Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow

Roberts, who has appointments in Penn Carey Law and School of Arts & Sciences, is one of 22 Fellows to be named this year.

The New York Times

MacArthur Foundation announces 2024 ‘genius’ grant winners

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts has been named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on racial inequities in health and social-service systems.

Derek Griffith appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Griffith is an innovator in the study of health equity, and will teach in the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine.

Associated Press

This city is hailed as a vaccination success. Can it be sustained?

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.

Hanzhong Luo has his body heat scanned in a cooling shelter prototype.

Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia

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.

Penn’s campus and the city of Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania launches Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

The Center will bring together six Schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University.

The mechanics of collaboration

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer

As colleges grapple with AI’s pitfalls, U. of Delaware uses technology to transform faculty lectures into interactive study aides

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.

Reuters

Google antitrust ruling may pose $20 billion risk for Apple

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.