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.

An interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with community members and Penn State faculty experts discussing the upheavals in Ukraine. The free public session includes six panelists. Russell Frank, an associate professor in the in the College of Communications, will serve as moderator.

"Breaking the Code of Silence" -- a free public session sponsored by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism -- features Annie Skinner of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and Bonnie Ford of ESPN discussing the general challenges of covering doping issues, the impact and specifics of the Lance Armstrong case, media ethics, and much more. The session will be hosted by John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and society and director of the Curley Center.

Stephen Loudermilk, director of media and industry analyst relations for LexisNexis, will present a free public lecture, focusing on corporate social responsibility and big data.

Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute, will present a free public lecture about journalism ethics. McBride is a writer, teacher and one of the country’s leading voices when it comes to media ethics. She has been on the faculty of the Poynter Institute since 2002. The title of her presentation is "Truth and Trust in the 21st Century: How the Ethics of Journalism and Democracy are Changing."

Penn State alumnus Charles Pittman ('70 Bus), the senior VP of Schurz Communications Inc., will present a free public lecture titled "How to Succeed in Corporate America." Piittman, a longtime newspaper executive, is a former All-American running back for the Nittany Lions. His visit is sponsored by UPAC, AHANA and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.