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unusual facts about Annenberg


Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

The school was established in 1958 by Wharton School's alum Walter Annenberg as The Annenberg School of Communications.


American Opera Projects

Amongst the venues and festivals where AOP productions have appeared are the Lincoln Center Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Symphony Space, Philadelphia's Annenberg Center, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Berlin's Stükke Theater, Aleksander Fredro Teatr in Poland and the Ensemble Theater am Petersplatz in Vienna.

Annales School

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Annenberg Community Beach House

The Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach is a public beach facility built on the location of a now-demolished 110-room mansion that was built for Marion Davies by William Randolph Hearst.

China Radio International

Howkins, John, "Mass Communication in China", New York: Annenberg/ Longman Communication Books, 1982.

Ernest J. Wilson III

He is also a senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, a joint project of USC Annenberg and the USC College’s School of International Relations, and an adjunct fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

National Patient Safety Foundation

The National Patient Safety Foundation began as an idea proposed in 1996 at a large conference on medical error that was organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center in California and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Norman Lear Center

The Center is named for benefactor Norman Lear, the social activist and philanthropist, and television producer, and was founded and is directed by Marty Kaplan, associate dean of the USC Annenberg School, who has been a political speechwriter, Hollywood studio executive, and screenwriter-producer.

Personal Genetics Education Project

pgEd is working with Sandra de Castro Buffington and Hollywood, Health & Society at the Norman Lear Center, University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication, to advance awareness about personal genetics through television.

Ranch A

Guests arrived by rail at Aladdin, Wyoming, where the tracks ended, on private railcars owned by Annenberg.

Steven Sample

These donations included major contributions of $112.5 million from Alfred Mann to establish the Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering, $120 million from Ambassador Walter Annenberg to create the Annenberg Center for Communication, $100 million from the Annenberg Foundation, and a $110 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation for the Keck School of Medicine.

Thomas C. Molesworth

Molesworth's company and career received a major boost in 1933 when he was commissioned by publisher Moses Annenberg to design the interior furnishings for Annenberg's Ranch A retreat near Beulah, Wyoming.

WKAR-TV

KAR4 broadcast educational programming for teachers from the Annenberg Channel.


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