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What makes an AI livestreamer seem real?

What makes an AI livestreamer seem real?

New research from Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication examines 15 months of livestreams from AI livestreamer Neuro-sama and proposes a new framework of what makes AI feel authentic.

Why students leave community college
Estefanie Aguilar Padilla conducting fieldwork at a community college.

Penn GSE doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla conducting fieldwork at a community college. 

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Why students leave community college

At Penn’s Graduate School for Education, doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla’s work with associate professor Rachel Baker reveals why students walk away—and how colleges can help them stay.

From Penn GSE

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How to incentivize problem solving in groups
Artist rendering of several people conected with string stretch their connections to the limit, testing the strength of unity.

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How to incentivize problem solving in groups

Why do some groups get smarter together while others collapse into groupthink? New research from theoretical biologist Joshua Plotkin and collaborators show that collective intelligence doesn’t emerge by rewarding the most accurate individuals but by rewarding those who improve the group’s prediction as a whole.

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New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions
A row of newspaper boxes, mostly empty.

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New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions

A report co-authored by Annenberg School for Communication professor Victor Pickard traces the erosion of the free press in the United States over the past two decades.

From Annenberg School for Communication

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Early modern literature in the Black Atlantic world
Alyssa Smith

Alyssa Smith, MCEAS Consortium Fellow at the McNeil Center.

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Early modern literature in the Black Atlantic world

How Alyssa Smith, a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Fellow is turning to Penn for her research.

From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

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Penn GSE partners to launch $26M AI grants program advancing K–12 education

Penn GSE partners to launch $26M AI grants program advancing K–12 education

This new program will fund the development of openly shared datasets, models, and other digital resources so developers, school districts, and educators can build safe, effective, and equitable AI tools for K–12 teaching and learning.

New model could help police departments reduce excessive force incidents

New model could help police departments reduce excessive force incidents

Criminology professor Greg Ridgeway has developed a model that estimates an officer’s likelihood of using a higher level of force than peers in similar situations—an improvement on existing early-intervention systems that don’t account for differences in time and location.

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A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

(Image: John Gibb, Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection)

A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core

Studio Plus design students at Weitzman focused on working through the future of Philadelphia’s Market East neighborhood, and explored issues of historic preservation, urban planning, and housing.

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Preserving the past
Brian Whetstone.

Assistant professor of historic preservation Brian Whetstone.

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Preserving the past

Brian Whetstone, assistant professor of historic preservation at the Weitzman School, explores the intersections between housing and labor equity at museums, historic sites, and preservation organizations.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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