Sidewalk Construction Update
The following work will be performed next week from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm on January 27, 2020, through January 31, 2020:
A Message About Coronavirus
We are sharing the following information to help educate the Emerson campus community about an emerging global health concern: the 2019-novel coronavirus, (2019-nCOv), which first emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, earlier this month.
Emerson Comes Together Following Anti-Semitic Graffiti Incident
Members of the Emerson community gathered in the Reflection Room of 172 Tremont Street to show solidarity and support one day after swastikas were found scrawled in a campus stairwell.
Incendiary Study: Climate, Not Humans, Shaped Ancient New England Landscape
For decades, land managers have relied on the “inherited wisdom” that Native Americans used fire to clear forests for farming, but a revolutionary new study led by Emerson Professor Wyatt Oswald shows that New England’s original inhabitants left the forests largely intact.
Vigil Planned for Thursday, January 23
Our community is heavy-hearted, angry, sad, and perhaps even numbed, as we absorb the news of an act of anti-Semitic graffiti right here on our Boston campus.
Incident on Campus
Dear members of the Emerson community: Regretfully, I am writing to inform you about an incident of hateful graffiti that marred our campus last night when four swastikas were found scrawled in stairwells at Piano Row. The graffiti was removed immediately.
Emerson Runs in Actor Will Arnett’s Family
Attending Emerson College was Laura Vivian Belvadere Todd’s dream.
ECPD Front Entrance To Be Temporarily Closed January 23, 24, 27
On Thursday January 23, from 2:00 to 6:00 am, and Friday January 24, from 5:00 to 10:00 am, the front door entrance to the Emerson College Police Department and the Barnes and Noble bookstore at 114 Boylston Street will be temporarily closed to prepare and pour concrete in front of the building.
Wyatt Oswald’s Environmental Research Published in Nature Sustainability, Newsweek, The Conversation
The Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies’s professor of environmental science Wyatt Oswald is the lead researcher on findings that reveal Native Americans did not use fire burning to alter New England’s landscape, as previously thought.
Artist-in-Residence P. Carl’s Essay Becoming a Man in New York Times
P. Carl, Emerson’s Artist-in-Residence, previewed his upcoming book that chronicles his life and transition to becoming male with a selection from the work in the New York Times.