News & Events

Annenberg Researchers Shift Focus to Coronavirus

Annenberg researchers study everything from the ongoing crisis in journalism, to how gig workers use apps to make a living, to efforts to get smokers to quit. But no matter their area of specialty, many Annenberg faculty and students have responded to recent events by pivoting their work to address what may be the world’s most urgent problem: coronavirus, or COVID-19.

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Culture and Communication

Inauguration Day: History, Meaning, and Significance

Lecturer David Eisenhower, grandson of the former president, offers his observations and gives the long view of the significance of Inauguration Day.

Profile

Librarian and Poet Sharon Black Looks Back on Her Career at Penn

Awards

Sarah J. Jackson Wins McGannon Award for #HashtagActivism

Research

Studying ‘Hunters and Busybodies,’ Researchers Measure Different Types of Curiosity

Research

Why Independent Cultures Think Alike When It Comes to Categories: It's Not in the Brain

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Events

Jan 25

CDCS Colloquium: Britt S. Paris, Rutgers University

Jan 27

Center for Media at Risk Roundtable: Counter-Dataveillance

Jan 27

20th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice

Jan 28

CARGC Colloquium: Aswin Punathambekar, University of Virginia

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Annenberg on Video

2020 Holiday Greetings from the Annenberg School for Communication

It's been an unusually challenging year, one that finds us all teaching, learning, and working from home. From our homes to yours, we're sending all of our best wishes — filmed from a safe distance! — for a healthy and happy holiday season and bright 2021.

Annenberg Conversations

Annenberg Conversations on Race: "Situating the Kardashians: Skin, Theft, Ops"

Faculty Videos, Health Communication Videos

Faculty Profile: Emily Falk, Communication Neuroscientist

Faculty Videos

Emile: the Mission of Emile Bruneau of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab