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The newly established fellowship was created by the Annenberg School to honor the memory and legacy of Emile Bruneau, peace and conflict neuroscientist.

At a time when tackling the world’s biggest challenges demands ambitious collaborations, two of the preeminent schools for communication and media studies — the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — have jointly established the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication to enable their faculties and doctoral students to think and work across institutional, geographic, and disciplinary divides.

The faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication stands with the Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander communities in the face of senseless attacks.

The Health Communication and Equity Lab (HCEL), based at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, examines inequalities in marketing, media, and message effects across diverse populations. Our research informs the design of culturally responsive communication interventions to advance the health and well-being of health disparity populations. HCEL is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to begin in June 2021. The focus of this fellowship is on health communication strategies to address tobacco-related health disparities.

Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named Interim Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC). 

CARGC was directed by Marwan Kraidy from 2013 until June 2020, when he left the university to become Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar.

Pawel Popiel, currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Media, Inequality & Change Center, has been named the 2021-2023 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jake Parelman and Matt O'Donnell are working with Amistad Law Project to track COVID-19 cases and deaths in Pennsylvania prisons, and to make the data publicly available.

As longtime Annenberg Librarian Sharon Black retires, Katie Rawson (pictured left) begins her tenure and continues the library's journey into the future of scholarship.

Lecturer David Eisenhower, grandson of the former president, offers his observations and gives the long view of the significance of Inauguration Day.