Simmons College

An editorial column by Zachary Abuza, chair and professor of political science and international relations, about Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her attempts to thwart that country's terrorist activity, appeared in the Nov. 5 Wall Street Journal. Abuza suggested that President Arroyo come up with a comprehensive peace plan with the country's two homegrown, insurgent liberation groups.

Biology Professor Liz Scott, co-director of the Center for Hygiene and Health in the Home and Community at Simmons, was widely quoted in the November edition of Health magazine in an article about the "germiest places" one can encounter during an average day.

Simmons's anonymous $1 million gift was featured in the Nov. 5 Chronicle of Higher Education's listing of gifts and bequests.

Communications Lecturer Dan Connell was interviewed Oct. 29 on an evening news program on Jamaica's 94FM radio station about the war in Somalia.

A Nov. 4 New York magazine feature story on political satirist and U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken discusses how he met his future wife, Franni, at a Simmons-Harvard mixer during his first week of college.

Laura Prieto, associate professor of history and women's studies, was widely quoted in an Oct. 29 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the role of Halloween costumes in expressing personality traits. She said that one's choice of costume can represent a part of the self that is usually submerged.

Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science Professor Margaret Bush was quoted in a Nov. 7 Boston Globe article about the Boston Public Library's branch libraries. She said Boston's branches have less staffing and community connections than those of other metropolitan libraries.