"Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Connecting Personal Narratives, Art, Activisim and Feminism Knowledge Projects" The 15th annual Women's Studies Graduate Organization Conference at Penn State. Event organizers include communications graduate students Stevie Berberick (WSGO president), Giuliana Sorce (WSGO treasurer), with several other communications graduate students scheduled for presentations. https://ucs.psu.edu/service/home/~/?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=299482&part=2

General meeting of Public Relations Student Society of America featuring alumnus Tony Mancuso, assistant direcor of strategic communications for Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics. He will discuss sports public relations, including his role at Penn State.

Jennifer Kempton will share her experience as a survivor of sex trafficking in Columbus,Ohio, and how she founded Survivor’s Ink, an organization that helps survivors overcome the painful reminders of their past by offering cover-up tattoos or “debranding,” removal of brandings or scars received while being trafficked. Film-video faculty member Pearl Gluck will show a sneak peek of her work-in-progress film "The Turn Out," also set in Ohio and created in collaboration with survivors. Kempton is working with Gluck on her next film. The program is sponsored by the College of Communications, the Department of Telecommunications, the College of Nursing, University Libraries, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

Free public presentation by alumnus Reginald Walker ('04 Telecom), a highlight producer for ESPN. Event presented by the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the College of Communications at part of African-American Heritage Month.

Free public lecture by Matt Jordan, associate professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies, as part of The Choice: 2016 speaker series sponsored by The MCcourtney Institute for Democracy.

Watch as the 2015-16 Penn State American Advertising Federation Ad Competition Team (the Nittany Group) pitches its best creative ideas for this year’s National Student Advertising Competition campaign for Snapple beverages. Join AdClub for this real-life advertising agency-style pitch to an audience of advertising professionals, and YOU, to see which of the team's creative concepts are the best.

In a free public lecture sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, Jennifer Stapper will discuss her role in spreading the U.N.’s good work across the globe. She promotes her organization’s sustainable work and peacemaking efforts with a message that reaches more than 125 countries and includes around 6,500 U.N. volunteers in the field, and another 11,000 as online volunteers. Keeping a focused mission among hundreds of diverse cultures is a challenge in itself, working with equally complicated hardships like wars, refugee crises, economic difficulties and famine creates unique communications obstacles for Stapper and her team. She will discuss her role in telling the volunteer story and raising awareness of the importance of volunteers to U.N. goals.

Join AdClub for its annual Super Bowl Ad Watching Party Enjoy free food and drinks, and see what spots the AdClub picks to win the battle off the field -- the most strategic and creative ads of the upcoming weekend's Super Bowl telecast.

First meeting of the semester features alumna Bethany Caldwell (’09 Ad/PR), an associate manager of visual merchandising at Under Armour.

Lewis Goldstein, CMO/VP of brand marketing for Organic Valley, will be the featured speaker in a free public lecture conducted under the auspices of the Page Center Professional in Residence program. His lecture, titled "Communication and Sustainable Consumption: Building an Organic Food Brand Against All Odds" is free and open to the public.