By Jocelyn Sargent LuFei (Vera) Sun is an MFA in Emergent Media student at Champlain College. Vera has been working on curating the ‘Shanghai Digital Artists’ exhibit, bringing artwork from six Chinese artists to display in Champlain College’s Miller Center building. I recently sat down with Vera, as well as Rick Harrington, the Emergent Media […]
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As an international undergraduate student from El Salvador studying in Burlington, Vermont, I never imagined that my 4000-kilometer journey north would bring me closer to, and enable me to positively influence change in, the youth of my nation. After the enthusiastic response from our partners, facilitators and camp participants during the first year of BREAKAWAY […]
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By Keeshawn Nicholson You may have heard Vermont described once before as a place where there are more cows than people, or as a state that has a lot of great maple syrup. However, it is also a place where innovation is rapidly growing in a world where entrepreneurism is becoming more and more popular. Many of the socially responsible and profoundly successful companies that power today’s economy, such […]
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By Keeshawn Nicholson December 17, 2009 marks the day the BREAKAWAY team landed in the Caribbean island, St. Lucia, to do their first game testing. The renown free online game for ending violence against women had only one episode at the time, today it has thirteen. This trip marked the beginning of something great, a testing […]
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By Keeshawn Nicholson I think it is time we gave a round of applause for Emergent Media Center’s courageous and innovative football game BREAKAWAY and its team! Last Wednesday the game gained awareness through success in the team’s fundraising event at Bluebird BBQ’s community night. BREAKAWAY, a computer game developed by over 120 Champlain College students […]
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By Dr. Geoffrey Bell, Associate Professor, MS Shanghai China campus On March 15th, 2014 Dr. Geoffrey Bell—Associate Professor in the Shanghai MS-EM program brought his students to Chinaccelerator (a member of the Global Accelerator Network), which is the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China. The event showcased 10 successful entrepreneurs who spoke for 10 […]
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Emergent Media MFA Faculty Al Larsen presents at SLINGSHOT festival (Athens, GA) March 21st & 22nd, 2014. Now in its second year, the SLINGSHOT festival of art, music and technology in Athens, Georgia, “spotlights international, national, and local acts on stage, boundary pushing artworks throughout the urban environment, and a tech conference with leading innovators.” […]
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