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An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0 | Penn Today
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The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other playwrights of his time. The catalogue has been revised and relaunched as DEEP 2.0, with support from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
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The Hidden Cost of AI Energy Consumption
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AI energy consumption will deplete our natural resources if leaders don’t act now, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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Airbnbs associated with more crime in London, new study shows | Penn Today
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Since its founding in 2008, the short-term homestay platform Airbnb has expanded to 100,000 cities in more than 220 countries, and, according to data from the company, 1.5 billion guests had stayed in Airbnb-listed properties through 2023.
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Robots Are Taking Over Low-skilled Jobs — and Changing Votes
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Automation is reducing job mobility for low-skilled workers, which can influence political preferences, according to Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim.
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Post-crisis, Do Central Banks Wield Too Much Power?
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Central bankers are not elected by the people, but they hold enormous influence. Former central banker Paul Tucker examines their enhanced role following the global financial crisis.…Read More
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Navigating Generative AI's Early Years – AI Adoption Report
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AI at Wharton is thrilled to have partnered with GBK Collective to produce Growing Up: Navigating Gen AI's Early Years. This is an extensively researched report that provides an in-depth analysis of the state of Generative AI (Gen AI) adoption, its business applications, and future prospects....
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Exploring the authenticity of a pair of storied gloves | Penn Today
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Kislak Center curator Alicia Meyer is researching a pair of gloves in the Penn Libraries collection rumored to have been William Shakespeare’s, enlisting the help of Tessa Gadomski in the Libraries conservation laboratory to see if the gloves could be from the 1600s.
on Nov 2
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Studying Wikipedia browsing habits to learn how people learn | Penn Today
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A collaborative team of researchers analyzed the information-seeking styles of more than 480,000 people from 50 countries and found that gender and education inequality track different types of knowledge exploration. Their findings suggest potential cultural drivers of curiosity and learning.
on Oct 29
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Penn's Alex Hughes is unraveling the mysteries of kidney development in order to develop artificial kidney tissue that could save lives.
on Oct 29
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Training Medical AI with Knowledge, Not Shortcuts - Penn Engineering Blog
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By emulating the training pathway of human physicians, Penn Engineering's KnoBo breaks new ground in medical image recognition with AI.
on Oct 17
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Michael Mann appointed vice provost for climate science, policy, and action at Penn | Penn Today
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The Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media will begin his new appointment on Nov. 1.
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Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner
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It is not hard to convince humanists that the field of artificial intelligence ought to be listening to us. What is not as widely recognized is that AI researchers know this and are seeking guidance. The tools produced by generative AI are effectively models of culture, and they fail to solve...
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How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements | Penn Today
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Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements.
on Oct 7
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From Ulysses to romantasy, this site encourages you to explore banned books
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John Mark Ockerbloom has created a unique browsable database that examines book censorship past and present.
on Oct 2
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The commonalities of common sense | Penn Today
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Researchers from Penn develop a framework for quantifying common sense, findings address a critical gap in how knowledge is understood.
on Sep 28
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Almanac | University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania's Almanac is a journal of record, opinion and news.
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Intervention’s Impact Felt 5 Years Later
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A 2017 public health intervention in Malawi to correct misconceptions about mortality risk was linked to higher COVID-19 vaccination rates five years later.
on Sep 27
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Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium
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Join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication for a symposium examining the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized and networked world.
on Sep 14
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We estimate that the Harris Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years on a conventional basis and by $2.0 trillion on a dynamic basis that includes a reduction in economic activity. Lower and middle-income households generally benefit
on Sep 11
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The Words that Guide Us | Penn Today
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Today, Penn is introducing two new institutional positions: a statement of University Values and a statement Upholding Academic Independence.
on Sep 10
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Without Guardrails, Generative AI Can Harm Education
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Students who rely on generative AI to help them learn may be missing out on basic skills, according to research from Wharton’s Hamsa Bastani.
on Sep 9
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What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery | Penn Today
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The Rittenhouse Orrery is a nearly intact 18th-century mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun, built by astronomer David Rittenhouse.
on Sep 5
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The mechanics of collaboration | Penn Today
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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.
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As the world warms, how are young people feeling? | Penn Today
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Climate scientist Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication leads a research community that aims to understand climate anxiety and improve climate communication.
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As the world warms, how are young people feeling?
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Climate scientist Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication leads a research community that aims to understand climate anxiety and improve climate communication.
on Aug 27
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“The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”: the Role of Facebook in Fuelling Ethnic Violence
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By Moges Teshome
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We estimate that the Trump Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years on a conventional basis and by $4.1 trillion on a dynamic basis that includes economic feedback effects. Households across all income groups benefit on a conventiona
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Penn receives $10M gift to advance interdisciplinary work on climate and sustainability | Penn Today
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The gift will establish the Penn Climate Sustainability Initiative, fostering collaboration across academic disciplines and all 12 Schools on campus.
on Aug 15
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Revisiting ‘Killing the Black Body,’ 20 years later | Penn Today
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Twenty years ago, Dorothy Roberts, the George A.
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How Behavioral Factors Shape Retirement Wealth
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A recent Wharton conference explored how noncognitive skills, mortality beliefs, aging, and gender disparities impact retirement wealth.
on Jul 20
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Communicating Policy: Raising IRA Awareness in Philadelphia
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Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania
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Promoting sustainability through open journals publishing at the Penn Libraries
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The International Journal for Water, Equity and Justice (IJWEJ), an open access, digital publication of The Water Center at Penn and the Global Water Alliance (GWA), recently relaunched with a new scope, name, and digital platform, with the support of the Penn Libraries. With sustainability as a...
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Interact with the Media Bias Detector dashboard to learn more about differences in coverage between major US news publishers.
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Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
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The Wolf Humanities Center awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are...
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Uncovering the drivers of a million-year-old glacial transition | Penn Today
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Driving a climate model forward and backward in time, Mann Research Group scientists found strong path dependence in the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations.
on Jun 25
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The Impact of Social Media: Is it Irreplaceable?
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Social media as we know it has barely reached its 20th birthday, but it’s changed the fabric of everyday life. What does the future hold for the sector and the players currently at the top? …Read More
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Brigitte Weinsteiger named H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and director of the Penn Libraries
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Weinsteiger has been at Penn Libraries since 2008. She assumed the new role on June 1.
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Turning up the heat on data storage | Penn Today
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Researchers from Penn have developed a heat-resistant memory device that can withstand temperatures over 1,000° F. Their findings pave the way for AI computing in extreme environments.
on Jun 7
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The case for omega-3 supplementation to lower aggression | Penn Today
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A new meta-analysis by neurocriminologist Adrian Raine shows that omega-3 supplementation can reduce aggressive behavior across age and gender.
on May 31
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Join the MIC Center's mission to create more democratic media systems that serve community needs.
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Penn Engineers have developed a new tool that could unlock the next generation of wireless networks: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference in high-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum
on May 27
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How Green Hydrogen Is Critical to Electrifying Everything
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Green hydrogen power has the potential to convert hard-to-decarbonize segments of the economy, but regulations are in the way.
on May 21
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The climate scientist joins more than 90 researchers worldwide, recognized for their invaluable contributions to science.
on May 16
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CASI Election Conversations 2024: Sumitra Badrinathan on the Need to Study Misinformation in India
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Fears about the effects of misinformation on Indian politics seem omnipresent today. Reports suggest huge volumes of “fake news” and misleading content filling up WhatsApp groups and social media feeds, with potentially dangerous consequences. The advent of generative AI and “deepfakes” have...
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Global Energy Experts at Penn Respond to G7 Coal Phase Out
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Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania
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Michael Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are co-teaching the Climate Change and Communication course this spring, tied to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference, held this year at Penn.
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Exploring Jane Austen and Taylor Swift through their writing as teenagers | Penn Today
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In a first-year English seminar taught by Melissa Jensen in the School of Arts & Sciences, students focus on the teenaged writing by now-famous authors, musicians, and artists, including Jane Austen and Taylor Swift.
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