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- Celebrating the End of Winter with PancakesEvery year, Russians celebrate the end of winter by stuffing themselves with thin pancakes (blini) for six whole days! And that's just the beginning! You also get 4 days off from school and work. Known as "Maslenitsa", everyone on this holiday prepares these pancakes at home all week, and then celebrates with ... read more
- For The KidsWe were told to sleep during the day as much as possible, since from 10:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. we would be wide-awake. This wasn’t a problem at all for me; although I remember thinking it was kind of weird to hop in bed late mid-day with my alarm set ... read more
- Students Present work in the Biophysical SocietyRaquel Ferreira and Sadie Piatt traveled to New Orleans with Dr. Allen Price to present their work at the Biophysical Society Conference. The title of their work was "Measuring the kinetics of DNA cleavage with single molecule resolution". ... read more
- (Fin)spirationLast summer I was fortunate enough to take a study-abroad marine microbiology course at Emmanuel with Dr. March (one of my favorite faculty members here). After the lecture portion in the Spring, we got the opportunity to travel to Australia to conduct field research as well as explore both Sydney ... read more
- Emmanuel’s Theater Programs Continue to Earn AccoladesChristina Listro '17 has won the "KC/ACTF Barbizon Award for Excellence in Costume Design" for Emmanuel's spring show, "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine." As part of the award she will travel to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for the National Festival and is invited to present ... read more
- Name Dropping and Product Mentions: Branding in Popular Music LyricsThe latest publication (Feb. 2017) of Dr. Mark A. Flynn, Assistant Professor of Media & Communication Studies at Emmanuel, was a collaborative effort that explored name dropping and brand mentions in popular music lyrics. He and his co-authors analyzed over 600 songs from the six most popular genres: Rap, Rock, ... read more
- Il coro degli stonatiDa anni l'Orchestra Verdi di Milano organizza corsi per insegnare le tecniche di canto anche a chi pensa di non essere capace. "Di professione sono avvocati, insegnanti, farmacisti, manager, ma hanno un comune destino: non sono intonati. Eppure, seguendo i corsi organizzati ormai da qualche anno dall’Orchestra Verdi, cercano di ... read more
- Stairwell to the SkylineThe stairs are being built! Soon we will be able to share the view from the top. ... read more
- A Day at the MFAI’m an art person. My Mom was an art major in college so part of me thinks the interest in it was passed down from her own. Either way, I’ll forever identify as more right-brained (creativity, color, emotion) rather than left (logic, numbers, reasoning). Despite wishing I could paint the ... read more
- Living in Title Town
- Katerina Luarasi ’17 tours the Broad InstituteSenior Katerina Luarasi gets a tour of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA. At the Broad, they do a lot of DNA sequencing. Fun facts: the flow cell in her hand has 8 lanes that can hold 96 samples in each lane and the instruments behind her cost about $1M ... read more
- A Day at the AquariumI'm a huge nerd, and my favorite thing about working at the aquarium is how well organized our days are. That's a lie, because we have cool animals there like sharks, and those are probably my favorite, but scheduling comes in at a close second. Also, maybe the term "nerd" ... read more
- GreenTown Labs Field tripA group of ten Emmanuel students went on a field trip to Greentown labs, a Community Organization known as the largest cleantech startup incubator in the U.S. These students were very interested during the tour through the labs and were able to observe the incredible, cutting-edge technologies under development within the lab. ... read more
- Sadie Piatt and Raquel Ferreira Present Their Work at CUWiP and SPIN UPSadie Piatt and Raquel Ferreira presented their work at the conference for undergraduate women in physics, and at the Supporting Inclusion of Underrepresented Peoples (SPIN UP) Workshop, both at Harvard this January. Way to represent Emmanuel! ... read more
- The Young PopeThe Young Pope è una serie televisiva ideata e diretta da Paolo Sorrentino. Parla di un papa, papa Belardo, ovvero Pio XIII, eletto per caso e che poi si rivelerà molto controverso. Su questo papa immaginario Paolo Sorrentino ha anche scritto un libro, Il peso di Dio. Il Vangelo di ... read more