Annual informal event with reseach presentations and updates by Schryer Scholars in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

Alumna Halle Stockton, managing editor of Pittsburgh-based publicsource.org, will be featured in a session designed for COMM 260W students, discussing the importance of journalism, and local journalism in particular. She'll also discuss her career and responsibilities, offer some advice and take questions. Stockton will be on campus as part of the Hearst Visiting Professional program.

Presentation by Professor Emeritus Richard Taylor. Dramatic social changes are ahead. Embedded information networks will affect all aspects of our lives. How will things change? What will it mean for us? Is it building up to some dramatic societal shifts? Are we approaching an historic “punctuation” in human society driven by the convergence of data networks and machine learning? Sponsored by the Institute for Information Policy and the Department of Telecommunications.

A conversation with alumna Deb Gelman, a producer/director for CBS Sports and president of Creative Spark Productions. Free public session sponsored by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism and University Libraries.

Louis Moore, an associate proefessor at Grand Valley State University who teaches African-American history, civil rights, sports history and U.S. history, will be featured in a free public session sponsored by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism and University Libraries.

Presenters will be:

Megan Manlove, director of content and communications at Penn State Health

Josh Ash, client specialist for education and research, Office of Maketing and Communications

Wednesday, January 17
Noon - 1 p.m.
500 University Drive
Penn State College of Medicine
Lecture Room D
Hershey, PA 17033

Streaming via Zoom at University Park. Login information available soon.

A showcase of faculty-curated films featuring 11 different films created as part of class assignments. Event is free and open to the public, coordinated by the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies.

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Penn State Science Policy Society.

Rough cut screening of student-driven documentary about NFL fans in London. Created as a result of partnership efforts by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism.