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A study of scammer culture in popular media
Engraved vintage drawing of fragments of a broken mirror with a reflection of a female face on female hands.

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A study of scammer culture in popular media

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins examine how the shows “Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout” reflect a post #MeToo society.

Is ‘bypassing’ a better way to battle misinformation?
Cartoon images of grownups in failed negotiations over a laptop.

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Is ‘bypassing’ a better way to battle misinformation?

Bypassing involves offering accurate information that has an implication opposite to that of the misinformation. New research from APPC finds bypassing may be superior to correction in forming beliefs, but not in attitude about the delivered information.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

A Q&A with the director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research
Four people in front of National AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Penn researchers affiliated with the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) attended AIDS Walk Philly in October 2024. Pictured with the National AIDS Memorial Quilt are Deratu Ahmed, a first-year epidemiology doctoral student studying pharmacogenetics related to HIV and tuberculosis in Botswana; Dominique Medaglio, a fourth-year epidemiology doctoral student studying ways to encourage smoking cessation for people with HIV in the United States; CFAR co-director Robert Gross, professor of medicine and epidemiology in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine; and CFAR director Ronald Collman, professor of medicine and microbiology.

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    • A Q&A with the director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research

    Ronald G. Collman talks about the current state of AIDS care, work with the City of Philadelphia, and how the Center is supporting collaborations across campus.
    PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources
    College students in a classroom.

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    PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources

    The award from the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics will provide PBS News Hour Classroom with over $58,000 to create and publish 32 multimedia resources for adult learners.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    Democrats and Republicans vastly underestimate the diversity of each other’s views
    The U.S. Capitol.

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    Democrats and Republicans vastly underestimate the diversity of each other’s views

    A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that Democrats and Republicans consistently underestimate the diversity of views within each party on hot-button issues like immigration and abortion.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    Two Penn leaders named to new national science and technology task force
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Antonia Villarruel.

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Antonia M. Villarruel 

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    Two Penn leaders named to new national science and technology task force

    Antonia M. Villarruel and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are among 60 people named to a task force to produce a Vision for American Science and Technology.

    Penn Today Staff

    Omnia podcast: Democracy and Decision 2024
    Rendering of the White House with tree roots growing underground beneath the foundation.

    Illustration: Nick Matej

    Omnia podcast: Democracy and Decision 2024

    The new season of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences podcast examines the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the upcoming presidential election.

    From Omnia

    The wayfinder: Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus
    Jessa Lingel stands in front of a black screen, her head cocked to the side. In the foreground (blurred) are a student's head and water bottle.

    “I see my role as a faculty member as helping other people navigate within this structure,” Lingel says. 

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    The wayfinder: Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus

    As the new director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus.

    Kristina García

    Explaining polarization between and within political parties
    A drawing of two people shouting at each other from castle turrets, which are placed on top of silhouetted heads. Ladders are on the side of each head, and in the background are clouds, sky, and plant fronds.

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    Explaining polarization between and within political parties

    Annenberg associate professor Yphtach Lelkes, co-director of the Polarization Research Lab, discusses political polarization that occurs between parties and also within each party.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times
    students at the dnc pose for a group photo

    (On homepage) Eisenhower and Margolies have been taking Penn undergraduate students to the Democratic and Republican conventions every presidential cycle since 2000—except for 2020, due to the COVID pandemic—as part of their Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, offered every four years.

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    Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times

    Undergrads who attended the Republican or Democratic convention this summer are breaking down their experiences during the Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, taught by David Eisenhower, Marjorie Margolies, and Craig Snyder.