Emerson Today
Marcia Smith ’80, founder of documentary production company Firelight Media, was honored with a Luminary Award from the BlackStar Film Festival, a celebration of the visual storytelling of the African diaspora and communities of color, in Philadelphia in early August.
School of Communication students dove into an array of communication internships. See how some SOC students put their Emerson education into practice this summer. Part 2 of 2.
First-year and transfer students were welcomed to Emerson in a bunch of different ways at the Embrace Emerson orientation event Tuesday, August 27.
As President Pelton referenced in his message this morning, a group sponsoring a “straight pride” parade has been granted a permit to march this Saturday, August 31. In anticipation of crowds, the college is implementing standard safety plans, as follows:
Excited. That is the best way to describe how first-year students, student orientation leaders, parents, and basically everyone else, felt on Monday as the newly renovated Little Building opened its doors to its newest occupants.
What is creativity and what does it mean? From its scholarly definition as problem-solving to the wider interpretation as creativity being unique to one’s own human experience, different perspectives on the topic were compellingly strung together in the award-winning documentary, “YesNoMaybe,” by Emerson Marketing Communications Professor Thomas Vogel and Emerson alumnus Jasraj Padhye G’18.
Fear and ignorance, humanity’s most potent cocktail, masquerading as freedom of speech,
have been given permission (i.e. given a license) to hold a Straight Pride Parade on August 31, which, barring the Boston Police determination that doing so would be unsafe, will march by our campus – an affront to the wonderfully pied beauty of our affirming and diverse commonwealth of learning.
Check out scenes from move-in day for first-year students at the Little Building.
Emerson Launch and the School of Communication recently hosted the first-ever Voice of Education Summit, a daylong conference where educators and industry leaders discussed how voice-enabled technology can be used in and out of the classroom.
We all had classes that changed the way we thought, changed how we viewed life, or changed what profession we wanted to work in.