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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.

Undergraduates Become Consultants in Joan Garry’s Course on Nonprofit Communication

Student teams work with local non-profits to design and help implement a comprehensive communication strategy.

• Culture & Media

Gender Differences and Relationship Power Could be Key in Preventing HIV Among South African Adolescents

The researchers identified promising pathways to reduce IPV and help prevent HIV infection, including promoting gender equity as a social norm.

• Global Communication
• Health Communication

Computational Social Science Course Brings Annenberg, Northwestern, and Wisconsin Together

The graduate course on the emerging field of computational social science brings the three schools together in real time.

• Technology & Society

Kraidy Receives Carnegie Fellowship to Study the Spectacle of the Islamic State

Kraidy will study how the Islamic State uses graphic violence in media to maximize fear and horror worldwide.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication
• Political Communication
• Technology & Society