COMM Career Conversations series presents "Major Mismatch: What to Do When Your Major Dosn't Match Your Career Interests" featuring three College of Commuications graduates -- Lindsay Miller ('11 Journ), Patrick Bunting ('13 Telecom) and Jessica Blitzer ('14 Telecom). Each of the three studk with their course of study and landed careers in areas not directly related to their majors. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the College of Communications Student Council.

Regular meeting of College of Communications Alumni Society Board, including board meeting and an alumni-student event.

Free public presentation and question-and-answer session with Dave Revsine of the Big Ten Network. Session coordinated by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism and moderated by John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and director of the Curley Center.

As part of a spotlight on student research, College of Communications graduate student Eun Hwa Jung will present with Distinguished Professor S. Shyam Sundar during the University-wise Research Unplugged series. The free public presentation is titled "Assisted Aging: How Smart Technology Will Change How We Grow Old" and will feature a discussion abotu how smart devices and personal robotics will assist people as they age with everything from house chores and entertainment to compainionship and self-care tasks.

The AAF Nittany Group team will put its year of research and creativity to the test as members pitch their full integrated advertising campaign for Snapple beverages to a panel of local ad professionals whose feedback about the presentation will help the team prepare for the regional competition in New York City the following weekend.

Free public lecture by Pamela Divinsky whose company works with organizations to define what they stand for and develops "stand strategies" that strengthen their business, fortify their reputational equity, cultivate loyalty and ambassadorship, and drive material social impact. The event is conducted under the auspices of the Davis Symposium in Advertising Ethics, conducted annually by the Department of Advertising/Public Relations at Penn State.

Award-winning NPR correspondent Richard Harris, who has reported on the environment, medicine and a wide range of science-related topics from all over the world, will present a free public lecture titled “Communicating Science — Stories from the Seven Continents.” The event is sponsored by the College of Communications and the Norman Eberly Professorship.

A free public lecture by Christian Sandvig, an associate professor at the University of Michigan. The lecture -- “The Awakenings of the Filtered: Algorithmic Personalization in Social Media and Beyond” -- is co-sponsored by the College of Communications and University Libraries. In his lecture Sandvig will argure that media of all kinds have been transformed to include automatic selection and ranking as a basic part of their operation. The Pockrass Lecture was named after the late Professor Robert M. Pockrass, a member of Penn State's journalism faculty from 1948 to 1977. Pockrass, who specialized in public opinion and popular culture, served as the graduate officer and taught radio news writing.

Free public panel discussion focusing on American Indian cultures and the effects of media and team sports with American Indian imagery. Panelists are: Charlene Teters, a member of the Spokane Tribe; Richie Plass, member of Menominee Tribal Nation; and Mike Wise, a senior writer for ESPN's The Undefeated. John Sanchez, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and member of the ESPN; and member of Nde Apache Tribal Nation, will moderate.

Lecture and question-and-answer session with Leezel Tanglao, senior multi-platform editor for CNN Money. Her presentation, titled "Creating Your Metric Success: How to Navigate the Changing Digital World," is free and open to the public. Tanglao leads the CNN Money digital war room, and oversees the presentation and packaging of CNN Money multimedia editorial content across desktop, mobile and social. She previously worked at CBSNews.com, VICENews, NowThis, ABCNews.com, KCBS/KCAL and The Press-Enterprise newspaper in Southern California. She is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Online News Association. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University, and received her master’s degree from UCLA. Lecture presented by the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the College of Communications and AHANA, with support of the University Park Allocation Committee.