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  • Three Annenberg doctoral candidates awarded 2024 Sachs Program Grants

    Azsaneé Truss, Cienna Davis, and Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera were all awarded funding for creative projects from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Julia Ticona awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study generative AI

    Ticona and Caitlin Petre of Rutgers University will explore how generative artificial intelligence tools affect those working in creative and cultural fields.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Cerianne Robertson named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

    Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Korean Language Program students win at Korean speech contest

    Heejoon Shin, Cat Nguyen, and Kwun Hang Henry Chung from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Language Program participated in the third Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • Annual conference brings together city leaders

    This year’s theme for the the annual student-run Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities conference covered several topics including urban leadership, real estate, resilience, mobility, and decarbonization.

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR

  • Powering the slum: Exploring alternatives forms of energy for informal settlements

    Last month, the Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted a conversation on introducing renewable energy to informal settlements in Accra, Ghana.

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR

  • In their own words: Charles R. Wright, Klaus Krippendorff, and Monroe Price

    Oral histories from these three distinguished Communication scholars are now available online in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Putting the spotlight on the gender gaps in digital spaces

    Sandra González-Bailón,the Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, co-edited a new journal issue quantifying the extent to which gender bias occurs and is perpetuated online and in digital media.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • 4th and 5th grade students debate the First Amendment: Which freedom is most important?

    Students across Pennsylvania were posed that question for the 10th annual Citizenship Challenge, an essay-and-presentation competition sponsored by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in partnership with the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton Public Policy Initiative

  • Annenberg Classroom film ‘Juneteenth’ wins a Bronze Anthem Award

    “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” explores the history of Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center