Communication professor Sandra Ball-Rokeach chairs the Nov. 18 session of “Mediating the Lives and Experiences of Latino Immigrants: Ethnic Media as a Meaning System.” She is also presenting a paper titled “The Role of Health Communication Connections in Cancer Prevention.”...
In Memoriam: Annenberg Foundation Executive Director Leonard J. Aube, 1959 - 2015
One of the highlights of my tenure as Dean has been the good fortune of knowing Leonard Aube as a collaborator, advisor and friend. Both Francille and I feel the profound loss of our great friend and send condolences to his family.
- Ernest J. Wilson, III, Dean, USC Annenberg School for...
Money talks, and the topic of discussion will be the Federal Reserve on Wednesday morning.
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will speak about U.S. monetary policy from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on July 16, in Annenberg Room 204. Dean Ernest Wilson and Willow Bay, new director of the School of Journalism, are...
By Andrea Richards
Four years ago, 17-year-old Greg Asciutto arrived at USC Annenberg from the small town of Albemarle, North Carolina. He’d only applied to two universities, both of which accepted him, but he knew after his first visit to USC that it was the place for him. Since then, he’s had work published in five countries, won a Hearst award, traveled to Cuba and also worked in...
By Anne Bergman
T Bone Burnett’s message to graduates of the USC Annenberg School of Communication was simple, yet powerful: “Knock ‘em alive,” he urged.
The iconoclastic music producer and songwriter spoke on May 16 as part of the University of Southern California’s 131 st Commencement Ceremonies. In all, 660 degrees...
By Olivia Niland
USC Annenberg’s second annual Climate Palooza event drew a diverse crowd of more than 300 people to “converse, connect and care” about climate change on Friday, March 28.
Attendees of all ages milled around USC Annenberg throughout six lively hours of Climate Palooza 2014, which offered climate-centric lectures and discussions, musical performances, sketch...
By Olivia Niland
The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab collaborated with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) on March 6 to present a short screening of Eyes Wide Open: This is Media . The documentary, produced by Participant Media’s Pivot TV Channel, addresses shifts in the way media is used, shared and...
As part of the process to design classrooms in Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN) , Faculty participated in workshops and were surveyed about their ideal teaching environment and the resources they would want in a technologically state-of-the-art academic setting. The results of these engagements showed that USC Annenberg required a caliber of instructional space that surpasses standard classrooms....