Weekly Media Update

Week of April 17, 2026

Damon Centola Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow

Damon Centola is among 223 people working across 55 disciplines chosen for the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Centola is one of just three awardees to receive the Fellowship in the category of sociology. The award is designed to support a project lasting six to 12 months and to allow fellows to pursue independent work at the highest level under the “freest possible conditions,” according to the foundation.

2026 Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching

Congratulations to Gad Allon and Chris Callison-Burch, both recipients of the 2026 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Lindback Awards, announced annually by the Office of the Provost, are the most prestigious teaching awards that full-time faculty members at the University can receive.

Calibration in the Age of AI: From Prediction to Decision Making to AI Assisted Research
4/17: UMass Amherst Research in the AI Era Seminar | Aaron Roth

Penn AI in Medicine Symposium
4/17: AI Month at Penn | René Vidal

Phil Dawson, Armilla AI: Insurance for AI Risks
4/16: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Penn Researchers Earn Honorable Mention in Laude Institute Moonshots Competition
4/15: Penn Engineering | Yoseph Barash and Zack Ives

From Masters Victory to Motion Data: Golf’s Analytical Evolution
4/15: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

60-Second Lectures | Digital Twins in Cosmology: What the Universe Has in Common With Golden Retrievers
4/15: AI Month at Penn | Bhuvnesh Jain

AI + Us Featuring Konrad Kording
4/15: AI Month at Penn | Konrad Kording and Bhuvnesh Jain

Mathematicians Created an ‘Impossible’ Shape That Shouldn’t Exist
4/14: Scientific American | Robert Ghrist

Why Did Allbirds Fail?
4/13: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

UCS: Estimating Unseen Coverage for Improved In-Context Learning
4/13: arXiv | Weijie Su

Comparative Book Review of The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth and Debiasing AI: Rethinking the Intersection of Innovation and Sustainability by Donghee Shin
4/11: AI & Society | Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

Penn Researchers Use AI to Surface Unreported GLP-1 Side Effects in Reddit Posts
4/10: Penn Engineering | Lyle Ungar

Mapping Developmental Patterns of Intrinsic Timescale
4/9: bioRxiv | Dani Bassett and Ted Satterthwaite

NSF AIRFoundry: A New Hub for AI-Driven RNA Research
4/9: Penn Engineering | Vijay Kumar

Integrative Experiments Identify How Punishment Affects Welfare in Public Goods Games
4/9: Science | Duncan Watts

How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections
4/6: Nature Human Behaviour | Sandra González-Bailón

Graph Signal Diffusion Models for Wireless Resource Allocation
4/6: arXiv | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Alejandro Ribeiro

Distributed Database for Massive-Scale Virtual Worlds
3/12: United States Patent | Andreas Haeberlen

Penn Engineering to Host India Technology Forum in Mumbai
3/10: Penn Engineering | Chris Callison-Burch

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