Mutz Wins 2022 American Political Science Association Best Book Award

Diana Mutz is the co-winner of the 2022 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book, Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade (Princeton University Press, 2021). The award is given annually by APSA for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

Communication
Political Science

Consensus and Contagion in Society

American Philosophical Society Membership

Anita Allen has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society. The Society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge” and elects fewer than 30 resident members annually.

Law
Philosophy

Social Norms for Algorithms

Sociologist Duncan Watts Tackles Misinformation and Mistrust in Science and Society

With his expertise in physics, engineering, computer science, and sociology, Duncan Watts says he’s attracted to research that doesn't fit neatly into one scientific bucket. His heterogeneous experiences from academia, to industry, to the Royal Australian Navy, have all helped prepare him for his work now.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Do Shared Life Experiences Make It Harder to Understand Others?

A new study from Emily Falk reveals that having similar life experiences can actually diminish our ability to perceive other people’s unique feelings and circumstances.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Weijie Su Wins Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize

Congratulations to Weijie Su, who has received the 2022 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize, which recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed.

Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

2022 NVMW Persistent Impact Prize

Benjamin Lee has received the 2022 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) Persistent Impact Prize for his paper on "Architecting phase change memory as a scalable DRAM alternative," which appeared in ISCA 2009.

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

What can Philly do to make a home for robotics to flourish?

Vijay Kumar has attended every ICRA conference since 1986, only missing in 2001, for the birth of his second daughter. This year, he co-organized the conference for a second time, willing the thousands of robotics professionals around the world to gather here in Philadelphia.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Ubiquity of Data

The changing face of portraiture at Penn

Efforts around campus aim to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art. Dani Bassett and Junhyong Kim comment on how the walls of campus buildings can better reflect the communities they serve in this Penn Today article.

Bioengineering
Biology

Ubiquity of Data

How storytelling can motivate us to help others

A new study from Emily Falk’s Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that personal stories—instead of cold facts—make people want to help keep others safe. These findings have significant real-world implications when it comes to planning public health interventions, as they show how messaging can shift an individual’s perspective.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Data Will Save Us

Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to analyze. What’s at stake? Only the future of the free press and perhaps democracy itself.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

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Mutz Wins 2022 American Political Science Association Best Book Award

American Philosophical Society Membership

Sociologist Duncan Watts Tackles Misinformation and Mistrust in Science and Society

Do Shared Life Experiences Make It Harder to Understand Others?

Weijie Su Wins Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize

2022 NVMW Persistent Impact Prize

What can Philly do to make a home for robotics to flourish?

The changing face of portraiture at Penn

How storytelling can motivate us to help others

The Data Will Save Us