Faculty Research

Click here for a partial list (PDF) of funded programs and projects directed by USC Annenberg faculty.

USC Annenberg faculty lead ground-breaking research in four strategic areas: Public Interest, Global, Entertainment and Technology. The following funded faculty research projects work within and between these four categories.

Tailored Generation of Nutrition Information for Low-Income Recipients of Charitable Food

Peter Clarke, Susan H. Evans, Eduard Hovy

Wireless Alternatives for Internet Connectivity in Rural Latin America

Hernan Galperin

Last-Mile Initiative Impact Evaluation in Peru

Hernan Galperin

Regional Dialogue on the Information Society

Hernan Galperin

Legitimation of Nanotechnology in Society

G. Thomas Goodnight, Sandy Green

Forgotten Pages: Bicentennial of the U.S. Latino Press

Félix Gutiérrez

Collaboration Framework to Prepare Against, Respond To, and Recover From Disasters (CP2R)

Andrea Hollingshead

Measuring Effects of Educational Games

Kwan Min Lee

Textbook for Serious Game Education

Kwan Min Lee

New Directions in Stroke Neuro-Rehabilitation

Margaret McLaughlin, Albert Rizzo

User-Centric Patient/Clinician Distribution Platform with Tele-Rehabilitation Application Case Study

Margaret McLaughlin, Roger Zimmerman, Carolee Winstein, Shri Narayanan

Center for Socially Optimized Learning in Virtual Environments (SOLVE)

Lynn Miller

Virtual Sex: Real Risk Reduction for MSM

Lynn Miller, Stephen Read, Robert Appleby

Annenberg National Health Communication Survey

Sheila Murphy,  Michael Cody (with Annenberg at UPenn)

User-Directed News

Larry Pryor, Albert Rizzo

The Impact of Hypersexualized Media Characters on Young Girls' Body Dissatisfaction and Weight Concerns

Stacy Smith

Hispanics and Health: Diverse Outcomes in a Diverse Population

Roberto Suro

Learning in the 21st century

Douglas Thomas, Sasha Barab

Virtual Worlds Exploratorium

Dmitri Williams

Faith in High Definition: Morality and Mortality in Post-9/11 Television Dramatic Series

Diane Winston