Remembering Our Benefactor and Friend

The Annenberg Public Policy Center mourns the loss of the gracious woman who, with her husband, defined our mission in 1993 and inspired our work in the years that followed. Student Voices, Justice Learning, FactCheck.org, the National Annenberg Election Survey, the APPC Adolescent Communication Institute and the APPC Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics are among the byproducts of the Annenbergs’ commitment to improving the well-being of the nation and its children.

This summer, as we install the portraits of Walter and Lee Annenberg in our elegant new building and place the Annenberg motto “citizenship is a person’s most important calling” in its agora, we will remember their words of encouragement with fondness and rededicate ourselves to meeting the high expectations they had for our work at the policy center that bears their name.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Statements on the Death of Ambassador Leonore Annenberg

Statement by Former President George H. W. Bush on the death of Ambassador Leonore Annenberg:

Barbara and I were saddened to hear of the death of our dear friend Lee Annenberg. We send our most sincere condolences to her family. She and her late husband, Walter, exemplified service to others and were two of God's very special people. She will be sorely missed.

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Leonore Annenberg scholarship program announces new award recipients

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Leonore Annenberg Scholarship and School Funds, a three-part, 10-year philanthropic initiative that offers grants and scholarships to students, artists and schools across the nation, today announced $2.5 million dollars of commitment to the education of five students from Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Houston, and rural Vermont; four performing and visual artists from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; and eight public elementary schools in Houston, Texas, Bronx, N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y., Summerton, S.C., Philadelphia, Pa., and Miami, Fla.

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Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics Receives Multiple Honors

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Two films on the making of laws – How a Bill Becomes a Federal Law and Presidential Signing Statements ­– have received 2009 Bronze Telly Awards in the education category. The films were developed by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (LAIC), a multimedia civics education program administered by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, to educate the nation’s youth about the pillars of American democracy.

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Skylights and skylines


Photo by Robert Jamieson

Two fearless glaziers make their way across a web of steel support beams and panes of thick glass to install the APPC's central skylight. Installed in December, the skylight shines three stories straight down to the second floor lounge, illuminating nearly every level of the Policy Center. Learn More
 
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05/06/2009 Advanced Study in Communication APPC Congratulates Postdoctoral Fellow Sally Dunlop
05/01/2009 Adolescent Risk NASY data indicate no negative relationship between Facebook use and grades for high school or college students
03/03/2009 Political Communication Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor discusses APPC research on The Daily Show
01/14/2009 Political Communication Annenberg Classroom Added to PennCORD's Keystone Programs
12/15/2008 Political Communication On Message: Voter Persuasion in the 2008 Election
12/08/2008 Adolescent Risk The Holiday-Suicide Myth: Newspapers (and TV Shows) Return to Old Ways
11/26/2008 Adolescent Risk Internet Gambling Stays Low Among Youth Ages 14 to 22 But Access to Gambling Sites Continues; Sports Gambling Makes Resurgence
11/04/2008 Political Communication Annenberg Classroom Receives A+ from Education World
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