By Sherine Badawi Walton The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School hosted “ Water Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Imperative ,” a research conference on Feb. 27 which...

In a post on IBM's "Building A Smarter Planet" blog, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab director Jonathan Taplin talked about the "Oscar Senti-meter," a tool that uses Twitter posts to track audience opinions of films and actors in the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards.

As Academy Award voters mark their ballots, researchers at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center released a study measuring a movie's power to change the behavior of people who see it. Using an innovative instrument developed by the Lear Center, the study of more than 20,000 people found that those who saw the 2010 Oscar® nominee Food, Inc . had significantly changed their...

By Jeremy Rosenberg An overflow crowd of more than 300 people gathered at USC’s Town & Gown on Wednesday evening for back-to-back conversations worthy of the citius, altius, fortius – or, "swifter, higher, stronger" – Olympic motto. The evening's keynote discussion took place between Jacques Rogge and...

By Russell DeVita Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington (pictured) was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in...