APPC's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Penn Nursing Dean Antonia M. Villarruel have been named to a new task force to produce a Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST).

APPC's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Penn Nursing Dean Antonia M. Villarruel have been named to a new task force to produce a Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST).
APPC research director Dan Romer presented information on the harmful effects on young people of internet misinformation, using the promotion of tobacco as an example.
Former NIH director Francis Collins and APPC's Kathleen Hall Jamieson discussed science, faith, trust, and Collins' new book "The Road to Wisdom" at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The 2020 Annenberg Institutions of Democracy (AIOD) Panel Dataset, the source for the analyses in the 2023 book “Democracy Amid Crises,” is now available to scholars to analyze.
In his show "Last Week Tonight," comedian John Oliver cited FactCheck.org to debunk Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s misleading claims about autism.
A paper co-authored by APPC Research Analyst Shawn Patterson Jr. shows that entertainment media can have important political consequences.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson has been named to a working group on communications for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee to the Director.
In a study, Annenberg researchers sought to uncover whether the threat of misinformation drives Americans to seek out news sources that reflect their own political beliefs.
FactCheck.org Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley has been awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for fact-checking claims made during the Biden impeachment investigation and inquiry.
R. Lance Holbert, a communication scholar, will head APPC's civics education initiatives as director of the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics.