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Leeann Siegel Wins 2020 Ackoff Fellowship

Siegel's project aims to understand the effects of media exposure on health risk behaviors.

• Health Communication

Do Eon Lee Awarded GAPSA-Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation

Lee will use the fellowship funding to enhance her dissertation project.

• Political Communication

Roopa Vasudevan Awarded 2020 Sachs Program Grant

Vasudevan’s project, entitled “Machine Readable,” considers the impacts of our increasingly digitized way of life.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

Diaz Elected GAPSA President

As President, Diaz will oversee the GAPSA executive board and representatives, and manage a $2.5 million budget.

Kikut and Maddocks Named Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows

During the two year fellowship, Kikut and Maddocks will both study aspects of adolescence.

• Health Communication
• Technology & Society

Muira McCammon Receives Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching

McCammon has served as a teaching fellow for both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Herbert Named 2020 Mirzayan Fellow at National Academies

She will study science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.

• Health Communication

Eleven New Doctoral Students Join the Annenberg School

Learn about where they’ve lived, their previous work experience, and what they study.

Kim Studies Health Misinformation on Social Media

Kim’s research is supported by a $10,000 grant from the Waterhouse Family Institute at Villanova University.

• Health Communication
• Technology & Society

Fernández Wins 2019 IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant

Fernández’s project conceptualizes corner stores as embodiments of Latinx immigrant identity and border-making.

• Culture & Media