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Best-selling novelist Alice Sebold told the soon-to-be graduates of Emerson College that an education should not be simple, and success should not be defined by the rules of a “zero-sum … Continue Reading Novelist Alice Sebold to Emerson Graduates: “Complexity…Is In Every Way Richer”
Emerson College faculty members Roger House and Nigel Gibson will each take a semester off from teaching in the next academic year to pursue research as winners of the 2016 … Continue Reading House, Gibson Win 2016 Huret Faculty Excellence Awards
Alden Jones Alden Jones, senior affiliated faculty in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, was awarded the Lascaux Book Prize for her short story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, the third … Continue Reading Jones’s Story Collection Continues to Win Awards
Paul Mihailidis wants to know how organizations and people are using media to communicate with communities affected by international migration. Mihailidis, associate professor of Marketing Communication and associate director of … Continue Reading Faculty Member Studying Media and Migration
Setting a new online participation record for Emerson, 307 members of Emerson’s global community came together on April 26 to say “Happy #EmersonDay” in a big way: by raising … Continue Reading Emerson surpasses fundraising goals for “Day of Giving”
Emerson College Los Angeles (ELA) students wrapped up their semester in Southern California on April 27, but a few seniors will soon return to start work after attending their Commencement … Continue Reading ELA Students Find Work Opportunities At Internship Sites
The front page of the December 2, 2015 Los Angeles Times. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for their coverage of the San Bernardino shootings. Shannon O’Connor … Continue Reading Emerson Student Interns with Pulitzer-Winning News Team
Anthony Zambito’s Wikipedia entry for Blue-Eyed Black Boy by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Fifty students in Magda Romanska’s World Drama class have contributed Wikipedia entries for underrepresented playwrights and plays, ditching the … Continue Reading Wikidemia: Drama Students Write Digital Articles for Neglected Works
Emerson College alumna Michele Josue ’01 took home a Daytime Emmy Award on April 29 for her documentary, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, about the gay college student … Continue Reading Alumna Wins Daytime Emmy for Matthew Shepard Documentary
For 25 years, Artists for Humanity (AFH) has given young artists an entrée into the larger world by hiring teens and young adults to make art and market it to … Continue Reading Emerson Students Write, Design Book for Community Partner