1980s
}1980:
U.S. President Jimmy Carter conducted a Town Meeting in McGonigle Hall on Main Campus.
Researchers from the School of Pharmacy, led by Pharmacology Professor Ronald Gautieri, were the first to produce evidence linking cocaine use with birth defects.
1982:
Peter J. Liacouras was named Temple’s seventh president.
Temple University Japan, the first non-Japanese university to operate in Japan, was established.
The world’s fifth implantation of an artificial heart took place at Temple University Hospital by a team headed by Jacob Kolff, professor of surgery and chief of cardiothoracic surgery.
1983:
The Temple “T” was created by a graphic arts and design class at Tyler School of Art.
1984:
Temple University Hospital surgeons performed the first heart transplant in the Delaware Valley.
Sol Sherry, chair of medicine, became the first to use streptokinase as a therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, one of the nation’s foremost university-based collections of African-American prints, photographs, slave narratives, manuscripts, letters and other materials, was added to Temple University Libraries..
1986:
The Honors Program was established.
The Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Department took home a “Best of Show” award from the Philadelphia Flower Show in the Academic Educational category, an achievement repeated in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
1988:
The men’s basketball team entered the NCAA tournament ranked No. 1 in the country.
The African American Studies Department, founded in 1969, established the first black studies doctorate.
1989:
The first combined heart and kidney transplant in the Delaware Valley was performed at Temple University Hospital.