On Monday, Emerson reported one positive COVID-19 test for Friday of the 495 administered, setting the positivity rate at 0.20 percent. Zero cases were...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ December 22, 2021
A day after delaying the start of the spring semester, college officials on Wednesday detailed plans to resume in-person classes amid an unprecedented...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ October 29, 2021
Emerson introduced a pooled testing model for all community members this week, a process administrators hope will streamline the college’s testing process.
“The...
The majority of Emerson students living on-campus received their negative COVID-19 test results within hours of moving in between Jan. 21 and Jan. 24....
By Dana Gerber, Former News Editor
/ January 21, 2021
Emerson is marshaling thousands of students from their homes across the country for the second time this academic year, as the 7-day average of confirmed...
Emerson will mandate weekly testing for faculty and staff working on campus during the spring semester after allowing those working on campus this fall...
By Andrew Brinker, Former Senior Investigative Reporter
/ October 29, 2020
More than eight weeks into the fall semester, Emerson administrators are cracking down on the weekly coronavirus testing requirement for students taking...
Emerson’s COVID-19 dashboard is now updated automatically after a string of data reporting errors appeared on the page since its inception in August.
When...
Since the start of the fall semester, Emerson has taken considerable action to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and prevent outbreaks on campus. Unlike...
Emerson reported no new positive COVID-19 tests results Thursday out of 809 total tests, leaving the college’s cumulative positive tests since Aug. 6...
By Dana Gerber, Former News Editor
/ September 22, 2020
Every day for two weeks, Dylan Scott woke up in an empty four-person suite in the Paramount residence hall to the view of sun cast on a brick wall, breakfast...
By Diti Kohli, Former Editor-in-Chief
/ September 8, 2020
In a shift from prior announcements, Emerson administrators vowed Tuesday to begin updating the college’s COVID-19 dashboard daily after more than a...
Five months and 11 days after Emerson prematurely shuttered its campuses due to the initial U.S. outbreak of COVID-19, the college officially reopened...
By Andrew Brinker, Former Senior Investigative Reporter
/ September 4, 2020
The first week of Emerson’s reopening put into practice a plan that attempts to continue in-person instruction while staving off COVID-19 outbreaks,...
Billy Brodeur is a senior studying comedic arts.
On a walk to Paramount my sophomore year, I turned a corner and saw my friend Paul slumped on the ground....
Testing all Emerson students weekly is both a noble goal and a requirement this year. It’s been widely proven that the most effective way to pin down...
Emerson reported three new positive COVID-19 tests from Aug. 24 to Aug. 30, bringing the community’s total positive tests to five since testing began...
Emerson reported a second positive case of COVID-19 on campus Monday afternoon, bringing the college’s positivity rate to 0.16 percent after administering...
