A contingent of more than 50 faculty members, graduate students and alumni from the Bellisario College of Communications represented Penn State at the recent International Communication Association conference in Washington, D.C.
Penn State finished third overall — the best performance by any school in the Big Ten Conference or Northeast — in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, often referred to as “the Pulitzers of college journalism.”
For Paul Levine, Penn State is a feeling, something special and something he hopes to share with generations of students. That's why Levine, a 1969 journalism alumnus, has endowed a scholarship for students majoring in journalism.
Penn State has a long tradition of Fulbright success. Nine Penn State faculty members have been awarded for the 2019-20 cycle.
Penn State was well-represented at a recent event where experts discussed potential solutions to the rural broadband crisis.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Academic Leadership Program will include six new Fellows from Penn State in 2019-20. The program focuses on addressing the challenges of academic administration at major research universities. Through the program, participants who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise can further develop their leadership and managerial skills.
Recent Penn State graduate Katie Rowley worked as a talent and production assistant/stage manager for NBC Sports at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on her graduation day. She'll also work the upcoming Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
People's stereotypes regarding different locations around the world influence whether they feel secure in storing their data in cloud service centers in those locations, according to researchers at Penn State, who also found that stereotypes regarding brand authority influence people's trust in cloud services.
Does sitting in a coffee shop versus at home influence a person's willingness to disclose private information online? Does the on-screen appearance of a public location's online "terms and conditions" have an effect? According to researchers at Penn State, the answer to both questions is "yes," especially if the user has a tendency to instinctively distrust public wireless networks.
People who had a natural tendency to believe that machines can out-do humans in certain activities seemed ready to accept the presence of self-driving cars on the highways, according to Penn State researchers.
An award-winning faculty member in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications has earned a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research and teach in Greece during the 2019-20 academic year.
The 2018–19 Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients have been awarded to 18 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State.
People may be more willing to hand over their private information to a machine, rather than a human, because they view machines as more trustworthy and less apt to have designs on their data. That could lead to positive — and negative — results, according to Penn State researchers.
More than 200 researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers gathered recently for the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse Conference, held on the University Park campus.
On Wednesday, five students from the campus’ Corporate Communication program were inducted into the Penn State Scranton chapter of Lamda Pi Eta, the official honor society of the National Communication Association.
