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Celebrating family firsts and resourcefulness in the Class of 2024
Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu.

Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu are among the first-generation college students graduating in the Class of 2024.

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Celebrating family firsts and resourcefulness in the Class of 2024

Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu all entered Penn as first-generation college undergraduates and the children of immigrants and pursued different paths: political science, film, and finance and accounting.
A journey from pop culture to free speech to networked technology
Anika Gururaj.

Anika Gururaj, Class of 2024 graduate from Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication.

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A journey from pop culture to free speech to networked technology

Communication courses led Annenberg School for Communication’s Anika Gururaj to develop an interest in the intersection of communication and law, and the effects of technology on free speech.

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What predicts human behavior and how to change it
Decision making concept.

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What predicts human behavior and how to change it

In the largest quantitative synthesis to date, Dolores Albarracín and her team dig through years of research on the science behind behavior change to determine the best ways to promote changes in behavior.

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A new class has students use AI to do their homework
Matt O’Donnell helps communication major Nancy Miranda during class.

Matt O’Donnell helps communication major Nancy Miranda during class. Students each kept a blog during the class, chronicling what they did with AI and what they learned.

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A new class has students use AI to do their homework

Annenberg School for Communication lecturer Matt O’Donnell’s course “Talking with AI: Computational and Communication Approaches” encourages undergraduates to play with AI.

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A Wharton TA helps to communicate business communications
Chandler McCLeskey.

As a teaching assistant, Chandler McCleskey found the path to his future profession, and the internships to get him there.

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A Wharton TA helps to communicate business communications

Chandler McCleskey discusses being a teaching assistant for the business communication course for Wharton undergraduates.

From Wharton Stories

Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists
Michael Mann at a podium and Kathleen Hall Jameson beside him teaching a course at Penn.

The class included writing a letter to the editor, op-ed, and fact-check. “We threw a lot at them, we’re asking a lot of them, but I feel like they’re rising to the occasion,” Mann said.

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Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists

Michael Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are co-teaching the Climate Change and Communication course this spring, tied to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference, held this year at Penn.
Collaborating to advance health communication
Mary Andrews (center)(L to R): Andy Tan, David Lydon-Staley, Emily Falk, and John B. Jemmott III.

Mary Andrews (center) successfully defended her dissertation in December. Her dissertation committee members included four health communication faculty (L to R): Andy Tan, David Lydon-Staley, Emily Falk, and John B. Jemmott III.

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Collaborating to advance health communication

As a generation of pioneering scholars retired, several new hires are working together to continue Annenberg’s legacy as a leader in Health Communication.

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