Faculty member's yearlong study focuses on availability and cost of internet access in Pennsylvania — and the potential for investment to solve the problem.
Award-winning director and writer Megan Griffiths will screen her latest film, "Sadie," at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 in Carnegie Cinema on the University Park campus.
A book-launch event to celebrate "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia," written by Alex Fattal, an assistant professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Penn State, will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 at Webster’s Bookstore Café in State College.
A research team led by a Penn State faculty member was one of 20 projects — from a pool of over 600 proposals from around the world — selected to receive funding from WhatsApp to study misinformation.
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.
Mary Beth Oliver, a Penn State faculty member renowned for her research in entertainment psychology and her mentorship of students, has been named the inaugural Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Media Studies.
Joe Cruz does not have a one-track mind. If he did, he wouldn’t be in his third year of doctoral work in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where he studies politics through the lenses of comic books, film and social media.
Three Penn State alumni, a faculty member and an award-winning Pennsylvania television leader earned the top annual awards from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications Alumni Society Board.
Penn State alumnus James P. Jimirro -- whose illustrious career has included roles as the founding president of both The Disney Channel and Disney Home Video, and who revived the National Lampoon brand -- has endowed a $1 million professorship in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
A free public screening — with a panel discussion to follow — of “Shock and Awe,” the new Rob Reiner film that recounts how journalists revealed the faulty "weapons of mass destruction" intelligence used by the Bush administration to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, will be offered at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 at the State Theatre in State College.
Steven Rich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning database editor for the investigations unit at The Washington Post, will present a free public lecture at 5 p.m. Oct. 2 in 112 Kern Building.
A panel of experts, including media members and faculty, will address the potential impact of legalized sports gambling on the landscape of athletics during a free public session at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 in 121 Sparks Building.
Free public screenings of a film by a Penn State faculty member and an Academy Award-qualified short film will be part of the Rock Ethics Institute’s Ethics of Policing Conference at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library.
A leading researcher in digital communications will discuss the challenge of framing conversations about marriage equality and religious freedom during a free public lecture Oct. 10 on the University Park campus at Penn State.
