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The Annenberg Public Policy Center has been tracking public perceptions of science and scientists through the Annenberg Science Knowledge (ASK) survey since 2018, first using national cross-sectional surveys and then, since 2023, through a nationally representative empaneled sample.

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PBS News Hour Classroom has won the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics' Civic Mission of the Nation Award for educational resources.

Picture of Kathleen Hall Jamieson (left) and Antonia M. Villarruel (right), who have been named to the new Vision for American Science and Technology task force.

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).

APPC research director Dan Romer presented information on the harmful effects on young people of internet misinformation, using the promotion of tobacco as an example.

Francis Collins and Kathleen Hall Jamieson at the Free Library.

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.

Democracy Amid Chaos book cover detail.

The 2020 Annenberg Institutions of Democracy (AIOD) Panel Dataset, the source for the analyses in the 2023 book “Democracy Amid Crises,” is now available to scholars to analyze.

Logo of FactCheck.org, an APPPC which John Oliver cited to debunk RFK Jr.'s misleading claims about autism.

In his show "Last Week Tonight," comedian John Oliver cited FactCheck.org to debunk Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s misleading claims about autism.

Photo of Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump during the Celebrity Apprentice live season finale on May 16, 2010. The show features prominently in Kim and Patterson's politics of entertainment argument.

A paper co-authored by APPC Research Analyst Shawn Patterson Jr. shows that entertainment media can have important political consequences.

Photo of Kathleen Hall Jamieson, named an AAAS fellow.

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.

Illustration of news and misinformation for HKS Misinformation Review paper

In a study, Annenberg researchers sought to uncover whether the threat of misinformation drives Americans to seek out news sources that reflect their own political beliefs.

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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.