Press Releases

The Roper Center for Public Opinion at Cornell University announced today that University of Pennsylvania Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the recipient of its 2022 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research.

Younger drivers subject to mandatory driver education and Graduated Driver Licensing restrictions were less likely to crash than those licensed at 18 who were exempt from these requirements.

After Dr. Mehmet Oz endorsed the MMR vaccine on “The Dr. Oz Show,” significantly more people in a segment of his audience regarded the MMR and flu vaccine as low-risk.

At a meeting of PCAST, APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson proposed four ways the government could improve communication on consequential health and science issues.

PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín, director of APPC's Science of Science Communication Division, is the AAPSS's 2022 Harold Lasswell Fellow.

Annenberg Classroom offers resources for Women's History Month on the 14th and 19th Amendments and the Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear.

New survey shows 93% of U.S. adults who are vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19 say they would be likely to recommend vaccinating children 5-11.

Annenberg Classroom presents movies for Black History Month, including the story of how a worker's personal-injury suit led to a landmark Supreme Court case on jury selection.

APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson was among the Penn scholars named this year as AAAS fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Americans’ confidence in the CDC and in Dr. Anthony Fauci declined in January with drops both among groups of Democrats/Democratic-leaning independents and Republicans/Republican-leaning independents, according to January survey data.