Долорес Альбаракин возглавила Центр Анненберга по общественным вопросам в Пенсильванском университете

Since its founding, Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) has examined public opinion and the effects of fact-checking and other forms of communication across politics and civics, health and science, adolescent risk, and climate. On July 1st, 2026, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dolores Albarracín assumed the policy center’s directorship. An award-winning social psychologist with appointments at the Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) and the School of Arts & Sciences’ psychology department, Albarracín directs the Social Action Lab at Penn as well as the policy Center’s Communication Science division. Under Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the University’s Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and then-dean of ASC, it has produced influential research on topics as diverse as civics education and campaign finance reform, children’s television programming and civility in Congress, suicide reporting guidelines for news media and messaging about vaccine policy and substance use. In June 1993, publisher, philanthropist, and ambassador Walter H. Annenberg announced what was then the largest gift to private education in U.S. history, $365 million, to several institutions. The gift included $120 million to his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania—$100 million to endow ASC and $20 million to create APPC, to be directed by Jamieson. “There is no scholar in the country more qualified to direct the policy center at this time than Dolores Albarracín,” says Jamieson, who will take on the title of director emerita and continue to supervise several research areas at APPC. In its earliest years, the Center conducted background research for congressional retreats on comity and research on the effects of campaign spending on politics. The Center expanded its civics offerings to include Annenberg Classroom, a source of no-cost resources on the Constitution, and the Civics Renewal Network, a consortium of nonpartisan organizations offering high-quality educational resources. Led by Penn professors, APPC’s research divisions currently focus on Communication Science, Institutions of Democracy, and Climate Communication. The Center also includes two engagement initiatives: FactCheck.org and the Annenberg Center for Advanced Research in Communication. Read more at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Credits Writer From the Annenberg Public Policy Center