This episode of the Quickcast looks at Penn State support for natural disaster victims, a unique study abroad opportunity in Israel and State College ranked in a livability survey.
College of Education Dean David H. Monk and his wife, Pam, assistant teaching professor of journalism in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, are supporting efforts by the greater Penn State community to learn more about the power of the story and its role in today’s world through a $1.5 million estate gift commitment.
Two award-winning films directed and produced by a Penn State faculty member will screen at festivals in Oregon and New York City in the next week.
“Quiet Sundays” received the award for “Editing in a Documentary” at the Southampton International Film Festival was recently accepted into the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival, which will take place Nov. 15.
Journalist Suki Dardarian has joined the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication’s advisory board, bringing with her more than 35 years in the news business and a unique view of public communications as a leader in journalism.
First-generation student Olivia Piechocinski has found a home at Penn State because of the many opportunities the University offers.
The University of Florida Center for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Council of North Central Florida will preview Penn State assistant professor Boaz Dvir’s “Cojot,” a documentary about a Holocaust survivor who set out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner, Nov. 15 at the Hippodrome State Theater in Gainesville, Florida.
For students who were toddlers in the early 2000s, Penn State alumna Doreen Cronin’s work probably holds a special place in the heart. The success of her first book, “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type,” resulted in Cronin’s ambitious switch of careers and now, 20 years later, a musical adaptation of her children’s book series.
The Pennsylvania State Senate confirmed two appointments by Gov. Tom Wolf to Penn State’s Board of Trustees.
Donald Fehr, who has directed player unions in the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball for more than three decades, headlines the daylong Sports Labor Conference that will be held Nov. 9 on the University Park campus. The free public event also includes three panel discussions and lunch.
This year, the Bellisario College’s Office of Internships and Career Placement is hosting the first “COMM Careers in the Capital” in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 30.
First-year film student Matthew Farrell has embraced opportunities in class and beyond and found a home at Penn State.
The International Film Festival Manhattan will screen Penn State assistant professor Boaz Dvir’s child-poverty short, “El País de la Eterna Primavera (Land of the Eternal Spring),” at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 19 in New York’s Producers Club.
An open design to encourage collaboration and creativity anchors state-of-the-art plans for the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center, set to open in the heart of Penn State’s University Park campus in 2020.
Virtual tour of Bellisario Media Center (Willard Building), created by Studios Architecture. Fly-through video of completed Bellisario Media Center, which will be housed in Willard Building on the University Park Campus and is on schedule for completion in time for the 2020-21 academic year.
