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Azsaneé Truss Receives Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Truss, who was a teaching fellow for two Communication courses in 2023, was nominated for the award by University of Pennsylvania students.

• Culture & Media

Thirteen Communication Majors Present Senior Honors Theses

Their subjects span topics covering legislative speechcraft to the effects of killer shark movies on environmental attitudes.

Dolores Albarracín Elected Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Albarracín is being honored for her contributions to the psychological sciences.

• Science Communication

Annenberg Public Policy Center Celebrates 30 Years of Research and Engagement That Matter

For three decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center has addressed the role of communication in politics, science, health care, civics, and more.

• Political Communication

Three Annenberg Doctoral Candidates Awarded 2024 Sachs Program Grants

Azsaneé Truss, Cienna Davis, and Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera were all awarded funding for creative projects from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

• Culture & Media

Dolores Albarracín Named 2023 American Academy for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Albarracín is being recognized for her contributions to social psychology, public health, and science communication.

• Health Communication

Julia Ticona Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Study Generative AI

Ticona and Caitlin Petre of Rutgers University will explore how generative artificial intelligence tools affect those working in creative and cultural fields.

• Culture & Media

Collaborating to Advance Health Communication

As a generation of pioneering scholars retired, several new hires are working together to continue Annenberg’s legacy as a leader in Health Communication.

• Health Communication

Atmospheric Scientist and Science Communicator J. Marshall Shepherd delivers 2024 Annenberg Lecture

Shepherd discussed the complex problem of climate change and the importance of communicating it clearly.

• Science Communication

Cerianne Robertson Named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

At USC Annenberg, Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events.

• Culture & Media