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Award honors series about high school basketball, human trafficking

3/21/18

A series of articles by NJ Advance Media over a nine-month period that uncovered a human trafficking network that directed teenage boys and girls to public high schools in New Jersey earned the Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports from the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.

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Documentary takes a global look at food technology issues

3/19/18

A screening of the acclaimed documentary “Food Evolution” will be held at 7 p.m. on April 19 in the State Theatre in downtown State College. The film takes an in-depth look at a number of controversial food issues across the globe, including GMOs.

Yael Warshel

Bellisario researcher seeks to sustain peace through media

3/14/18

Yael Warshel is an assistant professor of telecommunications at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and an award-winning scholar. She is also a Rock Ethics Institute core faculty member and an affiliated faculty member of comparative and internal education, international affairs and Middle Eastern studies.

Robin Nabi

Media effects, health comm expert to discuss 'Why Watching TV is Good for You'

3/14/18

Robin Nabi, a professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present the spring 2018 Pockrass Lecture titled “Why Watching TV is Good for You and Other Reflections on the Emotional Benefits of Media Consumption” at 5:30 p.m. April 9 in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library.

Brian Southwell

Science comm expert to discuss 'The Peril and Persistence of Misinformation'

3/13/18

Brian Southwell is an expert in science communication whose work combines research from a number of areas, including public health, psychology, political science and environmental science. He specifically targets the public’s understanding of science, and he will discuss that and other topics at noon April 18 in Foster Auditorium in Penn State’s Paterno Library. His talk is titled “The Peril and Persistence of Misinformation.”

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Social justice advocate and former NBA player Etan Thomas to speak at Penn State

3/12/18

Author, social justice advocate, and former NBA player Etan Thomas will give a free public lecture from 5:30 to 7 p.m. March 15 in 233A HUB-Robeson Center at University Park. Thomas will discuss his latest book, “We Matter: Athletes and Activism,” which includes dozens of interviews — with people like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mark Cuban, and Soledad O’Brien — on the subject of race in America.

Arienne Ferchaud (Comm Ph.D. '18)

Bellisario College doctoral graduate asks 'To binge or not to binge?'

3/9/18

Recent doctoral graduate Arienne Ferchaud got an idea for her dissertation after binge-watching the TV show "The Walking Dead." Do people who binge-watch a program enjoy it differently than those who watch it week to week? What are the differences and how will show creators respond?

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