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Trustee Raj Sharma, who is a board member of American India Foundation and Managing Director of Wealth Management and head, The Sharma Group, praised the efforts of the organization as it raised more than $2 million to support the rehabilitation efforts of India’s migrant communities in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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.
Cultural offerings from Emerson community members this Juneteenth.
Associate professor of American Studies Roger House writes an opinion piece for The Hill as protesters supporting the Black Lives Matter movement are sweeping the nation in the aftermath of the recent high profile murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts will set up 50 free COVID-19 testing sites across the state on Wednesday, June 17, and Thursday, June 18. Anyone who was at a large gathering in the last two weeks is encouraged to get tested.
Institute professor of anthropology, religion and transnational studies Tulasi Srinivas writes for The Conversation about the history of goddesses of contagion, and how the current coronavirus pandemic has changed the iconography of them, for example, in artist depictions.
President Lee Pelton will join former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and a panel of local leaders online Tuesday, June 16, for The Pandemic and the Police: A Conversation About a Moment of Profound Change in America, hosted by CommonWealth Magazine.
The International Public Relations course in the Communication Studies department focuses on global and international media relations, social media, branding, media management, crisis communication, and policy. Students of the class then apply those concepts at GlobComm, coordinating across geographic, cultural, language, religious, technological, and national differences — just as they would in a professional setting.
Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment (RAN Ent), the music and film production arm of jazz great Thelonious Monk’s estate, of which Emerson Trustee Doug Holloway is president, is scheduled to release Palo Alto, the first of multiple planned joint releases with Impulse! Records, on July 31.