretum — all the while incorporating what he was learning in the gardens with his career goals and his approach to psychology.

“My mom went here in the 1990’s. When I was applying to school and figuring out where I wanted to go, we took a tour of the Ambler Campus and I was immediately drawn to it — I love the natural spaces here and the community that was so welcoming to us,” he said. “When I got into Temple and the time came when I needed to make a decision about which campus that I wanted to go to, I knew this was the place that I wanted to be. It was something that I knew would be extremely beneficial to me — there’s really kind of an interconnectedness between plants and every discipline and all of us as people.”