Gross will become director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication on July 1. He has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for 35 years and is "an expert on art and communication, social psychology of communication, and content and effects of media," the USC site says. He succeeds Patricia Riley.

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