"Colleen Connolly-Ahern joined the Penn State faculty for the Fall 2004 semester. She brings a mix of teaching, reseach and public service that match well with the vision of the University.

Her classroom experience includes teaching courses in advertising campaigns, advertising sales, international advertising and public relations.

Her research has been honored twice with the Top Paper Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and she has published her research in numerous different journals--Journalism Studies, Journal of Political Marketing and Journal of Law and Public Policy. Overall, she has published six manuscripts and presented a dozen papers at conferences in the past three years.

In addition, Connolly-Ahern served on the research committee at the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. Her professional background includes experience as president of her own marketing communications firm, promotion manager for USA Today and managing editor for Marine Log Magazine."