For graduate student Bumgi Min, experience drives his research ideas. It was a chance meeting with North Korean refugees that sparked his interest in refugee communications, and it was a conversation with a student that led Min to his dissertation idea.
Three Penn State alumni and former Nittany Lions now starring in the NFL will return to campus April 12, the day before the Blue-White Game, to participate in a panel discussion about the business of football at 4:30 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Center.
Danese Kenon, director of photography and video for The Philadelphia Inquirer, will present a free public lecture titled “Digital Storytelling and Tips on How to Land a Job in the Newsroom” at 7 p.m. April 2 in 117 Henderson Building at University Park.
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.
Victor Pickard, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Confronting the Misinformation Society” as the spring 2019 Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library.
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.
A large contingent of researchers and scholars will represent Penn State at the annual National Communication Association Convention, Nov. 8-11.
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.
