April 8, 2008
Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, will present, “All the Ethics That Fit ...,” a free public lecture coordinated by the College of Communications.  [more info here]

April 4-5 , 2008
Playing to Win: The Business and Social Frontier of Videogames: This conference will bring together professionals and scholars around a research agenda addressing the impacts of the rapidly expanding videogame industry. It is not about the technology of videogames, but rather the intertwined economic, social, and cultural aspects that are driving business and public policy debates.  [more info here]

November 13 , 2007
An award-winning panel of journalists from the Lancaster New Era discuss covering the shootings at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.   [more info here]

November 6 , 2007
Iris Grossman, Director of Communications, Group Philanthropy and Community Affairs for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, relates her first-hand experiences on navigating ethics in today's media environment. [more info here]

April 19 , 2007
Tony Buba, independent filmmaker and activist, will visit Penn State for a speech titled, "Tales of an Independent Filmmaker: Capturing Racism on Film."  [more info here]

April 11-12 , 2007
Greg Bicket, Vice President and Regional Manager of Cox Communications in New Orleans discusses Corporate Responsibility in Times of Disaster: Responding to Hurricane Katrina."   [more info here]

February 20th, 2007
Deni Elliott is a professor and Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.  Specializing in practical ethics, she has written The Kindness of Strangers, Philanthropy in Higher Education and Ethics in the First Person, A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics.  [more info here]

September 27th, 2006
Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press in Washington, DC will join State College Mayor Bill Welch, local media activists, and leading media and telecomm scholars from Penn State University in two days of events and discussion on October 16th & 17th. Co-Sponsor: The Rock Ethics Institute. [more info here]

September 23rd, 2006
Lynn Brewer, former Enron executive and author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story will be speaking on Wednesday, November 1st at 7:30 in the HUB Auditorium. [more info here]

March 3rd, 2006
The Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership is proud to announce two speakers in March: Dr. John Horrigan and Judith Miller. These events will be by invitation only. [more info here]

January 12th, 2006
The Schreyer Honors College, in conjunction and partnership with the College of Communications and the Don Davis Program in Communication Ethics, proudly presents the 11th Annual Luchinsky Memorial Lecture, “Media Ethics and Reputational Harm: The Richard Jewell Story”. The speakers are Richard Jewell, the security guard and American hero who saved dozens of lives in 1996 in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park by clearing and evacuating the area before a bomb exploded, and attorney L. Lin Wood, who successfully sued numerous news media outlets for falsely suggesting that Jewell committed the bombing. [click for more info and readings]

November 7th, 2005
Several readings have been posted for the 2005 Davis Symposium. [click for readings]

October 30th, 2005
Reed Bolton Byrum, former National President of the Public Relations Society of America, has been confirmed as the speaker for The 2005 Don Davis Symposium in Advertising Ethics. His presentation is entitled "Trust and Ethical Management of Corporate Reputation." The event will take place on November 16th, in the HUB Auditorium, 7:30pm. [click for more info]

September 25th, 2005
Faculty member Patrick Parsons named as holder of Don Davis Professorship in Ethics. [Click here for press release]

September 20th, 2005
View the College of Communications' press release on the founding of the Davis Program in ethical leadership and the Endowment of the Davis Professorship in Ethics. [Click here for press release]