A panel discussiion featuring Jenna Hackerman (The Players’ Tribune), Dave Zigerelli (Overtime) and Devon Woodruff (Cut + Sew) with Tyler Schmitt (VaynerMedia) moderating. The Classroom, a frequent sports business webinar with professionals from throughout the industry, is a free presentation of the Penn State Sports Business Conference.

Assistant Dean Bob Martin answers student questions about career preparation, internships, our job fairs and much more. Concerned? Curious? Just want to touch base? Join the conversation! Part of the Comm Career Conversations series sponsored by the Office of Internships and Career Services.

John Buccigross, the popular “SportsCenter” anchor and college hockey broadcaster, will participate a virtual conversation with Penn State students in a webinar sponsored by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Buccigross will appear in the hour-long session with John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and director of the Curley Center. The event is part of the Curley Center’s ongoing Conversation Series that features some of the biggest names in sports and sports media discussing timely matters of interest. Students may access the webinar via Zoom. https://psu.zoom.us/j/517778066

Faculty member Michelle Rodino-Colocino, an associate professor in the Deparment of Advertising/Public Relations, will present "Making Media Work: A Cultural History of New Media and Labor Management in the United States, 1910-2020" as part of the Faculty Scholars in Residence Series presented by the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. A light lunch starts at 11:45 a.m. and the presentation will begin promptly at noon. The session is free and open to the public.

Devon Powers is associate professor of advertising at Temple University. She is the author of two books and the co-editor of another. Her research explores historical and contemporary consumer culture and the dynamics of cultural intermediation, circulation and promotion. Her work has appeared in Journal of Consumer Culture, New Media & Society, Critical Studies in Media and Communication, and Popular Communication, among others. She is the chair (2018-2020) of the Popular Communication division of the International Communication Association.

Free public session featuring Michael Giarrusso, Associated Press global sports editor. Part of the ongoing "Conversation Series" conducted by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism.

Stephen D. Solomon is the Marjorie Deane Professor of Journalism at New York University. His latest book, "Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech," explores how the raucous political protest of the nation’s founding period gave meaning to our freedoms of speech and press at a time when it was a crime to criticize public officials. Solomon is at work on a book that will tell the story of the birth of the Bill of Rights. He teaches First Amendment law and is the founding editor of NYU’s website, FirstAmendmentWatch.org, which provides news, commentary, and legal and historical background on today’s many conflicts over freedom of expression. Solomon earned his bachelor's degree from Penn State and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Annual student-driven philanthropic event, THON, that raises money to battle pediatric cancer.

What is a “natural disaster”? While we often blame fatalities on weather and acts of God, the truth is people’s risk from disasters isn’t natural at all but determined by factors entirely within society’s control. In this witty, incisive, and personal journey through the aftermath of the Chicago heat wave of 1995 that killed more than 750 people, Judith Helfand fearlessly challenges the disaster preparedness industry and government leaders to admit that the real disasters we need to address first are those of “slow violence” – like poverty, racial discrimination, and lack of opportunity. Filmmaker is scheduled to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Free public lecture by award-winning digital communications professional Brandi Boatner, sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America. Free and open to the public.