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Weekly Media Update

Week of January 16, 2026

The Path Forward: Penn Engineering 2030

At the beginning of 2025, leaders from across Penn Engineering came together to construct the framework for a new strategic plan that will guide the School through the next five years and beyond. Launched in September, Penn Engineering 2030 prioritizes investments across programmatic, facility and community needs. “The next chapter is already unfolding, but we cannot do it alone,” says Vijay Kumar. “The engagement from our community members across the world during this next phase will define the speed of our success and our impact for decades to come.”

When Analytics Meet Chaos in Football Playoffs

In the latest episode of Wharton Moneyball, Neil Payne, sports analytics writer and creator of a leading sports Substack, joins Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, Cade Massey, and Adi Wyner to discuss playoff parity, coaching impact, home-field advantage, and how analytics can—and can’t—explain who ultimately wins in today’s NFL and college football postseason.

Pipeline Safety Enforcement Cut in Half in Trump’s First Year
1/15: E&E News | Cary Coglianese

Common Sense at 250: A Panel Discussion
1/15: The Penn Libraries/Penn Arts & Sciences | Duncan Watts

Algorithmic Game Theory
1/13: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA26) | Surbhi Goel, Aaron Roth, and Michael Kearns

Is Mercor the Future of the (White Collar) Gig Economy?
1/12: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

The Skills Mismatch Economy: Insights From the Wharton-Accenture Skills Index
1/9: Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative/Accenture | Eric Bradlow

Digital Phenotyping and ASCVD Risk: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Analysis Using Online Behavioral Data
1/9: American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice | Lyle Ungar

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power From 1933 to 1945
1/9: Reason Magazine | Christopher Yoo

Optimal Lower Bounds for Online Multicalibration
1/8: arXiv | Aaron Roth

From Psychometrics to Marketing Science: The “Distance” Is Not as Far as You Think!
1/6: Marketing Science | Eric Bradlow

Federal Health Officials Slash Recommended Childhood Vaccinations Under Trump’s Directive
1/5: STAT News | Cary Coglianese

Top 96 Law Professors Ranked by D-Index for 2025
1/5: Leiter Reports | Cary Coglianese

Insurer Spat With Litigation Funders Hits Liability Policies
12/30: Bloomberg Law | Tom Baker

Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement
12/3: Science and Engineering Ethics | Jonathan Moreno

As ChatGPT Turns 3, Here’s What’s Crashing the Party
11/29: MarketWatch | Benjamin Lee

Jiancong Xiao, Weijie Su, and Qi Long Develop Innovative Strategy for Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in Modern AI Models
11/17: Penn Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics | Weijie Su

Hiring Student Workers: Student Research Analyst - Media Narrative Analysis
The Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy | Duncan Watts

 
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