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Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences
Screenshot of University Atlas Project visualization.

Colin Twomey created the University Atlas Project, showing the thematic commonalities between research publications from current faculty in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Viewers can search for publications by department, faculty member, program affiliation, keyword, or year. The map can be viewed at uatlas.com/penn/sas

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Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences

Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty.
How direct cash assistance aids cancer patients from low-income households
A cancer patient being comforted by a family member.

Image: iStock/Milena Magazin

How direct cash assistance aids cancer patients from low-income households

A new study by Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice examines the potential of a joint program between Bradley Cooper’s One Family Foundation and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation Institute for Health Equity on health care and economic insecurity.

From the School of Social Policy & Practice

Public health beliefs predict support for climate action
Person holding phone checking air pollution levels outside wearing a mask.

Image: iStock/humonia

Public health beliefs predict support for climate action

New research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines the relationship between health-related beliefs about climate change and support for climate policy proposals.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Redlining and rentals
An aerial view of the Park Forest housing development outside of Chicago in the 1950s.

Aerial view of a Park Forest neighborhood in 1952 that captures the neat rows of homes that characterized the post-World War II housing boom in the planned community.

(Image: Owen Kent via the Chicago Historical Society)

Redlining and rentals

Historian Brent Cebul in the School of Arts & Sciences is working on a new digital mapping project looking at the impact of Federal Housing Administration policies on the availability of affordable rental housing post-World War II. 

Kristen de Groot

The anthropology of plastics in India
An image of people picking through a dump with a handful of skyscrapers along the horizon

Children inspect plastic waste in a scrapyard with skyscrapers on the horizon line.

(Image: Sidharth Chitalia)

The anthropology of plastics in India

Doctoral candidate Adwaita Banerjee uses ethnographic research to document the ecological transition of the Deonar dumping ground, where thousands of Dalits and Muslim migrants mine the area for plastic that can be resold and recycled.

Kristina García