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Political science Professor Matt Levendusky, who directs APPC's Institutions of Democracy division, and Africana Studies Professor Marcia Chatelain are 2025 Guggenheim Fellows.

Penn State Professor & APPC sabbatical scholar John Gastil talks about working on his new book, “The Democracy Machine: Reimagining How We Can Govern Ourselves Online.”

Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics Director Lance Holbert (center) took part in a C-SPAN panel on “Using Technology to Increase Civic Education."

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).

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.

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.

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.

Fumihiko Maki, who died June 6 at age 95, designed the Annenberg Public Policy Center's innovative glass-and-wood building to bring "delight" to Penn's campus.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center celebrated its 30th anniversary by honoring the work of its former postdoctoral and FactCheck.org fellows and opening a new Climate Communication division.