Albarracín is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts & Sciences. She is assuming the role from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the inaugural director since 1993.
Neuroscientist Michael Platt discusses the biological basis of gambling as it relates to the over proliferation of gambling-based platforms.<br />
Mark G. Allen, Sara Cherry, Provost John L. Jackson, Jr., Michael E. Mann, and Duncan Watts are recognized for their contributions to the applied, biological, social, natural, physical, and behavioral sciences.
Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector team, under founder and director Duncan Watts, explores how people behave, how media works, how society functions, and how the human mind operates.
Research led by geneticist Sarah Tishkoff’s lab finds that prehistoric mating preferences is a likely explanation for why modern humans have so little Neanderthal DNA on their X chromosomes, challenging the idea that human evolution was driven solely by survival of the fittest.
Dolores Albarracín, the Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, has long studied how to curb disease and improve health.
A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members and students in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.<br />
Penn researchers Shelley Berger and Esra Sahingur explain senescence, the process of cellular aging, and discuss the complexities of developing anti-aging therapies that target these cells.
A roundup of appointments and awards for various members of Penn’s faculty across several schools.
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Computer scientist Konrad Kording and economist Ioana Marinescu have developed an interactive model that incorporates assumptions from both their fields to predict how AI will affect wages, jobs, and the overall economy.
By building light-controlled cholesterol ‘look-alikes,’ a Penn-led team creates new tools to track and tune an essential molecule, uncovering selective inhibitors for elusive transport proteins and pointing toward smarter drug delivery.
Alan Charles Kors and Philip E. Tetlock have been invested as members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, a nonprofit that promotes scholarship and honors achievement in the arts and sciences.
Three Penn faculty members are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.
A team led by researchers in the School of Nursing has developed a multicomponent intervention that uses passive monitoring and behavioral support to help reduce falls in at-risk older adults.
The honor recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
PIK Professor Shelley Berger and colleagues explored the genetic basis of labor distribution in communal-dwelling species and discovered that pathways dating back hundreds of millions of years are conserved across animal kingdoms. Their findings offer fundamental insights into complex social behaviors.
A team of researchers from the Computational Social Science Lab at the University of Pennsylvania find that cable news has increasingly diverged from broadcast news in the topics covered and language used.
A new paper from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center examines whether ‘I Voted’ stickers influence people’s voting intentions, and whether different language choices in this approach to voter outreach might make a bigger impact on civic engagement.
Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Lance Freeman of the Weitzman School of Design and School of Arts & Sciences studies how people interact with the built environment.
Albarracín, a PIK Professor with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and School of Arts & Sciences, is being recognized for increasing ‘our understanding of how attitudes can be changed, particularly with regard to persuasive messages.’
Gutmann accepted the award, presented by five current and former university presidents, at a ceremony on Jan. 28.
Research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center examines whether media coverage of foreign conflicts affects public opinion about U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic involvement.
Faculty at Penn’s School of Nursing have created a clinical decision support early warning system that accurately detects patient deterioration.
In a joint class within the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication, PIK professor Desmond Upton Patton invites students to dream big in Journey to Joy: Designing a Happier Life.
Bypassing involves offering accurate information that has an implication opposite to that of the misinformation. New research from APPC finds bypassing may be superior to correction in forming beliefs, but not in attitude about the delivered information.
Through his work as an interdisciplinary chemist, Booker has has made advancements in human health and innovative new treatments of disease.
The Council consists of five faculty members collaborating to enhance visibility and impact of AI research across Penn.
Roberts, who has appointments in Penn Carey Law and School of Arts & Sciences, is one of 22 Fellows to be named this year.
Griffith is an innovator in the study of health equity, and will teach in the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine.
Researchers from three University of Pennsylvania schools collaborated with a Hunting Park nonprofit to design, build, and test a prototype of a cooling shelter to place at a bus stop.
The Center will bring together six Schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University.
Penn Ph.D. student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers and social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork.
In a new study, researchers from the Annenberg School for Communication evaluate whether perceiving misinformation as a threat influences the amount of Americans’ partisan media consumption.
Researchers from Penn have developed a new tool to equip news consumers with a way to gauge bias in media.
PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators from the University of Exeter find Hurricane Maria transformed a monkey society by changing the pros and cons of their interpersonal relations.
A new paper from computational social scientist Duncan Watts examines how factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than ‘fake news,’ discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.
PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators studied how physiologic measures like heart rate synchrony can guide decision making in groups.
In the largest quantitative synthesis to date, Dolores Albarracín and her team dig through years of research on the science behind behavior change to determine the best ways to promote changes in behavior.
In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Platt talks about the socioeconomic and emotional factors leading to plummeting fertility rates.
As a generation of pioneering scholars retired, several new hires are working together to continue Annenberg’s legacy as a leader in Health Communication.
Dolores Albarracín, Charles L. Kane, Edward D. Mansfield, Virgil Percec, and Deborah A. Thomas are recognized for their contributions to mathematical and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences.
Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, Wharton School, School of Nursing, and Annenberg School for Communication join a class of scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines.
In the 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial lecture hosted by Penn Nursing, Desmond Upton Patton and Courtney D. Cogburn discussed how social media and AI might foster well-being.
Research led by Michael Platt uncovers the neural pathways for primate reciprocity, social support, and empathy.
In conversation with Professor of Practice Ben Jealous, neuroscience professor Peter Sterling returned to campus to talk about activism in his youth and how that informed his research in health.
A new study from Annenberg School for Communication’s Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed.
During the 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addressed this question in a conversation with Marcia Chatelain of Africana studies.<br />
A team of researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has devised a method to deliver mRNA into the brain using lipid nanoparticles, potentially advancing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and seizures.
Researchers from Penn address a critical gap in how knowledge is understood.
PIK Professor Desmond Patton says that more young people are speaking openly about mental health, especially on social media. College of Arts and Sciences first-year Anvesha Guru says that cultural attitudes about guns and mental health need more than a simple shift.
PIK Professor Derek Griffith says that women’s equality, equity, and opportunities can be promoted while actually focusing on the health and well-being of men.
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that tariffs on prescription drugs run the risk of raising prices without any quality or availability benefits.
A paper co-authored by PIK Professor Shelley Berger finds that patterns of “speckles” in the heart of tumor cells could help predict how patients with a common form of kidney cancer will respond to treatment options.
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that many schools don’t have a playbook for addressing student violence or helping pupils engage more positively online, in part because few researchers are studying the issue.
PIK Professor Karen M. Tani says that granting the Supreme Court the power to set its own agenda has caused it to gravitate toward cases that have preoccupied the conservative legal movement.
In a Q&A, PIK Professor Duncan Watts says that U.S. voters ignored Democratic policy in favor of Republican storytelling.
In a co-written opinion essay, PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel explains how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies in the Trump administration could discourage the use and research of vaccines.
At a Philadelphia panel on Project 2025, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts said that Black women would have even greater numbers of unwanted pregnancies without access to legal contraceptives.
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts has been named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on racial inequities in health and social-service systems.
PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín found that the most effective strategy to increase vaccination rates among children is to make it easier for families to get to doctor appointments.
Penn will be the first Ivy League school to launch a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence. PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues built the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to scan news articles for tone and bias.
PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp says companies that have a dominant market position with a product need to avoid the use of exclusive agreements and make sure every agreement gives the buyer free choice to substitute away.
PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp says that the government’s monopoly case against Google was a convincing narrative.
PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp says that the Google antitrust ruling is likely to put an end to Google’s practice of paying to be the default search engine on devices and browsers from companies like Apple and Samsung.
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the presidency is an administration with a team led by the president, not a one-man show.
Deen Freelon of the Annenberg School for Communication and PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín say that, while there is an audience that’s quite hungry for misinformation of various types, correcting health misinformation won’t change health behavior.
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says there’s widespread devaluing of certain people’s childbearing from negative stereotypes to laws that deny someone extra benefits if they get pregnant while on welfare.
Randall Collins of the School of Arts & Sciences and PIK Professor Duncan J. Watts discuss the career of the late Harrison White, a theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist.
In a co-authored survey of residents of the Syrian city of Aleppo, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell identifies four key themes for the reconstruction of heritage sites after conflict.