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What Behavioral Strategies Motivate Environmental Action?

A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an ‘intervention tournament.’

• Health Communication
• Science Communication

Collaborating With Southern Black Grandmothers to Reimagine Scholarship

For an Annenberg School for Communication dissertation, Staci L. Jones and four grandmother co-authors introduce the Kitchen Scholar Framework. Their work embraces knowledge that goes beyond academia.

• Culture & Media

Generative AI Can Help Doctors Diagnose Patients — But Is it Biased?

A new study by Professor Damon Centola tested if AI tools could help improve medical care without increasing bias.

• Health Communication
• Technology & Society

Annenberg Presentations and Events at ICA 2025

The International Communication Association's 75th annual conference, "Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research," will be held June 12-16 in Denver, Colorado.

Melding Loves of Ice Skating and Children’s Media

Fourth-year communication student Nick Bausenwein took two gap years to skate professionally with a touring show, competed with the Penn Figure Skating Club, and wrote a thesis on children’s perceptions of film character meet-and-greets.

How To Get People To Share Trustworthy Information Online

As people increasingly use social media to receive news and information, the surge of false, inaccurate, and misleading information online...

• Health Communication
• Technology & Society

Get To Know Our ​​Communication Majors: Naima Small (C’25)

Before even arriving at Penn, Naima Small (C’25) knew she wanted to major in Communication. “I applied to Penn because...

Fifteen Communication Majors Present Senior Honors Theses

The subjects chosen by these 2025 honors graduates range from how presidential campaigns select music to reinforce their election strategy to how companies market oral nicotine pouches to target young adults.

2025 George Gerbner Lecture in Communication Delivered by Khadijah Costley White

Her lecture explored how publicly engaged scholarship and multimodal research are discussed and framed.

Most Americans Support Checks on Presidential Power

A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that a strong majority of Americans support the role of the courts and Congress in serving as checks on presidential power.

• Political Communication