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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

Local News Volume Does Not Increase Pro-Social Behaviors During COVID-19

A new study from doctoral candidate Sean Fischer shows the limits of local news to overcome nationally polarized issues.

• Health Communication
• Media Institutions
• Political Communication

Comm Major Alum Jordan Grossman C’08 Pursues Career in Public Service

Grossman is running for City Council in Washington, D.C., where his family has lived for five generations.

• Political Communication

Awards and Honors from ICA’s 2020 Annual Conference

Twenty-one faculty and students were recognized for their work.

Jackson, Kraidy, Price, and Yang Named ICA Fellows

ICA Fellows are chosen for their distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of Communication.

Do Eon Lee Awarded GAPSA-Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation

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

• Political Communication

Katie Koeblitz (C'09) Delivers 2020 Annenberg Graduation Speech

The filmmaker encourages the Class of 2020 to embrace ambiguity while pursuing their goals.

• Culture & Media

2020 Undergraduate Communication Major Award Winners

Seven graduating seniors were recognized for their outstanding accomplishments.

Bergère Named 2020-21 Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow

Bergère will develop a multi-lingual digital exhibition about the taxation of internet data in Guinea and Benin.

• Global Communication
• Technology & Society

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