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  • Annenberg and Penn Medicine researchers receive $3M NIH grant to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in HIV care

    Over the next 5 years, the team will explore methods to address structural racism and discrimination in HIV clinics across Philadelphia.

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  • From Myspace to GeoCities: Communication scholars investigate the dead platforms that have shaped digital culture

    Annenberg researchers Muira McCammon and Jessa Lingel collected research on dead-and-dying digital platforms for a recent issue of Internet Histories, which features a dozen research articles from communication scholars around the world, as well as a roundtable discussion, two book reviews, and an introduction by Lingel and McCammon.

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  • New Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative brings immersive technologies to academic research

    The lab, launched by Katerina Girginova and Annenberg digital design specialist Kyle Cassidy, supports critical and interdisciplinary exploration and theory building around virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies.

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  • Intervention video from the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab wins Stanford University’s Strengthening Democracy Challenge

    The video reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for The video by Samantha Moore-Berg, director of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab, reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for partisan violence, and partisan animosity among 32,000 Americans.

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  • Child care gig workers are getting scammed. Why aren’t the platforms where scammers lurk doing more about it?

    Annenberg School for Communication professor Julia Ticona spoke to domestic gig workers about the scams they face on the platforms where they find work and how they help one another avoid them.

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  • Media, Inequality and Change Center receives $1M to continue research on Philadelphia news media

    Researchers at MIC, a collaboration between Penn’s Annenberg School and Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, have been analyzing Philadelphia’s media ecosystem in an effort to make it more diverse and equitable. Now, Independence Public Media Foundation has awarded MIC an additional $1 million to continue and expand on their research.

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  • Diana Mutz wins 2022 American Political Science Association Best Book Award

    Her book, “Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade,” reveals how people’s orientations toward in-groups and out-groups influence how they think about trade with foreign countries.

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  • Robert Hornik receives Chaffee Career Achievement Award at ICA 2022

    The award comes in honor of the Wilbur Schramm Professor Emeritus of Communication and Health Policy at the Annenberg School for Communication impact on the field of health communication and of evaluating messaging campaigns’ ability to drive behavior change.

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  • Dolores Albarracín named American Academy of Political and Social Science Fellow

    As the 2022 Harold Lasswell Fellow, Albarracín, the Alexandra Heyman Nash Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the Annenberg School,  joins a cohort of distinguished scholars whose research elevates prominent policy discussions.

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  • Chaz Antoine Barracks named Black and Bold Awards honoree

    Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Media at Risk and lecturer in the Annenberg School’s undergraduate program. The Black & Bold Awards, presented by the Virginia-based nonprofit Diversity Richmond, celebrate leadership in the Black LGBTQ+ community.

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