Emerson L.A. Campus Groundbreaking
Today Emersonians from both Los Angeles and Boston gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of Emerson’s new Los Angeles Center. The new building will be located at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gordon Street in Hollywood, and has been designed by world-renowned architect Thom Mayne. The center will enrich academic programming and opportunities for undergraduates [...]
Alum Rasky ’78 Receives Regional Award
Larry Rasky, class of ’78, Vice Chair of Emerson’s Board of Trustees and CEO of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications was honored by the New England Region Anti-Defamation League on December 13th. Rasky received the Anti-Defamation league’s 2011 Abraham Joshua Heschel Interfaith Relations Award which is presented to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to social [...]
Professor Edgar A Strong Voice in Health Communication
Timothy Edgar, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Health Communication Program, has recently spoken with several news outlets regarding health campaigns across the nation. ABC World News, USA Today, and My Health News Daily all featured some of Edgar’s insight on the ethical and moral natures of these controversial campaign tactics. The campaigns [...]
DiNucci Reaches 1,000 pt. Milestone
Emerson women’s basketball forward and Junior Political Communications major Olivia DiNucci scored her 1,000th point in a game against Ohio-Eastern, reaching a career milestone and landing her as Player of the Week for Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). DiNucci is the third woman in Emerson women’s basketball history to reach 1,000 points and the first [...]
Emerson Students Take Top Honors at KCACTF
At this year’s regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, six of the top awards went to Emerson Performing Arts students. The prominent ceremony, which took place at Fitchburg State University on January 28th, honors achievements in theater by college students in the New England area. The winning students included Shanna Allison ’13, who walked [...]
Angela Cooke-Jackson Creates Digital Health Manual
Communication Studies Professor Angela Cooke-Jackson is putting her expertise in health communication into practice in the Boston community with a new social media collaboration between high-risk youth and Emerson students. Cooke-Jackson’s students will shadow young Bostonians and film their stories. The films will become the basis for pages on particular health issues in a digital [...]
Emerson News: Journalism students cover caucuses and primaries
A group of Emerson Journalism students took part in the presidential caucus action in Iowa December 27 to January 5. Students reported on the caucuses; met candidates, commentators, and well-known journalists; and were interviewed by news outlets themselves. During their stay in Iowa, the thirteen students, two faculty members, and one staff member had the [...]
WERS music director featured in radio industry publication
Mariel Wade, music director for WERS, was profiled by allaccess.com for her work as Music Director of WERS 88.9 FM, Emerson’s award-winning, student-run radio station. “Whether I’m working on playlists and trying to pick out a song that I feel will fit in nicely with the set, or if I’m listening to new records to [...]
WERS 88.9 FM named Boston’s best radio station by The Improper Bostonian
The cleverest and most eclectic stop on the dial—featuring everything from indie rock to reggae to blues—is a safe haven from Lady Gaga’s and Ke$ha’s overcooked tracks. Since 1949, Emerson College’s radio station has been student-run, making it a revolving door of young talent both in front of and behind the microphone. “So many radio [...]
Emerson News: Radio anchor Mathieu ’96 to take WBZ News post
Joe Mathieu ’96 will be joining WBZ NewsRadio as the morning news anchor early next month. Mathieu studied mass communication/radio broadcasting while at Emerson. Since graduating, he has worked at CBS MarketWatch Radio, 1010WINS in New York, WBBM in Chicago, and WTOP in Washington, D.C. He also launched and developed the P.O.T.U.S. news radio channel [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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