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Ketchum Fellows 2018

Three recent graduates sharpening skills at top public relations firm

7/25/18

Three recent graduates of Penn State's Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications — Jayla Akers, Tayah Price, and Alexandra Velazquez — were selected from more than 1,000 applicants to participate in the Ketchum Fellows summer internship program. The 10-week program gives Fellows real-world, hands-on experience.

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Rationalizations by low-paid microworkers raise questions of ethics, rigor

7/18/18

Researchers found that lower-paid Amazon Mechanical Turk microworkers — or Turkers — were more likely to reduce their efforts, as well as experience psychological states that could impact the results of the study. Microwork sites offer scientists and other researchers an inexpensive way to recruit participants, who often agree to be paid well below the minimum wage.

Global Programs announces spring 2018 Travel Grant recipients

7/17/18

Global Programs has announced the spring 2018 Travel Grant recipients. The program supports faculty travel related to developing global awareness, global literacy and global competency among our undergraduate population. Graduate students may apply for the grants for assistance with travel to international conferences with the goal of promoting and supporting global leadership in scholarship and international engagements.

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Suppressing negative emotions during health scare may whip up spiral of fear

7/10/18

People use a lot of different strategies to handle fear — including avoiding bad news, reappraising the information, contesting the news, or suppressing the fear. Of those strategies, a team of researchers found that suppressing the fear is actually counter-productive. Trying to suppress worries during a health scare, like the recent Zika outbreak, may lead to an ever-intensifying cycle of emotional suppression and fear, according to the researchers.

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Three new co-funds join Institutes of Energy and the Environment

6/28/18

Three faculty members recently joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) in three different areas of expertise. Two are in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, and the other is in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. This is the first time that IEE has had co-funded faculty in the Bellisario College.

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A Broadband Challenge

6/28/18

A Penn State faculty member is leading an ambitious, yearlong effort to study broadband connectivity in the Commonwealth.

Refugees in Uganda use computers

IST researcher's new book explores the world of 'digital refugees'

5/29/18

With nearly 100 million refugees and displaced persons around the world, a new book by Carleen Maitland, associate professor of information sciences and technology, explores how information and communication technologies are being used to provide humanitarian aid and connect refugees with family and friends.

Azeta Hatef

Doctoral candidate studies how media shocks culture

5/16/18

Penn State doctoral candidate Azeta Hatef spent a month in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul to examine how its people transitioned both culturally and socially from the dramatic change from a five-year media blackout to the ban lifting in 2001. Specifically, she studied the relationship between media and the changing beauty industry through interviews with consumers of cosmetic surgery.

Student Marshals Spring 2018

Six selected to serve as Bellisario College student marshals

4/26/18

Six accomplished Penn State seniors have added to their achievements as they were selected to represent the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications as student marshals during commencement exercises Saturday, May 5, at the Bryce Jordan Center.

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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