Alumna Nina Jack, first assistant director for "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men," will participate in a free public session.

Len LaCara, business editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, will visit the College of Communications at the first Norman Eberly Visiting Professional in Business Journalism, working with students and faculty. His visit will include time with will students in upper-level news writing classes as well as students in editing classes.

Professor Marie Hardin, the associate dean for undergraduate and graduate education and associate director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, will be featured in a session in a City Lights session presented by teh Penn State Alumni Association.

A free public lecture by Carolyn L. Kitch, will focus on journalism and public memory of voilent events. The Pockrass Lecture, titled “What Story Survives? The Intersections of Journalism, Place, and Vernacular Culture in Public Memory of Violent Events,” is co-sponsored by the College of Communications and University Libraries. Kitch is a professor of journalism at Temple University’s School of Media and Communications. She also teaches in the school’s Mass Media and Communication doctoral program and has been faculty director for the school’s study-abroad programs in London and Dublin. Her research and teaching areas include memory studies, media history, journalism theory, magazines, gender studies and visual communication.

Penn State's American Advertising Federation ad competition team, will put its year of research and creative work to the test as members present their campaign for Mary Kay cosmetics, this year's National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) case study client. A group of local professionals will be on hand to offer feedback to the students during the dress rehearsal, the only public presentation before heading to the NSAC District Competition in New York City.

Tom Forsythe, vice president of communications for General Mills, will present a free public lecture as part of his multi-day campus visit serving as the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar-in-Residence in the College of Communications.

Communications alumni Tony Layser ('01 Film-Video) and Dave Leopold ('01 Film-Video) will discuss their transtion into the commuincations world and share industry insights during a free public session for students. Layser works for Dailymotion and was formerly with AOL. Leopold is a senior editor with MTV.

The 29th annual Graduate Exhibition features work from more than 250 Penn State graduate students across disciplines sharing their creative activity and research. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Playhouse Theatre. Reseach and visual arts presentations take place from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at teh HUB-Robeson Center. All events are free and open to the pubic.

Filmmaker Josh Rofé presents a free public screening of his film "Lost for Life," which focuses on juveniles receiving life-without-parole prison sentences. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Participants include: Rofé, Michael Burrowes, assistant director of The Rock Ethics Instiute at Penn State; Judge Timothy Searer, former president judge in Pennsylvania's 58th judicial district; and Michaela Soyer, a postdoctoral scholar at The Justice Center for Research at Penn State.

Author Dave DeLong ("Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today's Market") will be featured in a free public sesion for students.