As many of our student interns prepare to graduate or embark on their summer plans, we would like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to them for all their work on behalf of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School. CPD is proud to provide a global platform for students to share their ideas and to support their initiatives.
 

For those of you unfamiliar with the extent to which students are indispensable to CPD's work, below are some of the ways that they contribute to CPD's mission to advance and enrich the study and practice of public diplomacy through its research, professional education and public engagement.
An Emphasis on Learning
 
CPD Student Voices
Students in a variety of disciplines across campus contribute their ideas, research and technological skills as student interns in a wide range of CPD internships and support research projects conducted by CPD staff and CPD Research Fellows. 
 
Watch this short student-produced video to see what our interns are saying about their experiences over this past year. 
 
And click here to see an exclusive new video by MPD alumnus Cesar Corona (MPD '11) detailing his summer internship with CPD on Nation Branding at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Supporting Student Publications
 


PD Magazine is a student-run semi-annual publication produced by the USC Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS) and supported by CPD. Past issues have focused on cultural diplomacy, international broadcasting, citizen diplomacy, middle powers and sports diplomacy.

Read the latest issue at www.publicdiplomacymagazine.com

 

 

Students post their unique insights into public diplomacy questions of our time to the CPD Blog and contribute trip reports and photo essays from their global travels. Students in the Masters of Public Diplomacy program have posted blogs from India, China and Brazil.

 

Read the recent MPD e-report detailing Innovations in Brazilian Public Diplomacy. 

Shared Programming, Better Events
 

 

Various student organizations including APDS, the Political Science Student Assembly and others, partner with CPD to bring the most interesting speakers to campus. 

Each year, CPD is pleased to support the APDS Annual Conference which has recently featured discussions about Public Diplomacy in the Americas.  

 

CPD strives to provide special access for students to many of the speakers in our CPD Conversations series by facilitating special meetings and master classes for them.

CPD Recognizes Student Excellence

 

The CPD Best Student Paper Prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to the field by a first-year graduate student in USC's Master of Public Diplomacy program. This year's recipient was Lee Yaniv, MPD '14, for her paper titled: People Peace Making: The Role of Citizen Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. For a list of previous awardees, click here. 

 

This spring, the CPD Doctoral Dissertation Award program was established to recognize and support the work of emerging scholars from around the world engaged in cutting-edge research on public diplomacy. For more information, click here. 
 
As part of our efforts to reward and engage promising students, we have created the CPD Student Fellows Program for incoming MPD students and a CPD Postgraduate Fellowship program to retain select interns. 
 For more information please visit our website or connect with us below. 

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