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Nov 21, 2018

Enhancing arts career prospects with new VFX studios

New facility, fueled by $7M anonymous gift and championed by students, makes Lesley the only New England art and design school to offer a visual effects program

Student Lesly Precil in a pink shirt hugs professor Jan Wall in a mustard sweater.

Nov 15, 2018

Child Homelessness Initiative celebrates milestone partnerships and growing impact

Lesley’s groundbreaking initiative helps educators and families develop resilience and manage trauma

An overhead shot of Brattle campus and the City of Cambridge with buildings and fall foliage.

Nov 15, 2018

Celebrating the power of relationships

A trio of Lesley leaders look at the past and the future of early childhood education

Wally the Green Monster mascot on the red carpet with an audience and photographers cheering for him.

Nov 15, 2018

5 things to do! November 16-18

A weekly roundup of weekend events on campus and around town.

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond speaks. holding her left hand up.

Nov 15, 2018

Violence against women: A grassroots movement then and now

Claire Renzetti and Gloria White-Hammond, the keynote speakers at Lesley’s inaugural Violence Against Women conference, address the continuing need for activism

Nov 8, 2018

Fighting Alzheimer’s disease with improv and empathy

Novelist and neuroscientist Lisa Genova uses storytelling to elicit concern and action on behalf of the afflicted

Nov 26, 2018Dig Boston

Puppy Problems on their new album

Art and Design alum Sami Martasian, who plays music under the moniker Puppy Problems, talks about the journey to their debut album.

LGBT youth homelessness poster, illustrated by skyline of rainbow buildings

Nov 25, 2018Green Comma

Transgender Youth in an Age of Uncertainty

Doctoral candidate Michele Dow outlines the legal rights of transgender youth and encourages educators to support their students.

Nov 25, 2018New York Times

This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged

Armed with naloxone, Dayton, Ohio's police have seen deaths fall in their city. "We really jumped on it because we saw it as absolutely consistent with our public mission to save lives,” Police Chief Richard Biehl ’18.

An airplane in the sky, clouds behind it.

Nov 23, 2018The Daily Beast

When Your Secret Spot Becomes Overrun

Travel writer and creative writing faculty member Thomas Swick returns to Lisbon to find that it's no longer a secret spot.

Nov 20, 2018Nowhere Magazine

A Day in Crown Heights

Patricia Striar Rohner ’18 is the winner of Nowhere Magazine's Spring 2018 Travel Writing Contest. Click the link to read the award-winning essay.

Photos of Hilary Kreisberg standing on Mellen Walk on Doble Campus

Nov 20, 2018Cambridge Chronicle

Lesley mathematician elected to board

Hilary Kreisberg, director of our Center for Mathematics Achievement, is the regional director to the Eastern 1 region of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics.