The Emerson chapter of Active Minds, an organization raising awareness of mental health issues, recently participated in a fundraiser walk for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention at Artesani Park … Continue Reading Pelton dinner raises mental health awareness
When corporations have crises, how they handle them can affect their reputations just as much, if not more, than the crises themselves. In Communication Studies, graduate students in the Crisis … Continue Reading Students delve into corporate crises
Kylar Broadus, senior policy counsel and director of the Transgender Civil Rights Project, was the keynote speaker of “Unapologetically Confident: Transgender Awareness Week at Emerson College,” on November 3. Broadus, … Continue Reading Kylar Broadus, transgender leader, gives keynote
Volunteers from Urban Possibilities and Emerson Los Angeles participate in an ice-breaking exercise during a story exchange workshop at ELA on November 2. (Photo by Daryl Paranada) Emerson College Los … Continue Reading Homeless survivors teach ELA students
Benny Sato Ambush, Performing Arts senior distinguished producing director-in-residence, introduced the reading of Frank Higgins’s Gunplay on November 3 by reminding the audience that the presentation supported President Lee Pelton’s … Continue Reading ’Gunplay’ offers laughter, heartbreak
Associate Professor Jerald Walker’s recent essay, “How to Make a Slave,” will appear in The Best American Essays 2014, edited by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Walker’s essay originally appeared in Southern … Continue Reading Walker’s work in Best American Essays 2014
Professor Steve Yarbrough of Writing, Literature and Publishing has been elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and, in addition, will receive the 2015 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction … Continue Reading Yarbrough in Fellowship of Southern Writers
A promotional image for Kisses to the Children, a documentary about Greek children during the Nazi era that was screened at Emerson October 28. (Photo by Nick Eaton '17) Film director … Continue Reading ’Kisses’ examines Greek response to Nazis
Emerson President Lee Pelton has emailed the campus community asking for participation in Emerson360: Community Climate Survey, which takes place November 3–21 and asks for feedback from students, faculty, and … Continue Reading Survey seeks ideas for safe, supportive campus
The Fall 2014 Internship Fair was held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel on October 29, bringing a high turnout of Emerson students seeking internships in the communication and arts fields. … Continue Reading High turnout for Internship Fair