Communications Colloquium, presented by Bob Martin, assistant dean for internships and career placement, focuses on internship opportunities and how they apply to graduate students.

Find out about internship opportunities coordinated by the College of Communications, and how the internship process works.

Retirement celebration for Dean Doug Anderson.

Alumni Achievement Award events and presentation. The award, coordinated by the Penn State Alumni Association, honors graduates of the University who are 35 years of age or younger who have made extraordinary professional accomplishment. This year's College of Communications honoree is Amanda Gifford Lockwood, program director for ESPN Radio.

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.