Alum’s Truly Adventurous Company Making Waves with Film and TV Deals
Greg Nichols’ Truly Adventurous tells gripping nonfiction stories, and Hollywood is loving them.
Mihailidis Leads $250K National Media Literacy Research Initiative
Rapid advancements in communication technologies have complicated the 60-year-old field of media literacy, and now its role and educational practices are being researched, assessed and developed through a quarter-million research grant led in part by Emerson College’s School of Communication.
Video: How to Socially Distance and Have a Social Life on Campus
How will social distancing work when students return to campus this fall? How and where will student orgs meet? What constitutes a face covering and when should you wear it? Who wore it best?
With Entertainment for Change, Jade Zaroff ‘16 Combines Arts and Activism
As founder of the nonprofit organization Entertainment for Change (EFC), Jade Zaroff ’16 is connecting children with artists nationwide via online classes aimed at empowering youth on how to lead through art and activism.
Emerson LA Faculty Member Up for LA Emmy
Betsy Kalin is an affiliated faculty member at Emerson Los Angeles, teaching a course in Social Impact Documentary. This semester, her 43-minute documentary for Spectrum News 1, Vision 2030: The Future of SoCal, was nominated for a Los Angeles area Emmy Award.
First Business of Creative Enterprises Graduating Class Leaves Mark with Real Clients
Julia Perry ‘20 and her Business of Creative Enterprises (BCE) cohort made Emerson College history this spring when they became the first-ever graduating class in its BCE undergrad program. Beyond the College, the small cohort of 30-plus students left a lasting impression with real-world clients after they provided six local partners with applicable creative business services.
Kristin Linklater Was a “Master Teacher, Great Healer”
Kristin Linklater, a world-renowned voice teacher and former head of acting in Emerson’s Performing Arts department, died Friday, June 5, at her home in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. She was 84.
Journalism Students Take on Social Change with Multimedia Website Projects
Through the first half of the spring 2020 semester, students in the Journalism course TV News Magazine and Documentary had been developing short documentaries on subjects related to social change. But when production was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, they, along with Assistant Professor Gino Canella, saw the opportunity to expand their projects into multimedia websites, with deeply satisfying results.
Juneteenth Event: Asim, Olayiwola Read from Poetry
Cultural offerings from Emerson community members this Juneteenth.
Alison Qu ‘20: International Perspectives and Embracing the Unknowable
Meet Alison Qu, Class of 2020! Alison majored in Performing Arts and is co-founder of CHUANG Stage, the first Mandarin Chinese theater community of Emerson College.