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Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector
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Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.
Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art
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Jonathan Katz, an associate professor of practice in the Department of the History of Art, pictured inside his West Philadelphia home. Katz led the effort to launch the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship at Penn.

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Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art

In a new book, art historian Jonathan D. Katz explores the Stonewall Riots and contemporary queer art.

Kristina García

What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA
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What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA

Karen Weaver of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, an expert on college sports and higher education, discusses the NCAA settlement agreement and the effect it will have on student-athletes and college sports overall.
States differ widely in requirements for young driver training
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States differ widely in requirements for young driver training

A new paper from Annenberg Public Policy Center shows how states differ in licensing requirements for teens, and how the crash rate correlates to training; the authors advise for families of teens to go beyond the minimum state requirements to keep teen drivers safer.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Continued access to emergency abortion care
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Continued access to emergency abortion care

In dismissing Moyle v. United States, Penn Carey Law’s Allison K. Hoffman says the Supreme Court took a “procedural punt” in allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing emergency abortion care.

From Penn Carey Law

Gender-affirming care at Penn Medicine: A future ‘not in the shadows’
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Mattie Chaya Kimberly “Kimi” Klauser (in hat second from right) with her bandmates.

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Gender-affirming care at Penn Medicine: A future ‘not in the shadows’

The Penn Medicine Program for LGBTQ+ Health and gender-affirming care at Penn Medicine has helped Mattie Chaya Kimberly “Kimi” Klauser and others get the right care in an open, safe, and nurturing environment.
The Civil Rights Act at 60
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U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. after presenting the civil rights leader with one of the 72 pens used to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1964. Surrounding the president, from left, are, Rep. Roland Libonati, D-Ill., Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., Rev. King, Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., and behind Celler is Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League.

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The Civil Rights Act at 60

To mark the anniversary, Mary Francis Berry, Marcia Chatelain, and William Sturkey of the School of Arts & Sciences and Deuel Ross of Penn Carey Law offer takeaways on the landmark legislation.

Kristen de Groot , Kristina García

Exploring the limits of robotic systems
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Exploring the limits of robotic systems

Bruce Lee, a doctoral student in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, offers insights into the fundamental limits of machine learning.

From Penn Engineering Today