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  • Is AI making you spend more money?

    Wharton’s Wendy De La Rosa sounds the alarm about firms using AI to encourage consumer spending, which will harm financial well-being.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • How low trust in government may hurt clinical trial participation

    In a new study, LDI Fellows explore how trust in federal oversight of vaccine safety influenced people’s willingness to participate in COVID-19 clinical trials.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Penn Dental Medicine and Yeditepe University faculty of dentistry sign MOU to advance global dental education

    The partnership between Penn Dental and Yeditepe University in Istanbul will strengthen the academic and clinical expertise of both institutions through faculty exchange programs, joint research initiatives, and a shared commitment to innovative dental practices.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Zhongjie Lin named Benjamin Z. Lin Presidential Professor at the Weitzman School

    Lin directs the Urban Design concentration in the Department of City & Regional Planning, and leads the Future Cities Initiative, a research lab focused on sustainable urbanism, urban mobility, city form, public space, and nature-based infrastructure.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Youth Participatory Action Communication Research: A model for developing youth-driven health campaigns

    Annenberg researchers worked with West Philadelphia high schoolers to develop a health communication campaign encouraging their peers to seek mental health support.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • ‘Democracy Amid Crises’ AIOD panel dataset now available to scholars

    The data consists of eight waves of panel data tracking the opinions of residents of four key battleground states—Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—during the 2020 election and its aftermath

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • From Ulysses to romantasy, this site encourages you to explore banned books

    Digital library strategist and metadata architectJohn Mark Ockerbloom has created a unique browsable database that examines book censorship past and present.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Penn Dental student participants in Bridging the Gaps program

    Penn Dental Medicine students who took part in the service and training internship Bridging the Gaps presented a poster of their experience at the Bridging the Gaps 34th Annual Symposium.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Perry World House announces 2024-25 cohort of Visiting Fellows

    Since 2016, Perry World House’s Visitors Program has brought internationally renowned global policy leaders, scholars, and practitioners to Philadelphia to engage with the Penn community and the public.

    FULL STORY AT Perry World House →

  • Rajeev Alur receives the 2024 Donald E. Knuth Prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science

    The Zisman Family Professor in Computer and Information Science and the Founding Director of the ASSET Center for safe and trustworthy AI-enabled systems has been awarded for his introduction of novel models of computation, which laid the theoretical foundations for analysis, design, synthesis and verification of computer systems.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →