Social Sciences

The third edition of “Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don’t Know,” an overview of the current state of knowledge of major mental health conditions that emerge during adolescence, has been published by Oxford University Press, sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative, a project of Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.

Disfluency, or irregularities and breaks in speech, are part of life—but do they affect how we perceive each other? Fourth-year linguistics Ph.D. student Jonathan Lee is trying to find out.

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.