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Richard Taylor

Richard D. Taylor served the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications for a quarter century and held the prestigious James and Barbara Palmer Chair in T

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Russ Eshleman

Russ Eshleman previously served as head the Department of Journalism and taught depth reporting, news media ethics, reporting methods, feature writing and the

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/ronald-smith

Ronald Smith

Ronald Smith joined the Department of Advertising/Public Relations after teaching two years full-time at Oklahoma State University as a visiting instructor of

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Renee Kennedy

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Rachelle Pavelko

Dr. Rachelle Pavelko is an assistant teaching professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She teaches courses in the Department of Advertis

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Rachel Patterson

Rachel Patterson earned a bachelor's in public relations and a master's in media research from the University in Memphis in 2019 and 2021. Her goal in obtaini

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Rehab Alayoubi

Rehab is a first-year Ph.D. student and an Arthur W. Page Center Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Kent State University. After working

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Rob Frieden

Rob Frieden holds the Pioneers Chair and serves as Professor of Telecommunications and Law in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and the Schoo

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Bob Martin

Bob Martin leads the Office of Internships and Career Placement, which conducts three communications-specific internship/career fairs each year. The office he

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Ray Schmitt

Book an appointment with RayRay joined the Bellisario College staff in July 2024 as the Student News Consortium director. It marked a return to the college for

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Scott Myrick

Scott Myrick is a lecturer in the Department of Telecommunications and co-lead of the state-of-the art Donald P. Bellisario Media Center project. His teaching

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Tim Herrera

Tim Herrera is a part-time faculty member currently teaching COMM428a Principles of Strategic Communication for Penn State World Campus. He has a master's deg

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Sascha Meinrath

Sascha Meinrath is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State and director of X-Lab, an innovative think tank focusing on the intersection of vangu

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Steve Manuel

Steve Manuel is a former public affairs officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Marine Corps spokesman. His primary duty, when not responding

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Steve Reighard

Steve Reighard joined the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications in January 1998 as a technical instructor teaching digital and analog broadcasting eq

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Shaheen Pasha

Shaheen Pasha is an associate teaching professor at Penn State, focused on mass incarceration and prison education. She is also the cofounder and chief educat

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Susan Strohm

Susan Strohm's research interests include media and social conflict, health communication campaigns, and ethics in advertising. She has been a consultant on n

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Stephanie Thomas

Stephanie Swindle Thomas has built a career at the intersection of communications, multimedia storytelling, and arts advocacy. She joined the Department of Adve

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Shilo Brown

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Steve Kraycik

Steve Kraycik joined Penn State in 2012 after crafting an impressive career as a news manager and producer with three decades of experience in television news

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Shannon Kennan

Shannon Kennan is a Teaching Professor and teaches online classes in journalism, media studies and advertising/public relations. Kennan also serves as the Fi

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Shannon Brace

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Deepak Sethi

Deepak Sethi became the director for the Penn State Hollywood Program with the start of planning for the 2025 cohort. He has taught in the Hollywood Program an

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Sukainah Aldarweesh

Sukainah Aldarweesh, an Outstanding Adult Student Award winner, is an Integrated Undergraduate Gradaute student majoring in media studies with a minor in psycho

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Steve Sampsell

Steve Sampsell has worked at Penn State since 2000, and in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications since 2001. His duties include all aspects of co

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Stephanie Madden

Dr. Stephanie Madden is an associate professor of public relations and has a passion for advocacy and social justice issues. Her research focuses on amplifyin

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Scott Travers

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Timilehin Durotoye

Timilehin Durotoye is a Ph.D. candidate at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/tom-davidson

Tom Davidson

Tom Davidson is a media executive, journalist and educator who has worked at the intersection of revenue, content and digital transformation for public and comm

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/temilade-adeeko

Temilade Adeeko

Temilade Adeeko is an international graduate student who recently completed her master’s degree in media studies at Northern Illinois University. Her research

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/martin-camden

Martin Camden

Martin Camden joined the faculty full-time in 2008 after serving as an adjunct instructor for four years. He has taught beginning film production, beginning s

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Tara Wyckoff

Tara Wyckoff is an associate teaching professor for the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State where she has been teaching 400-level cou

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/whitney-chirdon

Whitney Chirdon

Whitney Chirdon is an lecturer in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where she teaches courses in audio reporting, news writing and podcasting.

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Bill Zimmerman

With a career spent communicating through various mediums, Bill Zimmerman is fascinated with how messages are delivered and new ideas take hold in our hyper-c

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/hunter-overton

Hunter Overton

Hunter Overton joined the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications as an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Advertising/Public Relations af

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Bill Hallman

Bill Hallman is an Emmy Award-winning producer with more than a decade of experience in the television industry. He has produced live newscasts in small and m

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Wilhelmina Antwi

Wilhelmina Antwi was a graduate teaching assistant at Kansas State University where she earned an MA in communication studies. Her research interest areas are i

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Walter Middlebrook

Walter Middlebrook, who served as a professional-in-residence in the Bellisario College in 2018, and before that built a journalism career that included stops

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Del Schwab

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Whitney Justice

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Sara Liao

Sara Liao is a media scholar and feminist, focusing on examining how media technologies, the state, commercialism and gender dynamics are imbricated in the prod

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Yilan Guo

Yilan's research focuses on media effects and media psychology. She desires to understand the effects of interactive and immersive media on cognition, emotion a

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Yanan Wu

Yanan Wu earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Bohai University in China, and her master's degree in strategic communication from Indiana University.

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/yujin-heo

Yujin Heo

Dr. Yujin Heo is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. Her research focuses on strategic communication, digital advertis

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/yansheng-liu

Yansheng Liu

Yansheng Liu is originally from Yantai, a coastal city in the east of China. Before coming to Penn State, she earned her master’s degree in mass communication

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Yu Tai Chung

As IT Director for the Bellisario College, Yu Tai Chung provides leadership, strategic direction and daily oversight of IT operations. Responsibilities also i

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Yun-Chen Yen

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Zhixin (Giselle) Pu

Giselle’s research examines the interplay between people, technology and society. She employs interdisciplinary thinking to explore the roles of emotion and

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/zhenyu-zhang

Zhenyu Zhang

Zhenyu (Emma) Zhang attained her bachelor’s degree in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages from Zhejiang University in China and her master’s dua

https://bellisario.psu.edu/people/zachary-shourds

Zachary Shourds

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Kei Hou

Zhihui (Kei) Hou earned her master’s degree in the School of Communication at Northwestern. Before that, she studied at Stony Brook University, majoring in ma

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Penn State Forum

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S. Shyam Sundar

S. Shyam Sundar is James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects and the Founder and Co-Director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at the Donald P. Bellisa

News

Career Outcomes

Each year the Bellisario College collects data from graduates concerning the path that they take after completing their degree. The career outcomes information

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https://bellisario.psu.edu/rsvp/adviser-workshop-reception-rsvp

Adviser Workshop Reception RSVP

5-7 p.m. / Monday, June 29, 20251855 Lounge, The Graduate Hotel125 S. Atherton St., State College, PA 16801 This informal reception is a great opportunity to m

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Recent Graduates

2025 Agnes Bao, University of South Dakota, Assistant ProfessorYasemin Beykont, Marist University, Visiting Assistant ProfessorZheng Cui, Environmental Defense

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Jason Freeman

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Wunpini Mohammed

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Ashley Walter

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Christen Buckley

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Bingbing Zhang

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Nicholas Eng

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Matthew Cikovic

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Summer Camp FAQs

Application Process How do campers apply to participate? Questions may be directed to BellisarioSummerCamps@psu.edu Eligibility Campers must be between the

https://bellisario.psu.edu/powwow

The Penn State Powwow

2026 Details The 20th annual Penn State Powwow will be conducted Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29, 2026. C3 Sports Complex, 200 Ellis Place, State Col

News

Bellisario College student walks the red carpet for summer internship

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https://bellisario.psu.edu/powwow/about

About

What is Powwow? Powwows are American Indian celebrations of community and spirituality, featuring American Indian drum and dance as well as American Indian ven

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Etiquette

Because powwows are sacred events steeped in tradition and protocol, an explanation of some of the details is provided so that you do not, by mistake, offend an

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Components

Arena The circle is very important to American Indian peoples. Creation is a circle, the Sacred Hoop, never ending, constantly renewing. The center of the hoo

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Songs and Dances

Intertribal Songs Intertribal songs can be very old or very contemporary. During Intertribal Dances, all dancers, including visitors, may dance. Intertribals a

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Head Staff

The powwow head staff includes the Host Drums, Head Veteran Dancer, Head Man Dancer, Head Woman Dancer, Emcee, Arena Director, and Head Cook. These individuals

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Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership

The mission of the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership is to promote professional, academic and personal integrity within the community of the Donald P. Bel

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About

The Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership was founded in 2005 through the generous support of Don Davis Jr., a 1942 graduate of Penn State and the retired cha

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Academic Integrity

One of the four Penn State Principles, Academic Integrity, is defined by the Faculty Senate as “the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and respo

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Academic Integrity

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Resources & Links

Penn State Ethics Programs The Rock Ethics InstituteThe mission of the Rock Ethics Institute is to promote ethical awareness and inquiry in the University and

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About Don Davis Jr.

Donald W. Davis Jr., a Penn State alumnus and the retired chairman and CEO of Stanley Works who died in 2010, spent his life emphasizing “doing the right thin

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About Don Davis Sr.

For 40 of his 62 years, Donald W. Davis dedicated his life to advertising. Over the years, he presented his philosophy of advertising to thousands of profession

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Davis Professor of Ethics

https://bellisario.psu.edu/newspaper-journalists-oral-history-program

Newspaper Journalists Oral History Program

The Pennsylvania Newspaper Journalists Oral History Program chronicles the life histories of leading journalists from across the Commonwealth. The goal of the p

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About

The purpose of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Journalists Oral History Program is to record the life histories of leading reporters, editors, publishers, photograph

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Program Partners

Launched in 2005, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Journalists Oral History Program is a joint project of Penn State University's Department of Journalism and the Pen

https://bellisario.psu.edu/newspaper-journalists-oral-history-program/oral-history-interviews

Oral History Interviews

Doug Anderson, Dean, Penn State College of CommunicationsDoug Anderson speaks about growing up in Nebraska, his career in newspapers, the transition to higher e

https://bellisario.psu.edu/john-curley-center-for-sports-journalism

John Curley Center for Sports Journalism

Thirty-one varsity teams. The chance to cover them in any format: multimedia, photo, text and video. Penn State students are in the perfect spot to hone their s

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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society

Since joining the faculty, John Affleck has focused on giving students a classroom experience that will prepare them to step right into a newsroom and perform w

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About

The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism explores issues and trends in sports journalism through instruction, outreach, programming and research. The Curle

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Alumni

Hundreds of Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and Penn State alumni hold positions in sports journalism and related fields. A partial list includes

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Certificate Program

Requirements To complete the program, students must meet the following requirements: Be accepted into the emphasis via application to the John Curley Center f

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Courses

Additional sports-releated courses in the Bellisario College: (These are not part of the official Curley Center curriculum, but do provide additional foundatio

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Faculty

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Industry Connections

Respected leaders and well-known on-air sports journalism talents make regular visits to campus for classroom sessions, guest lectures and special events. Those

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Internships

Potential Internships & Careers Students in the Curley Center complete internships across the nation in a variety of roles. They work for leagues, news organiz