Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is proclaiming Wednesday, February 28, “Claudia Rankine Day” in the the City of Boston. Boston Poet Laureate and Emerson alumna Danielle Legros Georges ’86 will … Continue Reading February 28 Named “Claudia Rankine Day” by Boston Mayor
Assistant Professor Catherine D'Ignazio unspools rope outside the Boston Public Library for her walking data visualization project, “Boston Coastline: Future Past.” Photo/Kevin Sweet For decades, data have been considered the sine qua … Continue Reading With Fellowship, D’Ignazio to “Interrogate Power” in Data Visualization
President Lee Pelton was featured in Inside Higher Ed, talking about a spate of mergers between and closures of small private colleges with small endowments. Pelton said these developments were … Continue Reading "Inside Higher Ed": Pelton on Struggling Small Colleges
In light of recent protests by students following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Emerson College released the following statement: Emerson College believes in … Continue Reading Emerson College Supports Peaceful Student Protests
When Judy Pryor-Ramirez was applying to become executive director of Emerson’s Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research, she spent more time researching the Center’s namesake than she … Continue Reading Scholar Delving into Elma Lewis’s “Black Girl Magic”
Emerson alumni, students, and friends packed the Bill Bordy Media Conference Center for a discussion featuring faculty members Weiko Lin and Chris Toronyi and Emmy-winning director Henry Chan in a … Continue Reading Faculty Lead Discussion on Insights into China and Hollywood
Friends, colleagues, and collaborators of Howard Elkus gathered in the new Dining Center Tuesday, February 20, to dedicate a space to the late architect who worked so closely with Emerson … Continue Reading Emerson Dedicates Room to Architect, Collaborator Howard Elkus
Elaine McMillion Sheldon, MFA ’13 talks to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah about her film, Heroin(e), last fall. Last week, McMillion Sheldon spoke via Skype to an Emerson audience about the … Continue Reading Oscar-Nominated Alumna Talks About Making "Heroin(e)"
Emerson students tend to be a focused bunch. They arrive as first-year students knowing what they want to study, and they delve into their majors with passion. What they don’t … Continue Reading One School, One Book: School of Communication Students Coming Together Around On Tyranny
Global intercultural communication took center stage last month during the Cross-Cultural Communication Conference at Emerson’s partner school, Blanquerna University-Ramon Llull in Barcelona, Spain, with Emerson students and faculty having yet … Continue Reading Cross-Cultural Communication Conference Strengthens Emerson-Blanquerna (Barcelona) Partnership
