Social Sciences

A new study by Annenberg School for Communication professor Damon Centola and alum Douglas Guilbeault explores how content moderators can reach consensus on classifying controversial material online, including inflammatory, offensive, or hateful images.

Fourth-year Stefan Hatch is researching one of Philadelphia’s most pressing challenges: housing insecurity. The double major combines urban studies and psychology to explore solutions.

The latest book from Annenberg professor Barbie Zelizer traces how problematic journalistic practices became entrenched during the Cold War.

As the number of confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. rises, a new nationally representative panel survey by Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center finds a small but significant drop in the proportion of the public that would recommend that someone in their household get the MMR vaccine.

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.

Following years of research in Philadelphia schools, the Graduate School of Education’s Responsive Math Teaching team is sharing the practical tools and guiding principles they identified in a new book to help educators make math more meaningful and equitable.

In 2025, Philadelphia public school teachers completed content-focused workshops, offered by Penn’s Teachers Institute of Philadelphia with sponsorship from Penn Press, to use in lessons during the upcoming Semiquincentennial year, helping students to become better informed about their city and their nation.

A special edition of the Penn Arts & Sciences “Ampersand” podcast features Dean Mark Trodden in conversation with SAS faculty from different disciplines.

Penn historian Jared Farmer recently launched a website about Philadelphia’s fossil fuel economy to help students and residents learn about the local past in larger context.

To facilitate understanding how the U.S. monitors vaccine safety, biostatistician professor Jeffrey S. Morris authored a new Annenberg Public Policy Center white paper, “The Complementary Components of the U.S. Vaccine Safety Monitoring System,” which analyzes how FDA researchers determine whether a vaccine has resulted in the death of a vaccine recipient.