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Cutting through the cluttered media landscape
Duncan Watts and the lab members of Media Bias Lab.

Duncan Watts (far left) and managing director Jeanne Ruane (second from left) with members of Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab.

(Image: Courtesy of Inspiring Impact)

Cutting through the cluttered media landscape

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.

From Penn Inspiring Impact

2 min. read

Analyzing the news with AI
A person standing inside multicoloured data sheets and social media chat icons organised into circular pattern.

Image: Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images

Analyzing the news with AI

Annenberg School for Communication postdoctoral fellow Baird Howland looks at prominent narratives in the news media and how they shape Americans’ worldviews.

Hailey Reissman

2 min. read

AI-powered data-mining study illuminates clinical complexity of tooth decay

AI-powered data-mining study illuminates clinical complexity of tooth decay

In a new study, Penn Dental Medicine researchers developed a process to organize and analyze dental and other data, and identified new subtypes and patterns for tooth decay, which may require different types of screening and risk prediction approaches.

Penn Nursing and engineering students tackle health care challenges at inaugural Datathon

Penn Nursing and engineering students tackle health care challenges at inaugural Datathon

Nearly 70 students from Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering participated in the Datathon, sponsored by the Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation last month, using the MIMIC-IV database, a massive critical care dataset, to develop innovative, data-driven solutions for real-world health care challenges. Team 6 CARE: A Critical-care Acuity & Resource Evaluation Metric earned the top award by creating a solution to better evaluate patient acuity and resource needs.

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Aerial shot of Amy Guttman Hall

Bhuvnesh Jain of the School of Arts & Sciences has teamed up with PIK University Professor René Vidal of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to create the AI x Science Fellowship offering postdoctoral researchers across the University opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bhuvnesh Jain and René Vidal have teamed up to create the AI x Science Fellowship, which builds on the thriving postdoctoral program of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration among researchers across the University.

6 min. read

The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician
From left: Shreya Arya, Miguel Lopez, Rob Ghrist, and Julian Gould

From left: Postdoctoral researcher Shreya Arya, Ph.D. candidate Miguel Lopez, PIK Professor Rob Ghrist, and Ph.D. candidate Julian Gould. 

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The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician

An artist, author, engineer, mathematician, and mentor, PIK Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science Robert Ghrist embraces innovation to enrich each of these roles.

8 min. read