Dean Ernest J. Wilson III (pictured) announced the second round of winners of his "3-I's 
In all, 12 projects received monetary awards for more than $61,600 in total awards.
"Funding for these grants comes from a very generous $1 million donation from USC Trustee Wallis Annenberg," Dean Wilson said. "Priority was given to projects that either make a substantive contribution to the implementation of the '3-Is' and/or involved a cross-section of members of the School."
Recipients were:
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Laura Castañeda — "E-Learning in Journalism Education," is a comparative assessment of e-learning in Journalism education and recommendations for ASC.
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Nick Cull — "Playbook Three, Public Diplomacy interactive Case Studies," supports student editors assisting with the creation of a Public Diplomacy Playbook, an online-interactive compendium of case studies.
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Tom Goodnight /Zhan Li — "USC Annenberg Scholarly Online Community Study," conducts a comparative evaluation of the online presence of USC Annenberg's PhD program with competitor programs in Communication.
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Tom Hollihan /Patti Riley — "Community Networks, Agricultural Development and the Global Food Crisis," is a pilot research project for the FAO in Chile focusing on children.
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Norman Lear Center (Martin Kaplan) — "Evaluation of a Unique Disaster Preparedness Communication Campaign," evaluates the impact of this entertainment education-based campaign to increase earthquake preparedness (“The Shakeout),” by tracking preparedness responses and risk communication content in selected media including gaming, the Internet, social media, etc.
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Judy Muller — "Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Town Newspapers," contributes to a book on why small-town newspapers continue to thrive at a time when mainstream media are going through such economic hard times.
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Vikki Porter/ Patricia Riley — "New Technology Innovation and Media Convergence: The News is Change!" investigates how traditional media companies such as NPR and the Christian Science Monitor are adapting to new technology - most notably, the Internet.
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Joe Saltzman — "The Gay Journalist in Pop Culture," expands the collection of IJPC to cover additional dimensions of the image of the journalist in popular culture, including but not limited to that of gay journalists.
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Sandra Ball-Rokeach /Bill Celis/Willa Seidenberg — "Retelling South Los Angeles: New Stories, New Media," aims to reshape stories regarding intergroup ethnic tensions by having residents tell their stories in innovative ways by using media technology.
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Stacy Smith — "Gender Portrayals & Sexual Orientations: A Look at Independent Films at Sundance," supports the purchase of films for teaching and research purposes in order to evaluate the frequency and nature of gender portrayals in prominent independent films.
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Sandy Tolan
— “Hunger in the Golden State," is a radio series in which teams of reporters examine the human, economic, and political costs of hunger in California. Students produce sound-rich, “on the ground” radio pieces examining a deepening social concern driven in part by growing economic hard times.
- Center on Public Diplomacy ( Geoff Wiseman/Sherine Badawi Walton) — "The UN Celebrities, and Public Diplomacy: Evaluating the UN's Goodwill and Messengers of Peace," explores the intersection between the United Nations, the entertainment industry and public diplomacy.
