News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 2, 2010
Faculty, Annenberg in the news
New Book by Prof. Barbie Zelizer
About To Die: How News Images Move the Public, the new book by Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, was featured in a recent edition of the Penn Current. You can also watch a short video on the book.
November 3 – CECCR Speaker Series – Karen Glanz, Ph.D., discusses skin cancer treatment and communication.
November 8 – George Gerbner Post Doc Dan Berger, Ph.D. (Gr. ’10) to speak at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
November 11 – the Martin Fishbein Memorial Seminar – 1 – 2 p.m. at Reunion Auditorium, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk.
November 15 – Huffington Post political columnist Howard Fineman to discuss the November 2 elections. Noon in Room 500.
November 19 – Noon time colloquium by Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D., the Frances Yates Professor of Communication, “Virtual Worlds the Old-Fashioned Way: Mythopoeic Space in Varanasi.”
Faculty, Annenberg in the news
Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson quoted in an Associated Press story about the use of Private Investigators in political campaigns.
Eugene Kiely, Philadelphia Director of FactCheck.org, was a guest on the NPR program “Voices in the Family” discussing truth during the election season.
Annenberg alumna Jude (Judith) McDivitt, Ph.D. (ASC ’81, Gr ’85) currently with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association (Public Health Education & Health Promotion section). Dr. McDivitt will receive her honor during the APHA’s annual meeting in Denver Nov. 6 – 10.
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