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(From left) Phi Alpha Tau President Patrick Lambert, David Brudnoy Memorial Award Chair Tau Zaman, President Jacqueline Liebergott, Boston Foundation President and CEO Paul Grogan, and Chief of Staff for … Continue Reading Phi Alpha Tau welcomes Boston Foundation’s Grogan
A common area in the interior of the Colonial building. Emerson’s Colonial building has achieved LEED Gold certification, according to Neal Lespasio, Emerson’s director of facilities management. The LEED rating … Continue Reading Emerson recognized for green practices
Deidre Conlon, global and urban studies scholar-in-residence in Emerson’s Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, teaches several courses on cities, and primarily researches immigration issues. Her work on migration … Continue Reading Conlon receives grant supporting work on immigration
Irish writer and novelist Colm Tóibín visited campus April 7 to sign copies of his latest work, The Empty Family Stories, a collection of short stories. Tóibín was also guest … Continue Reading Tóibín has guest editorship of Ploughshares
When Associate Visual and Media Arts Professor John Craig Freeman explains that he’s a teacher of new media, he’s not exaggerating. In fact, one of his current projects is so … Continue Reading Freeman brings virtual landscape to life at Cyberarts Festival
A film made by an alumna that chronicles the journey of New Yorkers whose lives were touched by the events of September 11, 2001 will premiere at the Tribeca Film … Continue Reading Alumna’s documentary to premiere at Tribeca Festival
Four Emerson College athletes have been selected by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference in the Conference Weekly Honors program for their play the week ending April 17. Softball players Lynn … Continue Reading Athletes Earn Great Northeast Athletic Conference Weekly Honors
When graduate student Samantha Sussman attended the national American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s conference in August 2010, she attended a screening of the film Aphasia and was so moved by it that … Continue Reading Film about aphasia screens
Maria Menounos ’00 is five feet, eight inches of sheer dynamic energy and success. In her newly published book, The Everygirl’s Guide to Life, she imparts her secrets on how … Continue Reading Maria Menounos guides women in new book
The Professional Arts Consortium (ProArts) recently launched Classroom Connect, a program that offers a $3,000 award to a faculty member for developing the most innovative course. Diane Lake, assistant professor … Continue Reading VMA’s Lake wins $3K ProArts grant