Emerson College Today

WERS Sponsors Community Event

The Caribbean came to Cambridge September 12 as an international showcase filled the streets of Kendall Square. Emerson’s WERS (88.9 FM) radio station sponsored the festivities, while Emerson students were on hand to make the event a success.

Menino Encourages Students to Get Involved in Boston

Emerson’s Office of Student Life along with the Campus Activities Board invited the Mayor to speak to students about his rise in Massachusetts politics.

Flash Mob: Behind The Scenes

The Office of Communications and Marketing went behind the scenes with flash mob creators Rob Orchard, Executive Director of ArtsEmerson,  and Fraulein Maria Choreographer Doug Elkins, to find out how this unusual event came about.

Alumna Brown Appointed to Committee by President Obama

Bobbi Brown ’79, an Emerson College Trustee and founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, will be named by President Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Extracurriculars Attract Hundreds to Fair

A typical schedule for an Emerson student reads like a ticker board at a train station. Packed solid with events, meetings, and classes, it’s a wonder how students manage — but they all do, brilliantly.

ArtsEmerson Flash Mob

Julie Andrews’s voice blasts out of hidden speakers in the food court of Boston’s City Place, “high on a hill was a lonely goatherd, lay-od-lay-od-lay-he-hoo....”

Liebergott Introduces President Elect Pelton

With the following moving remarks, President Jacqueline Liebergott introduced President-elect Lee Pelton to the Emerson community in the Cutler Majestic Theatre on September 8, 2010.

M. Lee Pelton named 12th President of Emerson College

M. Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University and a former dean at Colgate University and Dartmouth College, will assume office July 1, 2011.