| Week |
Dates |
Guests |
Topics |
Readings |
| 0 |
Th 8/28 |
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Introduction |
Research at Penn 2014
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships |
| 1 |
Tu 9/2
Th 9/4 |
[Steven J. Fluharty]
Ann Vernon-Gray |
Research at Penn |
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| 2 |
Tu 9/9
Th 9/11 |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
(Announcement) |
Communications research |
National Annenberg Election Survey
Dan Kahan,
"Climate Science Communication and the Measurement Problem",
Advances Pol Psych. (forthcoming)
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| 3 |
Tu 9/16
Th 9/18 |
Andy Schwartz &
Lyle Ungar
(Announcement) |
The World Well-being Project |
M.L. Kern et al., "The Online Social Self: An Open Vocabulary Approach to Personality"
H.A. Schwartz et al., "Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach"
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| 4 |
Tu 9/23
Th 9/25 |
Cynthia Otto
(Announcement) |
Working dogs |
Kimberly Slensky et al., "Deployment morbidity among search-and-rescue dogs used after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks"
Cynthia Otto et al., "Medical Surveillance of Search Dogs Deployed to the World Trade Center and Pentagon: 2001–2006"
"Can dogs be trained to detect the smell of cancer?", PBS Newshour
"The accuracy of yes/no classification"
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| 5 |
Tu 9/30
Th 10/2 |
Cam Grey &
Lauren Ristvet
(Announcement) |
City, Country, and Empire: Archaeologies of Landscape |
Matthew Fitzjohn, "Viewing places: GIS applications for examining the perception of space in the mountains of Sicily"
Kathleen Morrison, "Coercion, resistance, and hierarchy: local processes and imperial strategies in the Vijayanagara empire" |
| 6 |
Tu 10/7
Th 10/9 |
Mary Summers
(Announcement) |
Politics of Food |
Alyssa Dickinson et al., "Reducing Food Waste at the University of Pennsylvania"
Mary Summers, "Voting with more than your fork"
Judith Porter et al., "Service-Learning with a Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign"
Margaret Buff, "Impact of the SNAP application Process on Access for Eligible Individuals"
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| 7 |
Tu 10/14
Th 10/16 |
Sandy Schwartz
(Announcement)
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Health economics |
Judy Shea et al., "Development of a Revised Health Care System Distrust Scale".
Meena Sheshamani et al., "The Effect of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement on Hospital Mortality" |
| 8 |
Tu 10/21
Th 10/23 |
Kieran Snyder
(Announcement) |
Women in technology |
"Jenga one week at a time" (Kieran Snyder's tumblr)
"How to Get Ahead as a Woman in Tech: Interrupt Men", Slate 7/23/2014
"Boys Learn to Interrupt. Girls Learn to Shut Up", Slate 8/14/2014
"The abrasiveness trap: High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviews", Fortune 8/26/2014
"Hiring startup engineers? Talk about challenge, not pay", VentureBeat 9/12/2014
"Why women leave tech: It's the culture, not because 'math is hard'", Fortune 10/2/2014
"Microsoft and Amazon vets form Textio, a new startup looking to discover patterns in documents", 10/4/2014
"Why Windows UX leader Jensen Harris is leaving Microsoft to co-found the startup Textio", GeekWire 10/6/2014 |
| 9 |
Tu 10/28
Th10/30 |
Shawndra Hill
(Announcement) |
Social TV |
"Talkographics: Using What Viewers Say Online to Calculate Audience Affinity Networks for Social TV-Based Recommendations"; "Expert Stock Picker: The Wisdom of (Experts in) Crowds";
"Natural Supplements for H1N1 Influenza: Retrospective Observational Infodemiology Study of Information and Search Activity on the Internet" |
| 10 |
Tu 11/4
Th 11/6 |
Al Filreis
(Announcement) |
PennSound:
Poetry by Ear and by Eye |
"About PennSound"
"Modernist Pedagogy at the End of the Lecture: IT and the Poetics Classroom"
"Introducing PennSound at High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS)" |
| 11 |
Tu 11/11
Th 11/13 |
Russ Epstein
(Announcement) |
Cognitive Neuroscience of Navigaion |
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| 12 |
Tu 11/18
Th 11/20 |
Dan Koditschek
(Announcement) |
Robot Parkour |
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| 13 |
Tu 12/2
Th 12/4 |
Sarah Tishkoff
(Announcement) |
Genetic history |
"The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans"
"Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers"
"Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa" |
| 14 |
Tu 12/9 |
Cristina Bicchieri
(Announcement) |
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