Communication professor Dmitri Williams recently received a $176,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research the dynamics of group behavior in virtual worlds

Johanna Blakley, deputy director of USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center, critiques the presidential candidates' Web sites and finds Barack Obama's to be flashy and uninviting, and John McCain's to be old fashioned and welcoming

Daniela Gerson (M.A. Specialized Journalism, '09) wrote a Sept. 19 article in the New York Times about her experience fainting and becoming temporarily paralyzed on a New York subway

David Westphal, the distinguished Washington Editor for McClatchy Newspapers, has joined USC Annenberg's faculty as Executive in Residence

School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser discussed the future and changing role of print journalism at a Sept. 16 USC Annenberg forum with Bill Gannon, director of online operations for Lucasfilm, Ltd.

After a three-month hiatus, a reformatted OJR has returned to full operation in cooperation with the Knight Digital Media Center and returns Robert Niles to the staff

Hollywood, Health & Society, a joint project of the Norman Lear Center at USC Annenberg and the (CDC), announced 13 finalists for the Sentinel for Health Awards on Sept. 15

Panelists and visiting journalists at the Sept. 11 Annenberg Open Forum on Politics, War ... and More at USC Annenberg exchanged ideas, growing concerns and anecdotal stories about current and past presidential politics and how the media chooses to focus on particular players