Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2019 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Five Penn State students in their respective areas of leadership have been honored with the 2019 John W. Oswald Award. Awards were given in the following fields: Allyson McHugh, athletics; Marissa Works, creative and performing arts; both Alison Kuznitz and Brandon Pelter, journalism, speech and the mass media; and Cullen Dixon, scholarship.
As a filmmaker and teacher, Pearl Gluck is on a constant search for authenticity. She looks for it in her actors, her students and even her own scripts. It’s not easy, but the assistant professor of film-video in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications says it’s vital for the filmmaking process.
A five-member team of Penn State students is competing against 75 teams from across the United States in the Public Relations Student Society of America's 2019 Bateman Competition, with the challenge to create a campaign to increase diversity and inclusion in the public relations profession.
In coming weeks, three Virginia schools — the University of Virginia, Randolph College and Virginia Tech — will screen two critically acclaimed documentaries produced by Penn State assistant professor Boaz Dvir.
This episode of the Penn State Today Quickcast looks at construction on North Atherton Street in State College, the annual Blue-White football game and Penn State Harrisburg's observation of a Three Mile Island anniversary.
The Penn State Ad/PR Club, housed in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, has partnered with Penn State Prime, a marketing organization housed in the Smeal College of Business, to put together the first “ADPRime Advertising Pitch Event," which will take place March 24.
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi earned the nationally competitive Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, presented by the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.
Nearly two dozen people affiliated with the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications — alumni, faculty, staff and students — will play a role in the second annual Penn State Sports Business Conference, scheduled for March 18-19 on the University Park campus.
The second annual Penn State Sports Business Conference, March 18-19, strives to connect students with professionals to develop meaningful relationships, as well as educate current students about the many opportunities within the sports business world.
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers, who worked a quarter century at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before being fired last year after the paper’s editorial director refused to publish several of his cartoons, will discuss journalism ethics at 7 p.m. March 26 in Kern Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus.
A Penn Stater who leads ESPN’s award-winning, longform storytelling and journalism efforts and who guides the editorial board that sets the direction, standards and tone of the all-sports network’s content globally will discuss sports journalism, storytelling and ESPN in general during a free public event March 27 on the University Park campus.
Penn State alumnus Austin Hinton, a former Penn State football player, solves behind-the-scenes problems every day, enabling shows like "Good Morning America" and "The View" to reach millions of viewers.
A Penn State alumna who has crafted a successful career in health care, with a strong grounding in agency production and operations, will be featured in a program providing communications students with career advice March 14 on the University Park campus.
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Institute for CyberScience and the College of Information Sciences and Technology, has awarded more than $100,000 in funding to support six new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at developing innovative research programs using Twitter data.
