Fourth-year communication student Nick Bausenwein took two gap years to skate professionally with a touring show, competed with the Penn Figure Skating Club, and wrote a thesis on children’s perceptions of film character meet-and-greets.
The subjects chosen by these 2025 honors graduates range from how presidential campaigns select music to reinforce their election strategy to how companies market oral nicotine pouches to target young adults.
In a conversation at a Perry World House event on ‘Common Sense Diplomacy,’ President Emerita Amy Gutmann and former trustee chair David L. Cohen shared insights and experiences.
Transit Talks is a partnership between the Annenberg School, Villanova University’s Waterhouse Institute, and Temple University’s Lew Klein College of Media and Communications.
This year’s event featured sociologist Orlando Patterson of Harvard University, known for his work on the history of race and slavery, in conversation with Michael Hanchard of Penn's Africana Studies department.
Drawing on her background as a scholar of gender in media and founder of the Center for Collaborative Communication, she is supporting community members as they drive communication research around democracy, climate, health, and more.
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