The Law & Society Association’s 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize

The Law & Society Association has awarded the 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize to Tom Baker for his “continuing and most distinguished theoretical-empirical contributions to the advancement of law and society research.”

• Law

Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering

How did Penn Engineering become a leader in AI? It began with the support of philanthropically minded alumni and friends of Penn Engineering like Rajendra Singh, Harlan Stone and Warren Center Founding Donor Fred Warren.

• Computer and Information Science

Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

According to a new paper by Warren Center faculty affiliate Duncan Watts and others, factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from getting the COVID-19 shot.

• Communication
• Computer and Information Science
• Operations Information and Decisions

The Wharton School establishes Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative

In an initiative that includes strategic investment in artificial intelligence research and teaching, Wharton announces the first business school collaboration with OpenAI. The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative will be led by Warren Center affiliate Eric Bradlow.

• Marketing

Penn Engineering and Harvard Awarded $12 Million NSF Grant for Sustainable Computing Project

Penn and Harvard have been awarded $12 million for NSF Expeditions in Computing: Carbon Connect — An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing, which will be led by Benjamin Lee and David Brooks, and will redefine the way computer scientists approach environmental sustainability.

• Computer and Information Science
• Electrical and Systems Engineering

The Wharton Moneyball Podcast Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary

Wharton Moneyball, the popular Sirius XM radio show hosted by several Warren Center faculty affiliates, celebrated its 10-year anniversary this March, marking a decade of insightful, free-flowing, and data-backed conversations about the world of sports and statistics.

• Marketing
• Statistics

Model Disgorgement: The Key to Fixing AI Bias and Copyright Infringement?

In a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Michael Kearns and three fellow researchers at Amazon share their perspective on the potential for model disgorgement to solve some of the issues facing AI models today.

• Computer and Information Science

Investing in AI at Penn Engineering

How did Penn Engineering become a leader in AI? It began with the support of philanthropically minded alumni and friends of Penn Engineering like Rajendra Singh (PAR’10, PAR’11), Harlan Stone (C’80, PAR’13) and Warren Center Founding Donor Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61, PAR’87, PAR’19)

Abortion, Not Inflation, Directly Affected Congressional Voting in 2022

A new study conducted by Diana Mutz demonstrates why the role of the economy is easily misinterpreted in research on American elections, and shows that views on abortion were central to shifting votes in the midterm elections.

• Communication
• Political Science

Does simple guesswork lead to more cooperation than complicated calculus?

In two papers, one published in PLoS Computational Biology and the other in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Erol Akçay and other researchers explored how reasoning strategies can be effectively modeled and applied to enhance biologists’ understanding of social dynamics.

• Biology