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While still a student at her Boston high school, Hailey Norton took free classes at Emerson and “fell in the love with the place.” Three years later, on an August … Continue Reading “This Is an Awesome Place”: New Students Start Their Emerson Adventures
This year, Visual and Media Arts students at Emerson will learn from four new faculty members: two award-winning women directors, a producer of critically acclaimed indie films, and a versatile … Continue Reading Junebug Producer, Barracuda Director Among New VMA Faculty
Tom Robotham had just spent three hours learning about screenwriting from an Oscar-winning screenwriter. But what he really appreciated was that Graham Moore, writer of The Imitation Game and this … Continue Reading Imitation Game Writer Helps Screenwriting Students Crack the Code
The Emerson Engagement Lab is working with colleges and universities throughout the Boston area to energize students and communities around addressing climate change. Faculty from Emerson, Harvard, Northeastern, MIT, Wheelock, … Continue Reading Engagement Lab Leading Cross-College Collaboration to Battle Climate Change
In light of last weekend's hatred, racism, and bloodshed on display in Virginia, and ahead of a rally on Boston Common planned for Saturday, August 19, that includes speakers with extremist views, … Continue Reading Pelton to Emerson: "We Must Resist" Efforts to Make Bigotry Mainstream
President Lee Pelton talked to WGBH’s Kirk Carapezza yesterday about balancing free speech with values of diversity and inclusion, and how Emerson is preparing for Saturday’s “free speech rally” on … Continue Reading Pelton on WGBH on Free Speech, Diversity, and Saturday’s Planned Rally
Emerson College was ranked #9 on the Hollywood Reporter’s 2017 List of Top 25 American Film Schools, rising one spot from last year’s ranking. The article cites Emerson’s new Augmented … Continue Reading Emerson Makes Top Ten on Hollywood Reporter Film School List
Graham Moore, Oscar-winning writer of The Imitation Game, will teach a master class at Emerson College later this month as the Fall 2017 Semel Chair in Screenwriting at Emerson College. … Continue Reading Imitation Game Screenwriter Moore Named Fall Semel Chair
The Emerson contingent at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change earlier this summer. Left to right, Christian Gibbons, Brian Simonelli, Paul Mihailidis, Rachel Hanebutt, Samantha Viotty, Elizabeth Morier, … Continue Reading Emerson Students Take On Extremism at Salzburg Conference
A group of Emerson College students traveled to Rosarito, Mexico, this summer to put their public relations and marketing skills to work in rebranding the city. Eight Emerson students arrived … Continue Reading Communication Students Work on Rebranding City in Mexico