Emerson has plans to utilize Alexa for Business Blueprints to enhance student learning experiences on campus, and Director of Emerson Launch Sanjay Pothen explains in an Alexa blog post how exactly the College plans to integrate that tool.
School of Arts alum Paloma Valenzuela ’09 was featured in WBUR’s The ARTery 25: Millennials Of Color Impacting Boston Arts And Culture, which highlights “The Pineapple Diaries,” a comedic web series following the lives of three best friends and their neighbor living in a predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.
President Lee Pelton hosted a gender parity in higher education summit this week, gathering 40 leaders in the industry to discuss the results of the Eos Foundation’s recent study highlighting the gender gap in leadership at local colleges and universities.
Men’s basketball coach Bill Curley had quite a year, as the team won its first New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference basketball championship, and thus earning a spot in the Division 3 tournament, and the same month, his jersey was retired at his alma mater, Boston College.
Associate Professor David Kishik was featured in The New York Times’ #SpeakingInDance weekly Instagram feature in connection with his performance in Netta Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities, a deconstruction of work by six choreographers set to text written by scholars in place of music.
Writing, Literature, and Publishing alumna Holly VanLeuven ’13 grew up a big fan of actor and dancer Ray Bolger, and this month Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow, publishes, the first book detailing the life and career of the Boston-born actor.
Associate Chair and Professor of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department, John Skoyles, had one of his poems published in the April issue of The Atlantic, titled The Heart Has Reasons.
Roger House, an associate professor in American Studies, writes in a Hill opinion column that college students should enact a “Florida Summer Project,” similar to action in 1964 in Mississippi, and help register about 1.4 million former prisoners whose voting rights have been restored in thee state of Florida.
The interdisciplinary research and writing collaboration of Associate Professors Kristin Lieb (Marketing Communications) and Miranda Banks (Visual and Media Arts) published in two parts in Flow Journal, an online television journal, this winter.
President Lee Pelton and Martha J. Sheridan, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, wrote an op ed published in the Boston Globe that discusses the need for greater investments in the arts and tourism in Massachusetts.
