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Renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars, this year’s Waldman Chair in Theater Arts, spoke candidly to an audience of Emersonians at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre April 23. “Be … Continue Reading Peter Sellars spends a week at Emerson
Journalism Department Leader-in-Residence Carole Simpson, a veteran journalist and longtime weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight, will be awarded an honorary degree Saturday, May 22, at Salem State College’s … Continue Reading Simpson receives honorary degree
Small towns and the people who populate them are the stock-in-trade of Elizabeth Strout’s fiction. The author of Olive Kitteridge – which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction – … Continue Reading Pulitzer Prize winner visits campus
In her Principles of Public Relations (or as she calls it “Mini-PR”) class and her Writing for Marketing class, Department of Marketing Communication Assistant Professor Julie Lellis gives her students … Continue Reading Students build partnerships
Roughly 1,000 degrees were conferred at Emerson’s 130th Commencement exercises held May 17 at the Citi Center/Wang Theatre in Boston. Acclaimed historical novelist Bernard Cornwell delivered the 2010 Undergraduate Commencement … Continue Reading 2010 Commencement: More than 1,000 degrees
Emerson’s Alumni Weekend 2010 celebration will be held June 4-6. This year, alumni who graduated in years endings in zero or five will be recognized. Emerson is also celebrating the … Continue Reading 2010 Emerson Alumni Weekend set for June 4-6
On May 10, two Emerson Marketing Communication student teams were flown to New York to present their marketing campaigns to JetBlue executives at the airline’s offices in downtown Manhattan. The … Continue Reading Students are finalists in JetBlue ad competition
Vish Viswanath from the Harvard School of Public Health delivered the Emerson/Tufts Health Communication graduate program’s 2010 Medical Messengers lecture April 5 at Emerson’s Bill Bordy Theater. Viswanath is an … Continue Reading Lecturer asks students to create social change
Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing, recently spotlighted Emerson student Jeannie Harrell’s book jacket design created for his book Little Brother on the blog. Harrell (Dec) ’10 … Continue Reading Writing Literature and Publishing student work spotlighted
Liebergott, who has served as president since 1993, told an assembly of students, faculty, staff and Trustees that she reached her decision “with mixed emotions but with a firm belief … Continue Reading Jacqueline Liebergott will step down as president