Emerging Media Studies students Yiyan Zhang (’17), Xiaoshuang Guo (’17), Jingru Cao (’17) and Xueying Pan (’17) helped launch a website for Mass Farmers Markets (MFM), a nonprofit organization that supports farmers’ markets in Massachusetts. The website was a part of a design project for EM757 User-Producers 2.0: Developing Interactivity, in which students are expected… Read More
Advertising students at the College of Communication leave with more than a degree. They leave with a portfolio of professional work in areas of art direction, copywriting and strategy. To see student portfolios from the Spring 2017 semester, visit the personal websites listed below. Art Direction Laura Bailey, laurafbailey.com Isabella Bolivar, isabellabolivar.com Elisabeth Bowerman, elisabethbowerman.com… Read More
This week, COM students received 12 of the 15 student awards presented at the 56th Annual Hatch Awards , the Ad Club’s annual celebration of creative excellence in advertising. COM students won four silver awards, two bronze and six merit awards for campaigns that included videos, websites, digital products and services, online advertising and print…. Read More
Rachel Segall gave her old college friend, Erik Mercer, the most selfless and generous gift possible—she carried a baby for him and his husband. Even more remarkable: the happily married mother of three teenagers was in her late 40s at the time and insisted on doing it for free. And then she volunteered to carry… Read More
BUTV10 won a Bronze and its first-ever Silver Telly in the 37th Annual Telly Awards. This is BUTV10’s twelfth Telly Award since 2008. On That Point, a current events discussion show, received a Bronze Telly for their coverage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Paper Trail received a Silver Telly for the series finale about a group… Read More
For seven days each April, movie enthusiasts gather in Puerto Rico to watch comedies, documentaries and short films at the Rincón International Film Festival. Ramón Torres Santa, a filmmaker, first-year graduate student and native Puerto Rican, showed his 2015 short film “Panorama” Friday at the festival. “It’s a story about two guys talking at the… Read More
Scholarship recipient and journalism student Megan Smith (’16) is shedding light on human trafficking by telling stories of survivors through research and video testimony. This journalistic storytelling endeavor will make for a personal way to educate people of what human trafficking looks like today. Smith’s project — a website that compiles all of her work… Read More
When Paisley Piasecki (’17), attended an event hosted by her favorite blogger and author last summer, she recognized a need for women. It was a need that inspired her to follow her entrepreneurial dreams. “They started getting on the topic of business education, and they started to all say the same thing: ‘I wish someone… Read More