Sep 13, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
When a Republican and a Democrat sit down to discuss gun control, how is it going to go? Conversations between Republicans and Democrats can be either productive or polarizing and social scientists want to understand what makes conversations between people from...
Sep 7, 2024 | Featured, News
As a computer science major at Penn Engineering, Mahika Calyanakoti ’26 enjoyed her courses in data science, math, and machine learning. So when she decided to pursue an accelerated master’s degree, she chose Penn Engineering’s data science program. Originally...
Sep 6, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
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. A group of graduate and undergraduate...
Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The Center will bring together six schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University T he University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center...
Aug 29, 2024 | Featured, News
PIK professor Duncan Watts is out with an AI-enhanced tool to gauge the partisan lean and tone of some mainstream news outlets. When Duncan Watts and his colleagues at Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab began work in January on a new tool that uses artificial...
