Biography
Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., is joining the faculty at Univ. of Colorado Denver in Beijing, teaching culture and communication at International College of Beijing. She is also Director of Research and Assessment at IEIMedia, Inc., a private educational corporation that teaches intensive multimedia journalism each summer in Italy and Northern Ireland.
Emmett has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career as a correspondent for Newsweek in the 1970s. In May 2011 she completed her doctoral dissertation in visual media and iconic photography at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. As a doctoral fellow, she designed the website for UM's Faculty Voice.
After graduating with honors in pre-med and East Asian studies at the University of Michigan, she was selected as The New York Times intern for columnist William Safire and spent a summer in Washington, D.C. researching and writing about medical ethics and Chinese politics. Ms. Emmett later studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan while serving as a Newsweek stringer. She became a columnist and contributor to Orientations, Asia Magazine, and East Asian News and Features. Later she went to New York as an editor for Science Digest. Ms. Emmett then became a reporter and full-time features staff writer for The Detroit Free Press.
After obtaining her Masters Degree at the University of Washington (Seattle, 1981), Ms. Emmett became a science and technology journalist. She has held senior editor and editor-in-chief positions at Computer Graphics World magazine, America’s Network, and Wireless Integration, and was a ten-year contributing editor at The Scientist (www.the-scientist.com). She writes regularly as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The American Journalism Review.
Ms. Emmett was a journalism professor at Temple University and an Associate Professor, adjunct faculty at Drexel University's Department of Culture and Communications. An avid traveler and linguist, she also holds a third-degree black belt in Ryuku Kempo Karate. In 2004 she hiked the Vilcabamba mountains and The Inca Trail with her son, Emmett Arthur, and wrote a travelogue of their trip.
