Picture Yourself Event Provides Taste of Emerson for Prospective Students
Comedy troupe Stroopwafle and a cappella group Achoired Taste performed.
ERA Nominations Open
We hope you can take some time to nominate your incredible students and organizations for a variety of awards.
Smith on Celebrity Endorsers & Car Insurance: WalletHub
School of Communication Dean and Marketing Professor Brent Smith weighed in for WalletHub regarding car insurance and celebrities, indicating that video endorsements are especially easier for consumers to recall.
ERS+, Boston’s Black Experience, Highlighted in BBJ
Alum and WERS General Manager Howard “D” Simpson ’94 created ERS+ after George’s Floyd’s death in 2020, growing its audience ever since and earning spots on Neilsen ratings frequently.
Alum Apolline Traoré’s ‘Sira’ Shows Brutality, Beauty of Life in Burkina Faso
‘Sira’ is the first Burkina Faso movie submitted to the Academy Awards in more than three decades.
Emersonians Will Be Everywhere All at Once at SXSW 2024
Several films and TV shows created, in part, by alums will be screened March 8-16 at the festival, where Oscar darlings and alums Daniel Kwan ’10 and Daniel Scheinert ’09, will deliver the keynote address.
Emerson’s Cross Country Teams Earn National Academic Ratings
Yasmin Defne Dadikhi ’26 earned an All-Academic Individual Award for combination of scholastic and placement in the top 35 at Regionals.
Emerson Faculty on Social Media, Marketing, and Polling in the Race for POTUS
In order to win, President Biden must continue to show he’s the only adult in the room, faculty member Kathryn Grosso Gann.
Gellman on El Salvador’s ‘State of Exception’: Harvard Review of Latin America
Bukele’s Régimen de Excepción, has suspended constitutional rights in the country and led to the arrest and detention of thousands of innocent people, Gellman writes.
Alum Armando Martinez’s Civil Rights Work Highlighted by Globe
Martinez, inspired by the work of MLK Jr., founded the Migrant Education Council and The Puente Fund in 1969 and 1970 and supported “Chapter 17A” for first-in-the-U.S. bilingual and special education laws.