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In 1980, School of the Arts Dean Rob Sabal went with a bunch of friends to check out a new music festival in Chicago. He thinks composer John Cage was … Continue Reading Dean Was “Transformed” by Music of Onetime Emerson Student Glenn Branca
With a call to “make the world a masterpiece of our own design,” Emerson College held its first formal celebration of graduating students of color on Thursday, May 10, in … Continue Reading Students of Color Celebrate Four Years of Growth, Strength
Alyssa Loebig, MA ’18 and Madeline Greenhalgh, MA ’18 met in their Publishing Management and Innovation class a year ago, when Assistant Professor Susanne Althoff asked the students to come … Continue Reading Graduates Giving 20-Somethings the Books They’ve Been Missing
Over the 11 years that she’s been chair of the Performing Arts Department, one of the things Professor Melia Bensussen has most loved has been the students streaming into her … Continue Reading New Performing Arts Fund to Create Opportunity for Students
Emerson College Today talked to some members of the Class of 2018 as they were waiting to line up for the Undergraduate Commencement processional. Students were selected more or less at … Continue Reading The Last Few Minutes as Emerson Students
Emerson College graduates were encouraged to slow down, pay attention, embrace life, ask tough questions, and listen to the answers. Here are some excerpts from Commencement 2018 speeches. Undergraduate Commencement … Continue Reading Class of 2018 Heads Off to Make Art, Change
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins cautioned the “extremely talented and exceptionally sharp-looking” Emerson College Class of 2018 against searching for happiness in prizes or material success, and offered them … Continue Reading Billy Collins Offers Lessons from Poetry to the Class of 2018
The first time WCVB Channel 5 news anchor Maria Stephanos ’88, MA '93, took the stage at the EVVY Awards, it was as a host. Thirty years later, she’ll step … Continue Reading News Anchor Maria Stephanos to Get Alumni Award of Distinction
You live in and are part of a special moment in American history. For many of you, this moment is characterized by resistance, persistence and insistence. Various aspects of it … Continue Reading President Pelton’s 2018 Commencement Valedictory Address
Cover courtesy of Rosie’sPlace Sam Kiss ’21 spent hours on the Internet trying to find a font in Ge’ez script, the alphabet used to write Amharic and other Ethiopian languages. … Continue Reading Emerson Pub Lab Publishes Book for Rosie’s Place