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In one week's time, two television crews from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) visited University Park to interview Penn State students and faculty about issues in the national media spotlight. Stephanie Dew from the PBS television show 'Nightly Business Report' interviewed Vladislav Kecojevic, associate professor of mining engineering, about the demand for professionals in the mining industry.
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Stephanie Dew from the PBS show 'Nightly Business Report' focused her Penn State faculty and student interviews on careers in mining engineering, as well as the mining industry's possible geopolitical influence in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The segment is expected to air in mid- to late October.
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Penn State senior Matt Mowry, a mining engineering student from from Venetia, Pa., was wired with a microphone prior to his interview for the PBS show 'Nightly Business Report.' Behind him, junior Brett Ashley, a mining engineering major from Kittanning, Pa., awaited his turn to be interviewed.
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The two Penn State mining engineering students were filmed for 'Nightly Business Report' outside the walkway connecting Electrical Engineering (E.E.) East and E.E. West buildings.
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Cameraman Dave Spangler and producer Jack Hafer of Boulevard Pictures came to Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn with another colleague from Los Angeles to interview several students and faculty members for a one-hour PBS television documentary on the state of diversity in higher education.
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Penn State students Joe Ojibway (senior, sociology, Hartford, Vt.), Lauren Goldberg (senior, elementary education, Upper Dublin, Pa.) and Dezmen Troutt (senior, sociology, Philadelphia) signed individual release forms, which is standard protocol for non-news media recordings, prior to the documentary crew's filming of the students' group discussion.
