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Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2024 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates

Thirteen students earned their doctoral degrees, and fifteen students received M.A. degrees.

Recommendations of APPC Working Group May Be Implemented in 2024 Presidential Debates

If current plans are carried out, three of the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Debate Reform Working Group recommendations to increase the value and viewership of presidential debates will be implemented in 2024.

• Political Communication

Call for Artists: Present Futures - Experiments in Feminist Futurity

A contemporary art exhibition envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present”

• Culture & Media

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellow

Sima Kokotović will join the Annenberg School in the fall.

Abortion, Not Inflation, Directly Affected Congressional Voting in 2022

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Americans are “pocketbook voters,” views on abortion and the Supreme Court are more likely to sway voters today.

• Political Communication

A Comm Major’s Journey from Pop Culture to Free Speech to Networked Technology and Beyond 

Anika Gururaj (C’24) followed her intellectual curiosity throughout her time at Penn, and will soon be off to Harvard Law School.

• Technology & Society

No Vacations, No Sleep, but Good Journalism: What It’s Like To Start a Nonprofit Newsroom

A new study explores the working conditions of journalists who leave commercial journalism to start digital-first nonprofit news outlets.

• Media Institutions

Proust, Smith, and Truss Win 2024 James D. Woods Award

The award recognizes Annenberg graduate students for outstanding teaching.

Largest Quantitative Synthesis to Date Reveals What Predicts Human Behavior and How to Change It

Prof. Dolores Albarracín and her team dug through years of research on the science behind behavior change to determine the best ways to promote changes in behavior.

• Health Communication
• Science Communication

New Postdoctoral Fellow to Join CDCS

Lucy March will join the Center on Digital Culture and Society in Fall 2024.