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Jyoti Puri , Professor of Sociology and Hazel Dick Leonard Chair was the recipient of the 2021 Jessie Bernard Award , given annually in recognition of work with broad scholarly impact that has “enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass...

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Tanya Cohn has gone to many universities and earned several degrees, but Simmons has always been close to her heart. When she heard that Simmons was creating an online nursing program, Cohn knew she had to be a part of it.

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Assistant Professor Ann Graf sees the world a little differently, and she's on a mission to record it. After choosing to complete her thesis on graffiti art, Graf has expanded her research to cataloging street art in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Professor Nanette Veilleux has received a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The ultimate goal of the project is to clarify the meaning in prosody — inflections in tone and lengthening syllables as we speak.

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Assistant Professor Felipe Agudelo discusses his current project, “It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racist Discourses on Twitter," which examines counter narrative tweets to Black Lives Matter hashtags.

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We caught up with School of Nursing Professor LaDonna Christian about what motivates her most: working with students of color and helping them navigate the nursing program. Also, don't miss her expert tips on reducing anxiety when it comes to tests.

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Assistant Professor Sumayya Ahmed discusses her current project which looks at the archival traces of Black Southerner migration to Chicago through the lens of her maternal great-grandfather, who migrated from Alabama to Chicago in the early 1930s.

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Simmons University faculty member, Dr. Cherie Lynn Ramirez, is the senior author of a paper published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal outlining the urgent need for universal, frequent rapid COVID-19 testing to promote greater equity.

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Meet Dawna Thomas, Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department! Find out why she dedicates her research to her Cape Verdean and African American cultural roots, and learn more about the new Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies.

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Meet Renada Goldberg, the new assistant professor in the School of Social Work! Learn more about her career as a community-practice social worker, and what show she'll watch on repeat.

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