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Annenberg Presentations at ICA 2016

More than 50 faculty and students will present research at the ICA's 66th annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

Stonecipher Wins 2016 Graduate Teaching Prize

The highly competitive award recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on undergraduate education at Penn.

New Book by Marwan Kraidy: The Naked Blogger of Cairo

Kraidy's 10th book explores the creative insurgency behind the Arab Spring: its self-immolations, graffiti, puppetry, videos, slogans, and satire.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

New Book by Guobin Yang Explores the Red Guard Generation in China

Yang explores what happened to the "sent-down" generation and how their experiences shaped China for decades to come.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

Brain Pickings Founder Maria Popova (C'07) Gives Annenberg Graduation Speech

Her speech encouraged students to avoid toxic comparisons to other people and artificial metrics, instead focusing on their own path and happiness.

Jingwen Zhang Receives Honor from Chinese Government

The $6,000 award, founded in 2003 by the Chinese government, rewards academic excellence in Chinese students studying overseas.

Victor Pickard Wins Mott Book Award for America’s Battle for Media Democracy

With an eye to history, the book considers how the American media system became what it is today.

• Media Institutions

Kathleen Hall Jamieson Awarded American Philosophical Society Prize

The 2016 award recognizes her paper “Implications of the Demise of ‘Fact’ in Political Discourse."

• Political Communication

Annenberg Students Win 2016 Ackoff Fellowships

Doctoral students Natalie Herbert, Stella Lee, Sijia Yang, and Lori Young will use the award to pursue their dissertation work.

Twelve Undergraduates Present Honors Theses

The seniors presented their Communication theses, a culmination of their year-long work, to a panel of professors and guests.