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.

WikiWatershed is a web toolkit to support citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, researchers, educators, and students to collaboratively advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water. The WikiWatershed.org web toolkit includes Model My Watershed, a high-performance web app for rapid visualization of watershed data, advance geospatial analysis capabilities, science-based predictions of human impacts on stormwater runoff and water quality. Other tools available include instructions and resources for learning open-source hardware and software solutions for building and deploying water monitoring stations, a mobile app for entering water quality data and learning about water quality measurements, and other portals for water quality monitoring information.

The Penn State Science Policy Society is hosting Doug Dollemore from the American Chemical Society. He is a senior science writer and usually videotapes scientist to help them avoid jargon in their speech and communicate more effectively. He will be having a Science Communication workshop from 5-8 pm. This entails working in small groups and creating an "elevator pitch" for your research topics.

RSVP: http://spsscienceworkshop.rsvpify.com

On Nov. 16 and 17, Penn State will host editor Ari Fertig from the academic media website The Conversation to speak about why it’s important to bring academics into popular media, what’s in it for you as an academic, pitching your research to media, finding your “news peg,” and more.

The first presentation will be from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, in Foster Auditorium in Paterno Library at University Park. To ensure space accommodations, faculty who are interested in attending the presentation are asked to RSVP online.

For faculty who cannot attend the University Park presentation, a brown bag webinar will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17. Faculty from all Penn State campuses are invited to attend an online meeting via Zoom at this link.

The Conversation US is an independent, nonprofit source of news and views written by the academic and research community, delivered directly to the public. Penn State academics who write for The Conversation receive their own faculty biography page on the website, access to a staff of professional editors and access to readership analytics for their articles. Past articles written by Penn State faculty are archived on the University’s Conversation landing page.

Since partnering with The Conversation, Penn State researchers have written more than 225 articles that have garnered 15.8 million readers. The site has a Creative Commons license, so other news organizations often republish the articles. Penn State faculty have had Conversation articles republished on national media websites such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and Newsweek. The Conversation has international website editions in Africa, Australia, Canada, France, Indonesia and the United Kingdom.