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Emerson is welcoming 15 new full-time faculty members across various departments to begin the 2013-14 academic year. “These new faculty members are experts in their fields and will be an … Continue Reading New full-time faculty welcomed
Matt Rasmussen, MFA ’04, has been selected for the National Book Award Longlist for Poetry. (Courtesy photo) UPDATE: On October 16, 2013, Rasmussen was named a finalist for the 2013 National … Continue Reading Alum on book award ‘Longlist’
Emerson Trustee Ronald Walker, president of Next Street, was honored at the Boston Business Journal Corporate Citizenship Summit. (File photo) Ronald L. Walker, an Emerson Trustee and president and founding partner of … Continue Reading Trustee gets corporate citizen award
When it comes to getting noticed for her artistic ability, Jody Steel ’14 already has a leg up. That’s because the Film major’s artwork—all executed on her bare legs—has gone … Continue Reading Web gets a kick out of leg art
A young man places a candle on the Boston Common Bandstand during Emerson’s annual 9/11 vigil, on September 11, 2013. (Photo by Dan O’Brien) An alumna whose mother died on … Continue Reading Miracles, compassion focus of 9/11 vigil
The founding executive director of Emerson’s recently opened Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning and Research was on hand for an unveiling of two new display cases in the Little … Continue Reading Elma Lewis, diversity groups honored
Part-time faculty member Stephen Glantz’s screenplay adaptation of The Watsons Go to Birmingham can help children better understand the civil rights era when the made-for-television movie is aired on the … Continue Reading Faculty’s movie on Hallmark Channel
Three Emerson students and two faculty members attended the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change in Salzburg, Austria, over the summer. Now in its seventh year, the three-week program’s … Continue Reading Students attend Salzburg Academy
John Dennis Anderson, associate professor and interim chair of the Communication Studies Department, has been named a winner of the 2013 Leslie Coger Award for Distinguished Performance by the National … Continue Reading Anderson gets Coger Award for performance studies
Lise Haines, senior writer-in-residence in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department, has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) for four weeks beginning in … Continue Reading Haines chosen for creative artists’ fellowship