Blaise J. Noto received his Master of Arts in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a fully tuition scholarship from NW Ayer Advertising.  While at Annenberg, he was Teaching Assistant (“Sources of Cinema") for Professor Amos Vogel, co-founder of The New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.   Mr. Noto also was invited by the Annenberg School for Communication to lecture at the University of Pennsylvania on the motion picture public relations campaign for "Titanic," which he designed an spearheaded for the theatrical as well as the Oscar and Golden Globes campaigns.

 

Mr. Noto has been doing undergraduate applicant interviews to the University of Pennsylvania for years, and presently was appointed in 2018 by the University to a leadership role as NC-Chapel Hill Chair for the Penn Alumni Interview Program Committee.  

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Blaise received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, majoring in Sociology with a focused interdisciplinary approach to mass communication and media studies. He also was president of this class, and gave the class graduation speech. He was instrumental in getting pre-eminent film critic Pauline Kael of The New Yorker -- and one of the most influential film critics of her day --  as the honored Commencement Speaker.  Blaise also is actively involved in the Wesleyan Admssions Alumni Volunteers (WAAV) interviewing freshman applicants in the USA and Internationally 

 

During his tenure at Wesleyan, Blaise attended Stanford University’s Summer Film & Broadcasting Institute in Palo Alto, California, receiving a certification for his participation and achievement. He spent a semester in London, England studying studio art at the Sir John Cast School of Art, and worked in Audience Research at the BBC. While at Penn, he was hired as a summer intern with the U.S. Department of Health in the Psychodrama Media Department at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.