The 2025 Harmelin Challenge will give student teams real-life experience in media planning and client strategy -- plus exposure to senior leaders of one of the largest media-planning agencies on the East Coast. Student teams will: assess client needs; analyze proprietary research data; develop recommendations for targeting audiences to achieve client goals; develop a media plan to reach those audiences; and pitch their plan to a panel of judges (including client and media-planning agency representatives). Cash prizes totaling $7,500 available!

Open to all communications majors! Join Dean Hardin, Jamey Perry and the student council for donuts, coffee, hot chocolate and conversations!

First in a series for communications students presented by the Bellisario College Fellows

“The Studio Perspective: Developing Theatrical Films from Script to Screen,” features Jac Garell, director of development for Universal Pictures, and Cat Cao ("23), film production and development assistant for Universal Pictures, discussing what it takes to bring some of Hollywood's biggest films to theaters across the globe. The session is part of the ongoing Comm Career Conversations series presented by the Office of Internships and Career Services.

An intense, hands-on, multi-day workshop giving Bellisario College students the chance to produce short documentaries while working closely with alumni professionals who return to campus as instructors and mentors.

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A special, hour-long preview of the Penn State Powwow featuring a Native American storyteller and free pawpaw flavored ice cream from the Berkey Creamery. Free public event, sponsored in part by the Bellisario College.

You went to “Success In The City” … now what are your next steps? Or, you missed it … what can you do to catch up? Hear from four successful alumni based in New York City.

• Ashley Eisner (’07), Account Director, G&S Business Communications
• Amanda (Goldberg) Harrington (’16), Paid Media Manager, Dow Jones
• Willie Jungels (’14), VP-Sales, Swoop
• Nancy (Berman) Rosenberg (’19), Director of Marketing & Advertising, CROWDSURF

Presented as part of the COMM Career Conversations series from the Office of Internships and Career Services.

As a highlight of the annual "Global Black Communities and Mental Health" series, Kevin Richardson, a wrongfully convicted and since exonerated member of the Central Park Five will be the guest speaker. The series, established by the College of the Liberal Arts and the Africa Studies program, was created in memory of former Penn State student Osaze Osagie.

Free pubic screening of "The Archivettes," a documentary exploring the origins of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Presented as part of Women's HIstory Month by the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and University Libraries.